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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

(www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-inference-performance-by-etching-models-into-silicon/5284344)

454 points by itvision 8 hours ago | loading comments

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

(www.wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/)

27 points by worik 5 hours ago | loading comments

Mario Meets Pareto

(www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto)

926 points by theanonymousone 17 hours ago | loading comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

(nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-solar-process/)

170 points by neversaydie 2 days ago | loading comments

I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

(www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/)

115 points by baranul 4 days ago | loading comments

Taste Is All That's Left

(notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left)

253 points by tsak 11 hours ago | loading comments

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

(www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/)

109 points by gnabgib 6 hours ago | loading comments

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

(www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm)

69 points by Audiophilip 7 hours ago | loading comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

(herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/)

167 points by collinmanderson 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

(openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/)

173 points by tedsanders 11 hours ago | loading comments

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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

(www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74)

352 points by Footkerchief 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Almost no skill required to cook a steak

(blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/)

294 points by yusyd 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

(provenmetal.com)

187 points by willcarkner 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

(www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm)

76 points by sebg 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

(www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260731-why-estonians-invite-strangers-into-their-backyards-each-summer)

28 points by koolhead17 3 days ago | loading comments

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Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media

(www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7)

108 points by boplicity 4 hours ago | loading comments

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

(scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/)

264 points by Wirbelwind 16 hours ago | loading comments

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Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's largest park

(timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/in-2003-a-retired-man-planted-trees-on-forgotten-land-alone-20-years-later-it-had-become-one-of-sao-paulos-largest-urban-forests/articleshow/132761848.cms)

49 points by rmason 5 days ago | loading comments

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The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem

(www.futilitycloset.com/2026/07/26/the-sylvester-gallai-theorem/)

23 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | loading comments

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STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

(medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/stv-a-video-codec-for-the-atari-st-6e46355c50e4)

26 points by indyjo 7 days ago | loading comments

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My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

(mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965)

98 points by luu 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

(laurentiugabriel.github.io/ChipTycoon/)

118 points by laurentiurad 7 days ago | loading comments

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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

(slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update)

238 points by dsubburam 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

(github.com/CopilotKit/channels-sdk)

93 points by davidmckayv 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

(blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/)

69 points by bschne 9 hours ago | loading comments

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The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

(danielmangum.com/posts/integrated-timing-belt-loopback-fastener/)

106 points by hasheddan 5 days ago | loading comments

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Shades of Meaning (2018)

(mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/shades-meaning)

3 points by mkmk 6 days ago | loading comments

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Pareto Front

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front)

227 points by binyu 9 days ago | loading comments

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Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

(www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhanced-forms-htmx/)

70 points by mpweiher 7 days ago | loading comments

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Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities

(www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260805-four-simple-rules-behind-japans-most-liveable-cities)

93 points by tchalla 15 hours ago | loading comments