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Out of Writing Ideas? Don't Ask ChatGPT, Ask Yourself

https://medium.com/@vincent.ferreira/out-of-writing-ideas-dont-ask-chatgpt-ask-yourself-a56c2f761a6f
2•vincenfer•6m ago•0 comments

A startup is able to detect fires within minutes using satellites and AI

https://netbajura.blogspot.com/2026/08/ororatech-startup-that-detects.html
2•AllForAll•15m ago•0 comments

The Present Must Prove the Past

https://lab.parano1d.org/research/the-present-must-prove-the-past/
4•ignotusnemo•16m ago•0 comments

If You Get in a Car Crash, the Risk Is Growing Your Insurance Won't Pay

https://www.wsj.com/finance/if-you-get-in-a-car-crash-the-risk-is-growing-your-insurance-wont-pay...
2•bookofjoe•18m ago•2 comments

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but

https://www.thetrueengineer.com/p/for-those-who-work-full-time-in-a
2•adletbalzhanov•22m ago•0 comments

Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht declined to help stranded boat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/09/zuckerberg-superyacht-boat-alaska
4•higginsniggins•22m ago•0 comments

The Fermi Paradox Just Got Worse [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-MgHZ_oGl0
1•Bender•24m ago•0 comments

John Crowley Has Died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crowley_(author)
3•atombender•24m ago•1 comments

Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game

https://nicole.express/2026/more-like-idle-mahjong.html
2•nicole_express•24m ago•0 comments

Polyethylene may be causing liver damage

https://scitechdaily.com/this-widely-used-plastic-could-be-harming-your-liver/
3•Gaishan•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lumabri – What if LLMs worked like Napster?

https://github.com/JustVugg/lumabri
2•vforno•26m ago•0 comments

3G at Last

https://nickvsnetworking.com/3g-at-last/
1•birdculture•33m ago•0 comments

The malignant rise of OnlyFans managers

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jun/18/malignant-rise-onlyfans-managers-exploiting-groom...
4•mukmuk•35m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An AI chief of staff for founders who can't afford one

https://useairo.co
1•vidit99•37m ago•0 comments

The rise of illegal tobacco in Australia tracked in wastewater

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/charting-the-rise-of-illegal-tobacco-in-australia/106941130
2•Gaishan•39m ago•0 comments

Neural Scaling Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_scaling_law
1•frozenseven•40m ago•0 comments

Testing Anthropic's RSI Claims

https://ankitmaloo.com/rsi-claims/
1•ankit219•43m ago•0 comments

Quoted $1M for AI code review. Built it for free

https://sagivo.com/blog/i-was-quoted-1m-to-get-ai-diff-review-tool
3•shubidubi•43m ago•0 comments

What Garbage Collection Costs

https://shivanshuag.com/blog/what-garbage-collection-actually-costs/
1•shivanshuag•45m ago•0 comments

Who Should Pay for Source Code Availability?

https://kristoff.it/blog/source-code-availability/
3•Retro_Dev•45m ago•0 comments

Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5894884
5•mooreds•48m ago•2 comments

I got 30% better AI coding results

https://github.com/akasula09/CodeSlimmer
2•kushthedevmmm•49m ago•0 comments

To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/affordable-housing-schools-teachers.html
7•mooreds•50m ago•0 comments

Sen. Chuck Grassley mourns Beth, 49yo vacuum cleaner

https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/2086178745191133662
2•nianderwallace•51m ago•0 comments

High car prices lead to long-term auto loans

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2026/08/07/high-car-prices-lead-to-longterm-auto-loans
3•mooreds•51m ago•1 comments

Tape scratching the "Peter Piper" routine, using a homemade tape loop [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6SMyND8hso
1•CharlesW•51m ago•0 comments

Why.com – Explore any topic by repeatedly asking why

https://why.com/
2•m5r•51m ago•0 comments

Quantifying dynamics of failure across science, startups and security

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07562
1•highfrequency•55m ago•0 comments

The Post-Quantum WebPKI

https://rmhrisk.github.io/classical-webpki/
1•tomwas54•58m ago•0 comments

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
2•stared•58m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are you currently trying to figure out?

3•gooob•1y ago
i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

Comments

sherdil2022•1y ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•1y ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•1y ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•1y ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

  for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do
    cp -v "$f" /elsewhere
  done
Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.

turtleyacht•1y ago
Pipe and read per line:

  ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do
    cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
    # substitute with something fancy
    # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
  done
nailer•1y ago
If there’s transmission errors, I would recommend using rsync rather than cp. that will keep transferring and running checksums until everything matches.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Thank-you. After installing openrsync(1) (and rsync), files transferred for a bit but failed and dumped core with error 138 (bus error). Maybe a quirk with OpenBSD 7.6, or interaction between simple-mtpfs and the fusefs mount.

In the meantime, after a few retries, the failures are written to a log for a second sweep.

MD5 check helps skip extra copying, but it's overall much slower. It seems okay for a long-running batch job; maybe something we can return to after getting the pictures to display.

The pattern is like

  cp ... || \
    { sleep 2; cp ... ; } || \
    ... || \
    ... || echo "$file" >> retry.log
Not the best way. It has failed before all four times. Going to let it run overnight to see if it completes.
arthurcolle•1y ago
navigating personal 'unemployment' while obsessively hoarding whatever money I can to run experiments / train, finetune models to leverage RL and environment-building in order to use computers, learn tasks, learn from each other, and scale to managing companies (simple, SaaS at first, and eventually, potentially to real-world operations downstream task sets)
nailer•1y ago
I arrived tired to a pre wedding photo shoot this morning, my prospective wife yelled at me, and cancelled the shoot. I walked out because I don’t like people yelling at me. So I am trying to figure out whether I still want to marry her.