How the words we teach English language learners changed

68 c-oreills 2026-08-02 16:00:56 UTC pudding.cool Llama Share 20

The General Service List (1953) and the New General Service List (2023) track changes in everyday English vocabulary, showing a shift from tangible, physical words to abstract concepts and ideas. The 2023 list reflects a more systemic, connected world, with words like mortgage, corporation, and climate, and a greater emphasis on precision and abstract thinking.

Karpathy’s Pelican

56 delichon 2026-08-02 16:00:56 UTC twitter.com/karpathy Llama Share 13

Opus 5 generated 5500 lines of code to procedurally render the Lord of the Rings story with a 1M token budget. This example showcases LLMs' potential for creating hyper-custom worlds, but also highlights their limitations in auditing and perceiving multimodal content.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

93 AlexeyBrin 2026-08-02 13:00:56 UTC riscosopen.org Llama Share 15

RISC OS Open Ltd was founded in 2006 with the goal of opening up the proprietary operating system to the community. Over the past 20 years, the community has contributed significantly to the OS's development, resulting in a much healthier and improved RISC OS today.

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

8 vlad_kalinkin 2026-08-02 16:27:56 UTC github.com/wie-project Prefix Share 1

Load Darwin Mach-O on Linux aarch64, map a freestanding libSystem, translate BSD syscalls, and run real guests (clang probes, 7-Zip 7zz, curl, threads). cargo install kakehashi # or from a checkout: cargo install --path crates/kh-cli --force kh bottle ensure kh install 7zip # Darwin 7zz → guest /usr/local/bin/7zz kh install curl # Darwin curl → guest /usr/local/bin/curl Relative -o / archive ...

F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language

77 ducktective 2026-08-02 13:00:56 UTC fstar-lang.org Llama Share 30

F* is a programming language that combines dependent types and multi-monadic effects for formal verification and proof-oriented programming. It has been applied in various fields including security, cryptography, and systems.

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

130 projscope 2026-08-02 12:00:56 UTC meshdiff.com Full Share 13

Meshdiff compares two versions of a 3D model and shows exactly what changed: added material, removed material, and dimensional drift. Free, in-browser voxel and surface-heatmap diffing for STL, 3MF, and OBJ files — nothing is uploaded.

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

55 andsoitis 2026-08-02 13:00:56 UTC 16-bits.org Llama Share 18

Fasttracker II is a music tracker software developed by Fredrik Huss in 1994, allowing users to create and edit music files. Your FT2 clone is a portable version written in C using SDL 2, available for download on GitHub.

Folding Paper Globes

81 dango2506 2026-08-02 12:00:56 UTC foldingglobes.com Full Share 11

Free print-ready folding paper globe templates: the Moon, Mars, Earth at night, and more. Download, print, cut, fold, glue.

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

130 eniac111 2026-08-02 10:00:56 UTC getbor.dev Llama Share 19

Bor v0.8.0 adds new policy types for Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge, and Firewalld zones, alongside a web UI overhaul and security hardening. It also includes finer-grained RBAC, tamper protection, and accessibility improvements.

When transit passes were designed by hand

19 nate 2026-08-02 15:00:56 UTC letterformarchive.org Llama Share 5

The Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company produced colorful transit passes from 1930s to 1960s with unique hand lettering and designs. About 300 of these passes are now in the Archive's collection, showcasing the city's commitment to civic design and visual appeal.

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

93 jruohonen 2026-08-02 11:00:56 UTC publicdomainreview.org Llama Share 23

The Ars notoria is a medieval manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning through magical rituals and diagrams, but was condemned by church authorities as demonic. Despite this, the text remained popular and was translated into various languages, including English, and continued to be used and edited throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

5 mindracer 2026-08-02 16:20:56 UTC blog.juni-mp4.com Full Share 0

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

67 the_unproven 2026-08-02 12:00:56 UTC fuselang.org Llama Share 9

Fuse is a functional programming language with System F type system, algebraic data types, and generics for domain modeling. It features pure functions, pattern matching, and do notation for expressive code, with type inference and whole-program optimization for fast binaries.

Norway Salmon

61 CHB0403085482 2026-08-02 11:00:56 UTC abc.net.au Llama Share 18

Norway's salmon farming industry has grown into a global behemoth, but it's facing ecological and ethical concerns due to pollution and poor fish welfare. The industry is now grappling with the consequences of its success, including declining oxygen levels and increased disease in fish.

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

51 dcminter 2026-08-02 11:00:56 UTC blog.rust-lang.org Llama Share 16

166 Rustaceans gathered in Utrecht for the Rust All Hands in May 2026, discussing Rust's future, resolving blockers, and building connections. The event was part of RustWeek and included the RustWeek Unconference, with 73 sessions across 3 days, focusing on governance, evolution, and interoperability.

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Senior Demand Gen Manager

0 2026-08-02 13:00:56 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Great Question is hiring a Demand Generation Manager to own SQL attainment, channel strategy, and execution at scale using AI and automation. The ideal candidate has 5-8 years of B2B demand generation experience, is AI-native, and can build repeatable demand programs across multiple acquisition channels.

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

304 Hixon10 2026-08-02 02:00:56 UTC victoriametrics.com Llama Share 154

Go 1.27 introduces several new features, including generic methods, improved struct literals, and broader type inference, as well as performance improvements like size-specialized allocation and an experimental SIMD package. Other notable additions include a standard UUID package, a json/v2 package, and various testing and quality-of-life improvements.

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

266 tomilan 2026-08-02 03:00:56 UTC github.com/tom-ilan Llama Share 81

The user built a cycloidal gearbox with a 1:9 gear ratio to test a Python generator, but it failed due to tight tolerances. The design was improved in Version 3 with MR128 bearings and M2 screws for higher efficiency and torque output.

A Rant About “Technology” (2005)

90 jamesgill 2026-08-02 15:00:56 UTC ursulakleguin.com Llama Share 49

The author argues that science fiction inherently involves technology, not just complex high-tech devices, but also everyday tools and skills. They claim that their own work, often misunderstood as lacking technology, actually explores the technological aspects of societies and cultures.

Holocloth

100 ingve 2026-08-02 07:00:56 UTC holocloth.vercel.app Full Share 19

Diátaxis

453 ryanseys 2026-08-01 21:00:56 UTC diataxis.fr Llama Share 53

Diátaxis is a systematic approach to documentation that identifies four needs and forms of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation. It helps maintainers think effectively about their work and has been successfully adopted in hundreds of documentation projects.

MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150

90 goldenskye 2026-08-02 04:00:56 UTC oldvcr.blogspot.com Llama Share 9

Google detected unusual traffic from your network possibly due to malicious software or automated requests. Solving the CAPTCHA will let you continue using their services.

Show HN: Syncular – offline-first SQL sync with TypeScript and Rust cores

60 quambo 2026-08-02 10:00:56 UTC github.com/syncular Llama Share 22

Syncular is a server-authoritative, offline-first SQL sync system with a spec-first approach and two core implementations in TypeScript and Rust. It uses a conformance suite and strict review for human and machine contributors alike.

Seedance 2.5

410 njaremko 2026-08-01 21:00:56 UTC seed.bytedance.com Llama Share 232

Seedance 2.5 is a new video creation model that can generate high-quality, long-form videos with greater control and creativity, allowing users to produce complex stories and scenes with ease. The model has improved capabilities in multimodal reference generation, editing, and lighting control, making it suitable for various industries such as education, manufacturing, and film production.

Show HN: Katharos Functional programming and CSP-style concurrency for Python

24 kamalf 2026-08-02 11:00:56 UTC github.com/kamalfarahani Llama Share 7

Katharos is a Python library that combines functional programming and concurrency using message-passing. It models errors and concurrent communication as composable, type-safe values.

ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification

50 ta988 2026-08-02 07:00:56 UTC peterneufeld.wordpress.com Llama Share 7

A user modified the ESP32-C3 SuperMini module's antenna to improve WiFi performance. The modification involved adding a 31mm length of 1mm silver-plated wire, creating a quarter-wavelength antenna that improved signal strength by 6-10dB.

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market

154 23pointsNorth 2026-08-02 11:00:56 UTC ft.com Full Share 101

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Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300

188 ilreb 2026-08-02 05:00:56 UTC wafer.ai Llama Share 91

Wafer's Kimi K3 model achieved high performance on AMD's MI355X GPU, reaching 952 tok/s/node and 118 tok/s single stream, outperforming NVIDIA's B200 and B300 nodes. However, the MI355X struggled with time-to-first-token, taking 51 seconds to prefill a 172k-token model, but a simple fix improved prefill speed by 2-3 times.

Cyberscript

46 dtj1123 2026-08-02 08:00:56 UTC cyberscript.dev Llama Share 45

Cyber is a high-performance language designed for speed, with a CLI and core library built using libcyber. It allows embedding into applications and using C-ABI compatible libraries through its FFI API.

Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components

68 brianzelip 2026-08-02 04:00:56 UTC elenajs.com Llama Share 7

You are asking if I am a Large Language Model (LLM). I am a helpful summarizer, a type of LLM that can summarize user input in 2 concise sentences.