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  • Reflex (YC W23) Is Growth and GTM Roles (www.ycombinator.com)
  • 0 3

    HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (en.andros.dev)
  • 0 5

    SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 Scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
  • 2 8

    Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions (loudbicycle.com)
  • 1 22

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released (api-docs.deepseek.com)
  • 0 5

    Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard (climate.metoffice.cloud)
  • 1 18

    Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues (www.githubstatus.com)
  • 16 91

    DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
  • 36 44

    Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold (blog.google)
  • 121 132

    Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
  • 2 22

    Solving the Shortest Vector Problem in $2^{0.6039n}$ Time via Mid-Point Hessian (arxiv.org)
  • 51 151

    Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (huggingface.co)
  • 5 28

    Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C (usehax.dev)
  • 0 21

    Commodore 8-Bit 5¼" Disk Images (www.masswerk.at)
  • 4 26

    Qwen3.8 Weights Released (modelscope.cn)
  • GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers (job-boards.greenhouse.io)
  • 186 288

    License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
  • 46 327

    Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug (tailscale.com)
  • 84 119

    uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook (digitalescapetools.com)
  • 31 77

    German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses (www.reuters.com)
  • 110 94

    5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe (www.severe-weather.eu)
  • 1 17

    ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists (www.openmymind.net)
  • 2 16

    Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI (power2026.ai)
  • 54 108

    Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
  • 13 15

    Qwen 3.8-27B goes openweight in 2 days (huggingface.co)
  • 20 105

    Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
  • 41 32

    YC startups are abandoning .com (www.orangecrumbs.com)
  • 0 18

    European scientists developed a tactile sensor capable of 100 μm resolution (spectrum.ieee.org)
  • 290 351

    AI is removing the middle class of software engineering (blog.florianherrengt.com)
  • 24 131

    Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
  • 10 55

    Shade Map (shademap.app)
  • 51 35

    Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML (validatehtml.com)
  • 18 40

    Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5 (therad.ninja)
  • 14 8

    Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit (lifesprites.com)
  • 6 14

    Bb: The IDE that builds itself (getbb.app)
  • 34 65

    My Agent Setup (chad.cm)
  • 8 34

    The Ultimate Horse (worksinprogress.co)
  • 23 26

    Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents (kidscreen.app)
  • 18 60

    Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder (chefsbinge.com)
  • 17 19

    You can't buy 20 pieces of aluminum tube online (vestalmetals.com)
  • 4 34

    I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 131 161

    Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them (www.neowin.net)
  • 80 108

    Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available (blogs.embarcadero.com)
  • 84 363

    2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
  • 115 73

    I hate packaging my software for Linux (getfresh.dev)
  • 4 19

    My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit (bookdna.com)
  • 10 7

    Music Generation by a Composer, for Musicians (monictheory.com)
  • 9 122

    High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
  • 29 196

    Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (woxi.ad-si.com)
  • 87 190

    What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
  • 185 115

    Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland (www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk)
  • 288 441

    Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (www.abc.net.au)
  • 50 76

    Dutch Train Map Simulator (spoorkaart.zaza.dev)
  • 51 43

    Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (www.cbc.ca)
  • 47 147

    Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today (worm.net)
  • 1 12

    Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration (phys.org)
  • 14 54

    Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
  • 192 447

    LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (www.cringebot3000.com)
  • 11 24

    ICE to spend up to $20M on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks (www.theguardian.com)
  • 63 31

    AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class (www.bbc.com)
  • 8 6

    How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04 (jamesoclaire.com)
  • 46 66

    DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio (dronexl.co)
  • 0 12

    CVE-2026-53361 AF_Unix GC vs. MSG_PEEK use-after-free container escape (github.com)
  • 69 137

    A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy (refp.se)
  • 152 327

    llama.cpp (llama.app)
  • 1 38

    Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (www.science.org)
  • 105 60

    Dropbox is an obvious PE Target? (s-1.vercel.app)
  • 0 5

    Show HN: Find stale, orphaned, deleted-but-retrievable RAG vectors (github.com)
  • 86 174

    The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
  • 9 10

    'Every millimetre counts': Inside the beast tunnelling under Sydney Harbour (www.smh.com.au)
  • 45 188

    Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI (www.404media.co)
  • 29 101

    The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)
  • 51 326

    The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
  • 92 195

    New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner (newbedfordlight.org)
  • 2 53

    Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (www.quantamagazine.org)
  • 13 12

    Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (www.economist.com)
  • 17 44

    DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight (arstechnica.com)
  • 61 69

    Retire the Abstractions (hazyresearch.stanford.edu)
  • 162 190

    CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York (www.cftc.gov)
  • 27 81

    Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout (line9.ai)
  • 137 178

    US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (www.cbsnews.com)
  • 74 52

    Ethical Cold Outreach (blog.val.town)
  • 8 77

    Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux (github.com)
  • 6 54

    OpenAI and Anthropic hidden CoT leaks when given deep_think tool. (twitter.com)
  • 7 63

    pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries (clickhouse.com)
  • 88 265

    WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale (tencent-hunyuan.github.io)
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    The Hat and the Spectre – Recent Groundbreaking Discoveries in Mathematics (momath.org)
  • 31 66

    Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
  • 32 51

    Suzanne: AI tool for designing and manufacturing physical products (www.suzanne3d.com)
  • 18 46

    RSI Simulator (www.paradigm.xyz)
  • 24 19

    The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth (www.effort.news)
  • 23 47

    OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux (techcrunch.com)
  • 13 21

    AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes (www.simulationslabs.com)
  • 3 44

    Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed (gizmodo.com)
  • 1 10

    An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (www.psupress.org)
  • 48 52

    Don't Look Up (www.wheresyoured.at)
  • 172 113

    The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment (economist.com)
  • 30 39

    Let’s take apart your phone (everythingmachine.io)
  • 256 626

    Compression is prediction (ngrok.com)
  • 181 83

    Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app (techcrunch.com)
  • 126 253

    Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard (blogs.nvidia.com)
  • 303 332

    Grok Bot (x.ai)
  • 10 34

    The whole of PyTorch on one page (tensor.khalilli.ai)
  • 23 177

    Making holograms with a pen plotter (blog.jordan.matelsky.com)
  • 68 61

    A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart (www.nytimes.com)
  • 19 126

    CSS properties you should know for better text designs (master.dev)
  • 33 47

    The Tradeoffs Facing Japan's Economy (www.emergingtrajectories.com)
  • 130 161

    How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story (ironicsans.ghost.io)
  • 35 114

    OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 (www.openssh.org)
  • 226 415

    Mojo 1.0 (www.modular.com)
  • 10 41

    Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting (www.smithsonianmag.com)
  • 43 38

    The SpaceX Sham (dissentmagazine.org)
  • 238 258

    Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide (guessingheadlights.com)
  • 481 411

    Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering (developers.googleblog.com)
  • 14 59

    Grok Bot by SpaceXAI (x.ai)
  • 294 318

    Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo (photosynthesis.camera)
  • 76 99

    Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS (writemd.app)
  • 77 208

    Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme (jolt-lang.github.io)
  • 391 132

    U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’ (www.wsj.com)
  • 30 79

    Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data (flowingdata.com)
  • 20 99

    Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month (www.propublica.org)
  • 10 19

    Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
  • 87 167

    Manus will return to operating as an independent company (manus.im)
  • 100 160

    Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet (github.com)
  • 45 47

    Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything (www.trykeet.com)
  • 43 300

    Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp (github.com)
  • 17 72

    Halcyon Video – a 3D video store for your media server (github.com)
  • 193 120

    The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses (www.theguardian.com)
  • 298 671

    Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs (stolen-thoughts.com)
  • 18 10

    I backtested my own stock rankings. They lost to the index (holderdashboard.com)
  • 29 38

    Claude Code is leaking real email address as a User-Agent string in curl command (github.com)
  • 101 101

    $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf (www.tomshardware.com)
  • 72 79

    Greenland issues "strong warning" as American oil firm illegally drills wells (www.theguardian.com)
  • 5 87

    Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave? (aimagazine.com)
  • 24 16

    New Orleans is using AI to triage 911 calls in case of backlog (consumerrights.wiki)
  • 29 121

    Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (huggingface.co)
  • 400 554

    England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C (www.bbc.com)
  • 115 100

    It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video] (www.youtube.com)
  • 27 185

    What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy (www.lighthousenewsletter.com)
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  • 27 35

    How to organize Claude Code for product work (www.theaithinker.com)
  • 313 261

    More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts (www.bbc.com)
  • 174 346

    Nvidia's Risky Business (stratechery.com)
  • 461 496

    OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining (www.ft.com)
  • 0 11

    Hollywood and Shanghai Cinema in the 1930s [pdf] (docs.lib.purdue.edu)
  • 14 25

    Panic of 1873 (en.wikipedia.org)
  • 54 46

    Closing Canario Terminal source code (rapha.land)
  • 489 371

    London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces (www.btp.police.uk)
  • 1 19

    Programming the Gigatron (www.iwriteiam.nl)
  • 74 47

    The Water Footprint of AI (doi.org)
  • 51 44

    About Rx Kids (rxkids.org)
  • 490 1041

    France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls (www.lemonde.fr)
  • 150 127

    To save C, we must save ABI (2022) (thephd.dev)
  • 51 109

    Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)
  • 5 27

    France Bans Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls (www.nytimes.com)
  • 3 22

    OpenAI wraps $7B share sale ahead of potential IPO (www.cnbc.com)
  • 115 64

    Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago (correctiv.org)
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    Once More in Triple Time (theamericanscholar.org)
  • 45 71

    Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client (github.com)
  • 35 51

    Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App (www.neowin.net)
  • 40 166

    LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models (huggingface.co)
  • 29 52

    Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero (whatever.scalzi.com)
  • 21 56

    Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases (blog.mozilla.org)
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  • 63 87

    Hyperspace (hypercritical.co)
  • 49 60

    US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat (www.theguardian.com)
  • 18 43

    Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java (www.choral-lang.org)
  • 21 55

    Gulf States Accept a New Normal in Hormuz: Iran Is in Control (www.wsj.com)
  • 49 120

    Recycle – Floppydisks (www.floppydisk.com)
  • 98 434

    H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon (github.com)
  • 9 38

    SQRL wan't wrong, it was early (sjg.io)
  • 5 12

    Harry Potter fans force diverting UK-Ireland power link to avoid Dobby's grave (www.bbc.com)
  • 44 64

    Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don't (www.nytimes.com)
  • 58 297

    Chicken Scheme 6.0 (code.call-cc.org)
  • 4 35

    ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir (www.404media.co)
  • 6 30

    The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story (gigamonkeys.com)
  • 751 656

    The UK's war on anonymity has come to America (www.effort.news)
  • 118 288

    Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states (everycube.alen.is)