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Creepy Crawlies

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
675•zdw•1d ago•330 comments

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

https://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
25•pwg•1h ago•4 comments

Haiku R1/beta6 has been released

https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6
195•metrofun•5h ago•51 comments

NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

https://wilsonharper.net/projects/businesscard/
27•WilsonHarper•2d ago•2 comments

Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver

https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb
37•SillyUsername•2h ago•21 comments

Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
93•rzk•5h ago•35 comments

Sort branches by last commit date

https://ryangreenberg.com/til/git-branches-by-commit-date/
31•speckx•5d ago•12 comments

Hacking IKEA Furniture

https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/
234•greenlightning•9h ago•137 comments

METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface...
159•catbird•7h ago•97 comments

Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27
66•tosh•6h ago•27 comments

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/
187•vntok•12h ago•76 comments

Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/dads-custom-atari-peripherals
65•rbanffy•3d ago•9 comments

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement
278•nickslaughter02•6h ago•112 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
17•peteforde•2d ago•6 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES

https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1
1•j-cheong•4h ago

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/
299•trap0xcc•5h ago•288 comments

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
179•joebig•12h ago•55 comments

Electric rain can eat through metal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electric-rain-can-eat-through-metal/
72•sohkamyung•3d ago•12 comments

Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
266•surprisetalk•3d ago•139 comments

Synchronisation and SMPTE timecode (time code)

https://www.philrees.co.uk/articles/timecode.htm
20•sublinear•2d ago•4 comments

Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/
196•Brajeshwar•6h ago•229 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
113•askmike•6d ago•54 comments

Automating Immersive Reading

https://smoores.dev/post/automating_immersive_reading/
79•smoores•9h ago•24 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/windows.html
46•Bluestein•9h ago•11 comments

Building my own network stack

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/dn42-2-dnet/
90•uneven9434•11h ago•70 comments

The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/30/the-world-may-have-less-time-than-it-thinks-on-cli...
74•andsoitis•2h ago•66 comments

Hy4 preview

https://www.tencent.com/tencent-releases-and-open-sources-tencent-hy4-preview/
375•shenli3514•1d ago•237 comments

When fruit is scarce, these monkeys hunt animals

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-fruit-is-scarce-these-monkeys-hunt-animals-the-beh...
46•cisc•1d ago•27 comments

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption...
664•shscs911•18h ago•329 comments

Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504
166•sparsesignal•8h ago•187 comments
Open in hackernews

1kB Website as Status Symbol

https://async.cat/blog
19•Marol•1h ago

Comments

ramon156•1h ago
What is it with cool projects using LLMs to write their blog posts? If i'm honest I'd rather see it the other way around, tasteful agent coding with a genuine write-up. Reading AI blog posts make me vomit. Why even start a blog post if you can't be fucked to write?
simonw•54m ago
Yeah.

"The sequence is the whole story: overflow, then reduce, then squeeze, then stop when nothing can die."

"the decoupling is complete: skill is cheap, taste is scarce, and nobody trained to spot it."

"That is the handicap, and it is the whole game."

Given the nature of this project, why write it up with slop?

Marol•29m ago
thanks for reading, the same reason I told in the post - lack of skills.
theokrueger•53m ago
posts like this only get on hn because nobody on hn actually reads them.
add-sub-mul-div•49m ago
It sounds logical. The people who are attracted to one kind of low-effort output will be attracted to other kinds of low-effort output.
dumberquestions•47m ago
I think people write a rough draft and let AI clean it and fill in the gaps, which leads to all usual phrases. I suspect some people have become so reliant on this they're now desensitized to AI speak.
lukeify•39m ago
desensitised? Quite the opposite, I've become allergic.
cj•31m ago
Aversion to AI speak will turn into desensitization.

And desensitization will eventually turn into a preference for AI speak. (Perhaps not the HN crowd.. but definitely for the average Joe)

People prefer reading things in a tone/style that's comfortable and familiar to them. Writing in a way that mimics LLMs checks those boxes.

reaperducer•44m ago
Why even start a blog post if you can't be fucked to write?

If they're not going to write it, I'm not going to read it.

yesitcan•37m ago
You make a load-bearing point.
goodmythical•37m ago
I've noticed it being heavily used in non-native and accesibility type situations.

To them, people who do not necessarily spend swathes of their day reading generated text, it does not sound any particular way other than "yes, this is what I would like to communicate to my perspective audience".

It's really becoming a sort of cultural thing in which one people (from your culture) are turned away and another people (from the author's culture) see it as a massive benefit.

To me, the bad thing about generated posts online aren't their existence. I've already spent a life clicking off of blogs and posts I don't like. Perhaps as much as 90% of the web is not made for me, and that has alway been the case. What I've never understood, which has also existed forever but less so here, is people who will spend their time adding nothing of value to a conversation adding only some complaint about something as trivial as the writing style. You know, the commenters who take their time to click on to a video and actually type out "this dumb you dumb" without offering any kind of constructive criticism or engaging in the conversation at all.

Like, you wouldn't do that in public, would you? Walk up to someone with a shirt you don't like, say that you don't like it, and walk away? "Why even go out in public if you can't be fucked to dress yourself?"

Marol•31m ago
The use of AI in writing was deliberate - it is a bit of irony and live evidence. I'm a nerd, no writer in fact. Language and artistic wording is pretty hard for me. What I lack is skills. LLM's allowed me to skip the step and focus on taste. The argument is very well refined, please, dig into it. AI written but human designed. I wonder whether sharing the session with the stochastic parrot would be better, but no one wants to read a hundred messages reiterating the same paragraph because it is unsound or invalid.
simonw•29m ago
Sharing the session would be better. What you got at the end is almost unreadable.

I had to paste it into Claude to try and dig the underlying argument out. The best version I got from that (and it's still not great) was:

  Generation is free, so artifacts no longer prove
  skill. Judgment can't be automated. A sub-1kB
  page where every byte was judged proves a human
  judged — a new status symbol.
Marol•20m ago
I might have gone too far onto the fanciness side. Huge thanks for the feedback, I'm very deranged due to working entire days with AI generated text. I didn't notice it was incomprehensible to the normal eye. I will sanitize the conversation and add it to the post. It's quite a lot of sessions so it will take a bit.
Retr0id•29m ago
> LLM's allowed me to skip the step and focus on taste

huh?

danirod•46m ago
Sorry, am I going crazy or the text is LLM generated?

Is it intentional? Is it satire? Is it irony? Is it human generated but written as if it was written by Claude to be provocative?

GalaxyNova•40m ago
There is something distinctly dystopian about someone using AI to write a blog post about how we sold out our taste to LLMs.
lkasjdhf•39m ago
Having AI write your blog post and then talking about taste is a fascinating combination