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  • 31 30

    Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts (www.economist.com)
  • 1 6

    The Red Strings Club (www.vegard.net)
  • 6 93

    Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died (writings.stephenwolfram.com)
  • 33 42

    Waymo – Dallas Open to All (waymo.com)
  • 2 15

    Cloudflare enforces engineering standards using AI (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 4 11

    Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research (edotenv.com)
  • 0 35

    How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock (www.404media.co)
  • 38 104

    Web security is too hard (textslashplain.com)
  • 0 10

    Blackmail Fail (2013) (gwern.net)
  • 17 14

    What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? (www.stlouisfed.org)
  • 67 77

    Why some people mow a lawn better than others (pudding.cool)
  • 16 65

    Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
  • 8 29

    Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)
  • 0 16

    America's 'weird' and 'unwise' intervention in the Japanese yen (www.msn.com)
  • 51 53

    Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off (www.not-ship.com)
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  • 1 11

    The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story (jg.gg)
  • 1 7

    The Pedagogy Behind the Studio (gail.wharton.upenn.edu)
  • 3 6

    Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform (github.com)
  • 17 46

    AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where (www.gadgetreview.com)
  • 6 11

    The Judgment Reservoir (shannph.com)
  • 24 16

    Haters (www.paulgraham.com)
  • 1 8

    Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt (github.com)
  • 22 37

    Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game (hop.earth)
  • 28 56

    The Warp Agent CLI (www.warp.dev)
  • 186 311

    All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen (www.valleynewslive.com)
  • 2 4

    How to Get More Customers Without Paying for Ads – Playistry (playistry.com)
  • 15 29

    Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields (mentalium.me)
  • 7 37

    Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries (www.vlt.io)
  • 12 21

    MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt (github.com)
  • 56 59

    It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism (observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com)
  • 6 11

    Your open tabs are unfinished decisions, not bookmarks (gettably.tech)
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  • Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 85 97

    The AI Demand Bubble (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 4 27

    Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons (www.reuters.com)
  • 54 42

    When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
  • 14 29

    Show HN: Ex-Deloitte auditor open-sourced the whole SOC 2 method for your AI (github.com)
  • 6 32

    Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019) (www.righto.com)
  • 170 226

    Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
  • 70 315

    Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
  • 175 123

    Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026 (solarquarter.com)
  • 59 170

    Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (this.weekinsecurity.com)
  • 13 47

    FFmpeg 9.0 (jbkempf.com)
  • 39 72

    Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex (github.com)
  • 4 18

    Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (blog.omgmog.net)
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  • 79 95

    "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) (www.computerenhance.com)
  • 60 91

    Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (blog.yossarian.net)
  • 15 43

    Mosh in a Lift (2012) (mosh.org)
  • 98 195

    Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (www.aikido.dev)
  • 27 21

    How did Wikipedia layout become so bloated?
  • 28 14

    Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic (ekxide.io)
  • 423 696

    AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
  • 18 86

    Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) (resobscura.substack.com)
  • 522 468

    Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
  • 19 107

    Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU (github.com)
  • Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 66 42

    An Honest Review of AI Programming (mropert.github.io)
  • 5 56

    Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality (github.com)
  • 30 93

    Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction (arxiv.org)
  • 7 44

    Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone (learning-rust.github.io)
  • 72 73

    Nobel Disease (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 31 107

    Everything I Know (1975) (www.bfi.org)
  • 6 488

    Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
  • 52 29

    Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller (www.ssp.sh)
  • 61 53

    Cyberpunk Video Games (shellzine.net)
  • 318 221

    U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war (www.cnbc.com)
  • 35 15

    Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (picburn.xyz)
  • 76 320

    DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com)
  • 13 44

    Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (www.nytimes.com)
  • 76 103

    The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014) (www.upi.com)
  • 81 74

    Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal (live.euronext.com)
  • 91 404

    FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com)
  • 102 123

    You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript (pedroth.github.io)
  • 1 15

    Trembling Photons in Non-Abelian Electric Fields (physics.aps.org)
  • 33 145

    NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data (www.publictechnology.net)
  • 56 261

    Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
  • 0 9

    RosaicLabs, Atom RTL, and 32-Tile AMX: Trying to Piece Together a x86 Puzzle (chipsandcheese.com)
  • 31 47

    Beauty in my backyard (worksinprogress.co)
  • 76 57

    Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July (ing.dk)
  • CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 2 9

    Nobody checked which state IBM's flagship quantum chemistry results compute (zenodo.org)
  • 270 263

    Apple is getting this wrong (openai.com)
  • 6 20

    The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man (om.co)
  • 6 14

    IPC-7351B Electronic Component Zero Orientation [pdf] (2010) (scancad.net)
  • 57 62

    Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019) (blog.rootsofprogress.org)
  • 289 125

    That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
  • 131 294

    Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com)
  • 28 41

    Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible (nooneshappy.com)
  • 0 11

    Living in the Math World Means Threading the Needle (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 3 18

    LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)
  • 190 257

    Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (www.science.org)
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  • 6 18

    Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video (leoaido.com)
  • 336 303

    There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (users.wpi.edu)
  • 2 56

    They Forgot What Happened Last Time: Hacking the Windows 365 Link [video] (media.ccc.de)
  • 18 62

    Battle of the Beams (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 367 140

    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
  • 218 215

    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
  • 4 54

    ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 74 124

    Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage (virtuallyfun.com)
  • 48 382

    Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
  • 7 51

    Boarding China's Last Bus (asteriskmag.com)
  • 533 1289

    LLMs reward expertise (www.seangoedecke.com)
  • 13 77

    KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer (github.com)
  • 16 29

    Is Kentucky about to give billions in tax breaks to data centers? (kypolicy.org)
  • 169 142

    AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T (fortune.com)
  • 33 92

    Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery (ei3lh.eu)
  • 171 161

    The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020) (www.mcgill.ca)
  • 69 95

    DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status (status.digdir.no)
  • 99 317

    200 Milliseconds (200ms.thenodebook.com)
  • 34 94

    The Potomac River Midair Collision (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
  • 14 49

    ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound (bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com)
  • 30 69

    Kelly Criterion Simulator (kellysimulator.com)
  • 15 47

    Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech (www.404media.co)
  • 30 73

    Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks (hamvocke.com)
  • 65 259

    Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 9 54

    The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
  • 11 52

    Show HN: Hacker News with AI stories filtered out (hcker.news)
  • 3 30

    Help wanted (lake.computer)
  • 14 119

    Massively Parallel Postgres Backups (planetscale.com)
  • 13 10

    Ask HN: Claude multisession
  • 23 73

    SearXNG in Rust (github.com)
  • 49 175

    Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (changelog.complete.org)
  • 24 22

    US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran (www.cnn.com)
  • 66 62

    C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior (kttnr.net)
  • 902 610

    Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (openai.com)
  • 2 41

    Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP (armature.tech)
  • 62 77

    Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents (hoplite.sh)
  • 102 98

    What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own? (epoch.ai)
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  • 8 32

    Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed) (note.com)
  • 314 368

    Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time (www.intellinews.com)
  • 8 34

    Kraid is a now a real compiler (www.collabora.com)
  • 258 302

    Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days (www.marlerblog.com)
  • 48 84

    Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email? (lapcatsoftware.com)
  • 86 118

    Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first (www.sltrib.com)
  • 73 330

    Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs (clickhouse.com)
  • 13 17

    TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past (prospect.org)
  • 113 91

    Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop (www.thedrive.com)
  • 247 211

    How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood (www.statsignificant.com)
  • 230 699

    Devtools must be open source (blog.exe.dev)
  • 109 63

    The Future, Made in China (www.newyorker.com)
  • 5 32

    Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks (medium.com)
  • 9 29

    Games at the press of a button: The Rip-O-Bot (1989) (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
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  • 92 40

    Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?
  • 6 22

    30 years of CPUs at Tom's Hardware – looking back on three decades of processors (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 12 56

    SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros (dmarcguard.io)
  • 3 47

    Walk on Decomposed Subdomains (clementjambon.github.io)
  • 91 320

    MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video (blog.comfy.org)
  • 8 44

    The fading American Dream: Visa uncertainty drives Indian tech workers back home (thefederal.com)
  • 283 262

    Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (defector.com)
  • 83 228

    AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU (github.com)
  • 146 79

    The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet (www.theregister.com)
  • 44 88

    9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released (9front.org)
  • 1 26

    Characterizing Warp Divergence from Pascal to Blackwell (arxiv.org)
  • 371 719

    SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (research.jfrog.com)
  • 110 250

    ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children (www.wired.com)
  • 32 113

    Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone (github.com)
  • 9 105

    Train Simulator Controller (z80.me)
  • 433 518

    Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code (ankursethi.com)
  • 14 21

    PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI (github.com)
  • 76 53

    Less Coffee, Better Sleep (www.marginalia.nu)
  • 61 81

    The true power of regular expressions (2012) (www.npopov.com)
  • 33 132

    What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not (senderledger.com)
  • 5 16

    Medieval Ideas About Food (lithub.com)
  • 37 71

    Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge (arcbox.dev)
  • 19 39

    MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks (www.computerweekly.com)
  • 47 124

    Octane – React’s programming model, compiled (octanejs.dev)
  • 151 375

    Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library (github.com)
  • 74 74

    The Shape of Things to Come (yegge.ai)
  • 19 20

    How do you rewrite C/C++ projects to Rust? (blog.jetbrains.com)
  • 54 70

    Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
  • 13 10

    Show HN: I created a project management system (is.team)
  • 109 134

    The AI Productivity Gap (bjorg.bjornroche.com)
  • 0 4

    Emulating ALiBi with Rope (alexlitzenberger.com)
  • 101 239

    Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors (github.com)
  • 454 597

    More German than many Germans (mertbulan.com)
  • 4 6

    Òrbites – Connection and constellation puzzle game (orbites.cat)
  • 713 1773

    Don't be a meat proxy (gruhn.me)
  • 12 58

    Convergence is not enough (www.inkandswitch.com)
  • 97 94

    AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included (arxiv.org)
  • 7 27

    Cro – elegant reactive services in Raku (cro.raku.org)
  • 106 210

    OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics (www.modelrepublic.org)
  • 50 128

    Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (localai.io)
  • 37 117

    Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T (runtimewire.com)
  • 595 1094

    Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork (qwen.ai)
  • 87 184

    Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform (handwritten.blog)
  • 5 24

    Qwen 3.8 Max Live Now (www.qwencloud.com)
  • 2 9

    A Playable History of Sudoku (doku.su)
  • 4 14

    Connes' Rigidity Theorem: Disproof of Open AI's Counterexample and Proof (philarchive.org)
  • 112 182

    Show HN: ssh ssh.place (ssh.place)
  • 76 342

    Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF (sf.isopolis.city)
  • 24 45

    RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze (www.rfc-editor.org)
  • 14 69

    Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App (daringfireball.net)
  • 59 96

    CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K (github.com)
  • 99 146

    Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap (www.andreagrandi.it)
  • 9 17

    Playing with Georgia (mighil.com)