frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Are you running production workloads in Pytorch eager mode?

2•stdcall83•1y ago
I have an idea for optimizations using a dedicated backend for pytorch. It only applies to eager mode execution. From my understanding, eager mode is used for development and debugging. Are there real production workloads that work in that way ? I assume people optimize by compiling graphs using JIT but then again, people are lazy...

AI is accelerating elder fraud. Their kids are reckoning with the fallout

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2026/08/18/elder-fraud-ai-sandwich-generation...
1•bluutang•2m ago•0 comments

Profile: Physics based and cost aware optimizer for inference

https://github.com/jungledesh/profile
1•jungledesh•2m ago•0 comments

Young adults in the US are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/08/18/young-adults-in-the-us-are-increasingly-wary-o...
1•thm•3m ago•0 comments

AI's recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
1•joozio•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Halftone Stencil Cutter

https://github.com/kink80/cutter
1•kink80•9m ago•0 comments

Claude Usage Limit Boost extended until August 31st

https://twitter.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2089798442306711646
1•burgerboii•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Privacy focused client side password generator

https://password-generator.aaqa.dev/
1•aaqaishtyaq•11m ago•0 comments

Building Shared Memory for AI Agents in Notion

https://www.notion.com/blog/building-shared-memory-for-ai-agents-in-notion
1•asherwood•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are independent software contractors doing now?

1•Madmallard•13m ago•0 comments

Carrier Pidge: Message App at pidgeon speed

https://twitter.com/noah_bino/status/2087687049566421074
1•croes•14m ago•1 comments

Minimalistic iOS Lockscreen Calendar – LockCal, inspired by old Cydia tweak

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/lockcal/id6794340782
1•daymir•14m ago•1 comments

FR LandSpace Zhuque-3 Y2 launch and landing, August 18th/19th 2026 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEchnrdDvBc
1•JPLeRouzic•17m ago•1 comments

Parengyodontium Album

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parengyodontium_album
1•num42•17m ago•0 comments

Top album releases linked to rise in fatal crashes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/top-album-releases-linked-to-rise-in-fatal-crashes-...
1•croes•17m ago•0 comments

Fuck My Cofounder

https://fuckmycofounder.com/
4•unobtainiumrock•18m ago•4 comments

The Untapped Potential of the Amazon's Plastic-Eating Mushroom(2022)

https://earth.org/plastic-eating-mushroom-of-the-amazon-and-ecuadors-development-dilemma/
1•num42•18m ago•0 comments

I built a forex app to turn market noise into a 30-second trading brief

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.forexnews.app&hl=en_US
1•amanblaze•20m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk broke the FAA – Palantir is picking up the pieces

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/981194/faa-air-traffic-elon-musk-peter-thiel-palantir
2•DesaiAshu•25m ago•0 comments

How I Browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)

https://untrusem.party/blog/how-I-browse-the-web-with-Ublock-Hard-Mode.html
1•BrunoBernardino•26m ago•0 comments

Study: Short-form video viewing and deactivation of cognitive control networks

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811926000406
1•kadohg•26m ago•0 comments

Fargate Is Not Firecracker (2024)

https://justingarrison.com/blog/2024-02-08-fargate-is-not-firecracker/
1•frogulis•27m ago•0 comments

Without journalists, there is no journalism

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.17017
1•50kIters•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why does Hermes Agent not infringe on Hermès?

2•aitravel-dev•30m ago•1 comments

Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World [pdf]

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Demographics.pdf
1•Acrobatic_Road•31m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Full-duplex real-time voice assistant in the browser

https://github.com/sachinkesiraju/jax-realtime
2•sachinkesiraju•35m ago•0 comments

Pandemic lockdowns never ended for some people

https://www.ft.com/content/e1eb3638-cd1a-4a1a-857d-133fe4be468c
2•_tk_•38m ago•0 comments

An LLM wiki changed how I work

https://www.platformer.news/karpathy-llm-wiki-journalism-productivity/
2•wertyk•38m ago•0 comments

Jason Arday's rise and fall tells a larger story about academia, a critic says

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5935396/britain-cambridge-professor-jason-arday-hiring-quest...
2•pykello•39m ago•0 comments

Excited and exhausted: life as a tech writer in the AI age

https://elizabethtai.com/2026/08/19/life-as-a-techwriter-in-the-ai-age/
1•theletterf•42m ago•0 comments

$200B case against Facebook and Instagram begins

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/meta-facebook-instagram-trial
3•skor•43m ago•0 comments