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5G, full bars, nothing loads: Or how I learned to start learning with LLMs

https://www.dumky.net/posts/5g-full-bars-nothing-loads-learning-with-llms/
1•dmkii•54m ago

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dmkii•54m ago
There is a surprising amount of science and technology to make your smartphone work on a train (h/t Deutsche Bahn). On a recent train ride from Berlin to Amsterdam I Clauded into a rabbit hole and learned about 5G in a way that I could not have imagined before: visually, in a socratic conversation, with analogies and sources throughout. Not sure I had to know why standalone 5G is better than new radio (NR) 5G bolted on LTE towers, but it definitely satisfied my curiosity.

Alibaba AI Models Hit 3B Downloads, Passing Meta, Google

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-15/alibaba-ai-models-hit-3-billion-downloads-pass...
2•pluc•1m ago•1 comments

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians
5•rzk•4m ago•0 comments

React for Agents: Astro Creator Brings Hooks to Flue

https://www.latent.space/p/flue-2
1•flyaway123•5m ago•0 comments

Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/
2•birdculture•7m ago•0 comments

AI detectors are creating a new era of distrust

https://www.theverge.com/column/976690/ai-writing-detectors-suspicion
1•saikatsg•9m ago•0 comments

Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze drives ranks HGST most reliable

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/peer-reviewed-study-of-443000-backblaze-drivers-r...
3•sbulaev•10m ago•1 comments

Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity

https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00137-4
1•joebig•10m ago•0 comments

You won't forget how Postgres works after this [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9jixKv4h2I
1•adletbalzhanov•12m ago•0 comments

Notes on building products people love when software gets cheap

https://twitter.com/hnshah/status/2088663964116983856
1•tosh•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jovethra – prepaid OpenAI-compatible API with hard usage limits

https://jovethra.xyz/playground
1•Belius•15m ago•0 comments

YouTube Dumps Cache Between Ads, Quality Toggling and Wastes Cellular Bandwidth

https://inavoyage.blogspot.com/2026/08/youtube-dumps-cache-between-ads-quality.html
1•initramfs•17m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What non-technical skill boosted your engineering career the most?

1•pranav_tech26•19m ago•3 comments

Coming Soon to Shattered: The Vault Quest

https://shatteredpixel.com/blog/coming-soon-to-shattered-the-vault-quest.html
1•robin_reala•19m ago•0 comments

BriskDB

https://github.com/schapman1974/briskdb
1•schapman1974•20m ago•0 comments

I write the notifications that interrupt you. It did not make me immune

https://medium.com/@mike.salari.dev/i-write-the-notifications-that-interrupt-you-it-did-not-make-...
1•salari_dev•20m ago•0 comments

Steer on a Sphere: Geometric Control of Transformer Outputs

https://github.com/ntrillard/transformer-geometry
1•ntrillard•20m ago•0 comments

Oman says oil spill reaches coastline

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/13/oman-says-massive-oil-spill-reaches-coastline-what-damag...
2•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

Google joins the OpenROAD Initiative as principal member

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/08/%20google-joins-the-openroad-initiative-as-principal-me...
2•rbanffy•25m ago•0 comments

Infrastructure for Messaging and Agents

https://www.zavu.dev/en
1•viktordev•27m ago•0 comments

Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman's nightmare.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/15/woman-alleges-grok-made-thousands-sexual-abu...
1•spenvo•27m ago•1 comments

Opus 5 on Vending-Bench: Once Again the Best Capitalist, Once Again Misaligned

https://andonlabs.com/blog/opus-5-vending-bench
1•tillulen•29m ago•0 comments

Futuristic mosquito-zapping laser now available to buy

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/futuristic-mosquito-zapping-laser-now-available-to-buy-v...
2•01-_-•31m ago•0 comments

Why Smart People Still Fall for Online Scams (It's Not About Intelligence)

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1557
1•01-_-•32m ago•0 comments

An association between tick bite reactions and red meat allergy in humans (2009)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24399898_An_association_between_tick_bite_reactions_and_...
1•dgellow•33m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will AI lead to complete human irrelevance?

2•atleastoptimal•36m ago•4 comments

Finite-State Dynamics: Elimination of Quantum Mechanics Probability Ontologies

https://twitter.com/CTibedo/status/2088679500020174883
1•GeometryKernel•39m ago•0 comments

How to fix security warning in Firefox

https://tlsradar.com/blog/fix-security-warning-firefox
1•tlsradar•39m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Self-hosted monitoring for AI recommendations (MIT License)

https://lettertrace.com
2•mathewpregasen•42m ago•0 comments

South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8en2z9jp2xo
3•thisislife2•43m ago•1 comments

Where Did the Pause Button Go? Raising a 10-Year-Old in 2026

https://emot.substack.com/p/where-did-the-stop-button-go-raising
1•emot•45m ago•1 comments