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Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions

(www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/)

216 points by Akasci 2 hours ago | loading comments

Stop eating lady gaga's oreos

(www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos)

63 points by cwal37 an hour ago | loading comments

I should have loved biology

(jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/)

123 points by tyre 3 hours ago | loading comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

(www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick)

418 points by Ariarule 2 days ago | loading comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

(www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/)

46 points by danielvaughn 2 hours ago | loading comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

(blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html)

764 points by emctech 10 hours ago | loading comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

(consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page)

51 points by gregsadetsky 2 hours ago | loading comments

HTML Can Do That

(chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/)

436 points by encyclopedism a day ago | loading comments

Linux 7.2

(www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html)

133 points by mariuz 5 hours ago | loading comments

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CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

(www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink)

265 points by EwanG 20 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

(simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/)

420 points by simedw 9 hours ago | loading comments

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SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

(strn.cat/posts/spacetime/)

13 points by hurrrr an hour ago | loading comments

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Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

(www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern)

1 points by HPMOR 4 hours ago | loading comments

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Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

(tidalcycles.org/)

17 points by gjvc an hour ago | loading comments

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GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

(surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/)

13 points by jonemi an hour ago | loading comments

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Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it

(radi8.dev/blog/uplink/)

41 points by radeeyate 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Why Aren't Smart People Happier?

(www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier)

23 points by rafaelc 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Project Cybersyn (2022)

(bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html)

37 points by cassepipe 3 hours ago | loading comments

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DiffusionGemma Technical Report

(arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146)

120 points by gmays 7 hours ago | loading comments

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How to compromise your system with a job interview

(www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview)

93 points by codedge 5 hours ago | loading comments

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Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1

(lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-August/003741.html)

105 points by st_goliath 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Mojo is now open source

(www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source)

289 points by visheshdembla 2 days ago | loading comments

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Generic Methods in Go 1.27

(dominik.info/blog/go-generic-methods)

54 points by EspressoGPT 5 hours ago | loading comments

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Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

(safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/)

316 points by abhisek 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity

(www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00137-4)

6 points by joebig 5 days ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

(github.com/paulsp94/omacosy)

33 points by paulsp 6 hours ago | loading comments

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Git at any scale

(cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale)

224 points by meetpateltech 2 days ago | loading comments

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Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)

(chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/)

30 points by cassepipe 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

(dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759429.3762631)

11 points by asdftemp 7 days ago | loading comments

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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

(blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/)

21 points by speckx 28 minutes ago | loading comments