Mario Meets Pareto

113 theanonymousone 2026-08-06 12:25:33 UTC mayerowitz.io Llama Share 18

To find the best Mario Kart 8 build, use the Pareto front to eliminate dominated options and focus on the efficient drivers that balance speed and acceleration. This objective criteria helps filter out suboptimal choices, but you still need to make a final decision based on your play style and preferences.

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

234 atan2 2026-08-06 07:25:33 UTC phoboslab.org Llama Share 76

The user ported their JavaScript game engine, Impact, to C and created a new platform backend for the N64 using Libdragon, allowing them to develop a new game, Xibalba 64, a Wolfenstein 3D-like FPS. The game was published as a physical launch title for the M64 by Modretro, making it the second new N64 game released since the console's original commercial life ended.

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

352 DarkContinent 2026-08-06 05:25:33 UTC crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com Llama Share 118

To start learning botany, use the internet to access information and ask questions about unfamiliar terms. Key concepts include Latin terminology, common names, and taxonomy, which groups plants according to evolutionary relationships.

Pareto Front

72 binyu 2026-08-06 09:25:33 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 33

The Pareto front is a set of solutions in multi-objective optimization where no solution outperforms another at every objective, and every solution not in the set is outperformed by at least one solution in the set. It represents the set of efficient choices, allowing designers to make tradeoffs within this set rather than considering the full range of every parameter.

Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?

4 jnord 2026-08-06 12:52:33 UTC libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org Prefix Share 0

Americans are moving less than they used to. Moving rates have declined steadily for decades, falling from close to 20 percent annually in the mid-1980s to below 10 percent by 2019. This decline has persisted through business cycles and has been evident across all regions, and has affected a broad range of demographic groups. Falling mobility matters because moving helps households access job ...

On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

113 microtonal 2026-08-06 07:25:33 UTC github.com/universal-debloater-alliance Full Share 51

Describe the feature you want The "Disable mode" ("Freeze" in AppManager) should be the default. "Uninstall" causes too much problems Acknowledgements This issue is not a duplicate of an existing feature request. I have chosen an appropr...

Discovery Loop

803 xtreak29 2026-08-05 16:25:33 UTC discoveryloop.com Llama Share 498

Discovery Loop is building AI systems to automate scientific and engineering experiments, rapidly proposing, running, and learning from evaluations to drive progress in various fields. This approach aims to solve complex problems like National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges and improve people's lives on a global scale.

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

719 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:25:33 UTC blog.google Llama Share 772

Google DeepMind teams are undergoing changes with Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and Koray Kavukcuoglu stepping up as SVP of Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean is leaving to launch an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate ML discoveries.

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

9 Wirbelwind 2026-08-06 12:25:33 UTC scalex.dev Prefix Share 1

A couple of months ago I published a small browser game: you play the human-in-the-loop for an AI coding agent, approving or denying its commands under time pressure. Some commands are routine (git status, npm test) and some other commands indicate your agent has been possessed and is sending your secrets to a remote server (cat ~/.aws/credentials). More on the threats associated with agents ...

Zed DeltaDB

463 ahamez 2026-08-05 19:25:33 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 255

DeltaDB is a version control system that records every change and links it to the conversation that produced it. It allows for seamless collaboration and branching, even mid-run, with features like virtualized worktrees and stable change identities.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

317 ExMachina73 2026-08-05 22:25:33 UTC randsinrepose.com Llama Share 155

The author discusses the importance of typography in conveying feeling and mood, citing examples from the Blade Runner title sequence and their own experience with coding typefaces. They argue that good typography is often overlooked but makes a significant difference in the user experience.

Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If

222 greyblake 2026-08-06 01:25:33 UTC greyblake.com Llama Share 69

Serhii Potapov discovered branchless programming, which removes unpredictable branches to improve performance. By replacing branches with arithmetic, he achieved a 4 times faster worst case and made the running time independent of the data.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

278 paulkrush 2026-08-05 19:25:33 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 176

Muse Code is a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, which can handle complex software engineering tasks and coordinate multiple subagents for faster and more accurate results. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 are available today in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with new features and more powerful models on the horizon.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

351 moonikakiss 2026-08-05 18:25:33 UTC neon.com Llama Share 85

Castform enables developers to post-train open-source models without machine learning expertise, making them cheaper and faster than frontier models. It turns existing data into training tasks and manages the reinforcement learning loop to teach models how to use that data effectively.

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

311 lladnar 2026-08-05 19:25:33 UTC blog.fogus.me Llama Share 336

Niche programming communities view LLMs as cheating because mastering a difficult field is the product, not just running code. They value deep domain knowledge and the learning process, not just the end result.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

589 speckx 2026-08-05 14:25:33 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 283

Cloudflare OS is a platform that gives every person in an organization an agent and workspace built around their company's context and systems. It allows people to create documents, automate tasks, and build apps to visualize data and help them do their work.

Join Me in Jamverse

4 surprisetalk 2026-08-06 11:25:33 UTC contraptions.venkateshrao.com Prefix Share 0

I just contributed a couple of microfictions to a project I’m helping bootstrap: The young and promising Jamverse extended protocol fiction universe. I’d like to invite the fiction writers among you to jump in as well. There’s currently a contest going on for worldbuilding artifacts, with a deadline of July 31, to help bootstrap the universe. If you’re looking for a fun way to kill a few ...

Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer

55 nanochess 2026-08-06 06:25:33 UTC nanochess.org Llama Share 3

The user reminisces about creating a windowed operating system in 32-bit machine code for a homebrew Am29000 computer in 1996-1997, and now attempts to recreate it using an emulator. The user struggles with implementing the Am29000 processor's instructions, including the MULTIPLU and DIVIDU instructions, and eventually makes progress with the help of debugging and reverse engineering.

Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers

45 rbanffy 2026-08-06 04:25:33 UTC quantego.org Llama Share 23

Quantego features three LEGO models of IBM Quantum Systems, with instructions and parts lists available, and an interactive 3D viewer. The models showcase quantum computing concepts, including superposition and entanglement, and a quantum circuit simulator is also available.

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

198 Xeophon 2026-08-05 21:25:33 UTC primeintellect.ai Llama Share 45

Prime Agent is a self-improving coding harness that uses Recursive Language Model and Continual Harness to enable programmatic tool and sub-agent calling. It allows for long-horizon autonomous evaluation and collaborates with research and autoresearch.

Morioka Shoten

25 skogstokig 2026-08-06 07:25:33 UTC takram.com Llama Share 10

Morioka Shoten Ginza is a unique bookstore in Tokyo's Ginza district that offers a single book at a time for six days. The store's logo reflects its location and concept, featuring a rhombic shape inspired by the owner's drawing and incorporating the store's address.

NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

155 pella 2026-08-05 22:25:33 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 33

NVIDIA's Vera server CPU has a powerful 88-core monolithic die with unique features like value prediction and graph prefetching, and early testing suggests it can outperform current Arm and x86 servers. However, NVIDIA's whitepaper exaggerates Vera's advantages by mischaracterizing x86 SMT, downplaying its own limitations, and selectively presenting results, which may tarnish the CPU's ...

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

257 hackerBanana 2026-08-05 17:25:33 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 108

Atlassian's Rovo AI has vulnerabilities that allow data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, exploiting its URL retrieval tool. Despite PromptArmor disclosing the issue on May 23rd, Atlassian has made no further communication, leaving Rovo vulnerable.

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

196 plaguna 2026-08-05 17:25:33 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 130

Joshua Branson added an SVG logo for the ethernet multiplexor using Inkscape on a Hurd laptop, and several developers contributed to the Hurd project including Mikhail Karpov who worked on dynamic device population. Other notable contributions include porting OpenNTPD, fixing bugs, and working on various Hurd translators and tools such as trivfs, rump, and s-build.

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

238 calvinfo 2026-08-05 17:25:33 UTC github.com/denoland Llama Share 42

celld is an open-source daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on local machines, using an S3-compatible bucket for replication and coordination. It shards applications by construction, eliminating contention and blast-radius failures, and allows nodes to hibernate to nearly nothing.

Decimen Optical Transfer: fountain-coded QR file transfer

37 ksec 2026-08-06 05:25:33 UTC github.com/bashalarmistalt Llama Share 30

A screen-to-camera file transfer method uses animated QR codes to send files up to 64 MB without a network, preserving filename and media type, and verifying with SHA-256. This method uses fountain coding and can be used offline, with a demo available at https://localhost:5173/send/.

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

61 shailendraht 2026-08-05 20:25:33 UTC hyperprobe.co Llama Share 43

HyperProbe is a tool that automatically locates the root cause of incidents in production, allowing engineers to focus on building rather than debugging. It captures live variable state at the exact line of the issue without redeployment or restarting the service.

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

376 speckx 2026-08-05 20:25:33 UTC runarcn.no Llama Share 388

User is dissatisfied with Google's direction of Android Open Source Project and has switched to SailfishOS on their Fairphone 4. They like Sailfish's gesture navigation and Linux features, but face issues with outdated software and broken features.

Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo

273 mapping365 2026-08-06 02:25:33 UTC costar.com Full Share 335

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Position: LLMs Can't Jump

289 theanonymousone 2026-08-05 13:25:33 UTC openreview.net Full Share 191

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