1143
286
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
https://instavm.io/blog/building-my-offline-ai-workspace
1 year ago
1135
221
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
https://github.com/Nicholas-L-Johnson/flip-card
589
114
Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/
574
365
Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840728
498
448
The Framework Desktop is a beast
https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-framework-desktop-is-a-beast-636fb4ff
490
200
Getting good results from Claude Code
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2025/08/getting-good-results-from-claude-code/
467
218
Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole
https://bytemash.net/posts/i-went-down-the-linear-rabbit-hole/
428
412
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/surprise-deprecation-of-gpt-4o/
406
191
Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-secret-history-of-tor-how-a-military-project-became-a-lifeline-for-privacy/
340
330
GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"
https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3lvtxbtexg226
331
81
Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor
305
537
Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
https://apnorc.org/projects/food-housing-and-health-care-costs-are-a-source-of-major-stress-for-many-people/
293
267
GPT-5 leaked system prompt?
https://gist.github.com/maoxiaoke/f6d5b28f9104cd856a2622a084f46fd7
273
100
How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB
https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust
253
42
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist
https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2025-shortlist
251
190
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports
230
150
Our European search index goes live
https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
229
207
New executive order puts all grants under political control
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/
219
36
How attention sinks keep language models stable
https://hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streamingllm
209
80
Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5
https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-genies-lamp-openai-cant
206
183
AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing
https://rakhim.exotext.com/ai-is-impressive-because-we-ve-failed-at-semantic-web-and-personal-computing
179
105
RISC-V single-board computer for less than 40 euros
https://www.heise.de/en/news/RISC-V-single-board-computer-for-less-than-40-euros-10515044.html
175
252
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees
https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/my-commitment-to-you-and-our-company
172
141
GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding
https://elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev/p/copilot-agentic-coding-gpt-5-vs-claude-4-sonnet
161
56
Build durable workflows with Postgres
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/why-postgres-durable-execution
156
39
All known 49-year-old Apple-1 computers
https://www.apple1registry.com/en/list.html
152
210
How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/how-to-teach-your-kids-poker-with-one-card-at-age-four
148
67
AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators
https://passo.uno/from-tech-writers-to-ai-context-curators/
146
Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs
https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit
137
167
Why tail-recursive functions are loops
https://kmicinski.com/functional-programming/2025/08/01/loops/
119
33
FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Scheduler/Hybrid
116
138
Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-08/mystery-plane-thief
177
M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/10/no-m5-macbook-pro-2025/
112
20
The enduring puzzle of static electricity
https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/78/8/54/3355922/The-enduring-puzzle-of-static-electricityEven
111
26
Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent
https://blog.langchain.com/introducing-open-swe-an-open-source-asynchronous-coding-agent/
27
Turn any website into an API
https://www.parse.bot
101
233
Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024)
https://russellw.github.io/undefined-behavior
21
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
98
99
HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports
https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/inside-hrts-python-fork/
50
Byte Buddy is a code generation and manipulation library for Java
https://bytebuddy.net/
96
The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-08/the-bls-can-t-be-replaced-by-the-private-sector
93
40
Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl7bIJ2yu4I
91
How to Not Build the Torment Nexus
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus/
88
GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation
https://inference.net/blog/what-s-left-is-distillation
87
53
Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)
https://www.embrapa.br/en/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/75361634/little-known-leguminous-plant-can-increase-beef-production-by-60
86
94
The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning
https://blog.charliemeyer.co/the-gpt-5-launch-was-concerning/
66
What Does Consulting Do?
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34072
46
How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements
https://sirre.al/2025/08/06/safe-json-in-script-tags-how-not-to-break-a-site/
82
5
Show HN: Synchrotron, a real-time DSP engine in pure Python
https://synchrotron.thatother.dev/
79
Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why
https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/job-growth-has-slowed-sharply-the
32
Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-artificial-biosensor-body-main-stress.html
76
60
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/
72
Benchmarking GPT-5 on 400 real-world code reviews
https://www.qodo.ai/blog/benchmarking-gpt-5-on-real-world-code-reviews-with-the-pr-benchmark/
68
Apple's Favoritism to Fastmail
https://xcancel.com/mxroute/status/1952890684660203830
63
35
It's Beginning to Smell a Lot Like Stagflation
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-beginning-to-smell-a-lot-like
61
59
The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games
https://productpickle.online/2025/07/20/ritual-features-the-quiet-strategy-behind-daily-puzzle-games-on-linkedin-and-beyond/
23
Lowe's and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement
https://flowingdata.com/2025/08/08/lowes-and-home-depot-are-sharing-customer-data-with-law-enforcement/
9
AWS's sudden removal of a 10-year account and all of its data: lessons learned
https://www.suramya.com/blog/2025/08/lessons-learnt-from-aws-deleting-a-10-year-account-and-all-that-data-without-warning/