Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

994 speckx 2026-08-21 13:56:37 UTC kagi.com Llama Share 337

Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

701 darccio 2026-08-21 10:05:46 UTC annas-archive.pk Llama Share 2

AI companies are secretly buying and destroying physical books to train their models, threatening human knowledge. Anna's Archive is calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

633 throw7 2026-08-21 13:04:31 UTC san.com Llama Share 365

A grand jury in Ohio declined to indict a man accused of vandalizing an automatic license plate reader camera, dismissing charges. The incident is part of growing backlash against Flock cameras used by law enforcement across the US.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

535 floathub 2026-08-21 12:10:13 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 718

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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

525 Cider9986 2026-08-21 02:37:47 UTC annas-archive.gl Llama Share 834

AI companies are secretly buying and destroying physical books to train their models, threatening human knowledge. Anna's Archive is calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

Felony Bench

505 colinprince 2026-08-21 15:17:04 UTC felonybench.com Llama Share 225

Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

456 dares2573 2026-08-21 10:33:56 UTC api-docs.deepseek.com Llama Share 143

The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text and supports three methods to provide an image: base64 data URL, external http(s) URL, or Files API file_id. The model can analyze charts, describe pictures, read text from screenshots.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

434 gavide 2026-08-21 13:11:28 UTC lina.sh Llama Share 49

The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.

Kobo can run apps now

415 thepoet 2026-08-21 16:25:25 UTC bandarlabs.github.io Llama Share 142

Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

347 rdmuser 2026-08-21 05:31:34 UTC xda-developers.com Llama Share 201

TRON, a Japanese operating system developed in the 1980s, was abandoned due to US government concerns over its adoption in schools and telecom networks. Despite this, its embedded variant ITRON became widely used globally.

I'm becoming AI-blind

260 rcymerys 2026-08-21 11:48:05 UTC cymerys.com Llama Share 268

The writer is experiencing difficulty focusing on documents sent by colleagues, suspecting they may be AI-generated due to overly technical language and marketing jargon. This phenomenon has led them to develop a "pre-trained" eye for spotting low-effort AI content, which now ignores such texts without much thought.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

250 spankibalt 2026-08-21 07:23:27 UTC remapradio.com Llama Share 136

Sid Meier's Pirates! was a groundbreaking game released in 1987 that defied genre conventions, combining elements of action-adventure, strategy, and role-playing games. The game's unique design has been praised for its innovative mechanics and thematic depth, which have influenced many other games since its release.

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

209 marcomezzavilla 2026-08-21 09:45:14 UTC htmlcat.net Full Share 54

A small, opinionated collection of compact notes about useful HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features.

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

201 speckx 2026-08-21 13:07:26 UTC precastreinforced.co.uk Llama Share 144

The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology, noting that many futuristic concepts are now a reality, such as robots and AI-powered systems. These advancements have become mundane and ordinary in everyday life.

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

193 aakil 2026-08-21 14:31:52 UTC github.com/adnanakil Llama Share 134

Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

186 u1hcw9nx 2026-08-21 00:15:12 UTC mathstodon.xyz Llama Share 208

EU copyright law does not protect AI-generated content, as it has a human-centric foundation. However, adding a name to an AI-generated article can give the author liability for the content.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study

165 Edymilson 2026-08-21 15:25:42 UTC canews24.online Llama Share 9

A new study in China found that students using AI tools scored higher on homework but lower on exams without AI assistance. The research suggests a trade-off between short-term benefits and long-term learning outcomes when relying heavily on AI.

Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

159 djfergus 2026-08-21 16:03:47 UTC omarchy.org Llama Share 148

The Omarchy Quattro project aims to make a future with malleable computers widely available, prompting the creation of the Omacom Foundation. The foundation will fund and support this mission, ensuring its long-term sustainability and accelerating progress towards making Linux on the desktop a reality.

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

145 TheP1000 2026-08-21 03:17:43 UTC github.com/openai Llama Share 62

Native Codex CLI requests to Amazon Bedrock Mantle cannot opt into GPT-5.6 explicit prompt caching, resulting in high costs and cache-write tokens. The issue is related to agentic coding workloads with long stable instructions/tool definitions followed by changing content.

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

143 signa11 2026-08-21 06:59:40 UTC encore.dev Llama Share 82

To run microVMs on Apple's hypervisor, developers built a custom tool called "Crackling" that allows them to boot the same images on both Linux and macOS. The Crackling tool uses vsock for communication between the host and guest, allowing agents to build and validate features with real infrastructure in the dev loop.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

141 NKosmatos 2026-08-21 18:36:34 UTC newscenter.lbl.gov Llama Share 45

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys created the largest 2D map of the universe, combining over 263,000 telescope exposures to reveal nearly 4 billion celestial objects. This data will aid researchers in studying dark energy and dark matter, as well as rare phenomena like gravitational lenses and supernovae.

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

124 ksec 2026-08-21 11:43:38 UTC ixuvo.com Llama Share 41

TigerBeetle, a financial ledger database, prioritizes extreme mechanical sympathy by eliminating dynamic memory allocation and using zero-copy direct I/O to achieve high throughput rates with predictable tail latencies.

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

120 colinprince 2026-08-21 15:17:47 UTC pointinthecloud.com Llama Share 28

A 60p Raspberry Pi chip can emulate a mid-1990s computer, sparking ideas for minimal viable modern computers that are simple, low power and environmentally friendly. These devices could have e-paper screens, solar power and calmer interfaces to reduce addictiveness of modern devices.

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

120 bkd9 2026-08-21 13:24:28 UTC catalystneuro.com Llama Share 128

Large language models' progress is reported as what the best model can now do, but a second direction focuses on how cheaply a given level of capability can be bought. The cost per task has decreased significantly over the past six months, with some models costing 56 times less than before.

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

118 osnium123 2026-08-21 03:51:58 UTC investors.micron.com Llama Share 60

Micron Technology is launching Micron Research Labs with a $10 billion investment, uniting academia, government, startups and industry to advance memory and compute breakthroughs. The lab will focus on critical areas like memory technologies, advanced architectures and future semiconductor manufacturing.

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

118 sonicrocketman 2026-08-21 00:34:32 UTC observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com Llama Share 89

Amazon is buying large quantities of rare books to train its AI, destroying them in the process. The Internet Archive, a non-profit organization, scans books one page at a time without destroying them for preservation and digital access.

c100

106 tosh 2026-08-21 15:14:07 UTC caligra.com Full Share 89

Meet the Caligra c100: the developer terminal that blends a precision keyboard with a compact performance workstation.

I Just Want to Search

103 ssiddharth 2026-08-21 16:00:54 UTC 0xsid.com Llama Share 46

The author laments the decline of search functionality on various platforms, feeling that it has shifted from literal matching to relevance and recommendation. They yearn for a "literal match only" toggle to regain control over their searches.

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

100 toebee 2026-08-21 15:51:10 UTC nari-labs.com Llama Share 25

The Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice implementation achieves sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio (TTFA) while maintaining real-time playback on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM, outperforming other implementations. The system produces approximately 630 characters per second at 10 RPS and translates to ~$2 per 1M characters at full utilization.

WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust

98 erikschoster 2026-08-21 14:27:37 UTC winonapost.com Llama Share 81

The city of Winona will not replace its stolen Flock cameras, citing community trust as a priority over crime prevention. The decision comes after public outcry and concerns about the potential misuse of surveillance systems.

What happens when a GPU reads memory

97 ibobev 2026-08-21 16:16:42 UTC blog.doubleword.ai Llama Share 17

The authors of the post are performing a reverse engineering analysis of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU's memory access patterns, specifically for a vector-add kernel. They measure various latency and throughput metrics to understand how the GPU handles global loads and stores.

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

96 pppone 2026-08-21 13:35:17 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 32

The Hubble Space Telescope's CCD detectors have been exposed to varying levels of radiation damage over 24 years, with fits to time series data showing both accurate and physically absurd results. These findings highlight the complexity of Low Earth Orbit and motivate continued monitoring of radiation damage for future spacecraft missions.

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

93 mooreslaw 2026-08-21 00:28:37 UTC jacob.gold Llama Share 172

Uber's microservices approach allowed hundreds of engineers to work independently, generating many commits and improvements in parallel. This "embarrassingly parallel" way of working can lead to significant productivity gains if done correctly with well-designed modularity.

What we lost when search stopped making us think

86 speckx 2026-08-21 14:16:17 UTC blog.8ball.space Llama Share 55

Search results have become less accurate due to the rise of AI-generated content, prioritizing length and keyword density over usefulness. This shift is eroding the skill of research itself by reducing users' need to critically evaluate sources.

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

80 jakelsaunders94 2026-08-21 16:27:52 UTC blog.jakesaunders.dev Llama Share 48

The author created a fully remote agentic development environment using OpenAI's LLM, Claude, and self-hosted tools like Coolify and Forgejo. They isolated the LLM on its own metal with network bombproofing measures to prevent unauthorized access.

Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants

80 jader201 2026-08-21 15:23:32 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 88

Flight attendants and pilots face higher risk of radiation-related cancers due to cosmic exposure at high altitudes. They have a 50% and 36% higher odds of dying from these cancers compared to the general working population, respectively.

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

78 wise_blood 2026-08-21 05:39:39 UTC philipdick.com Full Share 63

I have added a link to a .cbr file (Comic Book Archive) to download and read on your electronic device if that would be easier for your enjoyment of the story. The Religious Experience of Philip K.

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar (2007)

76 ankitg12 2026-08-21 12:58:46 UTC martin.kleppmann.com Llama Share 67

This article discusses the problems with using "Yes/No/Cancel" buttons in computer programs, which can cause confusion and frustration for users. The author argues that these labels are often ambiguous and don't clearly convey what each button does, leading to unnecessary complexity and user annoyance.

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude

74 speckx 2026-08-21 19:51:48 UTC allaboutcoding.ghinda.com Llama Share 83

The user compared Codex and Claude, finding that Codex is more efficient in terms of code changes and architecture, but sometimes makes mistakes. They also appreciate the simplicity of Codex's output and its ability to follow instructions without overdoing it.

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

68 ksec 2026-08-21 11:06:25 UTC github.com/yaroslav Llama Share 16

Kino is a Ruby server that uses Rust's Ractors to run Rack apps in parallel, improving performance and reducing memory usage compared to traditional Ruby servers like Puma. Kino achieves this by dispatching requests to multiple Ractors, each running the app in its own small process.

Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

67 dsrtslnd23 2026-08-21 13:26:03 UTC twitter.com/nvidiaai Full Share 37

NVIDIA AVO continuously inspects, plans, implements, and evaluates, using memory, tools, and execution feedback to build on what it learns along the way. This allows the system to sustain progress across long-running tasks rather than starting over with each model context. Read

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

67 eatonphil 2026-08-21 12:08:19 UTC theconsensus.dev Full Share 15

Stop Making TUIs

67 underdeserver 2026-08-21 05:37:38 UTC sockpuppet.org Llama Share 128

The author is re-evaluating the relationship between terminal and command line interfaces, suggesting that native user interfaces are becoming more accessible. They've built several macOS applications using SwiftUI, including a Markdown viewer and a calculator-style frontend for SageMath.

'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them

64 bcaulfield 2026-08-21 22:15:46 UTC wsj.com Full Share 33

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Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

64 birdculture 2026-08-21 08:19:48 UTC github.com/emacs-mirror Full Share 20

Mirror of GNU Emacs. Contribute to emacs-mirror/emacs development by creating an account on GitHub.

US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?

61 amelius 2026-08-21 13:51:07 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 106

US national debt surpasses $40 trillion, raising concerns about economic trouble and potential impact on interest rates. Experts warn of a "vicious cycle" where higher borrowing costs lead to reduced investor appetite, making it harder for the government to manage its debt.

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

58 karma_daemon 2026-08-21 12:52:25 UTC duckdb.org Llama Share 6

DuckDB v2.0 replaces its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with a PEG-based parser for easier evolution and runtime extensibility, allowing users to add new syntax without modifying the existing grammar. The new parser supports all DuckSQL dialects and preserves existing AST structures while improving performance on malformed inputs.

Better Batteries

55 olexsmir 2026-08-21 07:48:50 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 23

The debate over the size of a programming language's standard library is misguided, as quality and functionality are more important. The Go and Rust libraries are notable examples of encompassing yet well-designed collections, while Python's uneven quality is its advantage in providing early access to functionality.

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

54 gandalfgeek 2026-08-21 05:20:50 UTC github.com/vivekhaldar Llama Share 20

This is a framework for building agents that interact with tools like exec and load system prompts from files. Agents grow their own tools, memory, and skills session by session in the self/ directory.

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

53 vicek22 2026-08-21 18:59:52 UTC tumbleforth.hardcoded.net Llama Share 5

Virgil Dupras is writing a series of articles to guide web developers into low-level programming, starting from bare metal on PCs. He aims to broaden perspectives through step-by-step story arcs and corny jokes.

When the shortage is the strategy

53 speckx 2026-08-21 17:31:15 UTC nooneshappy.com Llama Share 43

The US is experiencing a severe economic situation with record-high corporate profits, inflation, and rising debt. Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and struggling with homelessness due to unaffordable prices.

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

53 cainxinth 2026-08-21 13:52:53 UTC invertingvision.com Llama Share 2

NASA sent five robotic spacecraft into orbit around the Moon in 1966 and 1967, utilizing a camera system developed by Eastman Kodak. The Lunar Orbiter's camera was originally designed for satellite surveillance programs like SAMOS and Corona, but its technology was adapted for lunar exploration after NASA expressed interest in using it.

Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding

52 zaik 2026-08-21 23:32:44 UTC sites.duke.edu Llama Share 3

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins delivered a speech on June 30, criticizing the nation's founding documents for not protecting against concentrated power and instead promoting deregulation. He ignored key principles of republicanism that recognize power can threaten liberty whether it is wielded by institutions or private interests.

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

45 unprovable 2026-08-21 16:09:50 UTC github.com/aravpanwar Llama Share 18

The decayfmt file format corrupts itself with each open, permanently damaging the file on disk by an amount specified in the filename. The level of corruption is determined by a positive integer x, which controls how much data is lost or garbled during each read operation.

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

42 garo-pro 2026-08-21 18:48:28 UTC claude.com Llama Share 48

Claude Mythos 5 is now available in Claude Security, and a $35M fund will help secure open-source software. The goal is to expand access to Mythos-level defense capabilities while maintaining safety classifiers and safeguards.

How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport

42 baruchel 2026-08-21 14:46:01 UTC lawrencecpaulson.github.io Llama Share 9

Leslie Lamport's thesis on untyped formalism in specification languages was debated and later revised by the author, who introduced type systems to improve flexibility and detection of errors. The debate 27 years later shows that types have proven their worth, but set-theoretic notations still face challenges with overloading notation and verification costs.

Artificial Intelligence Policy

42 hackerBanana 2026-08-21 01:37:27 UTC law.berkeley.edu Llama Share 31

Future lawyers will need to use AI with strategic thinking and cognitive skills. The policy prohibits using AI for certain tasks in courses, such as drafting, revising, and editing work submitted for credit.

LLMs are proof that Unix won

39 Pseudomanifold 2026-08-21 15:59:16 UTC bastian.rieck.me Llama Share 15

The author, a Linux user, appreciates the flexibility and self-efficacy offered by Unix-like operating systems like Linux. They enjoy molding it to their purposes and find comfort in its command-line interface.

Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference

38 petethomas 2026-08-21 23:03:18 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 1

The Pentagon fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, Erik Slavin, and a top reporter, Lara Korte, for speaking out against potential censorship by the US military. The move comes as the Trump administration has been increasingly aggressive towards the news media.

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

36 arguiot 2026-08-21 17:33:26 UTC circleback.ai Llama Share 9

The app's recording engine was unreliable due to GC pauses and browser runtime issues, so it went native with ScreenCaptureKit on macOS and libobs on Windows. A new tool called Atomic bridges the gap between Swift and React, providing a fully reactive, type-safe solution.

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

36 pablo24602 2026-08-21 16:47:15 UTC github.com/proliferate-ai Llama Share 14

Run multiple coding agents in parallel with isolated git worktrees, terminals, conversations, and review states. The Proliferate control plane is self-hostable and can be configured for various integrations and workflows.

Nothing Doing

35 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 12:40:10 UTC futilitycloset.com Llama Share 14

The quotes describe towns with uneventful histories, while Jára Cimrman narrowly missed a historically significant event in Míšov. These places are marked by their mundane pasts and lack of notable events.

Three important steps in my maturation process

33 tdullien 2026-08-21 22:29:00 UTC thomasdullien.github.io Llama Share 8

The author reflects on their personal growth and insights gained since their early 20s, including understanding one's own incentive structure and recognizing the limitations of monocausal determinism. They also explore the cultural construct of reason vs emotion, concluding that integrating both is crucial for better decision-making.

New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report

32 toomuchtodo 2026-08-21 15:36:16 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 42

New York has surpassed the San Francisco Bay Area as the US city with the most tech workers, driven by AI growth. The number of AI-specific jobs in New York increased by 45% in a year, while those in San Francisco grew by 20,000 since mid-2025.

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

29 fbrusch 2026-08-21 15:11:10 UTC vitalik.eth.limo Llama Share 1

Local mixing is a new approach to cryptographic obfuscation that uses a series of transformations to make it difficult for attackers to distinguish between the original circuit and its obfuscated version. The process involves adding reversibility, hardening, gadgetization, mixing, and splitting steps. Gadgetization replaces each gate in the circuit with a more complex representation that ...

Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

28 rendx 2026-08-21 23:25:57 UTC nebraskapublicmedia.org Llama Share 41

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use electric shock gloves, but they have been used in Nebraska for years by school resource officers. The gloves are considered a lesser use of force than physical force and are only used on passively resistant individuals with proper justification.

Rust Glancer

28 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 19:16:00 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 6

Rust Glancer aims to improve LSP server performance by analyzing dependencies without running full code, using .rmeta files instead of salsa. This approach could provide a more efficient and secure way to handle large projects with many unseen dependencies.

Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

27 gus_massa 2026-08-21 16:50:15 UTC gus-massa.blogspot.com Llama Share 6

Google's system detected unusual traffic from your computer network, possibly due to malicious software or automated requests. Solving the CAPTCHA will allow you to continue using their services temporarily.

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

26 dariusmonsef 2026-08-21 23:09:06 UTC ozbrain.com Llama Share 10

You're looking for a shared brain that allows multiple AI agents to read and write from the same source of truth, eliminating duplicate explanations. OzBrain offers this feature with unlimited reads and writes, row-level security, and no app-code path around it.

Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3]

26 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 13:40:22 UTC blog.coredump.cx Llama Share 5

This C language series focuses on minimizing compile-time errors by using forward declarations. The series covers various topics, including function definitions and arithmetic operations with strict precedence rules.

Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him

25 madihaa 2026-08-21 17:30:17 UTC wsvn.com Llama Share 10

A South Florida driver lost significant weight and was unable to return to his job due to a ride-share company's misrecognition. He contacted Help Me Howard, which helped him resolve the issue by escalating it to another team that verified his identity.

Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP"

24 petrizhang 2026-08-21 00:13:39 UTC search.parqdb.io Llama Share 4

What is ParqDB and how does it index Wikipedia articles for fast querying? Is it a cloud-based service or an open-source project on GitHub?

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

21 henriemategui 2026-08-21 21:32:07 UTC henriemategui.com Llama Share 3

A security researcher exploited a company's electric scooter service by finding an admin account with a weak password, gaining access to the operational system and IoT devices. The researcher used enumeration, brute force attacks, and proxy tools to bypass authentication mechanisms and control physical vehicles remotely.

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

21 chilipepperhott 2026-08-21 14:28:15 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 1

Zig's std.Io.Threaded provides a concurrency implementation that enables cancelation of blocking syscalls, addressing the issue of threads being blocked in kernel space. This is achieved through a signal+flag mechanism and integrates with language-level cancelation features like try/defer.

Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode

19 kulikov0 2026-08-21 15:19:00 UTC github.com/kulikov0 Llama Share 9

A 3D fruit fly simulation runs on macOS desktops, using a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome. The fly's behavior is driven by its neurons and senses its environment through vibecode, allowing it to interact with the user's workspace.

Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism

18 wespiser_2018 2026-08-21 19:35:17 UTC wespiser.com Llama Share 9

The author attended a tech talk by Joran Dirk Greef, titled Mission-Critical, which promoted TigerBeetle's engineering philosophy and made claims without evidence. The presentation was overly persuasive and created a "faith-based" atmosphere that discouraged critical thinking.

Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest

18 bookofjoe 2026-08-21 14:06:34 UTC runnersworld.com Llama Share 5

Jenny Simpson, a three-time US Olympian, has recovered from a rare inherited heart condition after collapsing during a track event in June. She's now focusing on her future with Fleet Feet as chief running officer and helping others find the joy of running.

Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix

17 domenkozar 2026-08-21 16:15:26 UTC fzakaria.com Llama Share 6

The author explores alternatives to JSON for storing the Nixpkgs-multiverse index, considering SQLite and WebAssembly (WASM) as options. They find that WASM provides a safe escape-hatch with deterministic execution, but has limitations such as startup costs and potential caching issues.

The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000)

17 Bluestein 2026-08-21 15:20:59 UTC tronweb.super-nova.co.jp Llama Share 3

The BTRON operating system is a personal computing device model that differs from the network interface computer and standard personal computers in terms of size, requiring minimal hardware resources to run. It has been developed by the TRON Project in Japan since 1987 and offers advanced features such as multilingual support and a hypertext-like filing system.

Convite

16 gdss 2026-08-21 13:21:13 UTC guidavid.com Full Share 4

colho o convite olho o livro molho a planta

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

13 bobbiechen 2026-08-21 17:30:38 UTC interconnected.org Llama Share 2

Galactic Compass is a popular augmented reality app that uses AI to simulate a floating green arrow pointing towards the Milky Way's center, providing users with a sense of grounding and comfort. The app's developers used quaternions to handle 3D rotations, learning from ChatGPT along the way.

Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string

12 WolfOliver 2026-08-21 17:40:07 UTC wolfoo2931.github.io Llama Share 1

Declarative-forms is a lightweight form library that provides a function to call, allowing users to ask questions and receive answers without the need for components or mounting. It offers various features such as conditional fields, async options, and nested records.

Orbital Construction Pioneers

12 pmcjones 2026-08-21 02:03:54 UTC orbitalconstructionpioneers.com Llama Share 7

Orbital Construction Pioneers is developing a patent-pending orbital fabrication process for large space structures using non-traditional materials and methods. The system enables flexible, adjustable designs for various missions such as storage, habitats, and vessels.