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AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 — Mean Hamster Software

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64 — Mean Hamster Software

✨ Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AGI on the C64, at last We are happy to announce AGI-64, a long-awaited AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64. It is currently around 75% complete for Space Quest 1, which is completely playable now, and the engine aims to support most AGI games of the era. The interpreter is in testing and already supports most standard AGI operations. Free download, your own game files AGI-64 will be a free download when it is ready. It includes a tool that takes the .vol and .obj…
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Rhombus v1.1

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable. As of this release: Add annot and annot.def as ways to define an annotation without directly writing meta-time (i.e., macro) code. Add as as a binding form, which is sometimes more readable for naming than using && and provides a way to shadow an identifier that is bound as a binding form. Change…
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Protobuf finally has LSP support. You’re welcome. · Buf

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

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 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. Before today, Protobuf lacked the same LSP support other major programming languages enjoy. We don’t want to overstate our own work, but this is a game-changer for Protobuf…
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Digital tip screens are designed to pressure customers into tipping

Digital tip screens are designed to pressure customers into tipping

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! I have no problem tipping. I love tipping for a job well done. It’s part of American culture.However, I do have a problem being manipulated into it.America didn't just create a tipping culture. We’ve created a guilt culture coupled with technology. Somewhere between the pandemic and the explosion of digital payment screens, saying "thank you" quietly became a financial obligation. What used to be a reward for exceptional service has turned into an expectation for simply completing…
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Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

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

🚀 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Sunday, 16 August 2026 When I wrote this week about Anthropic’s announcement that all Claude models, worldwide, would soon begin “watermarking” everything they generate, including text, to comply with this EU regulation, we were left to speculate how this was going to work, because Anthropic offered not even a vague description of how it would work — despite the fact that the title of the announcement was, absurdly and insultingly, “How Claude Marks AI-Generated Content”. My initial speculation was that maybe they’d hide invisible non-printing Unicode characters…
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The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Engineers are getting excited about software verification! This may come as a surprise, since verification has long been considered useful only in very niche cases (at best; and impractical, useless or a complete waste of time at worst). Yet, the hype around it is clearly here: Google Trends shows a large spike in searches for formal verification/formal methods in the last two years, everybody’s learning Lean, new specification languages are popping up regularly, and there are efforts to verify major applications end-to-end (e.g., the Signal…
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Reasoning scores keep climbing while per-token compute keeps dropping. GLM-5.2 scores 99.2% on AIME 2026 with about 40 billion parameters active per token. Qwen3.5 scores 91.3% with 17 billion active. DeepSeek V4-Flash runs 13 billion active. For scale, GPT-4 was rumored to run around 280 billion active parameters in 2023, and it could barely solve an AIME problem. At the small end, Qwen3.5 9B fits in 6GB of VRAM quantized and roughly doubles the score of the next best model under 10B parameters on…
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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

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

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers49 points by stagas 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 commentsA 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.…
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Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WiFi signals could potentially be used to identify people and map their surroundings without relying on cameras or requiring the person being observed to carry a connected device. "By observing the propagation of radio waves, we can create an image of the surroundings and of persons who are present," says Professor Thorsten Strufe from KASTEL, KIT's Institute of Information Security and Dependability. "This works similar to a normal camera, the difference being that in our case, radio waves instead of light waves are used for…
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St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Unit 1 shut down after control rods drop into core

St. Lucie Nuclear Plant Unit 1 shut down after control rods drop into core

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Unit 1 at the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant was manually shut down Wednesday morning after 3 control rods dropped into the reactor core, according to a notification filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).The manual reactor trip occurred at 9:47 a.m. EDT on Aug. 13, 2026, while Unit 1 was operating at 100% power. The NRC classified the event as a non-emergency."At 0947 EDT on August 13, 2026, with Unit 1 in Mode 1 at 100 percent power, the reactor was manually tripped due…
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