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Show HN: BookSkim, ePub reader with "anchor" mode for low attention spans

https://sakshikapoor.github.io/bookskim-site/
2•jatins•26m ago

Show HN: The First 3D Map of North America's Underground Geology

https://drillerdb.com/underground
1•craig_vg•49s ago•0 comments

StateM Proposed Harness Scaling, Got No.1 on HuggingFace Daily Paper

https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.15089
1•ZihengQin•2m ago•0 comments

Bulgaria's Nuclear Plant Plans First Output Cut Due to Low Danube

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/bulgaria-s-nuclear-plant-plans-first-output-cu...
1•toomuchtodo•3m ago•0 comments

DuckDB v2.0: Your Database Deserves a Better Parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
1•DanieltenW•4m ago•0 comments

Going Freestanding

https://antonz.org/going-freestanding/
1•matheusmoreira•6m ago•0 comments

Top Open Source MCP Gateways in 2026

https://www.getmaxim.ai/articles/top-5-open-source-mcp-gateways-in-2026/
1•aanthonymax•6m ago•0 comments

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data – Eric Schmidt and Suhas Mahesh

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/10/1141384/ai-agents-for-science/
1•unprovable•6m ago•0 comments

Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat?

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/cat-confusion/
1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

Same Tencent VPS plan in 8 regions: identical CPU different networks

https://webbynode.com/articles/tencent-same-vps-plan-8-regions-network-performance
1•gsgreen•8m ago•0 comments

Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html
1•giwook•8m ago•0 comments

I'm done coding with AI [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZU3j4GQ4K8
2•qwertox•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pacer – Realtime Claude Code Usage Tracking / Pacing

https://github.com/EricAndrechek/Pacer
1•jwoodsworks•9m ago•1 comments

Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped–Everyone Is Wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/
1•adamrezich•10m ago•0 comments

On Mount Etna, Lightning Has Claimed More Lives Than Eruptions Since 1980

https://www.discovermagazine.com/on-mount-etna-lightning-has-claimed-more-lives-than-eruptions-si...
2•bookofjoe•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RecoveryCodes – MFA inventory for auth outside IdPs

https://recoverycodes.eu/
2•CER10TY•12m ago•1 comments

We Ship Our Security Webhook Fail-Open

https://pandocore.io/blog/fail-open-webhook
2•eaferstl•14m ago•0 comments

Music Theory for Programmers

https://runjs.app/blog/music-theory-for-programmers
4•birdculture•15m ago•0 comments

Firefox Extensions Linked to Crypto Wallet and Credential Theft

https://socket.dev/blog/firefox-crypto-wallet-theft
2•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Google Cloud us-west1 down

6•anurag•15m ago•4 comments

Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/06/google-maps-adds-agentic-features-including-food-ordering-and-h...
2•toomuchtodo•17m ago•0 comments

No, Anthropic Won't Be the Only Company Left

https://forwardfuture.com/newsletter/originals/no-anthropic-won-t-be-the-only-company-left
2•the-mitr•18m ago•0 comments

Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory

https://picower.mit.edu/news/cognition-and-consciousness-arise-analog-computations-says-new-theory
4•arto•19m ago•0 comments

Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/building-a-quantum-computer-one-fragile-qubit-at-a-time-20260819/
2•pykello•23m ago•0 comments

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/grok-exfiltrates-user-data-when-malicious-instructions-a...
3•sbulaev•25m ago•0 comments

Alphabet's Waymo Has Built a Custom Chip for Its Robotaxis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-20/google-s-waymo-has-built-a-custom-chip-for-its...
2•drtz•25m ago•2 comments

Show HN: BookSkim, ePub reader with "anchor" mode for low attention spans

https://sakshikapoor.github.io/bookskim-site/
2•jatins•26m ago•0 comments

Children who lose a parent twice as likely to develop mental health disorders

https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/children-who-lose-a-parent-twice-as-likely-to-develo...
1•downbad_•26m ago•0 comments

Swiss and Chinese reach agreement on updated free trade deal

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/swiss-chinese-reach-agreement-updated-free-trade-deal-2026-08...
4•ksec•26m ago•0 comments

ICM 2026 Public Lectures – Terence Tao [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0--ZH1lOzg
1•ABS•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pond – lossless archive for agent sessions in your own S3

https://github.com/tenequm/pond
1•opwizardx•28m ago•0 comments