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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
55•interpol_p•19m ago•23 comments

Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
32•interpol_p•17m ago•18 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
85•Hbruz0•1h ago•35 comments

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/
31•zakxxi•35m ago•10 comments

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly
20•Bluestein•1h ago•17 comments

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm
525•K7PJP•15h ago•158 comments

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/
769•ComputerGuru•21h ago•377 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
921•tosh•22h ago•659 comments

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-and-work-limits-for-chatgpt-plus-users/
21•MC995•47m ago•4 comments

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
9•garo-pro•1h ago•2 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html
175•gmays•11h ago•202 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform
83•geerlingguy•10h ago•24 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
1478•l-one-lone•1d ago•927 comments

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://sf.thijs.gg/
529•centrosphere•20h ago•151 comments

Moon (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
222•simonebrunozzi•15h ago•38 comments

What's new in Emacs 31.1

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-311
214•geospeck•1d ago•46 comments

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf
129•arbayi•14h ago•49 comments

Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents

https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents
93•lbw1215•9h ago•37 comments

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/
282•herbertl•20h ago•608 comments

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/
124•signor_bosco•16h ago•23 comments

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344538
187•brandonb•22h ago•90 comments

Training AI to Paint with Code

https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code
132•Tiberium•1d ago•15 comments

Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

https://github.com/tobi/walgit
120•matallo•22h ago•39 comments

Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)

https://kylezhe.ng/writes/crafting-qr-codes
105•subset•23h ago•11 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

https://tarjan.itch.io/thoreaubasic
85•Gorsefound•1d ago•30 comments

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/
109•neom•11h ago•188 comments

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/
246•inputmice•21h ago•148 comments

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4
1•adawg4•19h ago

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines
168•zdw•18h ago•83 comments

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625
572•bilsbie•1d ago•645 comments
Open in hackernews

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly
20•Bluestein•1h ago

Comments

taf2•1h ago
love this and it's timely as I think with AI more of my code will just be native assembly for example: https://github.com/taf2/tic-tac-toe my m series native assembly based tic tac toe windowed game... very portable too you just simply execute codex --yolo port my app to x y z host...
eggy•44m ago
I haven't played with yolo yet. I'll have to use my airgapped, old Lenovo ThinkPad for this! Whenever I see yolo, I can't stop thinking of Joseph Redmon's YOLO and his astounding resume format!
eggy•51m ago
I should try FASM to see if it produces a smaller size exe. COM files are small, but 16-bit DOS was the thing back in the day - 100H yeah and basically a memory dump.
Bluestein•50m ago
> 100H yeah and basically a memory dump

... the days! :)

WillAdams•48m ago
For more of the same (though I wish source was available) which actually does something useful, see the various small utilities at

https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm

Bluestein•45m ago
Shields Up!
drdexebtjl•47m ago
The developer, Dave Plummer, left Microsoft to develop and distribute malware and scams in the 90s. See previous thread at [1].

Nowadays he spreads misinformation disguised as war stories from his time at Microsoft.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813625

rvz•45m ago
Do you have any evidence of these (unsubstantiated) claims against him?
drdexebtjl•41m ago
Edited with previous threads linking court documents.
TiredOfLife•25m ago
He also lied about his contributions to Start menu
JoeDaDude•10m ago
What about his contributions to human civilization? ;)

He got a world record score on the Tempest arcade game [1], then developed an AI which beat his own record[2]. His biggest failure was, that after rebuilding TEMPEST from arcade machine ROMS, he added levels to the game but never made them public [3].

[1]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuSMCWu02hA

[2]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdbpoDjIvPk

[3]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjsVSEbXDOM

delta_p_delta_x•44m ago
Interesting to bypass CRT and work directly against the Windows API. That said, these rely on USER.32.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL to do the majority of the heavy lifting.

It's a bit like 'smallest hello world in assembly' but the code is just setting up the calling convention and then passing the zero-terminated character string into `write`. Cool, but that could be done a bit more straightforwardly in C, too. A lot of assembly (including in the linked repository) is book-keeping for the platform's calling convention.

skrellm•33m ago
> That said, these rely on USER.32.DLL and KERNEL32.DLL to do the majority of the heavy lifting.

Since the low-level Windows kernel API is undocumented and non-public, using these system DLLs is your only option on Windows.

It's just like linking against libc.so on any POSIX systems.

munchler•16m ago
It’s a minimal Windows app, so the whole idea is to rely on Windows DLLs as much as possible.
haunter•15m ago
Meanwhile in the Unix world you can go as low as 45 bytes https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht...