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The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air

https://www.novaspivack.com/essays/the-fish-who-could-not-imagine-air
7•surprisetalk•1h ago

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zabzonk•59m ago
Obviously not a flying fish.

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt
113•theanonymousone•2h ago•69 comments

Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/
37•pseudolus•2h ago•18 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/
207•dzdt•2h ago•91 comments

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/
309•tosh•4d ago•167 comments

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/
56•vincent_s•1h ago•19 comments

Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/scaling-numpy-on-free-threaded-python
47•ngoldbaum•5d ago•11 comments

“Gravity is worth asking about”

https://unsung.aresluna.org/gravity-is-worth-asking-about/
156•nozzlegear•6d ago•95 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
454•luispa•15h ago•229 comments

Bubble Memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_memory
39•jacquesm•2d ago•14 comments

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

https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/
455•riadsila•21h ago•118 comments

Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds

https://hannahilea.com/blog/birduino/
24•austinallegro•5d ago•5 comments

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

https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/
573•automatoney•22h ago•98 comments

BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

https://github.com/b-aaz/bmake-extravaganza/tree/master
6•signa11•6d ago•0 comments

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

https://calpaterson.com/helsinki-hn.html
156•calpaterson•4h ago•104 comments

Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psilocybin-could-kick-start-anorexia-recovery-early-re...
27•tzury•2h ago•24 comments

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay

https://mysk.blog/2026/08/04/webkit-proxy-icloud-private-relay-ip-leak/
142•lapcat•14h ago•22 comments

The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria (1851)

https://www.thehopkinthomasproject.com/TheHopkinThomasProject/TimeLine/Wales/Steam/URochesterColl...
44•gregsadetsky•4d ago•8 comments

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29377
73•theanonymousone•9h ago•10 comments

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

https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview
157•edwardbzhang•18h ago•47 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...
1506•jdcampolargo•19h ago•88 comments

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

https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html
133•sourdecor•15h ago•19 comments

Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash

https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/attorney-general-brenna-bird-leads-coalition-demandi...
47•ArcHound•1h ago•76 comments

Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

https://divingintheshallowend.com/three-six-mafia/
97•embedding-shape•1h ago•92 comments

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

https://github.com/Carloscodix/qapla
55•pavelai•9h ago•17 comments

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

https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/
166•seg6•15h ago•129 comments

Bugtraq is back

https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/bugtraq@securityfocus.com/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFH...
68•bashtoni•13h ago•23 comments

Why is it all in the kernel?

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/07/30/Collatz.html
69•ibobev•4d ago•29 comments

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963
255•tchalla•14h ago•210 comments

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
407•pmg101•1d ago•413 comments

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w1lvn7d9go
12•zeristor•1h ago•0 comments