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A Dying Art: The last of the morticians

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/08/a-dying-art-john-semley-mortuary-sciences-competition/
10•Petiver•3d ago

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haunter•4m ago
The japanese film おくりびと covers the topic beautifully.

Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models
623•surprisetalk•6h ago•861 comments

A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review

https://fermisense.com/when-machines-take-the-wheel/
65•ilreb•2h ago•17 comments

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/
103•msaltz•2h ago•44 comments

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarki...
188•dhorthy•6h ago•46 comments

Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions

https://spacedaily.com/sd-v-astronauts-returning-from-six-month-missions-describe-a-persistent-ob...
133•zdw•5h ago•68 comments

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

https://gpusolutions.net/rbservices/graphics-card-upgrade/
63•wslh•3d ago•27 comments

Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat

https://jacob.gold/posts/residential-proxies-are-a-national-security-threat/
32•joshbetz•2h ago•29 comments

EYG: A Programming Language for Humans

https://crowdhailer.me/2026-06-08/a-programming-language-for-humans/
33•crowdhailer•2h ago•13 comments

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/07/19/observing-gos-garbage-collector-old-and-new.html
185•matheusmoreira•2d ago•17 comments

DConf 2026 in London

https://dconf.org/2026/index.html
65•teleforce•5h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap
36•pancomplex•10h ago•8 comments

C/C++ projects packaged for Zig

https://github.com/allyourcodebase
40•jcbhmr•5h ago•23 comments

Vehicle Motion Cues

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-comfortably-riding-a-vehicle-iph55564cb22/ios
33•Austin_Conlon•3h ago•15 comments

Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/the-illusion-of-explanatory-depth
4•rramadass•41m ago•1 comments

An Uncomplicated Man

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/emily-wilson/an-uncomplicated-man
16•andsoitis•2h ago•3 comments

The age of token efficiency, the age of libraries

https://golemui.com/blog/the-age-of-token-efficiency/
3•handfuloflight•46m ago•0 comments

Three Theses on the Literacy Crisis

https://trevoraleo.substack.com/p/three-theses-on-the-literacy-crisis
32•samclemens•2d ago•22 comments

The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283
28•wglb•4h ago•9 comments

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
127•jcbhmr•9h ago•28 comments

Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol

https://cen.acs.org/materials/adhesives/glue-bonds-nonstick-surfaces-wipes-clean/104/web/2026/07
161•gmays•4d ago•91 comments

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

https://www.rise-reforming.com
65•george_rose25•8h ago•30 comments

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

https://gpuopen.com/learn/ray-tracing-massive-amounts-animated-geometry/
88•LorenDB•4d ago•10 comments

Securing Services with Rootless Containers

https://blog.coderspirit.xyz/blog/2026/07/06/securing-services-with-rootless-containers/
76•speckx•4d ago•24 comments

Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves

https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/research/mow/mow.html
27•shraiwi•2d ago•1 comments

A Dying Art: The last of the morticians

https://harpers.org/archive/2026/08/a-dying-art-john-semley-mortuary-sciences-competition/
11•Petiver•3d ago•1 comments

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN
1•Old_Thrashbarg•11h ago

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-t...
209•quantified•6h ago•106 comments

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/netflix-exec-goes-ballistic-after-being-fired-for-stunning-...
221•softwaredoug•5h ago•179 comments

How real are real numbers? (2004)

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
62•surprisetalk•13h ago•48 comments

Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API

https://telnyx.com/release-notes/kimi-k3-telnyx-inference
32•fionaattelnyx•5h ago•12 comments