fp.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-infer...

453•itvision•7h ago•351 comments

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/

27•worik•4h ago•5 comments

Mario Meets Pareto

https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto

925•theanonymousone•16h ago•151 comments

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://nso.edu/press-release/nsf-inouye-solar-telescope-enables-major-discovery-of-a-hidden-sola...

170•neversaydie•1d ago•33 comments

I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

https://www.makeuseof.com/i-stopped-trusting-usb-c-cable-labels-started-testing-with-meter-instead/

115•baranul•3d ago•71 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left

253•tsak•10h ago•200 comments

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/

109•gnabgib•6h ago•19 comments

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm

69•Audiophilip•6h ago•13 comments

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/

167•collinmanderson•8h ago•113 comments

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/

173•tedsanders•10h ago•127 comments

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74

352•Footkerchief•12h ago•287 comments

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

https://blog.sydorets.com/en/posts/almost-no-skill-required-to-cook-a-steak/

294•yusyd•12h ago•344 comments

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

https://provenmetal.com

187•willcarkner•12h ago•134 comments

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm

76•sebg•6h ago•4 comments

Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260731-why-estonians-invite-strangers-into-their-backyards-e...

28•koolhead17•3d ago•5 comments

Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media

https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-medi...

107•boplicity•3h ago•57 comments

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/

264•Wirbelwind•16h ago•196 comments

Retired man plants trees on forgotten land, now it's Sao Paulo's largest park

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/in-2003-a-retired-man-planted-trees-on-fo...

49•rmason•5d ago•10 comments

The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/07/26/the-sylvester-gallai-theorem/

23•surprisetalk•6d ago•9 comments

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

https://medium.com/@jonas.eschenburg/stv-a-video-codec-for-the-atari-st-6e46355c50e4

26•indyjo•1w ago•2 comments

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965

98•luu•9h ago•190 comments

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/ChipTycoon/

118•laurentiurad•6d ago•22 comments

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update

238•dsubburam•7h ago•117 comments

Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

https://github.com/CopilotKit/channels-sdk

93•davidmckayv•11h ago•20 comments

Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/

69•bschne•8h ago•46 comments

The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

https://danielmangum.com/posts/integrated-timing-belt-loopback-fastener/

106•hasheddan•4d ago•21 comments

Shades of Meaning (2018)

https://mag.uchicago.edu/arts-humanities/shades-meaning

3•mkmk•6d ago•0 comments

Pareto Front

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front

227•binyu•1w ago•95 comments

Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

https://www.rafa.ee/articles/progressive-enhanced-forms-htmx/

70•mpweiher•1w ago•11 comments

Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260805-four-simple-rules-behind-japans-most-liveable-cities

93•tchalla•14h ago•117 comments