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Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

(pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/)

148 points by flaburgan 3 hours ago | loading comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

(timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/)

537 points by gavide 12 hours ago | loading comments

Rethinking Database Programming

(acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming)

58 points by honungsburk 3 hours ago | loading comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

(openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol)

456 points by Topfi 14 hours ago | loading comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

(fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html)

360 points by shdon 13 hours ago | loading comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

(catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera)

206 points by pizzaiolo 13 hours ago | loading comments

The Benchmarkpocalypse

(danluu.com/benchpocalypse/)

112 points by cyndunlop 8 hours ago | loading comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

(duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights)

640 points by ibotty 21 hours ago | loading comments

Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data

(moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/fairly-ranking-the-most-brilliant-birds/)

24 points by moultano 3 days ago | loading comments

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IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]

(www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc)

32 points by kls0e 3 days ago | loading comments

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Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

(responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/)

533 points by DeepLogin 14 hours ago | loading comments

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Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI

(www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962)

11 points by pseudolus 25 minutes ago | loading comments

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AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

(www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug)

376 points by galnagli 20 hours ago | loading comments

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Olo (Color)

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color))

450 points by inigyou 6 days ago | loading comments

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Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with

(www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379126004052%3Fshowall%3Dtrue)

31 points by newsomix9xl 6 hours ago | loading comments

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I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf)

(www.rainydaygc.com/)

5 points by mdstrobe 6 days ago | loading comments

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GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

(arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759)

218 points by linggen 17 hours ago | loading comments

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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

(moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/)

243 points by neogodless 17 hours ago | loading comments

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The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2)

76 points by whobre 6 days ago | loading comments

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Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

(www.repaircafe.org/)

117 points by rglover 11 hours ago | loading comments

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Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

(www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet)

71 points by hermitcrab 5 days ago | loading comments

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GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

(blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/)

340 points by plurby a day ago | loading comments

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Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

(current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/)

168 points by qingcharles 18 hours ago | loading comments

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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

(www.librarian.net/notoai/)

302 points by ColinWright 21 hours ago | loading comments

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Sun Clock

(sunclock.net/)

235 points by Gecko4072 18 hours ago | loading comments

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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

(www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read)

894 points by mooreds 15 hours ago | loading comments

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Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

(www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world)

147 points by bookofjoe 16 hours ago | loading comments

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India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

(www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xnwqe00v1o)

155 points by monkey_monkey 15 hours ago | loading comments

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Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure

(irz.fr/en/articles/openclimbing-open-guide-en/)

18 points by zbycz 2 days ago | loading comments

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Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

(speko.ai/)

108 points by abdik 19 hours ago | loading comments