Hacker News ReaderTop Best

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf] 1

ischool.berkeley.edu

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" | 37

rvembedded.com

A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

Claude: System Prompts | 58

Claude: System Prompts

System Prompts
platform.claude.com

System Prompts - Claude Platform Docs

See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android).

SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX | 6

pikuma.com

Pikuma: SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs.

Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter | 8

wiki.lowtechlab.org

Ceramic water filter — Low-tech Lab

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs | 4

bernsteinbear.com

A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs | Max Bernstein

NB: This isn’t about crypto. I don’t care about crypto.

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose | 29

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

w4g1.dev

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose - Walter van der Giessen

Reasoning scores climb while per-token compute drops. Labs are stripping world knowledge out of models, and I think that's the right trade.

The AI Credit Resale Economy | 30

The AI Credit Resale Economy

vectoral.com

Who Are the Token Brokers? | Vectoral

A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them — the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference changes hands

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome | 13

buf.build

Protobuf finally has LSP support. You’re welcome. · Buf

Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code completion, finding references, and semantics-aware syntax highlighting.

MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent | 6

math-ai-org.github.io

MathCode — A Frontier Mathematical Coding Agent

MathCode is a terminal AI coding agent with a built-in math formalization engine: describe a problem in plain language and it converts it into a Lean 4 theorem and attempts a formal proof.

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee 11

reuters.com

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga | 4

nnamgreb.de

Manfred Bergmann | Software Development | Blog

Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life | 11

commonreader.wustl.edu

Winning and Losing at the Great Game of Intimacy - Common Reader

A journal of the essay

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] | 10

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker | 32

support.mozilla.org

Client Challenge

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence | 1

community.wolfram.com

Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence - Online Technical Discussion Groups—Wolfram Community

Wolfram Community forum discussion about Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence. Stay on top of important topics and build connections by joining Wolfram Community groups relevant to your interests.

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers 27

A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site textlog.cc — I had to go to the Analytics dashboard, Add the site to the analytics and then disable the snippet. I find this approach entirely invasive, you should opt-in to features like that not have to opt-out. Just a warning out there to folks who might not be aware of this. [stagas]

news.ycombinator.com

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-only JS-free site textlog.cc — I had to go to the Analytics dashboard, Add the site to the analytics and <i>then</i> disable the snippet. I find this approach entirely invasive, you should opt-in to features like that not have to opt-out. Just a warning out there to folks who might not be aware of this.

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core | 26

St. Lucie County Nuclear Plant
wptv.com

St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Unit 1 back online after shut down

Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 was manually shut down Aug. 13 after 3 control rods dropped into the core. The NRC classified it as a non-emergency.

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter 33

bloomberg.com

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

Asus Bike Booster | 93

Asus Bike Booster

asus.com

Oxiis Intelligent Bike Booster|Bike Booster|ASUS Global

ASUS Oxiis E250G1 transforms any bike with 500W peak boost, 50 km eco range, app control, fast USB-C charging, and easy install now for riders

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator | 9

ei3lh.eu

A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator. – EI3LH

Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone | 2

A digitally collaged, retro-internet-inspired graphic dominated by repeated, oversized white text reading 'WEBMASTER@manifesto' and '@manifesto' at a 45-degree angle across a painted background. Behind the typography is a painting with muted blue, brown, green, and beige tones. Near the center is a large rectangular image resembling a distorted, low-resolution Windows 95-era computer desktop, surrounded by a bright yellow border and layered with intense red, green, blue, and cyan chromatic aberration. The computer interface contains overlapping dialogue boxes and window controls, with small text and buttons of desktop customization interface. Over the computer image, large white text reads 'WEBMASTER@' on the first line and 'a manifesto by Brennan.day' beneath it. The overall composition has a chaotic, glitchy, photocopied aesthetic, combining early-web imagery, obsolete computer interfaces, aggressive typography, colour distortion, and visual noise.
brennan.day

WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone · brennan.day

I'm reclaiming the title of 'webmaster' as the multidisciplinary creator who designs, develops, writes, and advocates for their own corner of the web and will save the world. Tracing the history from 1993 to the present, I argue that anyone can become a webmaster with minimal tools. Webmastery is an act of digital repatriation and human agency against corporate platforms and AI orchestration.

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later | 16

ivan-gavran.github.io

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later - Ivan Gavran

Writings on software correctness, AI, formal verification, and other technical topics.

A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem | 7

Subercaseaux, Bernardo | Przybocki, Benjamin

[2608.08421] A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2608.08421: A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama | 2

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama: London’s forgotten property innovation
ianvisits.co.uk

Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama: London’s forgotten property innovation

New research has uncovered how a London estate agent used immersive cosmorama displays to give wealthy buyers a Victorian-era virtual preview of luxury homes decades before photography or the internet.

Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware | 13

hwbusters.com

Comma.ai eGPU Dock Runs Open-Source Firmware: $249 Bare, $799 With an RX 9060 - Hardware Busters

George Hotz's comma.ai eGPU dock ships with open-source ASM2464PD firmware: $249 for the dock, $799 with a Radeon RX 9060, and it works on a normal PC.

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work | 11

duckdb.org

Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work – DuckDB

Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the available bandwidth, as is typical in EC2/S3 compute-storage setups.

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering 0

Run your business on agents
tasklet.ai

Head of Design Engineering — Careers at Tasklet

This creates a defining product-design challenge: inventing how people and teams work with AI that does real work, not merely chats. We're looking for a Head of Design Engineering to own that experience holistically—making the entire product simple, intuitive, and beautiful, then personally implementing most of it in production.

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding | 0

highereddive.com

Inside the federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding | Higher Ed Dive

In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants.

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing | 45

daringfireball.net

Daring Fireball: Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.