fp.

Get your Windows license refund

https://en.refund4freedom.org/

296•smartmic•3h ago•102 comments

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit

33•avsm•51m ago•10 comments

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

https://www.orbify.eu/demo/

210•smoser•4h ago•73 comments

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

https://www.inventati.org/

182•exiguus•3h ago•157 comments

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713

183•jeudesprits•1h ago•59 comments

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

https://ckardaris.com/blog/2026/08/28/keyboard-driven-guis.html

39•ckardaris•1h ago•29 comments

Htmx 4.0.0

https://four.htmx.org/announcements/2026-08-28-htmx-4.0.0-is-released

95•rmsaksida•3h ago•20 comments

Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio

https://terminalbytes.com/run-qwen-3-8-27b-locally/

32•speckx•1h ago•23 comments

State of the Map 2026

https://2026.stateofthemap.org/

68•lode•3h ago•20 comments

The Twelve-Factor App

https://12factor.net/

74•jxmorris12•18h ago•38 comments

OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2

https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md

141•tosh•4h ago•57 comments

The conservationists helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/africa-wild-dogs-most-hated-carnivores-continent-he...

21•speckx•2h ago•7 comments

Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem....

192•luu•7h ago•47 comments

How Dactyl Works

https://dactyl.dev/blog/how-dactyl-works/

27•anorak27•1h ago•0 comments

“It works better in the app”

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/it-works-better-in-the-app/

520•blenderob•4h ago•325 comments

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/

18•speckx•2h ago•2 comments

Are Crows Our Friends?

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/are-crows-really-our-friends

47•speckx•3h ago•33 comments

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/

255•miniBill•10h ago•76 comments

Don't use musl if you care about performance

https://blog.brokk.ai/dont-use-musl-if-you-care-about-performance/

17•jbellis•1h ago•6 comments

Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02506-4

46•sohkamyung•4h ago•68 comments

Lake formed after ice-rock avalanche remains at a high level and is overflowing

https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/08/28/barrier-lake-continues-to-pose-flood-risk-china-warns

8•r721•1h ago•1 comments

httpx2

https://github.com/pydantic/httpx2

67•tosh•5h ago•21 comments

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/anthropic-government-blacklisting-ruling.html

275•jbegley•14h ago•248 comments

“Weird” is a weird word

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/weird-is-a-weird-word

28•pseudolus•2h ago•8 comments

I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again

https://joshkaramuth.com/blog/aws-cognito-authentication-startup-nightmare/

122•speckx•3h ago•97 comments

Interactive pattern discovery in binaries (FF-16-TUI)

https://github.com/HexLasso/FF-16-TUI

25•HexLasso•3h ago•2 comments

Interactive Warhammer 40k Galaxy Map – Cartographia Imperialis

https://cartographia40k.com/

102•gbxyz•8h ago•30 comments

Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/debugging-my-new-network-when-10-gigabit-ethernet-runs-at-300-mega...

11•speckx•2h ago•2 comments

Bhartrhari's Paradox

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/18/bhartrharis-paradox/

29•surprisetalk•4h ago•30 comments

'Recent revelations' prompt Pflugerville to abruptly kill Flock camera access

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/pflugerville-flock-cameras-22404257.php

17•jkestner•3h ago•1 comments

Open in hackernews

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/2026-08-25-verschlimmbesserung/

16•speckx•2h ago

Comments

boxed•38m ago

We already have a word for it? "Misfeature"

The opposite is the more interesting word though: hit bug. A bug/mistake/fuckup that turns out to improve the software.

Krasnol•27m ago

I'd say enshitification is a good enough word.

Verschlimmbesserung is not widely used these days in Germany.