IgniteTech CEO would lay off 80% of staff again if they refused to adopt AI

https://fortune.com/2025/08/17/ceo-laid-off-80-percent-workforce-ai-sabotage/

1•krallja•2m ago•0 comments

ARMing GPUs: On the Memory Subsystem of Grace Hopper GH200 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM6zmDCVVhM

2•matt_d•6m ago•0 comments

Far Out Company – artists of 60s counterculture

https://faroutcompany.com/

2•_rpxpx•7m ago•0 comments

Drawing: The overlooked universal HCI primitive

https://notnotrishi.substack.com/p/drawing-the-overlooked-universal

2•notnotrishi•7m ago•1 comments

List or get off the pot: Auditors demand gov improve IT reporting or give it up

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/gao_it_data_management/

2•rntn•9m ago•0 comments

Subsea pods use ocean pressure to produce fresh water

https://www.oceanwellwater.com/water-farms

2•geox•11m ago•0 comments

First Descendant Devs in Hot Water over AI Ads Impersonating Streamers

https://www.techpowerup.com/340033/first-descendant-devs-in-hot-water-over-ai-ads-impersonating-streamers

3•speckx•13m ago•1 comments

When the Internet reached half of US households

https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-the-internet-reached-half-of-us-households/

3•giuliomagnifico•13m ago•0 comments

He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/business/tiktok-ai-avatars.html

1•jaredwiener•14m ago•1 comments

Qwen-Image-Edit: en/zh text editing,preserving style,semantic/appearance editing

https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/1957500569029079083

3•homarp•14m ago•0 comments

How do you come across your "niche"?

2•bruhwhosthis•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We started building an AI dev tool but it turned into a Sims-style game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRPnX_f2V_c

7•max-raven•16m ago•0 comments

History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html

3•xk3•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Realdice.org – a simple system for rolling dice with live video

https://realdice.org/

3•willward1•18m ago•0 comments

Information wants to be free

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

2•johnmaguire•18m ago•0 comments

Soon we won't have a 2nd degree "connection" to the 18th century

https://shub.club/writings/2025/august/end-of-an-era/

3•forthwall•21m ago•0 comments

Get high-quality, free stock photos for your blog without using AI

https://livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai-images-for-blogs-websites/

2•speckx•23m ago•0 comments

Why AI and "helpful" tech are making us helpless

https://afterburnout.co/p/why-ai-and-helpful-tech-are-making-us-helpless

2•mooreds•25m ago•0 comments

What If the Fix for the Geospatial Workforce "Crisis" Is Better Pay? (2023)

https://mapbrief.com/2023/12/06/what-if-the-fix-for-the-geospatial-workforce-crisis-is-better-pay/

2•mooreds•25m ago•0 comments

15-Fold increase in solar thermoelectric generator performance

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-025-01916-9

5•bookofjoe•26m ago•0 comments

Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/volkswagen-gating-a-new-vehicles-full-horsepower-behind-monthly-subscription-3239138/

10•taubek•27m ago•1 comments

Big Tech Is Eating Itself in Talent War

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-researchers-hiring-spree-big-tech-5ad03ebd

3•thm•27m ago•0 comments

Naming cloud resources doesn't have to be hard

https://brunoluiz.net/blog/2025/aug/naming-cloud-resources-doesnt-have-to-be-hard/

2•brunoluiz•30m ago•0 comments

OpenAI releases warmer GPT-5 personality, but only for non thinking model

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-releases-warmer-gpt-5-personality-but-only-for-non-thinking-model/

2•giuliomagnifico•32m ago•0 comments

Immune Attack on Smell Pathways May Signal Early Alzheimer's

https://neurosciencenews.com/microglia-olfaction-alzheimers-29580/

3•bookofjoe•33m ago•1 comments

Tesla is reportedly behind on its pledge to build 5k Optimus bots this year

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/25/tesla-is-reportedly-behind-on-its-pledge-to-build-5000-optimus-bots-this-year/

2•PaulHoule•33m ago•0 comments

Tiny-Qwen: Minimal PyTorch Re-Implementation of Qwen3 and Qwen2.5-VL

https://github.com/Emericen/tiny-qwen

2•iiTsEddy•34m ago•1 comments

DigiPaws: An app designed to help users reduce screen addiction

https://github.com/nethical6/digipaws

2•marcodiego•36m ago•0 comments

Let's Talk About AI Workflows

https://www.rkayg.com/blog/ai-workflows

2•rkayg•36m ago•0 comments

BoquilaHUB 0.3 – AIs for biodiversity monitoring. Written in Rust

https://github.com/boquila/boquilahub/releases/tag/v0.3

3•jdiaz97•39m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/after-recent-tests-china-appears-likely-to-beat-the-united-states-back-to-the-moon/

5•themgt•1h ago

Comments

JoeAltmaier•1h ago

So far they've landed some probes, returned some samples. With lots of false starts.

A big stretch from there, to getting people to the Moon.

I'm gonna wait to make a bet on either outcome.