1.
Kobo can run apps now
(bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/)
317 points by thepoet 5 hours ago | loading comments
2.
Felony Bench
(www.felonybench.com/)
379 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | loading comments
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Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe
(newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/)
89 points by NKosmatos 3 hours ago | loading comments
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AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
(www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning)
171 points by dash2 3 days ago | loading comments
5.
Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
(kagi.com/changelog#11296)
907 points by speckx 8 hours ago | loading comments
6.
Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
(www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html)
294 points by floathub 10 hours ago | loading comments
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SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers
(www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer)
1 points by maciejSz 43 minutes ago | loading comments
8.
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
(lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa)
365 points by gavide 9 hours ago | loading comments
9.
Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
(claude.com/blog/bringing-claude-mythos-5-to-more-defenders)
30 points by garo-pro 3 hours ago | loading comments
10.
People of ACM – Russ Cox
(www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox)
59 points by signa11 5 days ago | loading comments
11.
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
(api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/)
425 points by dares2573 11 hours ago | loading comments
12.
How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms
(nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/)
71 points by toebee 6 hours ago | loading comments
13.
I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
(pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html)
88 points by colinprince 6 hours ago | loading comments
14.
A look under our trunk: what's in our compute
(waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/)
65 points by ra7 a day ago | loading comments
15.
Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude
(allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/)
52 points by speckx 2 hours ago | loading comments
16.
Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler
(tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/)
27 points by vicek22 3 hours ago | loading comments
17.
What happens when a GPU reads memory
(blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory)
77 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | loading comments
18.
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
(github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md)
144 points by aakil 7 hours ago | loading comments
19.
Using an old Android phone as a music player
(monocyte.blog/using-an-old-android-phone-as-a-music-player/)
25 points by surprisetalk 4 days ago | loading comments
20.
Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory
(blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-factory/)
61 points by jakelsaunders94 5 hours ago | loading comments
21.
I'm becoming AI-blind
(cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind)
196 points by rcymerys 10 hours ago | loading comments
22.
Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it
(github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt)
40 points by unprovable 6 hours ago | loading comments
23.
The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000)
(tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/b-right-vr2intro.html)
15 points by Bluestein 6 hours ago | loading comments
24.
The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]
(www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw)
114 points by neom 3 days ago | loading comments
25.
Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout
(invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-samos-readout/)
45 points by cainxinth 8 hours ago | loading comments
26.
Quantifying the honey bee dance floor
(journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456)
23 points by Ariarule 8 days ago | loading comments
27.
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
(annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html)
465 points by Cider9986 19 hours ago | loading comments
28.
Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine
(notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/shoehorn/)
66 points by rhgraysonii 3 days ago | loading comments
29.
New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
(precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/)
186 points by speckx 9 hours ago | loading comments
30.
The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6
(theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html)
55 points by eatonphil 10 hours ago | loading comments