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High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons

https://petapixel.com/2026/08/04/amazing-high-res-photo-shows-a-butte-rising-from-mars/
17•bookofjoe•6d ago

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lostnfound8778•26m ago
NASA's version: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curios...

Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/
71•ColinWright•1h ago•12 comments

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

https://woxi.ad-si.com
56•adius•1h ago•1 comments

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

https://www.cringebot3000.com/
246•theanonymousone•4h ago•92 comments

Dutch Train Map Simulator

https://spoorkaart.zaza.dev
47•zazaalaza•2h ago•24 comments

High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons

https://petapixel.com/2026/08/04/amazing-high-res-photo-shows-a-butte-rising-from-mars/
18•bookofjoe•6d ago•1 comments

Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106...
126•robtherobber•1h ago•58 comments

Compression is prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
559•nikolay•15h ago•227 comments

The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
234•dcminter•5d ago•40 comments

Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today

https://worm.net/
70•doener•5d ago•22 comments

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

https://discoveredmaterials.com/research/
20•advaith08•3h ago•6 comments

WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale

https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/
237•EwanG•13h ago•72 comments

llama.cpp

https://llama.app
257•kristianpaul•6h ago•113 comments

A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy

https://refp.se/articles/your-shell-and-the-lazy-exclamation-mark
95•refp•5d ago•41 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
635•quantumgarbage•22h ago•284 comments

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
455•ilamont•23h ago•430 comments

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
236•droidjj•15h ago•123 comments

Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-hard-bread-history-shortage-9.7299276
24•empressplay•2d ago•27 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
397•dayanruben•18h ago•203 comments

Music Generation by a Composer, for Musicians

https://monictheory.com
3•song_synth•4d ago•0 comments

The Human Is the Loop

https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/
124•burnto•9h ago•58 comments

Grok Bot

https://x.ai/bot
302•rvz•18h ago•266 comments

DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

https://dronexl.co/2026/08/10/darpa-lift-challenge-results-avidrone/
50•daau•8h ago•34 comments

Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo

https://photosynthesis.camera
294•sajomes•3d ago•273 comments

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-ra...
90•andsoitis•9h ago•25 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/
168•DemiGuru•16h ago•17 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-int...
353•BlueBerry2001•1d ago•438 comments

Retire the Abstractions

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2026-08-05-retire-the-abstractions
56•convexstrictly•6d ago•58 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io
202•mark_l_watson•3d ago•67 comments

Show HN: Tamron Lens Utility Alternative on Linux

https://github.com/yikerman/tamron-lens-control
72•xiaoyu2006•4d ago•8 comments

Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
391•0xedb•18h ago•448 comments