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In Which I Lose My Mind over Embeddings (HPLM Chapter 2)

https://www.maayanroth.com/blog/posts/hundred-page-lm-book-chapter-2.html
7•evakhoury•3d ago

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
281•0xedb•5h ago•321 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
195•gregsadetsky•6h ago•19 comments

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

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
533•Ariarule•2d ago•248 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...
801•speckx•4h ago•183 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
855•emctech•14h ago•280 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
184•tyre•6h ago•69 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
544•encyclopedism•1d ago•153 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
377•abhisek•11h ago•355 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...
314•EwanG•1d ago•203 comments

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

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
199•danielvaughn•5h ago•111 comments

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

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
479•simedw•12h ago•105 comments

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678
6•u1hcw9nx•10m ago•0 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
77•rafaelc•5h ago•121 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
53•hurrrr•5h ago•11 comments

Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour
13•theanonymousone•1h ago•5 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
187•mariuz•8h ago•63 comments

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

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
169•Bluestein•9h ago•190 comments

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

https://tidalcycles.org/
51•gjvc•5h ago•8 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
115•codedge•8h ago•93 comments

The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis

https://nautil.us/the-wonders-of-the-male-human-pelvis-1283947
34•littlexsparkee•3h ago•12 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•7h ago

The Citizen Developer

https://www.massdriver.cloud/blogs/the-citizen-developer
39•metal13•3h ago•54 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
104•speckx•9h ago•72 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
16•arto•6d ago•0 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
333•visheshdembla•2d ago•70 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
76•vga805•10h ago•58 comments

Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/
294•Akasci•5h ago•113 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
131•gmays•11h ago•34 comments

Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch

https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html
80•speckx•10h ago•44 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
263•meetpateltech•2d ago•85 comments