Mario Meets Pareto

385 theanonymousone 2026-08-06 11:53:15 UTC mayerowitz.io Llama Share 71

To find the best Mario Kart 8 build, use the Pareto front to eliminate dominated options and focus on the efficient drivers that balance speed and acceleration. This objective criteria helps filter out suboptimal choices, but you still need to make a final decision based on your play style and preferences.

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

22 yusyd 2026-08-06 15:31:15 UTC blog.sydorets.com Llama Share 6

We want AI to create something good without understanding how it works, but it's like a steak machine that can follow a recipe but not know what we actually want. We need to learn to cook with AI, understand its limitations, and judge its results to produce what we want.

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

117 Wirbelwind 2026-08-06 12:53:15 UTC scalex.dev Llama Share 88

A browser game testing human-in-the-loop approval of AI coding agent commands found 32.9% of sessions ended with a negative score due to approved threats and blocked safe commands. Players caught threats most reliably when they were blatantly destructive, but missed commands that exfiltrated credentials three times as often.

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

451 DarkContinent 2026-08-06 04:53:15 UTC crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com Llama Share 136

To start learning botany, use the internet to access information and ask questions about unfamiliar terms. Key concepts include Latin terminology, common names, and taxonomy, which groups plants according to evolutionary relationships.

Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

30 aemerson_ 2026-08-06 14:53:15 UTC electronicmaterialsoffice.com Llama Share 17

Altar II is a fully mechanical keyboard with a unique design and features like haptic feedback and a detachable M-Dial for volume and playback control. It also has customizable settings and a lightweight app for macOS.

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

314 atan2 2026-08-06 06:53:15 UTC phoboslab.org Llama Share 99

The user ported their JavaScript game engine, Impact, to C and created a new platform backend for the N64 using Libdragon, allowing them to develop a new game, Xibalba 64, a Wolfenstein 3D-like FPS. The game was published as a physical launch title for the M64 by Modretro, making it the second new N64 game released since the console's original commercial life ended.

Pareto Front

127 binyu 2026-08-06 09:53:15 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 56

The Pareto front is a set of solutions in multi-objective optimization where no solution outperforms another at every objective, and every solution not in the set is outperformed by at least one solution in the set. It represents the set of efficient choices, allowing designers to make tradeoffs within this set rather than considering the full range of every parameter.

Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities

20 tchalla 2026-08-06 13:53:15 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 10

Japan's cities are designed to be liveable with accessible transport, shopping streets, and infrastructure. Residents praise the intentional design choices that make life run smoothly, prioritizing people's needs and promoting a sense of community.

Discovery Loop

838 xtreak29 2026-08-05 16:53:15 UTC discoveryloop.com Llama Share 515

Discovery Loop is building AI systems to automate scientific and engineering experiments, rapidly proposing, running, and learning from evaluations to drive progress in various fields. This approach aims to solve complex problems like National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges and improve people's lives on a global scale.

Join Me in Jamverse

27 surprisetalk 2026-08-06 11:53:15 UTC contraptions.venkateshrao.com Llama Share 3

The Jamverse extended protocol fiction universe is a near-future Earth setting with strange rules, currently featuring 15 short stories and growing world-building elements. A contest for worldbuilding artifacts is ongoing until July 31, inviting fiction writers to contribute and explore the universe.

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

756 colesantiago 2026-08-05 16:53:15 UTC blog.google Llama Share 814

Google DeepMind teams are undergoing changes with Demis Hassabis becoming Chair of GDM and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, and Koray Kavukcuoglu stepping up as SVP of Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean is leaving to launch an independent public benefit corporation to accelerate ML discoveries.

Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way

43 jandrewrogers 2026-08-06 13:53:15 UTC sciencedaily.com Llama Share 42

Primordial black holes may trigger white dwarf stars to explode as Type Ia supernovae, explaining chemical patterns in the Milky Way. Researchers found that these unusual explosions could be responsible for a chemical abundance trend observed in stars across the galaxy.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

363 ExMachina73 2026-08-05 21:53:15 UTC randsinrepose.com Llama Share 172

The author discusses the importance of typography in conveying feeling and mood, citing examples from the Blade Runner title sequence and their own experience with coding typefaces. They argue that good typography is often overlooked but makes a significant difference in the user experience.

Telephones Caught in Between

18 speckx 2026-08-06 12:53:15 UTC computer.rip Llama Share 3

The telephone system was once a single, complex machine, but it was broken up in the 1980s, leading to changes in how telephones were leased and sold to consumers. The breakup of the Bell System and the introduction of modular connectors and retail telephone markets made it possible for consumers to buy their own phones, marking the beginning of the customer-owned telephone era.

Zed DeltaDB

486 ahamez 2026-08-05 18:53:15 UTC zed.dev Llama Share 273

DeltaDB is a version control system that records every change and links it to the conversation that produced it. It allows for seamless collaboration and branching, even mid-run, with features like virtualized worktrees and stable change identities.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

295 paulkrush 2026-08-05 19:53:15 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 198

Muse Code is a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, which can handle complex software engineering tasks and coordinate multiple subagents for faster and more accurate results. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 are available today in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with new features and more powerful models on the horizon.

The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018)

19 quuxplusone 2026-08-06 11:53:15 UTC ggwash.org Full Share 2

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

373 moonikakiss 2026-08-05 18:53:15 UTC neon.com Llama Share 104

Castform enables developers to post-train open-source models without machine learning expertise, making them cheaper and faster than frontier models. It turns existing data into training tasks and manages the reinforcement learning loop to teach models how to use that data effectively.

Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer

80 nanochess 2026-08-06 05:53:15 UTC nanochess.org Llama Share 12

The user reminisces about creating a windowed operating system in 32-bit machine code for a homebrew Am29000 computer in 1996-1997, and now attempts to recreate it using an emulator. The user struggles with implementing the Am29000 processor's instructions, including the MULTIPLU and DIVIDU instructions, and eventually makes progress with the help of debugging and reverse engineering.

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

346 lladnar 2026-08-05 18:53:15 UTC blog.fogus.me Llama Share 394

Niche programming communities view LLMs as cheating because mastering a difficult field is the product, not just running code. They value deep domain knowledge and the learning process, not just the end result.

Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If

250 greyblake 2026-08-06 00:53:15 UTC greyblake.com Llama Share 82

Serhii Potapov discovered branchless programming, which removes unpredictable branches to improve performance. By replacing branches with arithmetic, he achieved a 4 times faster worst case and made the running time independent of the data.

Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM

31 gste 2026-08-06 11:53:15 UTC geosona.com Full Share 8

Convert any image into hardware-compliant art and displayable code for 8/16-bit-era consoles and handhelds. Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

608 speckx 2026-08-05 15:53:15 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 293

Cloudflare OS is a platform that gives every person in an organization an agent and workspace built around their company's context and systems. It allows people to create documents, automate tasks, and build apps to visualize data and help them do their work.

NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose

179 pella 2026-08-05 21:53:15 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 38

NVIDIA's Vera server CPU has a powerful 88-core monolithic die with unique features like value prediction and graph prefetching, and early testing suggests it can outperform current Arm and x86 servers. However, NVIDIA's whitepaper exaggerates Vera's advantages by mischaracterizing x86 SMT, downplaying its own limitations, and selectively presenting results, which may tarnish the CPU's ...

Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers

59 rbanffy 2026-08-06 03:53:15 UTC quantego.org Llama Share 24

Quantego features three LEGO models of IBM Quantum Systems, with instructions and parts lists available, and an interactive 3D viewer. The models showcase quantum computing concepts, including superposition and entanglement, and a quantum circuit simulator is also available.

Morioka Shoten

46 skogstokig 2026-08-06 06:53:15 UTC takram.com Llama Share 15

Morioka Shoten Ginza is a unique bookstore in Tokyo's Ginza district that offers a single book at a time for six days. The store's logo reflects its location and concept, featuring a rhombic shape inspired by the owner's drawing and incorporating the store's address.

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

216 Xeophon 2026-08-05 21:53:15 UTC primeintellect.ai Llama Share 54

Prime Agent is a self-improving coding harness that uses Recursive Language Model and Continual Harness to enable programmatic tool and sub-agent calling. It allows for long-horizon autonomous evaluation and collaborates with research and autoresearch.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

269 hackerBanana 2026-08-05 17:53:15 UTC promptarmor.com Llama Share 115

Atlassian's Rovo AI has vulnerabilities that allow data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, exploiting its URL retrieval tool. Despite PromptArmor disclosing the issue on May 23rd, Atlassian has made no further communication, leaving Rovo vulnerable.

On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

175 microtonal 2026-08-06 06:53:15 UTC github.com/universal-debloater-alliance Full Share 130

Describe the feature you want The "Disable mode" ("Freeze" in AppManager) should be the default. "Uninstall" causes too much problems Acknowledgements This issue is not a duplicate of an existing feature request. I have chosen an appropr...

GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

205 plaguna 2026-08-05 17:53:15 UTC gnu.org Llama Share 139

Joshua Branson added an SVG logo for the ethernet multiplexor using Inkscape on a Hurd laptop, and several developers contributed to the Hurd project including Mikhail Karpov who worked on dynamic device population. Other notable contributions include porting OpenNTPD, fixing bugs, and working on various Hurd translators and tools such as trivfs, rump, and s-build.