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What would it mean to see a new color?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/what-would-it-mean-to-see-a-new-color
14•fortran77•2h ago

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josefritzishere•38m ago
I dislike the color hexadecimal code #00FFCC very much and it's not even the real Olo color.
mitchbob•38m ago
https://archive.ph/fi8Hy
redbell•24m ago
I question I, sometimes, ask my friends and relatives when discussing the human brain and its limitations is: Imagine a color that you've never seen?
xnx•15m ago
Related: Stare at the dot here for ~1 minute: https://dynomight.net/img/colors/eclipse-(255,0,0)-(0,170,85...

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594808

Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
298•speckx•3h ago•135 comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
376•ai2027•5h ago•334 comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/
241•tomzorz•4h ago•95 comments

So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

https://dynomight.net/plants/
70•surprisetalk•2h ago•31 comments

Making Postgres queues scale

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/making-postgres-queues-scale
72•KraftyOne•2h ago•7 comments

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-...
387•dickfickling•2h ago•236 comments

CodePen 2.0

https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/
70•robin_reala•2h ago•17 comments

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
388•tedsanders•3h ago•252 comments

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

https://obryant.dev/p/2x-not-10x/
96•tnisonoff•5d ago•68 comments

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/
128•ibobev•5h ago•66 comments

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses
203•Areibman•3h ago•118 comments

Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

https://github.com/MemoireMorte/Memo-1
16•sciences44•2d ago•2 comments

Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer
1•george_rose25•3h ago

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html
148•javaeeeee•5h ago•68 comments

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

https://www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer
33•cgorlla•2h ago•21 comments

Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

https://phulin.me/blog/poker/
21•patrickhulin•5h ago•2 comments

Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html
295•dmantis•10h ago•367 comments

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

https://prized.dev
60•marinoseliades•7h ago•36 comments

Hacker Public Radio

https://hackerpublicradio.org/
105•bmacho•6h ago•20 comments

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a
141•crescit_eundo•8h ago•165 comments

GCC steering committee announces AI policy

https://lwn.net/Articles/1086041/
183•arto•8h ago•212 comments

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm
131•ryannevius•7h ago•37 comments

Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost

https://github.com/experientiallabs/world-model-optimizer
54•SilenN•3d ago•24 comments

Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms

https://supapool.io/
18•kevo1ution•1d ago•0 comments

Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish
8•navs•1h ago•4 comments

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/
70•facundo_olano•6h ago•119 comments

How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mexico-olinia-car-electric-vehicle
35•rbanffy•4h ago•34 comments

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

https://mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users
108•notarobot123•7h ago•33 comments

Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cau...
63•gmays•6h ago•75 comments

How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/07/how-to-mount-a-balcony-awning/
47•karakoram•5d ago•5 comments