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The Qualcomm Oryon CPU is the first mobile CPU to reach 5GHz

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/08/oryon-cpu-5ghz-flexcache
2•afr0ck•1h ago

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Rishabhsec•49m ago
Hitting 5GHz on a mobile chip is impressive, but sustained thermal throttling and power draw under heavy load will be the real test for continuous performance.

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-oz...
1•Anon84•1m ago•0 comments

Powerful US utilities fund 'grassroots' groups to sway cities away from

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/07/us-utilities-fund-groups-against-public-power-lobby
1•newsomix9xl•3m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A batch settlement layer for tokenized NYSE stocks

https://github.com/niumeta/niumeta
1•niumeta_TZ•4m ago•0 comments

Utilities Break California Lobbying Record Under Newsom While Former Aides Lead

https://consumerwatchdog.org/energy/utilities-break-california-lobbying-record-under-newsom-while...
1•newsomix9xl•6m ago•1 comments

Microsoft's Maia 200 AI Accelerator at Hot Chips 2026

https://www.servethehome.com/microsofts-maia-200-accelerator-at-hot-chips-2026/
1•pella•8m ago•0 comments

Life may have inherited metabolism from geochemistry

https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aef3128
1•jumploops•15m ago•0 comments

Japan to undertake its biggest arms buildup since World War II

https://www.reuters.com/world/japan-rushes-rearm-with-eye-2027-chinas-taiwan-ambitions-2022-10-18/
2•cwwc•19m ago•0 comments

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables
3•rguiscard•21m ago•0 comments

As-Album – A Web Component Because Sometimes You Just Want to Post Pictures

https://sheep.horse/2026/8/as-album_-_a_web_component_because_sometimes_you_j.html
1•leephillips•25m ago•0 comments

Lego Skylines [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfBg8TQQrCQ
2•duck•27m ago•0 comments

A scorer that finds "alive but invisible" GitHub repos, not by stars

https://capuz.github.io/silentstars/
2•fcapuz2•29m ago•0 comments

Hacker News now has an active (official) X account

https://twitter.com/hackernews/status/2092359322433191997
6•n2d4•30m ago•2 comments

America's Desert Metropolis Is on the Short List to Lose Water

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/us/arizona-canals-colorado-river.html
1•littlexsparkee•30m ago•1 comments

AI Realist Radar:GPT‑5.6 Sol Pricing, Stripe's OpenRouter Deal

https://msukhareva.substack.com/p/ai-realist-radar-gpt56-sol-pricing
1•Airealist•30m ago•0 comments

Smart Toilets – Any serious opinions?

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/toilets/best-smart-toilets-a5030436405/
1•josefritzishere•38m ago•1 comments

Let Me Click

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3•herbertl•38m ago•1 comments

Nine life lessons from the happiest man in the world

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/aug/14/life-lessons-from-happiest-ma...
1•herbertl•39m ago•1 comments

The Open Health Foundation

https://theopenhealth.foundation
2•xtracto•39m ago•0 comments

Short Squeeze in US Swaps, Options Shows 'Bessent Put' at Work

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25/short-squeeze-in-us-swaps-options-shows-bessen...
2•petethomas•42m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Reachpad CLI – Spin up free sandboxes in seconds to develop apps

https://github.com/Reachpad/reachpad-cli
1•sakuraiben•43m ago•0 comments

Vaccines and Forgotten Diseases with my Father (2025) [video]

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1•arunc•43m ago•0 comments

Follow the Money: Why Financial Crimes Often Go Unpunished

https://www.forensicscolleges.com/blog/follow-the-money/unpunished-financial-crimes
3•paulpauper•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agent Purge – Scrub any mention of anything agent related

1•aihatterer•48m ago•1 comments

Engineer who built DarkBloom (P2P GPU inference) – started coding at 10, now 18

https://twitter.com/pratikg/status/2091799024299086319
2•TheBengaluruGuy•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CaptureAgent – find, price, draft, grade, run and fund federal work

https://captureagent.us/
1•MTakla•51m ago•0 comments

New Mexico's clean energy success story

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/new-mexicos-clean-energy-success-story/
2•MBCook•53m ago•0 comments

Tell HN: Microsoft Is at It Again

5•evo_9•1h ago•2 comments

Evaluating Time Series Foundation Model Claims

https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/foundation_models.html
1•bawis•1h ago•0 comments

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/hot-chips-2026-samsung-makes-lpddr5x-smart-with-l...
1•kristianp•1h ago•1 comments

The Qualcomm Oryon CPU is the first mobile CPU to reach 5GHz

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2026/08/oryon-cpu-5ghz-flexcache
2•afr0ck•1h ago•1 comments