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Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-o...
141•Levitating•2h ago•44 comments

JetKVM Mini

https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini
380•taubek•9h ago•145 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

https://github.com/Speedstu/CUDA-for-AMD-Windows
46•chiassedu80•2h ago•7 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
66•ibobev•4h ago•20 comments

'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/fingerprints-inside-sun-could-reveal-if-it-o...
77•blincoln•4h ago•25 comments

Cpak – OCI application package format for Linux desktops, servers and devices

https://cpak.it/
14•xlmnxp•1h ago•4 comments

Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust

https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
157•vinhnx•3d ago•47 comments

Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)

https://belderbos.dev/blog/how-libraries-run-rust-inside-python/
22•lumpa•1h ago•18 comments

Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/11/y-combinators-garry-tan-wants-u-s-open-weight-ai-labs-to-distil...
55•TheJCDenton•1h ago•15 comments

Making Startups Powerful

https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html
23•tosh•2h ago•11 comments

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating
469•jonifico•15h ago•550 comments

TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio

https://github.com/FeralFirmware/TailTalk/
47•zdw•17h ago•13 comments

Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

https://alanbellows.com/experiments/insult/index.html
18•DamnInteresting•2d ago•12 comments

Predictive intelligence to anticipate anything.

https://prior.chat/
11•onemarkos•1h ago•15 comments

Homebrew 7.0.0

https://brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-7.0.0/
396•mikemcquaid•8h ago•154 comments

Base84 deserves a place in file names

https://00f.net/2026/09/09/base84/
35•kevvok•2d ago•19 comments

Aligned to whom?

https://hyperbo.la/w/aligned-to-whom/
142•lopopolo•13h ago•87 comments

Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

https://high5apps.github.io/josm-plugin-website-wizard/
551•juliantigler•1d ago•135 comments

A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System

https://github.com/OSPreservProject/sprite/blob/master/sprite.txt
4•EvanAnderson•1d ago•2 comments

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side

https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-1-the-pc-side/
41•leephillips•2h ago•9 comments

On Binary Translation and Its Consequences

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/on-binary-translation-and-its-consequences
30•matt_d•2d ago•14 comments

The Interim Computer Museum

https://icm.museum/
151•mulmen•14h ago•19 comments

US Customs supervisor busted for stealing hardware from Homeland Security PCs

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/us-customs-supervisor-busted-for-stealing-core-i7-cpus...
88•Levitating•3h ago•72 comments

I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant

https://medium.com/@ivangomezarnedo/how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-mitsubishi-ac-to-home-assistant-22770...
142•ichacas•3d ago•67 comments

Apple iPod Engraver (2019)

https://dunstanorchard.com/apple-ipod-engraver/
266•NaOH•4d ago•71 comments

Ode to Metadata

https://www.autodidacts.io/ode-to-metadata/
12•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2098443262214230095
219•dsubburam•19h ago•304 comments

Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revolut-confirms-customer-data-breach-through-fake-government-r...
140•tdrz•7h ago•96 comments

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2026/09/03/nvidia-is-the-central-bank-of-ai
538•tolugenius•1d ago•383 comments

Stabilizing Rust's Never Type

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015/d9e48318ed242b41/
232•cjd8•4d ago•90 comments
Open in hackernews

Alan's Random Insult Generator (1999)

https://alanbellows.com/experiments/insult/index.html
18•DamnInteresting•2d ago

Comments

DamnInteresting•2d ago
I found this in a dusty corner of my code archive, and it made me laugh, and thought it might do the same for others. I wrote this when I was first learning a fancy new language called "Javascript." Apologies for the juvenile humor. Sometimes NSFW.
nstents•31m ago
Reading Damn Interesting every day, I had no idea. Someone used your insults on AOL, or something like that, repeatedly. Thank you for the laughs.
whacked_new•56m ago
This is great! I remember being extremely impressed by Boris Johnson's "great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies" insult. How does one come up with such a string of words? I would've used this as a study resource.
zwaps•56m ago
Hey, don’t copy my daily affirmations
bityard•45m ago
The modern web seems to know nothing about it at this point, but back when CGI scripts were a new curiosity, there was a Shakespearean Insult Generator which was popular and quite a lot of fun.
ButlerianJihad•30m ago
Altho' it be not a living CGI script, mayhap the Internet Archive shall regale us with nigh-on 250 bespoke insults, plucked from the very copper tendrils of ye olde webbe: https://web.archive.org/web/19990515000000*/http://www.webwe...

  Thou unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane !
throw0101a•28m ago
See perhaps Shakespearean Insults Mug:

* https://philosophersguild.com/products/shakespearean-insults...

* https://www.amazon.com/Shakespearean-Insults-Coffee-Mug-Shak...

olivierestsage•32m ago
Reminds me of the “Insultinator” toy from the 90s. I will forever have the phrase “you’re a totally gross, boring nerd” imprinted on my consciousness.
srean•29m ago
They have a nice ring and cadence. One could string some of them along into a Pythonic poem to be recited from castle tops.
ChrisMarshallNY•19m ago
I won't link it, here (the last time I did, it got flagged), but look up Guy Macon's Insult File.

Not a single word that would have tripped the content filters of the time.

specproc•10m ago
Now that's what I call programming.
ljiljana•1m ago
Y2K Certified too!