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Bill Gates proposes major limits on AI development

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/business/bill-gates-wants-limits-on-ai
1•rmason•51m ago

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rmason•48m ago
This is the same guy who said users would never need machines with more than 640K of RAM. Decades later he denied every saying it. But I am old enough to remember when he said it. He never claimed to have been misquoted at the time!
ChrisArchitect•48m ago
[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447057
tuTtapcintak•14m ago
did he say that while around his wife or his russian hookers?

Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again

https://www.sammystraus.com/#using-llms-to-make-the-emacs-web-browser-great-again
1•sammy0910•19s ago•0 comments

The Night the Earth Shook, Strangers Started to Draw

https://sheets.works/data-viz/strangers-draw-maps
1•sebg•30s ago•0 comments

Intelligence Is the Primitive. Applications Are the Diffusion Layer

https://www.a16z.news/p/intelligence-is-the-primitive-applications
1•gmays•40s ago•0 comments

Running local large language models: not as difficult as you might think

https://vitaexmachina.substack.com/p/running-local-large-language-models
1•sebg•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Note taking app good at Spanish?

1•prios8•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

https://github.com/elyosh/OpenTIE/
2•elyosh•4m ago•0 comments

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/
2•sebg•6m ago•0 comments

Buried in Meta's $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids' data

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/buried-in-metas-18b-settlement-is-a-legal-pass-on-kids-data/
2•sbulaev•8m ago•0 comments

Knowledge Health: observability for your knowledge base

https://falconer.com/notes/knowledge-health/
1•fagnerbrack•15m ago•0 comments

Why I Am Right About AI [by Paul "Claude" Gigot]

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/paul-claude-gigot-why-i-am-right-about-ai/688434/
3•samizdis•19m ago•1 comments

Show HN: T2 Linux Touch ID PoC

https://github.com/jmurth1234/t2-touchid-linux
1•jmurth1234•20m ago•0 comments

Situs Inversus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_inversus
2•sjclemmy•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I put 20 ad slots under a Harberger tax

https://anyonecanbuy.com/
2•nadermx•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ArtGram – a notation system for abstract paintings

https://artgraph.co/artgram
1•rituraj•28m ago•0 comments

AI's memory crunch is coming for Android apps

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/ais-memory-crunch-is-coming-for-android-apps/
2•627467•28m ago•0 comments

AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab

https://github.com/calmrocks/ai-engineer-notebooks
2•calmrocks•29m ago•0 comments

I built a pure-Rust headless browser. No Chromium. No V8

https://www.reddit.com/r/webscraping/comments/1w07jov/i_built_a_purerust_headless_browser_no_chro...
2•syumei•29m ago•0 comments

Copyrightability of LLM-generated code: Can we license "vibe code"?

https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html
2•WhyNotHugo•30m ago•0 comments

Intel previews future instruction-set documentaton

https://intel.github.io/SDM/announcement/2026/08/20/announce-preview.html
2•mmcloughlin•30m ago•0 comments

Outbid case study: auction became the ad (2026)

https://medium.com/@threadotter/outbid-case-study-auction-became-the-ad-2026-719bf85c3c7d
1•threadotter•31m ago•0 comments

Four reproducible vLLM parser failures that return 200 with the wrong tool call

https://ingot.tools/reports/parser-silent-failure
1•glitch003•33m ago•0 comments

Anomalyco/OpenCode Review

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode
1•paretolaw•35m ago•2 comments

Show HN: IQ Routing – route every call to the cheapest model that holds quality

https://iq-routing.com
1•Georgeavvila•35m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Per Diem, a daily dice game like Balatro

https://perdiem.loch.tools
1•lwansbrough•35m ago•0 comments

Storm Summoner, a MIDI controller for effects pedals

https://kabaragoya.com/products/storm-summoner
1•peteforde•37m ago•0 comments

The Minolta SR-T I kept for myself

https://robertmay.photography/journal/the-minolta-sr-t-i-kept-for-myself
1•robotmay•38m ago•0 comments

Agent Swarms Are a Distributed Systems Problem

https://www.trychroma.com/engineering/transactions
1•rescrv•42m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How does your preferred AI handle questions we are not allowed to ask?

1•arionhardison•42m ago•0 comments

The Weed Got Too Strong

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/opinion/weed-marijuna-children-regulation.html
4•bookofjoe•45m ago•2 comments

The Trump administration's March to the Spoils System

https://www.contrariannews.org/p/the-trump-administrations-march-to
2•petethomas•45m ago•0 comments