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Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

https://sharedobject.blog/posts/vp8-combinatorial-logic/

17•firer•2d ago

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pseudosavant•12m ago

Cool that you can make a NAND gate like this, but I was more hoping for something that showed how to practically (ab)use a video encoder for "great computational power" to do something real. Not just how to make a NAND gate with one.

tverbeure•4m ago

I was hoping for some variant of the FORCEDENTRY iPhone Messages exploit, which built an entire CPU with the PDF fix blitting operations.

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-...

92•bookofjoe•1h ago•46 comments

Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc

https://twitter.com/status/2084739205071343837

64•mattsterett•2h ago•23 comments

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/

12•spyc•17m ago•0 comments

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/

278•riadsila•6h ago•69 comments

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html

19•sourdecor•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/

443•automatoney•8h ago•87 comments

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-than...

745•jdcampolargo•4h ago•43 comments

We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/

15•seg6•1h ago•8 comments

Waymo in Dallas

https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/

224•xnx•5h ago•272 comments

Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power

https://sharedobject.blog/posts/vp8-combinatorial-logic/

18•firer•2d ago•2 comments

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/

25•glub•2h ago•2 comments

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x

361•zhoutong•13h ago•87 comments

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

182•stymaar•2h ago•44 comments

Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview

22•edwardbzhang•3h ago•6 comments

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml

147•depr•3h ago•60 comments

Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

https://hop.earth/?server=lkhr7&route=fQ5nuu9R

74•faebi•5h ago•37 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/

5•luispa•1h ago•0 comments

Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees

https://www.thisandthat.chat/blog/most-tech-revolutions-made-work-worse-for-employees/

83•jreynar•8h ago•46 comments

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/bIQQ7tP-founding-gtm-lead

1•truemetricsIngo•6h ago

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/dont-stop-early-case-folding-source-cod...

41•sbulaev•4d ago•9 comments

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack

226•cimi_•12h ago•114 comments

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16763

71•doppp•7h ago•78 comments

Why some people mow a lawn better than others

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/

160•carlos-menezes•5h ago•142 comments

The physics of Docker build caching

https://www.blacksmith.sh/blog/the-physics-of-docker-build-caching

13•piobio•4d ago•2 comments

Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research

https://edotenv.com/

26•Mzzzzz•4h ago•20 comments

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/

563•surprisetalk•11h ago•607 comments

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-t...

322•thewebguyd•7h ago•243 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf

339•pmg101•1d ago•374 comments

Harness engineering for self-improvement

https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/

296•tosh•17h ago•68 comments

The Warp Agent CLI

https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-the-warp-agent-cli-coding-agent

92•emschwartz•6h ago•55 comments