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Intriguing Stories in Computer Science

https://inventwithpython.com/blog/intriguing-stories-in-cs.html
15•gregsadetsky•5d ago

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potatium•17m ago
Not sure if it's more of an urban legend, but the old story went that one (or two?) Soviet Mars probes in the 80s went wildly off course because of the typo in their nav software, allegedly written in Fortran. A comma was misplaced for a dot.

Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
50•gavide•31m ago•29 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
129•linggen•4h ago•26 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
494•ibotty•9h ago•85 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
292•galnagli•8h ago•120 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
478•SpyCoder77•9h ago•860 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
457•mooreds•3h ago•283 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
16•shdon•45m ago•1 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
20•pizzaiolo•50m ago•2 comments

Intriguing Stories in Computer Science

https://inventwithpython.com/blog/intriguing-stories-in-cs.html
15•gregsadetsky•5d ago•1 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
229•ColinWright•8h ago•125 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
150•Gecko4072•6h ago•45 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
260•inigyou•5d ago•59 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
287•plurby•10h ago•148 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
106•qingcharles•6h ago•41 comments

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/
32•Bluestein•4h ago•3 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/
83•abdik•7h ago•51 comments

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1
83•Brajeshwar•5d ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

459•dhruv3006•8h ago•292 comments

A simple fix for LLM tail latency

https://engineering.myhoai.com/posts/a-simple-fix-for-llm-tail-latency/
25•oskrim•3d ago•10 comments

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b
264•anana_•5h ago•121 comments

India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xnwqe00v1o
77•monkey_monkey•3h ago•66 comments

The oldest bar in every state

https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-bar-every-state
49•NaOH•4d ago•29 comments

Nation's Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/climate/lake-powell-record-low-colorado.html
13•johntfella•36m ago•15 comments

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/
78•neogodless•5h ago•67 comments

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/
96•surprisetalk•8h ago•20 comments

We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng

https://secretspec.dev/blog/we-are-forking-dotenvy-into-dotenv-ng/
33•linggen•4h ago•33 comments

Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world
93•bookofjoe•4h ago•35 comments

How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser

https://nanochess.org/am29000_c_compiler_web_browser.html
76•nanochess•1d ago•11 comments

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)

https://blog.plover.com/brain/Jaynes.html
48•skm•2h ago•42 comments

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617
3•ingve•1h ago•0 comments