fp.

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/

256•gavide•4h ago•191 comments

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

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html

175•shdon•4h ago•77 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol

165•Topfi•5h ago•93 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights

556•ibotty•13h ago•98 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera

89•pizzaiolo•4h ago•23 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759

166•linggen•8h ago•36 comments

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

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug

321•galnagli•12h ago•126 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)

333•inigyou•5d ago•66 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read

632•mooreds•6h ago•390 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2

24•whobre•5d ago•4 comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/

129•DeepLogin•6h ago•41 comments

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

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/

306•plurby•14h ago•154 comments

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xnwqe00v1o

99•monkey_monkey•7h ago•97 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/

139•qingcharles•10h ago•56 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

113•bookofjoe•8h ago•41 comments

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/

126•neogodless•9h ago•96 comments

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

https://www.repaircafe.org/

23•rglover•3h ago•8 comments

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-...

8•hermitcrab•4d ago•4 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/

262•ColinWright•12h ago•160 comments

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617

34•ingve•5h ago•12 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/

180•Gecko4072•10h ago•56 comments

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

https://speko.ai/

92•abdik•11h ago•52 comments

scScript for Linux

https://scapplications.com/

19•OptionOfT•4h ago•7 comments

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv

38•KGC3D•6h ago•12 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

505•dhruv3006•12h ago•324 comments

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1

105•Brajeshwar•5d ago•20 comments

A simple fix for LLM tail latency

https://engineering.myhoai.com/posts/a-simple-fix-for-llm-tail-latency/

40•oskrim•3d ago•16 comments

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/

44•Bluestein•8h ago•3 comments

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a-digestion-of-the-proof-of-sendovs-conjecture/

5•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/google-spirit-airlines-bankruptcy

36•sgustard•2h ago•11 comments

Open in hackernews

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-trebuchet

8•hermitcrab•4d ago

Comments

JoeAltmaier•4d ago

Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).

hermitcrab•4d ago

Indeed, I am sure there are other mechanisms that could cause similar trauma.

27183•31m ago

dude got absolutely rocked

N_Lens•20m ago

"What are you going to do, lob a stone at me from 300m away?" shouted the man on the parapet, moments before impact.