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How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer

https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engineer/
75•vanpra•1h ago•28 comments

A website for debloated open source alternatives

https://debloat.dev/
164•ryanvogel•3h ago•65 comments

Fable and the End of the Free Lunch

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/08/23/fable-the-end-of-moore-s-law.html
48•dbreunig•1h ago•32 comments

The Vibe Tax

https://insufferable.dev/posts/vibe-tax/
31•allisdust•2h ago•13 comments

How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
168•shortcrct•5h ago•47 comments

Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

https://punyamishra.com/2026/04/16/why-sal-khant-on-learning-by-making-but-teaching-by-telling/
84•the-mitr•4h ago•58 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/
182•campuscodi•7h ago•85 comments

What Is a Harness?

https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/
200•tosh•6h ago•106 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes

https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes
159•bwb•6h ago•59 comments

Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests

https://studyfinds.com/coconut-oil-jet-fuel-matches-kerosenes-efficiency-in-engine-tests/
107•mdp2021•4h ago•93 comments

My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality

https://fabiensanglard.net/agent.md/index.html
29•ibobev•2h ago•15 comments

Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-like-im-ten/
30•bookofjoe•2h ago•16 comments

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/
539•dr_pardee•6h ago•234 comments

Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20186
4•root-parent•35m ago•0 comments

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/
294•dredmorbius•6h ago•118 comments

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html
59•tchalla•1h ago•20 comments

Phoenix tried a reflective coating on black asphalt; noon surface heat fell 12°F

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/phoenix-swapped-black-asphalt-for-a-re...
18•djoldman•4h ago•18 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-netwo...
254•taubek•14h ago•195 comments

Etched Sohu vs. Nvidia: Transformer ASIC vs. GPU (2026) – Spheron Blog

https://www.spheron.network/blog/etched-ai-sohu-vs-nvidia-transformer-asic-inference/
7•rbanffy•2h ago•0 comments

Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

https://www.ft.com/content/5ee49718-c258-4f01-aa32-7e5b76ae5245
45•naves•2h ago•39 comments

The End of an Athlon

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/
171•userbinator•14h ago•76 comments

Predicting AI model release dates with stats

https://releaseoracle.xyz/
8•akeyes6•2h ago•0 comments

I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI

https://en.andros.dev/blog/09a21bdd/i-turned-unix-talk-from-1983-into-the-interface-for-my-ai/
8•ibobev•2h ago•2 comments

The Remote Work Challenge: Lessons from 5 Cities

https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2026/05/the-remote-work-challenge-lessons-fr...
8•softwaredoug•3h ago•2 comments

Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely

https://wpintelligence.washingtonpost.com/topics/ai-tech/2026/08/19/wpi-conversation-why-an-ai-jo...
11•gumby•3h ago•4 comments

AI and Infrastructure Engineering

https://omegion.dev/2026/08/ai-and-infrastructure-engineering/
11•0megion•2h ago•1 comments

Things I want in a modern relational query language

https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/
72•zdw•1d ago•61 comments

From Front Panel to Program: Thinking Like a PDP-8

https://pikuma.com/blog/pdp-8-minicomputer
7•ibobev•2h ago•0 comments

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/
286•raybb•10h ago•121 comments

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

https://martypc.net/
195•boilerupnc•17h ago•73 comments