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Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP"

https://search.parqdb.io/
2•petrizhang•34m ago

Show HN: Chat Threads

1•wclaster•29s ago•0 comments

China puts robocops on traffic duty, minus the arrest powers

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-puts-robocops-traffic-duty-minus-arrest-powers-2026-08-20/
1•qwikhost•6m ago•0 comments

Oseltamivir Flops in the Critically Ill

https://voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/VOICESpost2600044
1•ggm•6m ago•1 comments

AI and Consciousness – A Skeptical Overview

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/ai-and-consciousness/E77C92088DA3C9F89E7FE7C75CBB1896
2•moondowner•6m ago•0 comments

Astronomers discover a new type of astrophysical object: A black hole star

https://news.mit.edu/2026/astronomers-discover-brand-new-type-astrophysical-object-black-hole-sta...
1•gmays•8m ago•0 comments

Cameroon's Lake Nyos Gas Burst: 30 Years Later

https://eos.org/science-updates/cameroons-lake-nyos-gas-burst-30-years-later
1•croes•10m ago•0 comments

The Unanchored Central Banker [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ISaLwzm4c
2•toomuchtodo•12m ago•0 comments

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
1•sonicrocketman•13m ago•1 comments

Damn Vulnerable Nginx Proxy (DVNP)

https://vwad.owasp.org/app/damn-vulnerable-nginx-proxy-dvnp/
1•thunderbong•16m ago•0 comments

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/
4•mooreslaw•19m ago•1 comments

How A Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/
2•petethomas•20m ago•0 comments

GitHub Outages Show the Limits of Reactive Scaling

https://rahmipruitt.me/content/github-outage-reactive-scaling/
1•rjpruitt16•20m ago•0 comments

Worse Is Better

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
2•chistev•22m ago•0 comments

The University as We Know It Is Finished

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-multiversity-is-finished
6•seregine•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TakoVM – Serverless file systems for agents

https://tako-research.github.io/TakoVM/
3•sakuraiben•25m ago•0 comments

BetterClaude

https://github.com/ara-mkr/BetterClaude
2•AkhilRaja16•29m ago•0 comments

Hawkeye: Hardware-Aware GPU Kernel Optimization with Minimal Supervision

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.hawkeye-hardware-aware-gpu-kernel-optimization
1•matt_d•30m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Can Now Control iMessage, Potentially Raising Apple Privacy Concerns

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/chatgpt-now-control-imessage-potentially-2056336...
5•sharms•32m ago•1 comments

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678
22•u1hcw9nx•33m ago•14 comments

Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP"

https://search.parqdb.io/
2•petrizhang•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is building military hardware and healthcare the AI-proof?

2•piratesAndSons•35m ago•0 comments

If You Weren't Worried About A.I., You Should Be

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion/ai-danger-openai-anthropic-models.html
7•cwillu•37m ago•3 comments

Dynamical dark energy and the week that broke cosmology

https://perimeterinstitute.ca/news/dynamical-dark-energy-and-week-broke-cosmology
4•rznicolet•38m ago•0 comments

Hackers poison arrayref Rust crate to push infostealer malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-poison-arrayref-rust-crate-to-push-infoste...
3•sbulaev•41m ago•1 comments

Show HN: CtrlTool – 132 free online tools for developers and everyday tasks

https://ctrltool.wtf
2•jetroni•46m ago•0 comments

Gulf War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
3•chistev•46m ago•0 comments

Potential Resolution of Hopf Product Conjecture

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18955
2•surprisetalk•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Icebug-format: immutable, interoperable graph standard

https://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/icebug-format
2•adsharma•50m ago•0 comments

The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay

https://a.wholelottanothing.org/the-car-industry-a-b-tested-selling-the-same-car-with-and-without...
2•MBCook•51m ago•0 comments

Stealth Model

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
4•mtokmak06•51m ago•0 comments