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Ask HN: If you write release notes, what stops you from being specific?

1•gtirloni•42s ago•0 comments

Taurus: Building a live guitar pedalboard from AudioUnit plugins on Mac and iPad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpU4yg9-E9Y

1•arbayi•3m ago•0 comments

The learned helplessness epidemic of the AI era

https://substack.com/sign-in

1•ronniebasak•5m ago•0 comments

Everything at the CLI

1•rmn_tnc•6m ago•0 comments

Qector: Bringing a 15-back end Rust quantum decoder to Claude Desktop

https://github.com/GuillaumeLessard/qector-claude-plugin

1•QECTOR•7m ago•0 comments

The Meaning of the $20 Burrito That's Tearing MAGA Apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/inflation-affordability-prices-burrito.html

4•whack•9m ago•0 comments

How You Build a 4.9-Star Web App (and Where You're Wrong About PWA) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d4cMxSyrlc

1•da02•9m ago•0 comments

U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/us-government-debt-passes-40-trillion-mark-for-the-first-time.html

5•mfiguiere•9m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of [Go] Generics Design

https://golang.design/history/

1•nrr•10m ago•0 comments

GOP issues stark warning to AI companies

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election

2•cdrnsf•12m ago•0 comments

Qualcomm PDQ, the first integrated PDA/OS/Mobile Phone -and why it perished

https://jeffrey-belk.medium.com/chapter-2-qualcomm-pdq-the-first-integrated-pda-os-mobile-phone-i...

1•rbanffy•12m ago•0 comments

How generative AI affects homework productivity and learning

https://graphics.social/@metin/117123760167000114

1•ColinWright•12m ago•0 comments

Augmented Reality Waste Accumulation Visualizations

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3636970

1•jambalaya8•13m ago•0 comments

Columbia Record Club RIP [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEM2_B5Oks

1•nate•14m ago•0 comments

Paula's Floppy Controller, Part I

https://www.techtravels.org/2026/08/inside-paulas-floppy-controller-part-i/

2•nickt•15m ago•0 comments

Mail-Order Music Club Columbia House Which Started in 1955 Is Ceasing Operations

https://consequence.net/2026/08/columbia-house-closing-down/

1•bookofjoe•16m ago•0 comments

A Human, for AI

https://yourhuman.ai/

1•herbertl•16m ago•0 comments

Detecting Claude and ChatGPT using letter counting

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/19/now-it-spots-chatgpt-too

1•iamflimflam1•17m ago•0 comments

What I Look for When Hiring Senior Software Engineers

https://jesselawson.dev/posts/hiring-senior-engineers/

2•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

Recapping Positive Phase 3 Topline Results for Intismeran Autogene

https://www.modernatx.com/ir-insights-phase-3-intesmeran

1•doener•20m ago•0 comments

White House Says Slavery Is Being Taught Wrong, Should Not Be So Negative

https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-says-slavery-being-taught-wrong-should-not-so-negative-2117100

8•Moazz•21m ago•3 comments

Woman dies, comes back to life, gets parking ticket

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361021333/woman-dies-comes-back-life-gets-parking-ticket

1•lattefa•24m ago•0 comments

Understanding ASCII

https://hardenedvault.com/articles/FILL-SLUG.html

1•nalaginrut•24m ago•0 comments

We Stopped Counting Tokens

https://medium.com/super/we-stopped-counting-tokens-9278fbccadbc

1•keeda•25m ago•1 comments

Majority of Americans say corruption influences decisions of federal government

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/majority-americans-say-corruption-influences-decisions-federal-govern...

2•kotoon•26m ago•0 comments

Obsidian + Claude Code: The Setup I Use Every Day

https://lukasvonkunhardt.com/obsidian-claude-code-setup/

1•lukasvk•27m ago•0 comments

The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

2•ColinWright•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rust Doctor, a code health scanner for Cargo workspaces

https://github.com/arthjean/rust-doctor

1•arthurjean•28m ago•0 comments

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

https://inco.ai/blog/dflash2/

9•mike-the-brain•29m ago•1 comments

A website to undo caps lock

https://convertcase.net/

1•Velocifyer•30m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unfair-to-slower-technologies/

4•toomuchtodo•43m ago

Comments

cratermoon•34m ago

Putting a gigantic thumb on the Free Market™ scale.

verdverm•32m ago

What's in a name? That which we call socialism / By any other name would smell as sweet.

wmf•9m ago

You mean they were putting a thumb on the scale and now they're not.