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Lenia - a system of continuous cellular automata

https://chakazul.github.io/lenia.html
1•frozenseven•1m ago•0 comments

Claim-Driven Development in Hale

https://hale-lang.org/articles/claim-driven-development-in-hale/
2•rrook•5m ago•0 comments

Asus releases cheaper ROG NUC 16 gaming mini PC with Core Ultra 7 and 32GB RAM

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Asus-releases-cheaper-ROG-NUC-16-gaming-mini-PC-with-Core-Ultra-7-a...
1•teleforce•10m ago•0 comments

Bending Spoons Is Buying Airtable for $1.3B. It Was Valued at $11B in 2021

https://www.inc.com/lucia-auerbach/bending-spoons-buying-airtable-for-1-billion-valued-at-11-bill...
1•pseudolus•12m ago•0 comments

Stanford Online: CS329A Self-Improving AI Agents

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLangBM27OtEA
1•OutOfHere•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust

https://github.com/brian-armstrong/fec
1•brian-armstrong•13m ago•0 comments

Path lifting can remember order even when homotopy forgets escape

https://zenodo.org/records/21606390
1•groverbennett•15m ago•0 comments

AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-scammers-are-better-at-building-trust-than-humans/
1•tchalla•15m ago•0 comments

Western Sahara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Sahara
1•brudgers•15m ago•0 comments

When Does Defending Yourself Become a Crime?

https://medium.com/@theworldaccordingtomatttaylor/when-does-defending-yourself-become-a-crime-603...
1•GDNews503AD•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hinode – Cloud Linux desktop with a dedicated GPU that auto-pauses

https://hinode.run
1•iamursky•20m ago•0 comments

Body Workouts You Need to Know

https://ethansmith140833.substack.com/p/body-workouts-you-need-to-know
1•trimoxer•24m ago•0 comments

KiroCrew – Amazon's AI Harness

https://kiro.dev/crew/
1•ash663•26m ago•2 comments

Solar Water Disinfection

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_water_disinfection
1•_Microft•26m ago•0 comments

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/
1•seg6•26m ago•0 comments

Linux 7.3 Expected to Drop the FreeVxFS File-System Driver

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-FreeVxFS
1•Bender•26m ago•0 comments

Our top agent latency optimisations

https://lexifina.com/blog/top-10-agent-optimisations-for-latency
1•alansaber•27m ago•0 comments

BMW's in-car Spider-Man ad is villain behavior

https://www.theverge.com/transportation/975172/bmw-spider-man-movie-infotainment-ad
5•cebert•27m ago•3 comments

Nixpkgs has a due-process problem

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/04/nixpkgs-has-a-due-process-problem/
5•JustSkyfall•28m ago•0 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
3•luispa•28m ago•0 comments

AI stock sell-off slams hedge funds as Whale Rock loses 21.7% in July

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-04/whale-rock-sank-22-as-ai-selloff-crippled-hedg...
2•mapping365•28m ago•0 comments

Salad Fingers 1: Spoons (original upload) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3iOROuTuMA
1•doener•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI product evaluation methodoloy at huby

1•dd-sharma•31m ago•0 comments

What are credit default swaps and why are they spooking AI investors?

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-markets-cds-explainer-2026-07-29/
3•mapping365•32m ago•1 comments

Ghostgrid AI

https://ghostgridai.com
1•mouhamad215•32m ago•0 comments

Missouri election chief rejects bid to hold vote on congressional districts

https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-congress-missouri-trump-petition-vote-election-5cfa5294a...
1•petethomas•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Collab Word in Web – Collaborative Near MS Word Parity Docx Editor

https://collab.word-in-web.com/
1•theRealestAEP•33m ago•0 comments

Credit Braces for Fallen Angels as $100B Trades Like Junk

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/credit-braces-for-fallen-angels-as-100-billion-trades-...
2•mapping365•34m ago•0 comments

Missouri Is Latest State to Vote on Abolishing Income Tax

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/missouri-is-latest-state-to-vote-on-abolishing-income-tax-bd7...
2•JumpCrisscross•34m ago•0 comments

Big Tech Is Finally Paying for the AI Disaster It Created [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB55jZAYifQ
1•Jazgot•37m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL

https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-scams-surge-interpol/
40•bookofjoe•48m ago

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restlessforge•34m ago
I'm surprised it's only half

There's a joke about certain princes here but I just feel bad for the people getting scammed since I know firsthand how realistic these things can seem

usernametaken29•32m ago
Coincidentally it’s also the biggest scam in the west. Wait till the IPO and the inevitable 80% stock drop of OpenAI ….
spiderfarmer•2m ago
If someone who is as unpopular as Elon the cringelord Musk can convince the markets that Tesla is worth its current stock price, I doubt the AI bubble will burst.
cineticdaffodil•29m ago
The scamers of this earth did more for true- cross culture communication then any advertisment poster could ever do. You know about the values of a culture, if they call your old parents to rip them off. They have none, or worse they can talk themselves into this "Robin Hood" psychosis, where stealing the pension from the elderly is just fine, because they are part of the upper crust of the world. Anyway, the right rejoices with every disilusionment charm these personalized calls weave.
simonw•22m ago
Here's the report this story is about: https://www.interpol.int/Media/Documents/Publications/Cyberc... (PDF)

Page 24 is where the AI stuff starts being described in detail.

bobajeff•10m ago
>Access to this site was denied for security reasons. Please contact your network or system administrator

Is what I see. Which makes sense I guess. Maybe just tell me how you got to the page?

moritzwarhier•5m ago
[delayed]
merelydev•16m ago
The main fuel is the internet , followed by mobile phones and social media.

AI definitely makes the scams more believable, a Nigerian Prince can now easily forge documents.

But at the same time AI is a double edged sword, it can be used for both offence and defense.

LocalH•13m ago
The main fuel is the "need" to have browsers that can execute code, coupled with the ability to transfer money via the internet. JavaScript was a mistake, e-commerce was a mistake, and so is everything else that came after.

Let's ask Vint Cerf whether the web was meant to run logic, or just be a document format. I bet no matter what he answers, the world would be like the GIF pronunciation "I don't care if the original creator said it's pronounced like giraffe, I'm gonna say it like gift because I KnOw BeTtEr"

Internet 3 when (because I know that academia does already have an "Internet 2", although I bet due to Internet 1 security issues, Internet 2 is already compromised too)

cyberax•7m ago
The first Nigerian Prince scams started over email.
stingraycharles•2m ago
> JavaScript was a mistake, e-commerce was a mistake, and so is everything else that came after.

That’s a really extreme take that lacks any nuance.

Might as well blame the OS as well for allowing any custom code to be executed.

bad_haircut72•11m ago
Crypto and now AI, every new tech we make these days it seems the main utility is just to enable criminals
rvz•10m ago
So not only AI is consuming more energy than than the entire bitcoin network is [0], it is also accounts for more than half of cybercrimes and digital scams in Africa.

I don't think you can even dispute this. AI will be the one to cause the next financial crisis.

[0] https://www.cell.com/joule/abstract/S2542-4351(25)00142-4