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The Mystery of Dark Oxygen

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mystery-of-dark-oxygen
3•rbanffy•4d ago

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
117•dares2573•1h ago•22 comments

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/
122•spankibalt•4h ago•58 comments

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

https://htmlcat.net/
54•marcomezzavilla•2h ago•14 comments

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon
94•signa11•4h ago•46 comments

Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo

https://www.toxel.com/tech/2026/08/07/flat-chair-by-sara-paculdo/
30•surprisetalk•3d ago•10 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
561•0xedb•16h ago•615 comments

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

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
762•Ariarule•2d ago•307 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
856•encyclopedism•1d ago•190 comments

The case against a C alternative (2022)

https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8486-the_case_against_a_c_alternative
48•theanonymousone•4d ago•37 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
512•abhisek•22h ago•438 comments

Ox Alpha

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
178•mtokmak06•11h ago•137 comments

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)

https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-cru...
53•wise_blood•6h ago•30 comments

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.pk/blog/physical-destruction.html
6•darccio•1h ago•0 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
295•tyre•17h ago•110 comments

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

https://investors.micron.com/news/press-release/2026/Micron-Unveils-Micron-Research-Labs-a-U-S--B...
39•osnium123•7h ago•5 comments

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-inte...
225•rdmuser•6h ago•116 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
199•rafaelc•17h ago•284 comments

The Mystery of Dark Oxygen

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mystery-of-dark-oxygen
3•rbanffy•4d ago•0 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...
412•EwanG•1d ago•252 comments

Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo
43•yousefh409•20h ago•20 comments

Better Batteries

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/20/better-batteries.html
13•olexsmir•3h ago•8 comments

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

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
326•danielvaughn•16h ago•173 comments

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

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
263•Bluestein•20h ago•258 comments

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/
60•rbanffy•3d ago•7 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762
251•nunodonato•2d ago•198 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
262•mariuz•20h ago•106 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
977•emctech•1d ago•312 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
175•speckx•20h ago•133 comments

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed
30•gandalfgeek•6h ago•12 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
65•arto•1w ago•0 comments