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Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity

https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(23)00137-4
6•joebig•5d ago

Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos
89•cwal37•1h ago•26 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
427•Ariarule•2d ago•210 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
129•tyre•2h ago•55 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
57•danielvaughn•1h ago•31 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
769•emctech•10h ago•263 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
65•gregsadetsky•2h ago•0 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
445•encyclopedism•1d ago•127 comments

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
48•0xedb•1h ago•67 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
141•mariuz•5h ago•51 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
268•EwanG•20h ago•164 comments

Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/
227•Akasci•1h ago•89 comments

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
427•simedw•8h ago•99 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
14•hurrrr•1h ago•5 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•3h ago

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
123•Bluestein•5h ago•135 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
94•codedge•4h ago•69 comments

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

https://tidalcycles.org/
17•gjvc•1h ago•4 comments

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/
13•jonemi•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it

https://radi8.dev/blog/uplink/
41•radeeyate•3h ago•17 comments

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-somet...
54•speckx•40m ago•7 comments

Project Cybersyn (2022)

https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html
38•cassepipe•3h ago•22 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
120•gmays•7h ago•29 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
68•speckx•5h ago•56 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
294•visheshdembla•2d ago•63 comments

Gauguin, Descartes, Bayes: A Diurnal Golem's Brain

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759429.3762631
14•asdftemp•1w ago•3 comments

Generic Methods in Go 1.27

https://dominik.info/blog/go-generic-methods
54•EspressoGPT•5h ago•25 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
230•meetpateltech•2d ago•60 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
318•abhisek•7h ago•292 comments

Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-August/003741.html
105•st_goliath•7h ago•79 comments

Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

https://github.com/paulsp94/omacosy
34•paulsp•6h ago•26 comments