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Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
350•thepoet•6h ago•121 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
423•colinprince•7h ago•191 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
397•floathub•10h ago•501 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
107•NKosmatos•4h ago•31 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
931•speckx•8h ago•322 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
192•dash2•2d ago•248 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
386•gavide•9h ago•44 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
436•dares2573•12h ago•141 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
1•maciejSz•1h ago

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
84•toebee•6h ago•13 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
98•colinprince•7h ago•24 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
68•signa11•4d ago•9 comments

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
72•ra7•1d ago•20 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
84•ibobev•6h ago•15 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
159•aakil•8h ago•111 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
33•vicek22•3h ago•3 comments

Using an old Android phone as a music player

https://monocyte.blog/using-an-old-android-phone-as-a-music-player/
30•surprisetalk•4d ago•14 comments

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

https://henriemategui.com/post/remotely-unlocking-electric-scooters
8•henriemategui•1h ago•0 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
209•rcymerys•10h ago•222 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
124•neom•3d ago•8 comments

The Size of the World Wide Web

https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
19•1970-01-01•4d ago•4 comments

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-fac...
67•jakelsaunders94•6h ago•47 comments

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
43•unprovable•6h ago•15 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
484•Cider9986•20h ago•825 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...
47•cainxinth•8h ago•2 comments

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders

https://claude.com/blog/bringing-claude-mythos-5-to-more-defenders
40•garo-pro•3h ago•40 comments

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/
64•speckx•2h ago•72 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html
58•eatonphil•10h ago•6 comments

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456
23•Ariarule•1w ago•1 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
193•speckx•9h ago•140 comments