fp.

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/

96•otherayden•1h ago•18 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/

335•flaburgan•6h ago•113 comments

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/

34•jp_sc•55m ago•10 comments

The Amazon Tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/

12•herbertl•51m ago•1 comments

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/

14•jeroenjanssens•35m ago•1 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon

77•andrewjanke•6d ago•28 comments

Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one

https://github.com/mukundzha/avouch

14•mukundzha6•1h ago•6 comments

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

https://www.fairphone.com/nl/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more

85•Vinnl•1h ago•23 comments

Kent Beck: Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests

11•vinipolicena•1h ago•0 comments

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...

301•pseudolus•4h ago•197 comments

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-just-not-as-much-fun-for-me-anymore-deus-ex-creator-...

48•danbolt•1h ago•21 comments

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-...

72•DeepLogin•1h ago•31 comments

NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

https://github.com/pitiflautico/neobrowser

11•pitiflautico•48m ago•3 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

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

620•gavide•15h ago•388 comments

Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/baking-a-model

16•KentBeck•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints

https://github.com/ytkoka/impersonate-proxy

5•ytkoka•1h ago•0 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/

81•andros•6h ago•32 comments

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

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

422•shdon•16h ago•180 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

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

549•Topfi•17h ago•359 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964

57•porridgeraisin•1h ago•12 comments

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

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

807•DeepLogin•17h ago•464 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming

139•honungsburk•6h ago•67 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

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

254•pizzaiolo•16h ago•61 comments

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]

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

64•kls0e•2d ago•30 comments

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A...

74•newsomix9xl•9h ago•36 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

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

674•ibotty•1d ago•119 comments

Olo (Color)

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

501•inigyou•6d ago•91 comments

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

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

404•galnagli•23h ago•150 comments

The Benchmarkpocalypse

https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/

145•cyndunlop•12h ago•44 comments

Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/fairly-ranking-the-most-brilliant-birds/

52•moultano•2d ago•5 comments