Hacker News on Sunday, 23 August 2026

Everything I own, owned(schlarp.com)

1354 points by schlarpc 2 months ago | 335 comments

A personal blog post titled "Everything I own, owned" on schlarp.com; no page content was captured.

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch(twitter.com)

566 points by bilsbie 2 months ago | 645 comments

A Paul Graham post on X saying that at 17 he would learn to build LLMs from scratch rather than start a startup, with replies including Yann LeCun.

To become a better writer, read as much as you can(nappertime.com)

316 points by andsoitis 2 months ago | 208 comments

Training AI to Paint with Code(surya.website)

174 points by Tiberium 2 months ago | 19 comments

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes(xda-developers.com)

159 points by raybb 2 months ago | 80 comments

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust(martypc.net)

154 points by boilerupnc 2 months ago | 55 comments

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed(xda-developers.com)

145 points by taubek 2 months ago | 105 comments

The End of an Athlon(os2museum.com)

143 points by userbinator 2 months ago | 57 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines(tarjan.itch.io)

131 points by Gorsefound 2 months ago | 38 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs(malisper.me)

123 points by zX41ZdbW 2 months ago | 78 comments

Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium(bbc.com)

90 points by epestr 2 months ago | 59 comments

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware(securelist.com)

87 points by campuscodi 2 months ago | 40 comments

I Dream of Quieter Computing(henry.codes)

84 points by Sir_Twist 2 months ago | 73 comments

Fast and Hard Code(lucumr.pocoo.org)

81 points by tosh 2 months ago | 44 comments

The Sloppification of Peptides(henryaj.substack.com)

67 points by henryaj 2 months ago | 48 comments

Tragically, as many as 9625 out of every 10k individuals may be neurotypical(erikengdahl.se)

61 points by verisimi 2 months ago | 54 comments

Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days(telegraph.co.uk)

56 points by giuliomagnifico 2 months ago | 34 comments

My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes(bookdna.com)

48 points by bwb 2 months ago | 13 comments

Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has(nytimes.com)

39 points by ilamont 2 months ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive(skylens.yantraai.app)

36 points by skylensspace 2 months ago | 17 comments

What Is a Harness?(earendil.com)

27 points by tosh 2 months ago | 15 comments

Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products(doi.org)

24 points by sbulaev 2 months ago | 6 comments

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras(risky.biz)

21 points by dredmorbius 2 months ago | 2 comments

Death to px, long live ch(shkspr.mobi)

20 points by Brajeshwar 2 months ago | 10 comments

Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after(stories.tamu.edu)

15 points by giuliomagnifico 2 months ago | 8 comments