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Show HN: Christopher Nolan's Hymn to Athena

https://jackcushman.org/writing/hymn-to-athena/
1•JackC•1h ago
Hi, HN! Did you know that Chris Nolan's casting of Tom Holland and Zendaya eerily echoes a 3000-year-old dance battle between Athena and Telemachus? I've been working on an art project that says so.

If you like, it can be fun to go in blind with a strong research agent to sort out what this really is. Or there is a multi-layered CAPTCHA at the bottom that spells it out increasingly clearly.

As a small spoiler: my day job is building reliable public data tools for a library. This piece draws on that background to try to make AI-native art -- fiction by and for humans who use AI agents as a source of truth. At best I hope it works as the kind of joke one Iain M. Banks Culture AI would tell another about humans.

Romania blasts rocks to reroute cooling Danube water to nuclear reactor

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungarys-nuclear-plant-shutdown-due-low-danube-gets-repri...
1•Markoff•1m ago•0 comments

Do you understand what I'm saying?

https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/03/do-you-understand-what-im-saying/
1•pkoird•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sentivel – a status page that tracks the providers you depend on

https://demo.sentivel.com
1•jensonhirst•3m ago•0 comments

Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/02/the-global-memory-shortage-hits-the-macbook-air/
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

"Phantom Twist" drone nearly disappears in flight [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mUgyV3A1O0
1•zdw•3m ago•0 comments

Anyone using machine translation quality estimation?

1•cefoo•3m ago•0 comments

GitLab Is Slow as a Turtle

https://status.gitlab.com/
1•byte_surgeon•4m ago•0 comments

Bullsta

https://bullsta.com
1•ConnorHolcomb•6m ago•0 comments

AI's talent wars have a loyalty problem

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/03/ai-talent-wars-openai-google-meta-anthropic
3•ironyman•6m ago•0 comments

AAuth Protocol

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hardt-oauth-aauth-protocol/
1•kyle-macmillan•7m ago•0 comments

New spinning drone hides in plain sight

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/07/new-spinning-drone-hides-in-plain-sight
1•Supermancho•8m ago•0 comments

LLM Writing and Me

https://www.makonea.com/en-US/casual/llm-writing-and-me
1•jdw64•8m ago•0 comments

Review of Marcus Hutter's Job-Less Utopia

https://borretti.me/article/review-job-less-utopia
1•thoughtpeddler•8m ago•0 comments

Deprecation of HCP Vagrant

https://developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vagrant/hcp-vagrant-eol
1•cybadger•9m ago•1 comments

AI can detect underwater waste in oceans

https://www.nature.com/articles/d44151-026-00129-2
3•wertyk•10m ago•1 comments

Tool Specifications Matter: Uncovering and Mitigating Safety Risks in AI Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29254
2•zhinit•11m ago•0 comments

OSS ChatGPT UI v4: PDF Studio, Projects, Profiles, Server Tools, 1-Click Sharing

https://llmspy.org/docs/latest
1•mythz•12m ago•0 comments

Standalone PEP 723 scripts with Conda dependencies in Pixi

http://pixi.prefix.dev/latest/python/scripts/
1•manzt•12m ago•0 comments

We re-wrote the Excel engine in Rust to run headless for agents

https://twitter.com/peterjliu/status/2084298237884948928
3•peterjliu•14m ago•0 comments

When rogue AI launches a cyberattack, who is legally responsible?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/rogue-ai-launches-cyberattack-legally-011003955.html
2•pseudolus•16m ago•0 comments

I am quite tired of algorithms, so am I with Spotify; exporting playlists, etc.

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/export-spotify-data-and-music-playlists-etc/
1•zazuke•16m ago•0 comments

Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days

https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-tim...
30•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Dualism

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/03/andor/#either
1•joebuckwilliams•17m ago•0 comments

End Poverty in California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Poverty_in_California
1•Amorymeltzer•17m ago•0 comments

A Simpler Lambda Calculus (2019)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3294032.3294085
1•sargstuff•19m ago•0 comments

Kinjo: The home lab menu I wanted

https://abbyssoul.github.io/engineering/2026/08/03/kinjo-the-home-lab-menu-i-wanted.html
2•sagevoid•22m ago•0 comments

ChessTUI: Chess but via Command Line

https://github.com/gslf/ChessTUI/releases/tag/v1.0.3
2•gioeleslfierro•22m ago•0 comments

Why is it all in the kernel?

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2026/07/30/Collatz.html
1•vinhnx•23m ago•0 comments

Electric air taxis are finally ready for takeoff

https://fortune.com/2026/08/03/electric-air-taxis-joby-aviation-evtols-archer-aviation/
1•ryan_j_naughton•24m ago•0 comments