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China is gaining ground in AI. But the U.S. still has a major advantage

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/china-us-ai-race-hugging-face-models.html

1•makerdiety•1m ago•0 comments

Why AI has brought nothing more than the conceit of wisdom

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/platos-warning-has-been-vindicated

2•GeoAtreides•3m ago•0 comments

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experim...

1•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

The Diamond-Square Algorithm

https://diatone.net/toys/terrain

1•diatone•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Otaku – A Roleplay Terminal Client

https://github.com/enclavum/otaku

1•enclavum5•6m ago•0 comments

A passing star: our Sun's near miss

https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/a-passing-star-our-suns-near-miss/

1•thunderbong•7m ago•0 comments

Auto Mode will be the default in Claude Code – because humans can't be trusted

https://thenewstack.io/claude-code-auto-mode/

1•maxloh•7m ago•0 comments

Modern Terminal File Manager

https://favflower.codeberg.page/

1•blueflowerbed•7m ago•0 comments

Google's Westinghouse Bet

https://asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/googles-westinghouse-bet

1•JohnHammersley•8m ago•0 comments

The world is full of marble. Most of it is fake [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLWGp8xyJEA

1•skibz•11m ago•0 comments

I couldn't have put it better myself (2016)

http://www.alexanderboot.com/i-couldnt-have-put-it-better-myself/

1•decimalenough•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compactdiff – see what compaction dropped from an agent session

https://github.com/mkmkkkkk/compactdiff

2•mileskoldin•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mail Attachment Lens: A Browser extension to manage Gmail attachments

https://github.com/kshk123/mail-attachment-lens

1•kshk123•20m ago•0 comments

Keeping yesterday's computers ticking takes more than nostalgia

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/05/keeping-yesterdays-computers-ticking-takes-more-th...

1•rbanffy•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If you don't read books, what do you read?

2•kamphey•25m ago•2 comments

'I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young'

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds...

2•chrisjj•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Keynou Drive – Branded URL Shortener for SaaS

https://drive.keynou.com

1•not_wowinter13•35m ago•0 comments

I built AI at Amazon, then got laid off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAom6f4-vh0

4•tcp_handshaker•39m ago•0 comments

How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-disable-the-gemini-ai-features-in-gmail-and-google-docs/

1•joozio•40m ago•0 comments

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

2•882542F3884314B•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibsync – One Shared Memory for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex (MCP)

https://vibsync.com/

2•snakaya•54m ago•0 comments

ByteDance is building a 10T model aimed straight at Anthropic [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2h0zVPRFb5U

3•nitrotechgames•56m ago•0 comments

New Bobby Fingers project after 2 years' wait [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7-WnWdhE

2•dmaa•58m ago•0 comments

The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-future-encyclopedia-of-luddism/

2•XzetaU8•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Presse – a Rust CLI tool to compress and merge PDFs

https://github.com/SimonBure/presse

3•saientifik•1h ago•0 comments

SIMD at Insomniac Games (2015) [pdf]

https://deplinenoise.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/gdc2015_afredriksson_simd.pdf

2•vinhnx•1h ago•0 comments

Do you think AI governance should be technically rather than paper policy?

2•sangamdas•1h ago•0 comments

Hardware-Rooted Control for Alternative App Stores

https://zenodo.org/records/21839301

2•sangamdas•1h ago•0 comments

WD Bets 8x Bandwidth Beats More Terabytes as 40TB UltraSMR Starts Shipping

https://www.storagereview.com/news/wd-bets-8x-bandwidth-beats-more-terabytes-as-40tb-ultrasmr-sta...

2•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments

Understanding partial reachability in the Internet core

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/07/understanding-partial-reachability-in-the-internet-core/

1•m_montazeri•1h ago•0 comments