How the words we teach English language learners changed

76 c-oreills 2026-08-02 16:14:57 UTC pudding.cool Llama Share 26

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

64 delichon 2026-08-02 16:14:57 UTC twitter.com/karpathy Llama Share 31

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.

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

16 vlad_kalinkin 2026-08-02 16:27:57 UTC github.com/wie-project Llama Share 7

Kakehashi is a tool that runs Darwin CLI tools natively on Linux aarch64 by translating BSD syscalls and mapping a freestanding libSystem. It aims to provide a cost-effective alternative to running Darwin tools on macOS, with a focus on correctness and performance, and is suitable for use in CI environments.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

97 AlexeyBrin 2026-08-02 13:14:57 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: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

4 graham33 2026-08-02 17:06:57 UTC github.com/graham33 Prefix Share 0

Try DGX Spark playbooks using Nix on DGX OS, or install NixOS on your DGX Spark for the full Nix experience. The repository provides USB images and a NixOS module with settings for DGX Spark systems. This works on the NVIDIA DGX Spark itself and also on the Asus Ascent GX10. You can use the dev shells and playbooks in this repo on NVIDIA DGX OS (Ubuntu) without installing NixOS. On non-NixOS ...

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

79 ducktective 2026-08-02 13:14:57 UTC fstar-lang.org Llama Share 32

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.

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

8 mindracer 2026-08-02 16:20:57 UTC blog.juni-mp4.com Full Share 1

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

131 projscope 2026-08-02 12:14:57 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

57 andsoitis 2026-08-02 13:14:57 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

84 dango2506 2026-08-02 12:14:57 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.

When transit passes were designed by hand

27 nate 2026-08-02 15:14:57 UTC letterformarchive.org Llama Share 6

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.

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

131 eniac111 2026-08-02 09:14:57 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.

GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet

3 classichasclass 2026-08-02 16:42:57 UTC ge97.com Prefix Share 1

My first time online was 1999, in an internet café with my cousin. The internet was still a new thing in Saudi Arabia then — you went somewhere to use it. The machine in front of us ran Windows 98. It was another two years before we had a connection at home, and by then the world had moved on to Windows XP. So Windows 98 is, for me, an era I met exactly once and never got to keep. That is the ...

Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge

96 jruohonen 2026-08-02 11:14:57 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.

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

67 the_unproven 2026-08-02 12:14:57 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.

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

0 2026-08-02 12:14:57 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.

Norway Salmon

64 CHB0403085482 2026-08-02 11:14:57 UTC abc.net.au Llama Share 20

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.

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

305 Hixon10 2026-08-02 02:14:57 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.

Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective

52 dcminter 2026-08-02 11:14:57 UTC blog.rust-lang.org Llama Share 18

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.

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

268 tomilan 2026-08-02 02:14:57 UTC github.com/tom-ilan Llama Share 83

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)

92 jamesgill 2026-08-02 15:14:57 UTC ursulakleguin.com Llama Share 52

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

104 ingve 2026-08-02 07:14:57 UTC holocloth.vercel.app Full Share 20

Diátaxis

455 ryanseys 2026-08-01 21:14:57 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

92 goldenskye 2026-08-02 03:14:57 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

61 quambo 2026-08-02 10:14:57 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

413 njaremko 2026-08-01 21:14:57 UTC seed.bytedance.com Llama Share 234

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.

ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification

51 ta988 2026-08-02 07:14:57 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.

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

25 kamalf 2026-08-02 11:14:57 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.

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

189 ilreb 2026-08-02 05:14:57 UTC wafer.ai Llama Share 92

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.

US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market

159 23pointsNorth 2026-08-02 11:14:57 UTC ft.com Full Share 111

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