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I ditched Google Maps' offline mode for this app

https://www.xda-developers.com/i-ditched-google-maps-offline-mode-for-organic-maps-and-now-i-never-worry-about-connectivity-again/
1•DemiGuru•41m ago

Trusting-Trust Attack Against a Linux Distribution Through Binary Manipulation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888
1•Tomte•30s ago•0 comments

Pentagon order US universities to Cut Chinese or else

https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3364337/pentagon-orders-30-us-universities-scrutinise-ties-c...
1•trilogic•41s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?

1•cakbeslik•3m ago•0 comments

Friction Is the Feature

https://huntergatherer21c.com/2026/08/12/two-friction-is-the-feature.html
1•nate•4m ago•0 comments

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/
3•dhruv3006•4m ago•0 comments

Beeswax

https://spellbeeswax.com/
1•bookofjoe•5m ago•0 comments

What's an Orchestrator–and Why Does Software Need One? – O'Reilly

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/whats-an-orchestrator-and-why-does-software-need-one/
1•rbanffy•6m ago•0 comments

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Messaged White House Chief of Staff Impersonator

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/08/17/british-prime-minister-andy-burnham-messaged-whi...
1•pudgywalsh•7m ago•0 comments

Polar Signals Is Joining Dash0

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2026/08/17/polar-signals-is-joining-dash0
2•nvais•8m ago•0 comments

"smart" forms (for onboarding, wizards, etc.)

https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/2089352886182363269
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

EFF Joins Calling on Governor to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-18-civil-rights-organizations-calling-governor-ho...
1•Jimmc414•9m ago•0 comments

Gemini in Waymo

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/07/gemini-in-waymo/
1•kaycebasques•9m ago•0 comments

Trust Without Boundaries: An Architectural Analysis of Satellite Flight Software

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14532
1•Jimmc414•11m ago•0 comments

System-Level Performance Impact of Read Disturbance in Modern SSDs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14073
2•Jimmc414•11m ago•0 comments

The Size of the World Wide Web

https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
1•1970-01-01•12m ago•0 comments

AI Native, Without the Badge

https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/2089227511054155776
1•arkwor•12m ago•0 comments

AI text watermarking is not a big deal

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-text-watermarking-is-not-a-big-deal/
1•baxtr•14m ago•0 comments

A Millennial Furniture Designer Is Behind the Drones Battering Russia

https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-fire-point-ceo-iryna-terekh-drones-d93ec97b
2•doener•16m ago•0 comments

Has AI started improving itself? RSI depeneds on what "itself" means

https://viborc.com/what-recursive-self-improvement-actually-means/
1•viborcip•17m ago•0 comments

Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms

https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/amazons-new-user-agreement-seeks-to-curb-class-action-s...
3•smurda•18m ago•0 comments

Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/think-flock-is-bad-this-new-tech-is-coming-to-link-license...
2•ck2•18m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?

2•robalni•21m ago•1 comments

I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle with a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/higher-ed-dostoevsky-attention.html
2•sonabinu•22m ago•1 comments

On The Origin of Continents

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/on-the-origin-of-continents/
1•karakoram•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?

2•simonw•22m ago•2 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
3•qingcharles•23m ago•0 comments

Session Visualization with Obsidian

https://jimmyislive.dev/posts/session-visualization/
2•jimmyislive•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Making every company programmable like a computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCXmYEV9OIQ&list=PLdf47QnV4_58
2•Marten42•24m ago•0 comments

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/
3•jonbaer•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN comments

https://classify.stylometry.net/
4•costco•30m ago•0 comments