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Kaspar the Social Robot

https://www.herts.ac.uk/kaspar/the-social-robot
1•rbanffy•37m ago

Emacs 31.1 RC1 is available

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2026-08/msg00599.html
1•pama•1m ago•0 comments

J305 SBM20 LND712 Tubes Part2: Geometry Physics, Dead Time Calculation and Myths

https://iot-devices.com.ua/en/comparison-of-geiger-muller-tubes-sbm20-j305-and-lnd712-part2/
1•iotdevicesdev•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why am I getting a different HN home page on my phone?

1•orofound•2m ago•0 comments

Design tokens: The building blocks of a design system

https://www.aha.io/engineering/articles/design-tokens-the-building-blocks-of-a-design-system
2•FigurativeVoid•2m ago•0 comments

Claude Code: Over 6k issues labeled "has repro" auto-closed since March 2026

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/87647
1•marcindulak•3m ago•1 comments

Warnings sent to French taxpayers after hackers allegedly sell stolen data

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260818-french-taxpayers-receive-warnings-after-hackers-steal-and-a...
1•theanonymousone•3m ago•0 comments

Do Not Talk About LLMs

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/do-not-talk-about-large-language-models
1•chilipepperhott•4m ago•0 comments

Claude Driving the Browser == Bad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sz-H6GQnuQ
1•mooreds•4m ago•0 comments

Rust Is a Harness

https://w4g1.dev/blog/rust-is-a-harness
1•edward•4m ago•0 comments

"Elon Musk Is a Sad Little Bitch with No Friends" Monument Design Committee

https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/elonhasnofriends
2•slater•5m ago•0 comments

Unless Flock Is Reined In, Mass Video Surveillance Will Grow More Pervasive

https://www.techpolicy.press/unless-flock-is-reined-in-mass-video-surveillance-will-grow-even-mor...
1•cdrnsf•5m ago•0 comments

Foundational Refinement Proofs for Deployed Bytecode, at the Price of Tokens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26306
1•matt_d•8m ago•0 comments

Blocking LinkedIn extension fingerprinting with a bit of JavaScript

https://github.com/Hogwai/forbidd-in
1•ykthename•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Idea Miner – find what to build next, backed by real paid demand

https://idea-miner.com/en/
1•alexstarks•9m ago•0 comments

Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/secret-tracking-device-placed-...
1•sbulaev•10m ago•0 comments

An immediate mode UI (Shirei) retains component identity and state

https://judi.systems/shirei/blog/immediate-mode-retained-state/
1•hsn915•10m ago•0 comments

Idem – open-source ledger for stablecoin cross-border payments (Kotlin, FSL)

https://www.idem.finance/
1•idem-finance•10m ago•0 comments

Google Just Made It Easier for Campaigns to Send You Fund-Raising Emails

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/google-political-campaigns-email-spam.html
1•ojbyrne•11m ago•0 comments

Automating quality support at scale: AI and human in the loop

https://www.windmill.dev/blog/support-automation
4•rubenfiszel•11m ago•1 comments

Proofs Promptly: Proof-Oriented Programming with AI Agents (Experience Report)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3828709
2•matt_d•11m ago•0 comments

The Mathematics of Economic Self-Destruction: Inside the "AI Layoff Trap"

https://sylvainsaurel.substack.com/p/the-mathematics-of-economic-self
1•tom2026hn•11m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: If you didn't know how to program, would you learn?

2•Retr0id•12m ago•2 comments

Humans aren't the only animals that seem to like having pets

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/science/humans-love-having-pets-seems-like-some-other-primates...
1•gumby•12m ago•0 comments

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/
1•at1as•12m ago•0 comments

Linoleic acid–good or bad for the brain? – npj Science of Food

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41538-019-0061-9
1•bilsbie•13m ago•0 comments

Mojo compiler is now open source

https://github.com/modular/modular/pull/6904
1•melodyogonna•13m ago•0 comments

Are Beavers Actually Good at Dams?

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/8/18/are-beavers-actually-good-at-dams
2•throw0101a•14m ago•0 comments

Portland Entrepreneurs in the Age of AI Ep. 1 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrRneZ7Baw
1•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

Doom on a C64

https://hondani.com/doom
1•dariosalvi78•15m ago•0 comments

Measuring how much of the sky is visible

https://www.counting-stuff.com/measuring-how-much-of-the-sky-is-visible/
2•speckx•16m ago•0 comments