Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

13 pizzaiolo 2026-08-03 00:13:39 UTC andreagrandi.it Llama Share 5

Book Corners initially planned to contribute user-submitted libraries back to OpenStreetMap, but discovered that the process would require significant documentation, licensing, and operational responsibilities. Due to these costs, Book Corners has decided to suspend the contribution process, prioritizing its core purpose of helping people discover and share little free libraries.

Karpathy’s Pelican

422 delichon 2026-08-02 16:12:39 UTC twitter.com/karpathy Llama Share 333

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.

Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor

50 nmstoker 2026-08-02 22:12:39 UTC mattbeton.com Llama Share 5

The user trained a tiny Mamba-based autoregressive language model and ran it on a BBC Micro from the 80s using a custom inference engine, generating text with a vocabulary of 26 letters and a space character. The project demonstrated the importance of mechanical sympathy in designing ML models, considering hardware constraints, and showed that a Mamba-based model can run inference on 8-bit ...

Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

76 pshirshov 2026-08-02 23:12:39 UTC github.com/pg83 Llama Share 41

Shitty is a terminal emulator built for low latency and fast startup, using native compute backends for rendering. It supports various features including font resizing, clipboard integration, and OSC 52 policy.

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

174 vlad_kalinkin 2026-08-02 17:12:39 UTC github.com/wie-project Llama Share 36

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.

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

122 surprisetalk 2026-08-02 19:12:39 UTC unattributed.cc Llama Share 35

The user read an article by Brennan Kenneth Brown about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and found it to be misleading. The user argues that Brennan's article fails to critically examine the effectiveness of PKM systems and tools like Obsidian.

Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else

50 samclemens 2026-08-02 21:12:39 UTC hedgehogreview.com Llama Share 18

Patrick O'Brian, a renowned author, was exposed as a liar who fabricated his biography, including his Irish childhood and naval experience. Despite this revelation, his Aubrey-Maturin novels continue to be widely read and admired for their historical accuracy, witty dialogue, and vivid descriptions of 19th-century life.

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

144 HieronymusBosch 2026-08-02 17:12:39 UTC stackoverflow.blog Llama Share 67

Developers are struggling to trust AI tools due to their unpredictability and lack of transparency, which can lead to broken processes and decreased productivity. To build trust, teams need to establish a more deliberate and explicitly-defined workflow that preserves human judgment and provides the right context for AI agents.

Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

25 asim 2026-08-02 22:12:39 UTC github.com/micro Llama Share 8

Mu provides a suite of 67 real tools behind one endpoint, including news, search, mail, markets, and more, accessible via a web app or CLI. It uses the MCP protocol for authorization and allows users to run their own instance, with tools available for both agents and humans.

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

3 TMWNN 2026-08-03 00:39:39 UTC github.com/johnsonjh Prefix Share 0

The CP/M‑386 BDOS is at full parity with CP/M‑68K 1.3 and CP/M 2.2. Approximately half of the MP/M extensions have been completed. The missing functionality is largely the multi‑user, multi‑tasking, message queuing, and process control calls that don't apply to a single‑user CP/M implementation. Unique CP/M‑386‑specific BDOS extensions have been added to accommodate new features like ...

Playing with Georgia

6 surprisetalk 2026-08-03 00:12:39 UTC mighil.com Full Share 3

The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

23 cyanregiment 2026-08-02 23:12:39 UTC plato.stanford.edu Llama Share 8

The computational theory of mind (CTM) suggests that the mind is a computational system similar to a Turing machine, which can process information and make decisions. This theory has been influential in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, but it has also faced criticisms and challenges, such as the need to explain how mental computation interfaces with sensory inputs and motor outputs.

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

46 arcaege 2026-08-02 21:12:39 UTC github.com/arcaege Llama Share 4

A Creaky Door for Framework 12 laptops has been created, filtering optimized for its hinge stiffness. Download the executable from the releases tab, or clone the repo and run with cargo, noting potential dynamic linking issues on non-Fedora distros.

Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark

93 graham33 2026-08-02 17:12:39 UTC github.com/graham33 Llama Share 27

To use Nix on DGX Spark, you can either use DGX Spark playbooks with Nix on DGX OS or install NixOS with the DGX Spark module.

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console

29 throwoutway 2026-08-02 20:12:39 UTC blog.lon.tv Llama Share 4

The TinyNES is a niche device that merges original NES hardware with modern design, using socketed CPU and PPU chips that can be swapped out. It's designed for those who want a precise, hardware-based experience, rather than emulators or FPGAs.

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

154 ducktective 2026-08-02 13:12:39 UTC fstar-lang.org Llama Share 66

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.

Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

73 MilnerRoute 2026-08-02 23:12:39 UTC nbcsandiego.com Llama Share 26

California residents can now use the DROP platform to request data brokers stop selling their personal information. Registered data brokers must honor these requests within 45 days, or face fines of $200 per day per affected Californian.

Twenty Years of RISC OS Open

150 AlexeyBrin 2026-08-02 13:12:39 UTC riscosopen.org Llama Share 28

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.

Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild

34 shirozuki 2026-08-02 21:12:39 UTC dobrowolski.dev Llama Share 10

To run X11 applications from a container or over SSH, rewrite the .Xauthority file to use a wildcard family that matches any hostname. This can be done by overwriting the first two bytes of the file with ffff using sed, allowing the client to connect without hostname constraints.

The Myth of Snow Leopard

43 speckx 2026-08-02 19:12:39 UTC rubenerd.au Llama Share 36

Snow Leopard was a 2010 Mac OS X version focused on refining the system, improving efficiency, and fixing bugs. Its promise of stability and polish has become a lasting myth, with people still referencing it for quality of life improvements and stability.

My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."

94 thebigship 2026-08-02 20:12:39 UTC frogs.vaguespac.es Full Share 43

One prompt, every model: generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw. Each model gets three tries a month. An AI drawing benchmark.

A tool for finding the causes of unstable Python tests

9 pomponchik 2026-08-02 23:12:39 UTC github.com/mgaitan Prefix Share 0

You have a test that passes when executed alone but fails when running its suite. What's happening? My two cents that some previous test keeps the things dirty. But wich one/s, maybe the previous are a lot, right? This plugin helps to find a culprit by doing a binary search (alla git bisect) on the collected tests before the target. The first time it will collect the first half of those ...

When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)

98 nate 2026-08-02 15:12:39 UTC letterformarchive.org Llama Share 28

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.

'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout

172 JumpCrisscross 2026-08-02 20:12:39 UTC ft.com Full Share 78

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Flock – Chilling Effects: Long Island's Emerging Open-Air Prison

30 mediaeater 2026-08-02 22:12:39 UTC 11971.com Full Share 6

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

78 mindracer 2026-08-02 17:12:39 UTC blog.juni-mp4.com Full Share 14

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

116 andsoitis 2026-08-02 13:12:39 UTC 16-bits.org Llama Share 44

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

144 dango2506 2026-08-02 12:12:39 UTC foldingglobes.com Full Share 29

Free print-ready folding paper globe templates: the Moon, Mars, Earth at night, and more. Download, print, cut, fold, glue.

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

175 projscope 2026-08-02 12:12:39 UTC meshdiff.com Full Share 18

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.

Harvesting SSH Credentials: Insights from My Honeypot Network

36 whatbackup 2026-08-02 18:12:39 UTC uphillsecurity.com Llama Share 29

The user has been working on a honeypot network for 30 days using Python and Paramiko for SSH handling, gathering logs locally and fetching additional information with ipgeolocation.io. The project is still in progress and the user is open to feedback and ideas for future development, with plans to share it in a Git repository.