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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
140•tosh•1h ago•85 comments

Assembly Hall of Shame

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame
65•piotrgrabowski•1h ago•12 comments

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-cl...
212•delduca•1h ago•140 comments

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
96•artninja1988•2h ago•102 comments

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
91•MarcoDewey•4h ago•28 comments

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

https://ancientlibrary.net/
17•aagha•42m ago•4 comments

Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%

https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale
12•moonikakiss•1h ago•2 comments

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
659•boplicity•19h ago•357 comments

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
99•RickJWagner•6h ago•203 comments

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
178•poly2it•8h ago•80 comments

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...
855•itvision•23h ago•639 comments

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/
299•petercooper•4h ago•286 comments

Möbius-Strip Crosswords

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
33•ibobev•4h ago•4 comments

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours
25•_da_•35m ago•4 comments

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
110•m3h•8h ago•30 comments

Carl's Required Reading

https://carlkolon.com/reading/
5•cckolon•6d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
145•v0id_isgood•7h ago•84 comments

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

https://textlog.cc/about
97•stagas•8h ago•43 comments

Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?

https://londonist.com/london/history/oxford-street-beavers
38•bookofjoe•4d ago•18 comments

Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

https://blog.stackdump.com/posts/petri-net-sequencer
48•m_kos•4d ago•17 comments

Building community out of strangers (2023)

https://tracydurnell.com/2023/11/30/building-community-out-of-strangers/
23•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
45•jnord•6h ago•58 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
635•tsak•1d ago•498 comments

Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system

https://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html
6•geerlingguy•4d ago•1 comments

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

https://saopaulosecreto.com/en/tiquatira-linear-park-en/
298•rmason•5d ago•114 comments

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reporte...
94•inigyou•11h ago•97 comments

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

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
198•Audiophilip•22h ago•60 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...
297•neversaydie•2d ago•60 comments

TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

https://www.typestax.com/
45•jasim•1w ago•12 comments

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI (2024)

https://ykiko.me/en/articles/692886292/
45•rramadass•5d ago•55 comments
Open in hackernews

ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests'

https://apnews.com/article/ice-body-cameras-officers-shootings-dab1b294c8dc412d9ef8557ccbebfd57
97•geox•1h ago

Comments

functionmouse•1h ago
Treason! Hold them accountable!
NDlurker•58m ago
Agreed. This is disgusting.
whatever1•57m ago
We have election in November, mobilize everyone you can and vote.
nashashmi•50m ago
November is too late. We have courts. Mobilize the courts.
thewebguyd•50m ago
The turnout in my state's primary this week was an abysmal 20%. I hope that's not an omen for November, because we are doomed if so.
fhdkweig•24m ago
Primaries are not for down-the-ticket party voters. I didn't bother to vote in the primaries because I don't really care about the subtle shades of blue or red, I only care about are you any kind of blue or red. Each politician is either for what I want or against it. I will be showing up for November, that's when my vote will matter.
1659447091•22m ago
Thats pretty average for primaries nationwide.

Texas had a turn out of around ~24% this year that shattered previous turnout; usually hover around 16%.

mcmcmc•54m ago
That’s not treason, just bad governance. They do need accountability though
JumpCrisscross•40m ago
> not treason, just bad governance

ICE is damn close to an organisation of brownshirts. If they fuck with the elections in November, that's an organised effort to use violence to overthrow our Constitutional order. That would be treason.

We're not at the point of treason. But we have leaders credibly threatening to commit it. (I'd say Stephen Miller has commited treason. As in try-him-and-hang-him treason.

mcmcmc•39m ago
Yes it would be, but that hasn’t happened yet.
vel0city•58m ago
The interests of ICE should be the same as the public's interest, same as any other domestic policing.
augusto-moura•50m ago
If the public interest is divided, what should be ICE's interest? This applies to other enforcing orgs too. Should it take the majority even if the debate is close to a tie?

In most cases, what wins is the interests of people in power, for all domestic policing

cdrnsf•50m ago
They should stop committing human rights violations, at a minimum.
wrs•48m ago
There is no valid public interest in having secret police.
vel0city•43m ago
If it's about hiding information from the public about domestic police actions, you can't really be arguing that's against the public's interest.

How would ICE being incredibly selective about what to release so it only paints the agency in a positive light be in the public's interest? How can the public make reasonable decisions on what's happening if we're actively hiding the truth?

If ICE is abusing people and murdering innocent people in the street, how is the "public interest" divided? Isn't the public interest to hold those who abuse their authority to commit crimes accountable? How would that go against the public interest?

john_strinlai•57m ago
im not sure why they would even bother with the cameras at that point.
ranger_danger•55m ago
It says why in the article... to make them look better by only releasing positive videos.
john_strinlai•51m ago
right, i read the article, and i disagree that selectively releasing "positive" videos would make them look better.
philipov•46m ago
They don't care what you think. You're not their target audience.
john_strinlai•44m ago
yes, i am aware, thanks.

(that's why i wrote my opinion on a message board, instead of a letter addressed to the director of ice)

philipov•39m ago
They don't want to shake the support of moderates who are already part of their coalition and aren't paying that much attention. Those people won't notice the selectivity, even if they hear about it in passing, as long as they're not constantly confronted with it directly.
cdrnsf
mcmcmc•55m ago
There they go making “Abolish ICE” sound reasonable again.
Krutonium•55m ago
ICE will release body cam video when required by the courts, and FOIA requests.

Just saying, you could FOIA so much video in about 2 months...

JoshTriplett•43m ago
Bets on whether they'll harass people filing such requests?
MertsA•51m ago
How does this square with FOIA obligations? I get ICE sidestepping transparency by avoiding creating the responsive footage in the first place, but once the body cam footage exists, what basis could they use to withhold it other than redacting footage for the typical reasons?
orthecreedence•49m ago
> what basis could they use to withhold it other than redacting footage for the typical reasons?

The basis is "come and take it." A court order doesn't work on the brownshirts.

chaps•41m ago
I mean, ICE is already sidestepping transparency by delaying FOIA requests to the Nth degree. Have a look:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?page=1&per_page=100&agenc...

cdrnsf•50m ago
So, presumably, not when they murder unarmed civilians in broad daylight? Or deploy chemical weapons around schools?
nashashmi•50m ago
Acting like any other police officer at this point
perrohunter•49m ago
How is this a `Hacker` new?
klik99•41m ago
Anti-authoritarianism is a core part of the hacker ethos, so much so it’s even in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
accountrequired•25m ago
many users have been tricked into thinking that there is some urgent need for destroying their own civilization within their own lifetime.
exe34•44m ago
This makes it easy to know when they murdered somebody - just check when they refuse to release the footage.
adverbly•43m ago
Surely the well being of the public is in the agency's best interest! Right? Right guys?
adamrezich•43m ago
Big influx in politicsposting here lately, eh? Wonder what that's all about.
hnthrowawayacct•40m ago
US midterms are coming up in November, politics are being thrust onto every corner of the internet at the moment.
AnEro•37m ago
I've personally completely avoided the USA because of ICE, not because of principle of border policies purely from unpredictable treatment of people in custody with no recorse. Even if mistreatment are edge cases I've got no faith in the system to correct the wrong within itself. I've seen too many stories of legal americans and travelers not even getting bare minimum due process, or just being locked away for days no contact. I present and am read as a woman, if I get sent to male holding facility I'm just chum in the water. Which that decision could be made completely at the whim of the officer and the areas commanding officer, regardless of local laws.
xyzelement•34m ago
Where are you from?
AnEro•7m ago
Canada, I've turned down opritunities even in blue states over this being 100% honest. My Job used to involve myself traveling through the mostly the south. I'm lucky they are accomidating and shifted those responsiblties around but still pre-covid and a little 'post'-covid I was basically living month or so at a time in the south without issues.
jancsika•11m ago
> if I get sent to male holding facility I'm just chum in the water.

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

AnEro•1m ago
>V-coding is the practice of assigning trans women placed in men's prisons to cells with aggressive cisgender male cellmates as both a reward and a means of placation for said cellmates, so as to maintain social control and to, as one inmate described it, "keep the violence rate down".[170] Trans women used in this manner are often raped daily; and this process has been described as so common that it is effectively "a central part of a trans woman's sentence"
xyzelement•35m ago
What I got from reading the article - but not the headline or the comments.

- ICE is moving to start using cameras (currently not using them) so this move overall increases the amount of footage that exists and can be released.

- Their stayed approach is analogous to other law enforcement approaches already in use.

So the headline should be "ICE to start using body cameras". I suspect this is in general good news for ICE - most police departments that once felt "forced" to use body cameras have found that the cameras have been good for their image. Incidents that could have previously been trumpeted as an unjustified police action now have the context of what the suspect was doing just prior that justify the action. I think ICE is betting on the same and the "look what our agents have to deal with" footage may get public airplay into their favor.

We'll see

altcognito•32m ago
Yes, I too benefit from controlling the publicity, messaging, narrative and history surrounding my actions.
pbnjeh•34m ago
Jail, jail, jail. Nothing less will stop these Gestapo-esque thugs.

And if you’re waiting for the mid-terms, you’re already acquiescing to their plans.

Also, it says something — to me, at least — that I have to think seriously before posting this. All I’m calling for is timely criminal prosecution of what I think and believe are crimes. I.e. for a lawful process. Yet doing so puts me at risk of an overbearing, unaccountable response?

This is some serious sh-t.

the__alchemist•27m ago
All enemies, foreign and domestic.
techblueberry•32m ago
Not a good look. I don’t think that in a free society, the government has “interests” that are different than the people’s.
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49m ago
Accompanied by childish memes, Bible quotes and the music of artists that loathe them.
stevenwoo•49m ago
This is no different than any other law enforcement agency in the USA historically - it’s a curated source of positive PR that they get taxpayers to fund - it’s never used willingly as a source of truth when law enforcement is in the wrong.
disillusioned•46m ago
Accountability theatre, quite literally.
georgemcbay•40m ago
> im not sure why they would even bother with the cameras at that point.

Lots of data to feed into their Palantir systems to keep track of l̵a̵w̵f̵u̵l̵ ̵p̵r̵o̵t̵e̵s̵t̵o̵r̵s̵ terrorists.

john_strinlai•39m ago
>Lots of data to feed into their Palatir systems

i didnt think of that, actually, and facial recognition training and such actually sounds like a pretty plausible reason.