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💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Year of the Amiga Unix Desktop 2026 Amiga Unix, again Amiga Unix — Amix — was Commodore's System V Release 4 for the Amiga: shipped in 1990–92 for the A2500UX and A3000UX, then left where it stood. amigaux.org is an unofficial community project that picks it up again: Amix on 68040 and 68060 machines and on today's accelerator hardware, with a modern toolchain, a package manager, and drivers for cards that never had any. The work is done in the open, and written down as…

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Static recompilation of the N64 game Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (USA, Rev A) to a native PC executable, using the N64Recomp toolchain. This repository contains no copyrighted game data. You must supply your own ROM dump (see below). This work in this project was mostly performed by the DeepSeek v4/v4.1 Flash model. The main code segment (807 functions) has been fully recompiled to C. The runtime app (rendering, input, audio) is the next milestone. See PLAN.md for the full plan, current status,…

💥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Selling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.Every few weeks, another tech billionaire in an expensive suit glides into a Senate hearing room, sits opposite lawmakers who struggle to operate an office microwave, and explains with a straight face that their software company has accidentally summoned an omnipotent digital god. The executives speak in hushed, trembling tones about runaway machine intellects, recursive self-improvement,…

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: We know Jev. jevchat turns that into a chat model. At every step it asks Jev one question: Given the user's question and the reply written so far, which symbol comes next? The options are an alphabet plus an option to stop emitting. Jev returns a probability for each one, and the sampler draws the next symbol from that normalised distribution. Append, repeat, and stop when STOP is drawn. There are several alphabets and sampling strategies available. The idea is for fun, the cost is…

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: “The letter W is a child of the fall of Rome. In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers. The reasons behind this collapse of imperial power are complex, but a large role was played by various peoples who had formerly lived outside its borders. The Romans might have looked down on these migrants as ‘barbarians’, but they also increasingly came to rely on them for military support. They were foederati—peoples…

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Prompts aren’t Real Everyone is driving themselves crazy exchanging text with LLM’s these days. I would like to propose an alternative. We should all go insane building interlocking evaluation and optimization pipelines, instead. The path to victory in our war with AI is to ignore the prompts, and bring even more AI firepower to bear. Like my friend Coda says all the time: "the textual nature of prompts leads us to take the intentional stance towards systems which aren’t conscious, and thus miss the essential…

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Unlimited UTF-8! ASCII ⊆ UTF-8 ⊆ UTF-8000. No special cases introduced. All properties preserved. Try out the reference implementation with $ pipx install UTF-8000. UTF-8000 is in no way endorsed by or representative of the Unicode Consortium. This is a fun standalone project / proposal. TLDR / Examples ASCII 1 0xxxxxxx UTF-8 2 110xxxxx 10xxxxxx 3 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 4 11110xxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx UTF-8000 5 111110xx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 6 1111110x 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 7 11111110 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx…