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FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons
127•flykespice•2h ago•30 comments

Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

https://scrollguard.app/
233•adrianhacar•2d ago•73 comments

Who Invented Backpropagation?

https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-backpropagation.html
13•nothrowaways•30m ago•2 comments

The Weight of a Cell

https://www.asimov.press/p/cell-weight
17•arbesman•51m ago•3 comments

Launch HN: Reality Defender (YC W22) – API for Deepfake and GenAI Detection

https://www.realitydefender.com/platform/api
16•bpcrd•1h ago•5 comments

Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

https://hyperclay.com/
471•pil0u•9h ago•165 comments

Show HN: A Minimal Hacker News Reader for Apple Watch Built with SwiftUI

https://github.com/wieslawsoltes/HackerNewsWatch
43•wiso•1h ago•7 comments

Typechecker Zoo

https://sdiehl.github.io/typechecker-zoo/
36•todsacerdoti•2d ago•9 comments

Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?2AON
82•chrisjj•2d ago•40 comments

A gigantic jet caught on camera: A spritacular moment for NASA astronaut

https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/a-gigantic-jet-caught-on-camera-a-spritacular-moment-for-nasa-astronaut-nicole-ayers/
326•acossta•3d ago•71 comments

Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-alternative-lasik-lasers.html
145•Gaishan•6h ago•66 comments

The Coming Robot Home Invasion

https://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/2025/08/wsj-home-robots.html
15•walterbell•2h ago•12 comments

Image Fulgurator (2011)

https://juliusvonbismarck.com/bank/index.php/projects/image-fulgurator/2/
9•Liftyee•2d ago•1 comments

The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working as Designed

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/8/18/the-road-that-killed-legend-jenkins-was-working-exactly-as-designed
74•h14h•47m ago•35 comments

Win10 users looking for a new OS? Apple $599 MacBook can't come at a better time

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-users-looking-for-a-new-os-apples-599-macbook-cant-come-at-a-better-time/
12•walterbell•27m ago•4 comments

Sky Calendar

https://abramsplanetarium.org/SkyCalendar/index.html
37•NaOH•3d ago•3 comments

Class-action suit claims Otter AI records private work conversations

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-action-lawsuit
71•nsedlet•2h ago•8 comments

SystemD Service Hardening

https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/systemd-hardening
176•todsacerdoti•11h ago•70 comments

Vibe coding tips and tricks

https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/main/VIBE_CODING_TIPS_TRICKS.md
83•mooreds•3h ago•52 comments

MCP doesn't need tools, it needs code

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/18/code-mcps/
137•the_mitsuhiko•6h ago•95 comments

MCP tools with dependent types

https://vlaaad.github.io/mcp-tools-with-dependent-types
56•vlaaad•6h ago•14 comments

8x19 Text Mode Font Origins

https://www.os2museum.com/wp/8x19-text-mode-font-origins/
48•userbinator•2d ago•16 comments

Texas law gives grid operator power to disconnect data centers during crisis

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-law-gives-grid-operator-power-to-disconnect-data-centers-during-crisi/751587/
67•walterbell•2h ago•63 comments

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/baldwin-a-love-story-nicholas-boggs-book-review
63•Caiero•17h ago•11 comments

When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/opinion_column_ai_surveillance/
111•rntn•4h ago•51 comments

Weather Radar APIs in 2025: A Founder's Complete Market Overview

https://www.rainviewer.com/blog/weather-radar-apis-2025-overview.html
18•sea-gold•2d ago•23 comments

AI is predominantly replacing outsourced, offshore workers

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/ai-jobs-layoffs
124•toomuchtodo•2h ago•105 comments

Scientists discover surprising language 'shortcuts' in birdsong – like humans

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/scientists-discover-surprising-language-shortcuts-in-birdsong--just-like-humans/
33•gnufx•4d ago•20 comments

The administration's assault on science feels eerily Soviet

https://grist.org/politics/the-trump-administrations-assault-on-science-feels-eerily-soviet/
16•rntn•35m ago•0 comments

LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
129•flail•5h ago•65 comments
Open in hackernews

AI accounts impersonating doctors on social media [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNNA-66vKPE
30•mgh2•2h ago

Comments

wildzzz•1h ago
Before AI video was good enough, I'd always see collaboration videos where some nurse or doctor would be smiling and pointing to a video talking about some snake oil cure. While many were just a random person wearing scrubs, some were actual doctors that have social media accounts. The real doctor had made a video giving their approval to sound medical advice (especially for stuff like skincare) but that video was modified with snake oil advice pasted over the original clip.
reactordev•45m ago
YouTube and Google will do nothing to stop it either. They have pushed this content onto my feed a few times and I blocked the channels.