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Show HN: SkyRoads (1993) reverse-engineered and ported natively to macOS

https://github.com/pedrocatalao/skyroads-mac
2•pedrocatalao•20m ago

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
1•gavide•15s ago•0 comments

We analysed 90,651 exhibitor listings. Nine in ten companies never exhibit twice

https://exhibitorlens.com/blog/nine-in-ten-companies-never-exhibit-twice
1•jakobgreenfeld•27s ago•0 comments

We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older

https://github.com/baturyilmaz/agent-office
2•arbayi•6m ago•0 comments

Aluminium–Air Battery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery
1•thelastgallon•6m ago•0 comments

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
1•throw7•7m ago•0 comments

Cleaning and Shaping the Airbnb Listings

https://stochastic.blog/cleaning-and-shaping-the-airbnb-listings/
1•Anon84•7m ago•0 comments

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

https://alexwlchan.net/2026/cat-confusion/
1•ingve•12m ago•0 comments

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2007/07/19/yes-no-cancel-causes-aspirin-sales-to-soar.html
1•ankitg12•12m ago•0 comments

Doing Everyone Else's Job

https://yosefk.com/blog/doing-everyone-elses-job.html
1•olvy0•14m ago•0 comments

Anomaly Detection with LLMs for Cybersecurity

https://ngrislain.github.io/blog/2026-8-20-language-models-are-anomaly-detectors/
1•ngrislain•14m ago•0 comments

List of All Cognitive Biases

https://cognitivebiases.academy/
1•vladimirzh•17m ago•0 comments

Website behind widely shared fake election polls run by 21-year-old

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/20/fake-polling-website-median-strategies
1•cdrnsf•18m ago•0 comments

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
3•karma_daemon•19m ago•0 comments

Isopolis – Behind the Scenes

https://sf.isopolis.city/dev.html
1•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SkyRoads (1993) reverse-engineered and ported natively to macOS

https://github.com/pedrocatalao/skyroads-mac
2•pedrocatalao•20m ago•0 comments

AI models' 'creative' output is becoming similar across providers

https://www.unite.ai/ai-models-creative-output-is-becoming-similar-across-providers/
1•50kIters•22m ago•0 comments

Helmholtz Resonator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwTOQ_Ull9A
1•soupspaces•24m ago•1 comments

China launches biggest ever auto recall campaign over door handle safety

https://www.reuters.com/world/tesla-fix-software-millions-china-made-imported-evs-china-2026-08-21/
2•Propelloni•24m ago•0 comments

No IP? No Problem

https://ersei.net/en/blog/no-ip-no-problem
2•speckx•26m ago•0 comments

CRLF-Powered Desync Attacks: Beheading HTTP Streams

https://portswigger.net/research/crlf-powered-desync-attacks
2•chillax•26m ago•0 comments

Zenfmt is extremely fast 19 types document to Markdown converter written in Zig

https://insanai.github.io/zenfmt/
1•vikrantrathore•27m ago•0 comments

Shown HN : Idum Authenticator

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idum-authenticator/id6801459486
1•SylvainMouquet•28m ago•0 comments

Rules vs. examples: what helps LLMs write correct SQL?

https://blog.getcassis.com/derivation-distance/
1•matthieu_bl•28m ago•0 comments

FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals to the Benefit of Elon Musk and Comcast

http://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/21/trump-fcc-weakens-u-s-broadband-speed-goals-to-the-benefit-of-...
1•beardyw•28m ago•0 comments

WaveHouse: Open-source real-time API gateway for ClickHouse

https://wavehouse.dev
4•thunderbong•28m ago•0 comments

Organizational attention is all you need

https://www.anthonyputignano.com/p/organizational-attention-is-all-you
1•anthonyp•29m ago•0 comments

The Oldest Living Things: 14 Ancient Organisms

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-to-find-the-oldest-living-things-in-the-world
1•sohkamyung•31m ago•0 comments

Nothing Doing

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/10/nothing-doing-12/
1•surprisetalk•31m ago•0 comments

Loss of Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age

https://cerebralrift.cc/2026/08/19/loss-of-cultural-heritage-in/
1•speckx•32m ago•0 comments