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Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1088279/ada6cd53d01cdafa/
1•6581•39m ago

Constantine's Bridge Has Surfaced from Beneath the Danube

https://thedebrief.org/a-mile-long-ancient-roman-engineering-marvel-has-suddenly-surfaced-from-be...
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•0 comments

Democracy vs. the machine: birth of digital age,the warnings that were ignored

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-age-wa...
1•pseudolus•2m ago•0 comments

Searching for Answers from the Man Accused of Sabotaging Alaska's Senate Race

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/dan-sullivan-alaska-senate-primary.html
1•dataflow•6m ago•0 comments

Wound/wait deadlock-proof mutex design

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/locking/ww-mutex-design.html
1•teleforce•6m ago•0 comments

Suicide hotlines don't seem to help

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35601
2•root-parent•11m ago•1 comments

US LLCs for founders whose country Stripe/Shopify don't support

https://open-entity.com
1•Doccc•13m ago•0 comments

Who bears the risk in Nvidia's $500B financing platform?

https://www.sascha-steffen.de/updates/nvidia-500bn-ai-financing-credit-risk
1•root-parent•14m ago•0 comments

AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet

https://spectrum.ieee.org/axiom-math-246-theorem-formalization
1•pseudolus•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kitsunagu – A platform to find English-speaking professionals in Japan

https://kitsunagu.com/
2•byra•17m ago•1 comments

The most complex time in 20 years to build an enterprise software startup

https://eportnoy.substack.com/p/the-chaotic-enterprise-startup-period
1•eliportnoy•20m ago•0 comments

The hyperscalers' exploding 'purchase commitments' reach $1.5T

https://www.ft.com/content/1fbe47a6-bbf1-4de1-973b-8ce5baea591d
2•root-parent•21m ago•2 comments

Fredkin's Paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin%27s_paradox
1•throw0101a•22m ago•0 comments

Handover of In-Context Learning State Across Session Boundaries

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14528
1•ninadwrites•23m ago•0 comments

We still don't know how people are using AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142226/how-people-use-ai/
4•joozio•24m ago•0 comments

Daron Acemoğlu: We Are "At the Cusp of Losing" Liberal Democracy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvOfGzNn3-0
4•mertbio•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AirStats – Mac menu bar system monitor, 0.046% CPU idle, MIT

https://github.com/byrencheema/airstats
2•byrencodes•26m ago•0 comments

The Case for Deep Conversation in a World of Small Talk

https://thewalrus.ca/small-talk/
1•pseudolus•28m ago•0 comments

Data driven essay: Misogyny kills; misandry kills at scale

https://socialsommentary.substack.com/p/misogyny-kills-misandry-hurts-feelings
1•dandare•28m ago•0 comments

ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready with Linux 7.3, Nvidia Olympus Workarounds

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3
2•rbanffy•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ImageSage – Find the screenshot you want from 10k messy screenshots

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mt89hd9s6sm?hl=en-US&gl=US
1•ringlochid•35m ago•0 comments

Bootstrappable Builds: How and Why

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1088279/ada6cd53d01cdafa/
1•6581•39m ago•0 comments

Security Through Obscurity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
2•thuva4•41m ago•0 comments

Meta faces pivotal kids' safety trial

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/18/meta-faces-pivotal-kids-safety-trial-01039903
2•0in•43m ago•0 comments

Each degree of warming could add a month of intolerable heat for 1B people

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-degree-month-intolerable-billion-people.html
4•geox•44m ago•0 comments

Operation Blue Skies: Reducing aviation climate impact with AI

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-research/blue-skies/
1•thm•46m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP-Proxy Add MCP support to any REST API – no code changes required

https://github.com/crhuber/mcp-proxy
2•cr_huber•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MyPdfly – 30 free PDF tools, no signup required

https://mypdfly.com
1•Tauseef199•51m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Use AI to music score your books

1•arisAlexis•51m ago•0 comments

The Berlin Government has been Hacked

https://www.heistberlin.com/news/berlin-senate-government-hacked-cyberattack-bela/
6•dudefeliciano•52m ago•2 comments

Show HN: DynaJS – New JavaScript runtime with batteries included

https://github.com/corporatepiyush/dynajs
1•truth_seeker•52m ago•0 comments