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Snapdok–url to pdf and screenshot API on real Chromium

https://snapdok.io
1•dxsd•48m ago

The Great Escape Trick, Or: AI Opium for the Masses

https://read.misalignedmag.com/the-great-escape-trick-or-the-new-ai-opium-for-the-masses-93eaf817...
1•lcubw•27s ago•1 comments

War and Peace

https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace
1•andsoitis•1m ago•0 comments

Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available

https://blog.cloudflare.com/certificate-transparency-monitoring-ga/
1•soheilpro•1m ago•0 comments

SideFX Houdini in a Robot Control Loop

https://owentrueblood.com/blog/2025/06/06/sidefx-houdini-in-a-robot-control-loop/
1•gregsadetsky•1m ago•0 comments

Neuroscientists have underestimated brain cell computing power

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neuroscientists-have-vastly-underestimated-brain-cells...
1•dxs•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A walkable 3D tour of a feedforward neural net

https://ffnn.vercel.app/
1•aithena•2m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE Promised Savings, but It's Cost Us a Fortune

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/gao-report-doge-elon-musk-overstated-savings-wall-re...
2•cdrnsf•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Diffusion PDF – A Diffusion Image Model Embedded Entirely in a PDF File

https://diffusion.alexvd.dev/
1•alexvd•3m ago•0 comments

Same Prompt, Same Model Different Results Put 5 AI Harnesses to the Test

https://grigio.org/same-prompt-same-model-wildly-different-results-i-put-5-ai-coding-harnesses-to...
1•grigio•4m ago•0 comments

PBS loses 50TB of data; 70 years of TV history after cloud vendor defunct

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-aft...
2•vinayakborkar•4m ago•0 comments

Three years after police raid on Kansas newspaper, reporter settles for $850K

https://kansasreflector.com/2026/08/11/three-years-after-police-raid-on-kansas-newspaper-reporter...
2•giuliomagnifico•5m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24 and 19 Beta 3 Released

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-186-1711-1615-1519-1424-and-19-beta-3-released-3...
1•pella•6m ago•0 comments

Free Electron Lasers and the Birth of the Beamline Tycoon

https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/2086656126591152326
1•delichon•7m ago•0 comments

Pulsar Fusion – The Steam Engine Moment for Space Propulsion?

https://beyondhorizonforesight.substack.com/p/pulsar-fusion-the-steam-engine-moment
1•beyondhorizonfs•9m ago•0 comments

If You Weren't Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion/ai-danger-openai-anthropic-models.html
2•newsomix9xl•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pressentable – turn a spreadsheet into a typeset client report

https://pressentable.com/
1•younesR•11m ago•0 comments

A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability

https://github.com/cordiverse/paper
1•mekpro•12m ago•0 comments

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/
5•toddmorey•13m ago•0 comments

We turned off Pub/Sub and nobody noticed

https://incident.io/blog/we-turned-off-pub-sub-and-nobody-noticed
7•patrickhamann•13m ago•2 comments

Show HN: A website that generates A/B tests to improve itself

https://selfimproving.site/
3•linksku•14m ago•1 comments

Oil barons hate this one cute lizard

https://luckyinstar.neocities.org/blog/duneslizard
2•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

2026 Clacton By-Election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Clacton_by-election
5•petecooper•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RoundOS Datarooms – Free DocSend Alternative (Tracked Links, VDRs)

https://roundos.ai/free-docsend-alternative
3•roundos_maker•17m ago•0 comments

Wing Commander Source Reconstruction

https://github.com/neuromancer/wc1-re
2•JojoFatsani•18m ago•0 comments

My Rules for Using Spreadsheets

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/my-rules-for-using-spreadsheets/
4•surprisetalk•18m ago•1 comments

DeepSeek Harness

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness
8•bjin•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Read the Room – a social LLM puzzle

https://ilia-iliev.itch.io/read-the-room
1•ilia_foo•21m ago•0 comments

Grok 4.6 /medium outperforms /high effort on DeepSWE

https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/#grok4.6
2•pandaaiioo•22m ago•0 comments

How to lucid dream: a step-by-step guide that takes your sleep seriously

https://medium.com/@6thMind/how-to-lucid-dream-a-step-by-step-guide-that-takes-your-sleep-serious...
2•smanuel•22m ago•0 comments

Forbes Fired Top Editor After Discovering He Received Secret $6M Payment

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/business/forbes-editor-fired.html
2•ilamont•22m ago•0 comments