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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
82•droidjj•1h ago•25 comments

Compression Is Prediction

https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
71•nikolay•1h ago•33 comments

Mojo 1.0

https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
175•dayanruben•4h ago•78 comments

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempi...
52•andsoitis•1h ago•47 comments

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

https://ironicsans.ghost.io/how-we-used-to-get-jobs/
62•speckx•2h ago•38 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://stolen-thoughts.com/
381•quantumgarbage•7h ago•151 comments

Making holograms with a pen plotter

https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/Penplotter-holography/
49•DemiGuru•2h ago•6 comments

Your phone is the most intricate machine you've ever held. Let's take it apart.

https://everythingmachine.io/phone/
26•bookofjoe•5d ago•5 comments

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

https://photosynthesis.camera
126•sajomes•2d ago•130 comments

A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/us/ai-boss-san-francisco-andon-market.html
32•jjwiseman•1w ago•34 comments

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

https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
139•ilamont•8h ago•235 comments

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
438•stevekemp•8h ago•314 comments

Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme

https://jolt-lang.github.io
111•mark_l_watson•3d ago•33 comments

Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife
98•YonathanTesfaye•5h ago•76 comments

OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.5
70•voxadam•3h ago•25 comments

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

https://manus.im/blog/a-note-to-our-users
107•thm•6h ago•55 comments

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/
830•awnird•22h ago•837 comments

Nvidia's Risky Business

https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/
248•jonbaer•10h ago•108 comments

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

https://github.com/trycua/cua/blob/main/blog/gpu-passthrough-macos-vms.md
265•frabonacci•6h ago•40 comments

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

https://master.dev/blog/typographic-css-tricks/
31•ibobev•3h ago•0 comments

H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/antirez/h3.c
413•swyx•19h ago•93 comments

Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

https://www.trykeet.com/
33•zackashen•6h ago•37 comments

What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/i-put-github-copilot-behind-a-mitm
133•j0selit0•10h ago•17 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
26•pseudolus•2d ago•7 comments

London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-int...
136•BlueBerry2001•11h ago•165 comments

Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-bey...
27•newusertoday•1h ago•33 comments

Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS

https://writemd.app/
46•danielbilekq•7h ago•51 comments

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

https://cactuscompute.com/needle
499•HenryNdubuaku•1d ago•169 comments

Chicken Scheme 6.0

https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS
292•eatonphil•20h ago•46 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/
184•0xedb•4h ago•232 comments
Open in hackernews

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment

https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment
51•andsoitis•1h ago

Comments

Rzor•51m ago
https://archive.is/WoHuY
whyleyc•45m ago
https://archive.is/WoHuY
kyriakos•11m ago
general question: is there an alternative to archive.is ? it seems to be blocked in my country.
devindotcom•9m ago
there are variations but some are shady... archive.ph, archive.today, etc. there's probably a central list somewhere.
awestroke•43m ago
Title implies people will flock to a pill that makes them shed gray matter
amarcheschi•38m ago
I like my brain fatty /s
andai•34m ago
You reminded me I need to buy more Omega 3
make3•34m ago
It's probably the default clickbait title for any article about a new drug.
Liftyee•39m ago
Sleep is Lindy... obesity and constant wakefulness are not.

The sad fact is that people will be pressured into taking this.

andybak•37m ago
Is "Lindy" a typo or have I missed another linguistic innovation?
gottorf•35m ago
Another linguistic innovation[0] -- the idea that things that have been around for a long time are more likely to persist for another long time.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

shimman•31m ago
This feels like a stupid heuristic to use if applied to biological forces.
ternaryoperator•17m ago
In the definition of it, living things are specifically excluded.
bryanrasmussen•3m ago
it seems however some things that are not excluded are just one step removed from biological entities, hence

>comedians do not have a fixed amount of comedic material to spread over TV appearances, but rather, the more appearances they make, the more future appearances they are predicted to make

sure, but earlier it says that it does not apply to humans because the Lindy effect would imply that a 100 year old would have more life left than an 11 year old, which is counterintuitive, but the example given above would imply George Burns had more television appearances left to do at the age of 99 than Macaulay Culkin at the age of 9, which is just a layer of abstraction laid over the biological age property.

nemomarx•35m ago
I feel like I'd want the opposite of this - something that mimics the cleaning process of sleep that you could use in the afternoon for a nap or etc.
strictnein•27m ago
By mimic do you mean it does the cleaning process or just that you feel like it did? If it was the former, that would be very interesting.
hamdingers•23m ago
The latter is how caffeine works. Blocks adenosine receptors so you don't feel tired even though you are.
Gooblebrai•14m ago
If you don't feel tired, are you really? I'm curious what are the objective metrics to determine someone is tired
usui•12m ago
Isn't the answer yes if people still die from overwork despite being caffeined up?
odo1242•11m ago
Caffeine doesn't actually do any of the things sleep does to your brain. If you drink coffee during a late night, you won't feel as tired, but your brain performs worse, your reflexes are slower, you're less likely to remember things, etc. It's like painting over a rusted car instead of properly maintaining it, basically.
hoppp•32m ago
It sounds to me like something that's quite dangerious. Maybe it helps people with narcolepsy but maybe it will be another thing people abuse like amphetamines?
subscribed•9m ago
Modafinil is available for ages, acts close to this (it's mentioned in the article), and I don't hear of people abusing it.
engineer_22•5m ago
looks like potential for abuse is low - people with normal orexin activity could even experience diminished capacity by these drugs
OutOfHere•19m ago
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206165
egypturnash•15m ago
Consider: Beggars in Spain. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68333.Beggars_in_Spain
croisillon•15m ago
The brain may be about to have its Algernon moment

FTFY

petercooper•13m ago
Not to take away from the broader point, but modafinil is lumped in with methylphenidate as a stimulant that "increase[s] the activity of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine". Modafinil does also stimulate the orexin system and is part of why it's so effective for wakefulness and not as a stimulant in the medium/long-term.
Gooblebrai•13m ago
What has anything in this article to do with Ozempic? Is mentioned in the title once and never again. Engagement bait?
matt_heimer•9m ago
Ozempic == GLP-1 which the first visible paragraph is discussing.
RIMR•6m ago
Your brain is gonna lose so much weight!
_diyar•4m ago
Ozempic is the poster boy for peptides.
margorczynski•11m ago
Isn't the problem with lack of sleep (and what causes death with enough deprivation) oxydation that happens in the gut and spreads to the organs?

If I'm not mistaken there was an experiment using fruit flies where they fed them antioxidants and that made them not die from lack of sleep.

midtake•9m ago
The article is about modulating orexins in the brain. Orexin receptor agonism was thought to be a mechanism of modafinil/armodafinil but this isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. Modafinil is mentioned as a mere stimulant. It sort of makes me want to dismiss the article as manufactured hype for a new class of modafinil successors.
testdelacc1•34m ago
It’s some shit a guy called Taleb came up with. It’s a useful indicator because someone quoting Taleb unironically is someone who can’t tell that Taleb is a midwit.
knowaveragejoe•27m ago
Seems like it predates him significantly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect#History

strictnein•23m ago
I was kind of shocked how bad some of his writing and "logic" were after hearing people rave about his books for years.
ben_w•7m ago
I get the vibe, but I wouldn't say shocked, merely disappointed. The Black Swan's point would fit on the book's cover even if printed in the font used for the author's name, the work felt to me like 99% was just garrulous "look at me aren't I smart" padding.
glerk•23m ago
Aging and cancer are also Lindy.

Two things you'll always find someone to defend with vigor are sleep and death. A lot of humans seem to despise living in general. It's fascinating to see.

ben_w•10m ago
Sleep is less surprising for me to see people defend than death, to the extent that I'm not sure if I myself have or not done so.

I mean, I can directly feel the benefit of a good sleep that refreshes me in the morning, whereas there's those who have passed on whom I miss.

If I didn't need sleep, really didn't, I wouldn't seek to re-invent it; but of the two it is old age that I'd actively pay money to hold back, if treatments for both existed at the same cost per extra hour of consciousness in my lifetime.

glerk•3m ago
Obviously, every single one of us needs sleep to survive. But it's a biological chore, not some sacred ritual to be celebrated. Reducing the amount of sleep that we need is worth researching. What is surprising to me is the knee-jerk reaction I see whenever the idea of looking into this is brought up.
FeteCommuniste•1m ago
Even if I never needed to sleep again I would kind of miss dreaming. Maybe we could take another drug to make us dream.
npunt•9m ago
Tiredness is a signal that the body/brain needs rest so the glymphatic system can go to work. You can lose the signal but still need rest. If your brain doesn't flush metabolic waste periodically you develop brain fog, bad memory, and increased risk of Alzheimer's, and you'll eventually die, as sleep deprivation studies have found.
jkahrs595•6m ago
If I’m on morphine is my leg even still broken?
anigbrowl•4m ago
What if we just normalized taking naps more often?