Karpathy’s Pelican https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319
X (formerly Twitter)
Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget…
Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM https://github.com/wie-project/kakehashi
GitHub
GitHub - wie-project/kakehashi: Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64
Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.
When transit passes were designed by hand (2022) https://letterformarchive.org/news/milwaukee-transit-passes/
Letterform Archive
This Just In: Milwaukee Transit Passes
In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now in our collection.
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/07/29/developers-are-attached-to-tools-because-tools-encode-trust/
stackoverflow.blog
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
The tools themselves are new and their capabilities are in constant flux. If your kitchen knife kept changing shape, weight, and edge, you’d have to relearn it every time; that’s a hard tool to build trust in. But it also points to a flaw in how you use that…
Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N https://blog.juni-mp4.com/posts/42/rooting-the-tplink-tl841n-pt1/
Juni-Mp4
The rooting, firmware analysis and hardcoded, reset-persistent credentials of the TP-Link TL-841N!
round 2: rooting & analysing firmware of the TP-Link TL-WR841N
SwiftUI After 7 Years https://ykvm.com/2026/07/swiftui-a-story-of-mediocrity/
Yakov Manshin
SwiftUI After 7 Years: A Story of Mediocrity: Will it ever stop feeling like a beta? — Yakov Manshin
Back in 2019, SwiftUI was announced as the future of Apple development. Seven years later, it still feels like a beta version struggling with stability, performance, and many other aspects. What’s actually wrong with SwiftUI?
Show HN: NixOS-DGX-Spark – Nix and NixOS on the DGX Spark https://github.com/graham33/nixos-dgx-spark
GitHub
GitHub - graham33/nixos-dgx-spark: Use Nix and NixOS on your DGX Spark!
Use Nix and NixOS on your DGX Spark! Contribute to graham33/nixos-dgx-spark development by creating an account on GitHub.
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management https://unattributed.cc/note-taking-and-personal-knowledge-management
Unattributed
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...
My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw” https://frogs.vaguespac.es/
Frogs
FROGS_ — the Habsburg-jaw SVG benchmark
One prompt, every model: generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw. Each model gets three tries a month.
Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 https://www.nbcsandiego.com/nbc-7-responds-2/californians-data-deletion-requests-drop-become-enforceable-aug-1/4054771/
NBC 7 San Diego
Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1
Starting Aug. 1, registered California data brokers must honor requests to stop selling consumers' personal information.
Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours https://github.com/pg83/shitty
GitHub
GitHub - pg83/shitty: A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name
A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name. Contribute to pg83/shitty development by creating an account on GitHub.
Read the novels and forget everything else https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/read-the-novels-and-forget-everything-else
THR Web Features
Read the Novels and Forget Everything Else
Patrick O’Brian’s life may have been one of dissimulation but his Aubrey-Maturin novels still offer the nutmeg of consolation for thousands of readers.
Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor https://mattbeton.com/blog/bitnet-6502.html
Mattbeton
Autoregressive Language Model on the 6502 Processor - Matt Beton
A language model on a 1975 MOS 6502 processor, using a tiny Mamba-based language model and custom 8-bit ternary inference engine, used to generate text on a BBC Micro from the 1980s.
Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door https://github.com/ArcaEge/creakwork12
GitHub
GitHub - ArcaEge/creakwork12: make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too)
make your framework hinge rusty (wow it's also written in rust too) - ArcaEge/creakwork12
Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF https://sf.isopolis.city/
ISOPOLIS
ISOPOLIS — San Francisco
San Francisco as one giant isometric pixel painting. Pan the city, open the tours, send a postcard.
Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap https://www.andreagrandi.it/posts/why-book-corners-wont-sync-contributions-back-to-openstreetmap/
Andrea Grandi
Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap
I wanted Book Corners to contribute newly submitted public bookcases back to OpenStreetMap. After researching the operational and community requirements, I decided not to implement it.
CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K https://github.com/johnsonjh/cpm386
GitHub
GitHub - johnsonjh/cpm386: CP/M-386: CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M-68K
CP/M-386: CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M-68K - johnsonjh/cpm386