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https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/
1327•karpathy•14h ago•374 comments

Japan's trains are great. Why is booking one so hard?

https://vinibrasil.com/japan-train/
25•vnbrs•1h ago•34 comments

An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothi...
445•ecares•11h ago•127 comments

No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQRmSlcTq9c
19•surprisetalk•2d ago•6 comments

Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother

https://blog.zamzar.com/2026/10/30/20-years-766-million-files-two-chameleons/
92•whyleyc•1d ago•24 comments

Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing

https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/
123•doodlesdev•7h ago•52 comments

TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf
509•oger•15h ago•237 comments

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/10/28/the-ai-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/
75•luu•4h ago•41 comments

Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard

https://github.com/guregodevo/memdoor/tree/main/examples/workflows/team-solve
234•guregodevo•11h ago•113 comments

OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust

https://github.com/l0ng-ai/openidea
8•theanonymousone•1h ago•7 comments

Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02292
88•hapax_legomena•8h ago•40 comments

Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020

https://maketecheasier.com/arecibo-zinc-creep-collapse/
113•ohjeez•1d ago•27 comments

ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001625-understanding-chatgpt-and-codex-usage-limits
127•Zariel•12h ago•66 comments

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics (Quantum phenomena in macroscopic hydrodynamic systems)

http://thales.mit.edu/bush/index.php/4801-2/
39•peter_d_sherman•1d ago•6 comments

Altoids Project

https://uvdn7.github.io/altoids-project/
111•uvdn7•11h ago•6 comments

It's the memory latency, stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
197•ntur1337•15h ago•60 comments

A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-1580-map-shows-why-data-visualization-is-never-neutral/
43•the-mitr•1d ago•3 comments

A brief history of just-in-time: forty years of JIT work, from 1960–2000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/857076.857077
30•gjvc•2d ago•0 comments

Understanding Email Encryption

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/email-encryption/
12•nmjenkins•1d ago•4 comments

Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half

https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in...
112•toomuchtodo•15h ago•48 comments

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4
265•aphyr•20h ago•154 comments

Surviving "The Graduate"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/dustin-hoffman-on-surviving-the-graduate
117•samizdis•14h ago•35 comments

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
332•armcat•23h ago•165 comments

Edgar Allan Poe, Quintessential American Writer

https://slate.com/culture/2026/10/edgar-allan-poe-poems-stories-most-influential-american-writer-...
35•samclemens•3d ago•1 comments

Pac-Man's Siren Call

https://unsung.aresluna.org/pac-mans-siren-call/
22•tobr•3h ago•6 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
253•aatish•4d ago•78 comments

Show HN: BBRouter – Ben Eater's 8-bit computer, simulated on 3D breadboards

https://bbrouter.com/bbrouter/ben-eater-sap-1
34•creack•10h ago•8 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
118•gslin•15h ago•32 comments

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088
356•pretext•14h ago•206 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
115•luu•4d ago•26 comments
Open in hackernews

No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQRmSlcTq9c
17•surprisetalk•2d ago

Comments

ReDress•31m ago
I just looked at the first example / utility he implemented; which was 'touch'

Will this actually update the 'last modified' date for an already existing file?

Also, there's a standard way of processing command line arguments on Linux/Unix, which is not being followed here.

lycos•29m ago
to be fair the title didn't promise it would be done well
ReDress•25m ago
well, if we go by the title then I would expect that he's writing the code on a piece of paper and not typing into a computer - heh

But, okay, that could make a valid excuse.

But, what you cannot excuse yourself for, is that you don't really add any functionality. In fact, you don't reproduce all the functionality let alone adding more.

danielbln•11m ago
But it's no AI, it's organic, hand woven, the toil and pain of really putting it down by hand... or something of the sort.
_ache_•10m ago
No it will *replace* or create the files "touched" by an empty file.

Major bug in the first command.