Box, run, crash: China's humanoid robot games show advances and limitations

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/china-world-humanoid-robot-games-advances-limitations

1•robaato•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Whispering – Open-source, local-first dictation you can trust

https://github.com/epicenter-so/epicenter/tree/main/apps/whispering

1•braden-w•1m ago•0 comments

What the US Can Learn from Engineering in China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/what-the-us-can-learn-from-engineering-in-china

1•mefengl•2m ago•0 comments

C# vs. Java int: Primitive type semantics, runtime behavior and tribal knowledge

https://msiyer.com/csharp-vs-java-int-primitive-type-semantics-runtime-behavior-and-tribal-knowledge/

1•msiyer•3m ago•1 comments

Tell HN: HP LaserJet Pro M15w is a great printer

1•roschdal•6m ago•1 comments

Run Linux GUI Apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps

1•TimTheTinker•7m ago•0 comments

XAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler

https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/

3•doener•8m ago•0 comments

Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/

2•neehao•12m ago•0 comments

Tencent doesn't care if it can buy US GPUs again – it has all it needs

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/tencent_q2_2025/

1•rntn•12m ago•0 comments

Python library that shrinks text for LLMs by up to 80%

https://pypi.org/project/context-compressor/

1•techbuilder•12m ago•0 comments

Being Nibbled to Death by Moths

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/NibbledByMoths

1•thelastgallon•14m ago•0 comments

DINOv3: Self-Supervised Learning for Vision

https://ai.meta.com/dinov3/?_fb_noscript=1

1•vthallam•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ldns.com – fast DNS lookups from the URL bar

https://ldns.com/

1•jmorf•14m ago•0 comments

TrueNAS 25.10 Begins Testing with Faster Performance, 400GbE Networking

https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-25.10-Testing

1•Bender•14m ago•0 comments

Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Dangerous-Desktop

1•Bender•15m ago•0 comments

Mississippi may require age verification, parental consent for social media

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/politics/supreme-court-netchoice-mississippi-age-verification

1•Bender•16m ago•0 comments

"A container-level security context gives you control over Kubernetes workloads"

1•bernardoortega•17m ago•0 comments

African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks Africa size

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/15/african-union-true-size-world-map-replace-mercator-version

3•ranit•23m ago•1 comments

Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-library-operator-arrested-study-canceled-for-330k-members-250814/

3•homarp•23m ago•2 comments

The most massive black hole yet

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2491731-weve-discovered-the-most-massive-black-hole-yet/

1•kPwn•23m ago•0 comments

Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the 'Boy Problem' of the 1900s

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/opinion/men-boys-crisis-progressive-era.html

2•pekko•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an native macOS app to clean junk files from USB drives

https://cleanmyusb.app

1•xmasterdev•25m ago•0 comments

Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics (m/f/d)

https://www.nature.com/naturecareers/job/12843630/postdoctoral-researcher-in-bioinformatics-m-f-d-/

1•rolph•27m ago•0 comments

German court declares Karl Marx's teachings unconstitutional

https://harici.com.tr/en/german-court-declares-karl-marxs-teachings-unconstitutional/

19•Anthony-G•28m ago•7 comments

Mexico's rising mercury trade fuels toxic gold mining in Latin America: Report

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/mexicos-rising-mercury-trade-fuels-toxic-gold-mining-in-latin-america-report/

3•PaulHoule•28m ago•0 comments

What Is Omarchy Linux, and Why Is 37signals Moving to It?

https://thenewstack.io/what-is-omarchy-linux-and-why-is-37signals-moving-to-it/

2•CrankyBear•28m ago•0 comments

She Was a Quiet Bird Expert. She Was Called to Investigate a Murder in Maine

https://longreads.com/2025/08/14/feather-forensics-ornithology/

2•Brajeshwar•28m ago•0 comments

Drones could soon become more intrusive

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/08/13/drones-could-soon-become-more-intrusive-than-ever

3•Brajeshwar•29m ago•1 comments

Controversial climate report from Trump team galvanizes scientists into action

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02658-9

3•rolph•29m ago•0 comments

Chinese state media calls U.S. a 'surveillance empire' over trackers in chips

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-state-media-calls-us-surveillance-empire-over-trackers-chip-shipments-2025-08-15/

7•SilverElfin•32m ago•0 comments