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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model
953•riordan•12h ago•538 comments

How Claude marks AI-generated content

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content
37•mfiguiere•48m ago•29 comments

Rust SIMD on the GPU

https://www.vectorware.com/blog/simd-on-gpu/
85•sagacity•4h ago•40 comments

Sonic Pi v5

https://www.patreon.com/samaaron/posts/sonic-pi-v5-166001392
255•samaaron•3d ago•69 comments

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878
272•root-parent•8h ago•324 comments

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
71•HenryNdubuaku•5h ago•44 comments

Publishing Schematics Before "Open Source" Was a Word

https://fabscene.medium.com/publishing-schematics-before-open-source-was-a-word-55-years-of-akizu...
25•extralongdivisi•3d ago•5 comments

Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification

https://linuxstans.com/illinois-hb5511-operating-system-age-verification/
206•speckx•2h ago•253 comments

Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

https://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sailbook.html
9•AntiRush•1h ago•2 comments

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

https://www.stoaexchange.com
58•erenberke•5h ago•35 comments

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
104•WhiteDawn•6h ago•34 comments

The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufo_Alvarius:_the_Psychedelic_Toad_of_the_Sonoran_Desert
54•simonebrunozzi•6d ago•39 comments

Squeak 6.1

https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/
195•fniephaus•10h ago•99 comments

We cut a 40-day financial integration down to 5 days using Google Anti

https://discuss.google.dev/t/trusted-automation-with-google-antigravity-scaling-secure-finance-in...
6•simontwigg•58m ago•3 comments

Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us

https://www.massaschadeconsument.nl/collectieve-acties/playstation/
42•EDM115•1h ago•11 comments

Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb

https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Humanising-LLM-Outputs-is-Actually-Dumb
107•kuberwastaken•8h ago•63 comments

Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

119•BoxOfRain•3d ago•40 comments

Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/amazon-funds-biggest-gas-power-plant-in-us-despite-cl...
49•pjmlp•59m ago•27 comments

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Parametron,_1954
162•xeonmc•11h ago•45 comments

Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tjl2/executive
144•Bender•6h ago•51 comments

Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

https://openai.com/index/responsible-ai-infrastructure-texas/
74•hackerBanana•7h ago•137 comments

Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines

https://blog.sshh.io/p/exploring-claudegpt-knowledge-cutoffs
81•sshh12•8h ago•11 comments

Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”

https://patentsgazette.uspto.gov/week26/OG/html/1547-5/US12670045-20260630.html
197•theanonymousone•8h ago•166 comments

Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1034703/
110•prakashqwerty•10h ago•103 comments

Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11

https://pim.murata.com/asset/pim4/siliconCapacitor/SICAP_X2SC422522_PDF_SILICONCAPACITOR
52•peter_d_sherman•6h ago•19 comments

Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack
493•colesantiago•9h ago•167 comments

Show HN: Higher-dimensional lattices unfolded into the 2D plane

https://number-garden.com/?@THLP@
6•unitX•4d ago•1 comments

Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)

https://jackschaedler.github.io/handwriting-recognition/
31•at1as•6h ago•8 comments

Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1kjy7gewo
265•RickJWagner•6h ago•414 comments

50k Boat Names

https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/boat-names/
141•jonathanmkeegan•9h ago•102 comments
Open in hackernews

Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/amazon-funds-biggest-gas-power-plant-in-us-despite-climate-pledge/
42•pjmlp•59m ago

Comments

AgentOrange1234•41m ago
This is so unacceptable. Build as many data centers as you want, but fossil fuels NEED to stop yesterday.
dev_l1x_be•36m ago
Imagine that you need to explain to a type II alien that your species still burns things.
LogicFailsMe•30m ago
Imagine the type II alien nods with understanding in a human way that your species just isn't ready and it might not ever be as it erases your memory of the encounter and returns to the stars, stopping only to scan your anal sphincter because all the type II civilizations remain puzzled by it.

Or maybe you'd prefer this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbT1fCHOjfI

Barrin92•25m ago
I think they'd give you some leeway if you fired up gas plants to not freeze in the winter, I want to see their faces when you tell them you turned them on because you wanted to generate more digital slop during a climate crisis
rainsford•23m ago
The harder thing would be to explain why your species continues to get energy by burning things despite having multiple alternatives and that many people are deeply ideologically opposed to moving away from burning things.

Or maybe not. Maybe this is a civilizational growing pain these aliens are familiar with. Maybe they went through the same period themselves.

fragmede•6m ago
Imagine they got here without burning anything, ever, in the history of their species.
thatfrenchguy•36m ago
I mean, marginally, any data center (or mall, house, but the numbers involved are smaller) you'll build in Texas is going to be a lot of tons of CO2 just from their added marginal power consumption
tptacek•23m ago
This is, putting it gently, not a majority opinion in the US and especially not in Texas.
trickypr•18m ago
In the same way “smoking causes cancer” was a minority opinion in the 50s and 60s.
tptacek•12m ago
You hope. People who believe things you disagree with say the same thing about their beliefs!

(I think the way through this mess is huge investment in renewables, and that blue states have calamitously dropped the ball by pushing so much data center construction to red states that aren't going to incentivize that.)

BeetleB•6m ago
> This is, putting it gently, not a majority opinion in the US and especially not in Texas.

Texas is the largest producer of renewable energy in the country.

dev_l1x_be•38m ago
I wish there was a source of energy that has 100-1000x energy density compare to other sources and it is controllable so capacity factory is close to 100. Ohh wait.
dukeyukey•28m ago
Unless you're French.
philipkglass•27m ago
Amazon is also investing in nuclear power for data centers:

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/amazon-updates-s...

However, building new nuclear reactors is a slow process. These small modular reactors aren't expected to be built before the 2030s.

China is currently the fastest at bringing new reactors online. Even there it takes 6-7 years from construction start to commercial power generation, e.g. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/chinese-reactors...

dev_l1x_be•23m ago
Yeah they are betting on everything at this stage.
peri-cl•33m ago
See also,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 ("New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)", 2 days ago, 354 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 ("Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)", 2 days ago, 171 comments)

brandonagr2•31m ago
It seems strange for this article to word this as a new or unusual source of pollution, natural gas is the primary source of energy in the US, adding 10% to existing thermal fleet in ERCOT https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards is not a huge deal and its disingenuous to say this one plant will become a "top source of US pollution".

Solar generation buildout in ERCOT is also proceeding very quickly, the new Tesla megapack factory outside Houston and proposed new solar factory will help speed up the transition to sustainable energy.

tptacek•22m ago
It's also, as the article points out later, a permitted cap, not an emissions estimate. New planets generally have permitted caps far higher than their expected emissions.
ChrisArchitect•22m ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350
cloudie78•21m ago
If only we had the technology and ability to produce enormous quantities of energy non-stop 24/7 365, no matter day or night wind or no wind.
throwitaway222•19m ago
BUT NUKES!

All jokes aside, yes, we should invest massively in nuclear.

shafyy•9m ago
No we shouldn't. Nuclear waste is not and will never be solved. Nuclear meltdowns are real. Also, nuclear is more expensive than wind and solar.