The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

97 spankibalt 2026-08-21 07:43:08 UTC remapradio.com Llama Share 37

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.

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

78 signa11 2026-08-21 07:43:08 UTC encore.dev Llama Share 38

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.

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

21 marcomezzavilla 2026-08-21 09:47:08 UTC htmlcat.net Full Share 6

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can do more than we remember. Each post-it pairs one useful platform feature with a small example and the caveat that matters.

The August 17 outage

538 0xedb 2026-08-20 19:43:08 UTC github.blog Llama Share 598

GitHub experienced a 7-hour and 47-minute outage on August 17, affecting multiple services due to capacity failure. The company is accelerating work to improve reliability after two significant incidents in August.

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

741 Ariarule 2026-08-20 14:43:08 UTC experimental-history.com Llama Share 304

The author reflects on how great literature and art can be misunderstood as lacking substance, but in reality, they are complex and layered. Thick works of fiction require attention and effort to fully appreciate their depth.

The case against a C alternative (2022)

34 theanonymousone 2026-08-21 07:43:08 UTC c3.handmade.network Llama Share 26

The author argues that alternative languages to C, such as Zig and Rust, face significant challenges in gaining adoption due to their lack of killer features and compatibility with existing C code. To justify switching from C, a new language must offer substantial benefits that outweigh the costs of setting up a new toolchain.

HTML Can Do That

826 encyclopedism 2026-08-20 12:43:08 UTC chrisburnell.com Llama Share 189

This page showcases modern HTML features that can achieve dynamic functionality without JavaScript, highlighting browser implementation limitations and accessibility needs. The examples include popovers, modal dialog boxes, color pickers, range inputs, and more.

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

505 abhisek 2026-08-20 13:43:08 UTC safedep.io Llama Share 426

A compromised Rust crate, arrayref, was released on crates.io with a malicious dependency proc-macro1. The malicious code ran at build time and fetched a remote binary without validation.

Ox Alpha

167 mtokmak06 2026-08-21 00:43:08 UTC openrouter.ai Llama Share 125

Ox Alpha is a stealth model for coding, agentic work, and production workloads with a 1,048,576-token context window. It accepts text, images, and video inputs and returns text outputs through OpenRouter's unified API.

I should have loved biology (2020)

285 tyre 2026-08-20 18:43:08 UTC jsomers.net Llama Share 107

The author reflects on their biology education, feeling that it was too dry and lacked real-world context. They credit Lewis Thomas's writing style for making the subject more engaging and understandible. The author believes that learning about biology should start with questions and hands-on projects rather than just memorizing facts.

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

14 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 08:43:08 UTC toxel.com Llama Share 4

A flat-pack chair with fiberglass panels is designed for efficient manufacturing and compact transportation, reducing shipping costs. It uses curves and interlocking components to form strength without excessive material use.

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

41 wise_blood 2026-08-21 05:43:08 UTC philipdick.com Full Share 20

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.

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

180 rdmuser 2026-08-21 05:43:08 UTC xda-developers.com Llama Share 84

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.

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

26 osnium123 2026-08-21 04:43:08 UTC investors.micron.com Llama Share 1

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.

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

191 rafaelc 2026-08-20 18:43:08 UTC experimental-history.com Llama Share 260

The author argues that intelligence is not just about solving well-defined problems, but also about navigating poorly defined problems in life. They suggest that people who excel at solving well-defined problems may not necessarily be happier or more fulfilled.

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

319 danielvaughn 2026-08-20 19:43:08 UTC danielvaughn.dev Llama Share 164

A software engineer is dissatisfied with the current state of coding with AI, seeking a better balance between automation and control. They're developing an experimental editor called Huzzah to address these issues by using pseudocode prompts that are declarative and persistent.

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

403 EwanG 2026-08-20 13:43:08 UTC wsj.com Full Share 247

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Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

39 yousefh409 2026-08-20 15:43:08 UTC github.com/runvendo Llama Share 20

Vendo is an open-source customization layer for B2B SaaS teams, allowing users to build features and micro-apps on top of their product without touching the source code. It acts as a signed-in user through the product's API, rendering UI in a sandboxed surface.

Attention Through Arithmetic Intensity

4 jxmorris12 2026-08-21 09:43:08 UTC changyi.fun Prefix Share 0

Besides the KV cache, decoding now has another variable — MTP, or speculative decoding, whose idea is to trade compute for speed. But MLA behaves during decoding like an MQA with head_dims=512+, and has already consumed most of the compute up front, so “MLA+MTP” tends to lose out. My first reaction was: what does that mean? Why would MLA “consume compute up front” during decode? And why ...

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

262 Bluestein 2026-08-20 15:43:08 UTC github.com/zachahn Llama Share 255

Vomit converts Claude's tokens into English by piping them through a local LLM, which is fully local and has no external dependencies. It can be used in non-invasive mode to translate tokens for a specified session or follow the latest one.

Captain Zilog

59 rbanffy 2026-08-21 01:43:08 UTC zilog.com Full Share 7

Linux 7.2

256 mariuz 2026-08-20 16:43:08 UTC igalia.com Llama Share 102

This kernel cycle saw significant improvements, including cache-aware scheduling and runtime power management for GPUs on Raspberry Pi devices. The DRM scheduler fair policy was also improved but remains opt-in due to a last-minute regression report.

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

974 emctech 2026-08-20 10:43:08 UTC blog.laserphile.com Llama Share 306

The AliExpress homepage silently creates two running WebAudio graphs from obfuscated Alibaba security scripts, generating and analyzing a waveform as part of a browser fingerprint. Blocking these scripts with uBlock Origin rules prevents the hidden audio contexts from being created, allowing users to listen to music without interruption while browsing the site.

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)

244 nunodonato 2026-08-20 10:43:08 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 179

Researchers argue that anthropomorphizing intermediate tokens in language models can be misleading and confusing. They call for the community to avoid such metaphors to effectively use these models.

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

171 speckx 2026-08-20 15:43:08 UTC blog.yaros.ae Llama Share 132

Creating anti-AI fonts is an inaccessible solution that may lead to centralized identity verification systems and filtering content, ultimately benefiting those who want to censor the web. The effort will likely be futile as AI systems will continue to improve and make publicly available information accessible.

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

24 gandalfgeek 2026-08-21 05:43:08 UTC github.com/vivekhaldar Llama Share 9

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.

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

62 arto 2026-08-20 21:43:08 UTC byroot.github.io Llama Share 0

The author discusses their struggles with writing blog posts, particularly the first sentence, and how it helps them think about problems. They then dive into optimizing Ruby's Hash class by implementing a more efficient data structure called ar_table.

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K

41 supermagnet 2026-08-21 01:43:08 UTC journals.aps.org Full Share 11

Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

32 birdculture 2026-08-21 08:43:08 UTC github.com/emacs-mirror Full Share 7

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

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

135 TheP1000 2026-08-21 03:43:08 UTC github.com/openai Llama Share 50

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.