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Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
11•vicek22•1h ago

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einpoklum•4m ago
Point of clarification: Rummaging through that site, and as far I can see - the Forth language is not used.

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
253•thepoet•4h ago•94 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
305•colinprince•5h ago•142 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
56•NKosmatos•1h ago•16 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
855•speckx•6h ago•295 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
135•dash2•2d ago•190 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
322•gavide•7h ago•38 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
198•floathub•8h ago•279 comments

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/
8•speckx•35m ago•1 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
34•signa11•4d ago•4 comments

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
47•ra7•1d ago•9 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
408•dares2573•9h ago•136 comments

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
56•toebee•4h ago•11 comments

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm/3f326076-7415-46a1-921e-8a1b1d6ee2b6
1•ij23•3h ago

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
69•colinprince•5h ago•12 comments

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

https://claude.com/blog/bringing-claude-mythos-5-to-more-defenders
15•garo-pro•1h ago•9 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
11•vicek22•1h ago•1 comments

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
35•arguiot•2h ago•8 comments

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-fac...
47•jakelsaunders94•3h ago•30 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
60•ibobev•4h ago•12 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
168•rcymerys•8h ago•166 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
119•aakil•5h ago•90 comments

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456
21•Ariarule•1w ago•1 comments

Using an old Android phone as a music player

https://monocyte.blog/using-an-old-android-phone-as-a-music-player/
12•surprisetalk•4d ago•4 comments

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
32•unprovable•4h ago•10 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...
43•cainxinth•6h ago•1 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
175•speckx•7h ago•122 comments

Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

https://notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/shoehorn/
61•rhgraysonii•3d ago•13 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
99•neom•3d ago•5 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html
51•eatonphil•8h ago•1 comments

Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

http://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-better-lower-bound-for-n17.html
23•gus_massa•3h ago•4 comments