frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
14•signa11•4d ago

Comments

shaftoe444•1d ago
> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
163•thepoet•2h ago•66 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
198•colinprince•3h ago•92 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
794•speckx•5h ago•280 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
85•dash2•2d ago•148 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
19•NKosmatos•35m ago•3 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
273•gavide•6h ago•34 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
394•dares2573•8h ago•129 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
43•colinprince•3h ago•4 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html
100•floathub•7h ago•163 comments

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm/3f326076-7415-46a1-921e-8a1b1d6ee2b6
1•ij23•2h ago

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
29•arguiot•1h ago•3 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
14•signa11•4d ago•1 comments

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
37•toebee•3h ago•9 comments

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
22•ra7•1d ago•2 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
41•ibobev•2h ago•10 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...
38•cainxinth•5h ago•1 comments

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

https://passo.uno/if-you-are-an-agent-read-this/
25•theletterf•4d ago•6 comments

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456
15•Ariarule•1w ago•1 comments

Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

http://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-better-lower-bound-for-n17.html
17•gus_massa•2h ago•1 comments

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-fac...
28•jakelsaunders94•2h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate
24•pablo24602•2h ago•12 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
134•rcymerys•7h ago•131 comments

Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

https://notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/shoehorn/
52•rhgraysonii•3d ago•10 comments

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
21•unprovable•3h ago•6 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
155•speckx•6h ago•107 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
75•neom•3d ago•5 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html
43•eatonphil•7h ago•1 comments

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214
85•pppone•5h ago•28 comments

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/21/galactic
7•bobbiechen•1h ago•2 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
90•aakil•4h ago•81 comments