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We Need to Talk About Leopold [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE75WvOtcu8
1•mgh2•48s ago•0 comments

I built Fusekit, a place to deploy internal web apps

https://fusekit.cloud/
1•harshulgoel•1m ago•0 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/25-year-old-brazilian-video-patent-expired-legal-headache-linux/
2•theanonymousone•2m ago•0 comments

How to get a matmul kernel into the top percentile (worklog)

https://philipbotros.github.io/2026/08/11/matmul-worklog.html
1•gietema•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bluetooth keyboard and Windows 95 cursor on reMarkable

https://twitter.com/martino_piaggi/status/2088659565168509424
1•martinopiaggi•3m ago•0 comments

The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08944-w
1•BiraIgnacio•3m ago•1 comments

Find duplicate code across nine languages

https://deslop.live/
2•cebert•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Velorn – an open-source desktop video editor with MCP agent control

https://github.com/VelornLabs/velorn
1•j_aime•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MyFirst.News – AI-generated podcast for curious kids

https://myfirst.news/
1•hakunin•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: You have model orders of magnitudes faster than transformer, so?

1•aunekiaru•7m ago•0 comments

Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong

https://defector.com/humanists-have-done-nothing-wrong
1•rlio•7m ago•0 comments

JOE – Joe's Own Editor

https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
1•smartmic•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ansi.md – Everything I know about building modern CLI apps

https://ansi.md
1•gurgeous•9m ago•0 comments

What makes a good puzzle image?

https://composedpuzzles.com/articles/what-makes-a-good-puzzle-image
1•debo_•14m ago•0 comments

One agent, every surface: how we built the Kiro agent harness

https://kiro.dev/blog/one-agent/
2•gmays•14m ago•0 comments

Apple takes down billboard after accusations of 'electronic babysitting'

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/14/apple-takes-down-billboard-after-accusations-of-normalizing-electr...
1•latexr•16m ago•0 comments

The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up

https://sina.bio/posts/costco-hotdog.html
1•sinab•18m ago•0 comments

CheckMate: An RPG inspired habit tracker with quests, co-op raids, Journal

https://checkmate-daily.com/
1•cionutd•19m ago•1 comments

Empty shelves or lost keys? Recall is the bottleneck for parametric factuality

https://research.google/blog/empty-shelves-or-lost-keys-recall-is-the-bottleneck-for-parametric-f...
1•Anon84•19m ago•0 comments

The Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs (2025)

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/doorknob-hostility/
1•jllyhill•20m ago•0 comments

Does vitriol make you feel special?

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/08/does-vitriol-make-you-feel-special/
1•thisislife2•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kungfu – One human, agents, and 3,467 merged PRs in 30 days

https://kungfu.tech/
1•dongkeren•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Stay Marketable in the AI Era?

2•OulaX•21m ago•0 comments

Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
3•randycupertino•21m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Mimi – the free language learning app that anyone can edit

https://mimilearn.org/
1•sapphire42•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built an iOS calorie tracker to replace my three fitness apps

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/youcal-ai-calorie-tracker/id6753720597
2•kimmarqly•23m ago•0 comments

SpaceX has acquired coding AI startup Cursor

https://www.engadget.com/2237655/spacex-officially-acquired-ai-coding-startup-cursor/
1•NordStreamYacht•23m ago•0 comments

CredOclock – email reminders before your team's API keys/certs expire

https://credoclock.com/
1•Enox77•25m ago•0 comments

Bbv is a minimalist data plotter/viewer for the command line

https://github.com/ftonneau/bbv
1•kermatt•27m ago•0 comments

I wrote a mini CSS framework on a train ride and it took months to document

https://crayoncss.com/
1•TeriyakiBomb•28m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-designed-virus
15•pseudolus•48m ago

Comments

colingauvin•13m ago
No, a human could do (and have, many many many times, see like half of molecular biology) this as well. If anything this will help with vaccine development.
wild_pointer•12m ago
Betteridge's law strikes again
timr•6m ago
The design was never the hard part. You still have to make the thing.

Designing a modifcation to an existing virus is perhaps more achievable, but the implementation is still the hard part.

estearum•3m ago
You can literally send an email to one of hundreds of companies that do exactly this. They have no way of knowing whether you're asking them to synthesize a virus or a drug candidate or what.