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New Nightmare Eclipse zero day gives system privileges on patched Windows

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/08/12/microsoft-vendetta-hacker-has-a-new-zero-day-that-gives-system-privileges-on-fully-patched-windows/5286889
2•lschueller•22m ago

3D Model Markets Are Being Flooded with AI Sellers, but No One's Buying

https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790
2•donohoe•31s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Craton Bolt – A Pure Rust, JIT-Compiled GPU SQL Engine

https://github.com/craton-co/craton-bolt
1•victor-craton•1m ago•0 comments

Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web

https://bkardell.com/blog/EnhancedSpellchecking.html
1•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Renewable Energy Is Shaping Up to End Decades of Energy Colonialism

https://ryanhansson.substack.com/p/renewable-energy-could-end-decades
1•xbmcuser•2m ago•0 comments

All Change for North Korean Phone Numbers

https://www.nktechlab.org/all-change-for-north-korean-phone-numbers/
1•robin_reala•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unigram: encode bytes as words that cost one LLM token

https://github.com/bleugreen/unigram
1•bleugreenlab•3m ago•0 comments

Apertura A from-scratch Objective-C++ / MLX rebuild of Gemma-4 for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/apocryphx/Apertura
1•Bluestein•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: What if two devices could chat using only sound?

https://github.com/Nellix/sonic-chat
1•n3ll1x93•5m ago•1 comments

My Personal AGI

https://chadnauseam.com/random/my-personsal-agi
1•ChadNauseam•6m ago•0 comments

Computing Machinery and Intelligence – A. M. Turing (1950) [pdf]

https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf
1•tcp_handshaker•7m ago•0 comments

Flock Cameras Come to Norman, Despite Council Rejection

https://reclaimthenet.org/norman-oklahoma-flock-license-plate-readers-county-sheriff
1•bilsbie•7m ago•0 comments

Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/protein-ate-our-grocery-stores/
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Juan Tamariz dies at 83, magician who turned card magic into popular phenomenon

https://www.democrata.es/en/current-events/juan-tamariz-dies-at-83-the-magician-who-turned-card-m...
1•angelaguilera•9m ago•0 comments

AI automation startup Relay.app shuts down, staff joins Google's Chrome team

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/ai-automation-startup-relay-shuts-down-staff-joins-googles-chro...
1•toomuchtodo•11m ago•1 comments

AI Watermarking, Nazi Enigmas, and Sherlock Holmes

https://kolja.wawrowsky.com/posts/invisible-fingerprints/
1•ApocryphX•11m ago•0 comments

Return of the Spec: Why AI agents are reviving the software specification

https://caines.ca/posts/2026-08-15-return-of-the-spec/
1•Ramone•12m ago•0 comments

No Cloud Required: Talking Directly to My SunPower Hardware

https://blog.harrison.page/sunpower/
1•harrisonpage•13m ago•1 comments

A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul [Using AI]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/texas-tech-artificial-intelligence-ideology-brandon-creight...
2•ceejayoz•13m ago•1 comments

Inference Costs per Agentic Workflow to Increase More Than Fivefold Through 2028

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-08-17-gartner-predicts-ai-inference-costs...
1•layer8•16m ago•0 comments

Contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/your-contributors-are-ai-
1•acolombiadev_hn•16m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A Replacement for Shortcutfoo

https://github.com/ijidak/shortcut-practice
1•ijidak•16m ago•0 comments

Webhooks Suck: Fixing the Problems with Consuming Webhooks

https://www.svix.com/blog/webhooks-suck/
1•tasn•18m ago•0 comments

Has vacuum birefringence been seen at long last?

https://physicsworld.com/a/has-vacuum-birefringence-been-seen-at-long-last/
2•xqcgrek2•18m ago•0 comments

The market for used EVs 'is so hot'

https://grist.org/transportation/the-market-for-used-evs-is-so-hot-right-now/
4•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

My Extension Got Viral

https://open-vsx.org/extension/WeKraft/wekraft
2•bhanu786•20m ago•0 comments

The SEC is no longer independent

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-08-06/sec-politicization-will-erode-trust-in-us-c...
6•highfrequency•21m ago•0 comments

Maximilian Schwarzmüller – "Don't ignore the new stuff" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTAmbl7e6Ow
1•mindcrime•21m ago•0 comments

New Nightmare Eclipse zero day gives system privileges on patched Windows

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/08/12/microsoft-vendetta-hacker-has-a-new-zero-day-t...
2•lschueller•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Echidra – open-source deception platform for attacker behavior

https://github.com/Qyleron/EchidraOSS
2•Shreyasl2515•22m ago•0 comments

IP can't save you from AI

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/enron-corpus/
2•hn_acker•25m ago•0 comments