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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
195•gavide•2h ago•137 comments

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

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
128•shdon•3h ago•60 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
75•pizzaiolo•3h ago•16 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
155•linggen•7h ago•35 comments

Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates

https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/07/28/flock-cameras-atlanta-clearance-rates/
31•jimt1234•2h ago•12 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
527•ibotty•11h ago•94 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
87•Topfi•4h ago•29 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
524•SpyCoder77•11h ago•907 comments

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

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
311•galnagli•10h ago•124 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
308•inigyou•5d ago•64 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2
13•whobre•5d ago•1 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
298•plurby•13h ago•152 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
131•qingcharles•9h ago•52 comments

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617
25•ingve•4h ago•5 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
568•mooreds•5h ago•359 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
165•Gecko4072•8h ago•55 comments

PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/08/17/prime-minister-carney-announces-largest-cle...
23•garbawarb•47m ago•3 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
250•ColinWright•11h ago•154 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/
90•abdik•9h ago•51 comments

Puppy PPE

http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde
13•ChadNauseam•2h ago•3 comments

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1
97•Brajeshwar•5d ago•16 comments

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

https://www.repaircafe.org/
7•rglover•1h ago•1 comments

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a-digestion-of-the-proof-of-sendovs-conjecture/
3•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Intriguing stories in computer science

https://inventwithpython.com/blog/intriguing-stories-in-cs.html
29•gregsadetsky•5d ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

490•dhruv3006•11h ago•311 comments

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv
26•KGC3D•4h ago•3 comments

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/
42•Bluestein•6h ago•3 comments

A simple fix for LLM tail latency

https://engineering.myhoai.com/posts/a-simple-fix-for-llm-tail-latency/
36•oskrim•3d ago•14 comments

The oldest bar in every state

https://www.businessinsider.com/oldest-bar-every-state
66•NaOH•4d ago•33 comments

scScript for Linux

https://scapplications.com/
11•OptionOfT•2h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Cursor Origin

https://cursor.com/docs/origin
45•peterspath•1h ago

Comments

throw03172019•1h ago
Good day to launch. GitHub had issues as normal.
granzymes•37m ago
If the goal was to launch on a day when GitHub had issues, most days are good launch days.
verdverm•58m ago
previously discussed today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209

Ironically this had an issue because of GitHub downtime?

https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv

wxw•56m ago
Perhaps has to do with the Github sync feature, https://cursor.com/docs/origin/mirror-github
verdverm•49m ago
doesn't matter, it's DOA anyway, Elon is bad for your brand, hosting your project with Elon is a sure way to have people pass on it, and possibly a way your private repos end up in an Ai training set. These people cannot be trusted
Georgelemental•36m ago
As opposed to Micro$oft, which everyone loves and trusts?
verdverm•21m ago
Fwiw, Microsoft has not been as destructive to GitHub as people predicted. The complaint these days is around uptime, which is understood to be an effort to migrate to Azure.

It's one thing to have low quality products, it's another to have a low ethics leader. They can both be hated, but it is different.

GitHub downtime is a matter which can be resolved, not so sure about Elon's antics. But this is all besides the actual reasons GitHub has staying power. (network, actions, migrating git hosts is a significant endeavor that doesn't add value to your users)

vzaliva•51m ago
I’ve finally cancelled my Cursor subscription. It was an interesting product, but the fact that most interesting features only work with per-token pricing, not Cursor and Codex subscriptions, is a bummer. As to their Composer models, they were good for simpler coding tasks, but after the company purchase, they will probably end up merged with Grok, and I do not want to pay nor contribute to Elon Musk’s businesses.
runtime_terror•33m ago
Same. Cancelled the day the Elon acquisition was announced.
Tostino•44m ago
Wouldn't touch it at this point because of the association.

With as bad as GitHub has gotten, I can see moving...but not to here.

wellthisisgreat•44m ago
Genuinely curious - why does Cursor still exist?

What’s the point? What value does it add VS VSCode with Claude and such?

bhouston•43m ago
I have been a long time Cursor user but it is really expensive even if it is convenient to switch models. I recently switched to just Max on Claude and Max on Codex. That is cheaper than Cursor if you use it a lot.
polishdude20•28m ago
That hasn't been my experience but maybe it's because in cursor I'm really only using the auto feature all the time. It's been almost a month of daily usage and I'm still only at like 70% quota.
bhouston•7m ago
I find that auto wrecks my code base and makes stupid mistakes. I find for routine tasks I need at least sonnet and then it is reliable.
smb06•17m ago
It was first/fast to the market, well before Claude and such and it is hard to displace tools once they become entrenched in your workflows.
jermaustin1•14m ago
This just reminded me to cancel it. I got pretty annoyed back in March when I did a comparison between Cursor and Claude Code to see if Claude had gotten better, and my cursor burned $200 unsupervised on extra credits in a single session. I should have been paying attention.

I've left Claude Code with Fable running all night and it not only didn't run out of my Weekly Claude allowance, it didn't even run out of my weekly fable allowance. Claude Code has been the best coding harness for the money.

colesantiago•41m ago
Isn’t Codeberg a better alternative to this?

Cursor / SpaceX will just have free rein to just train on your hosted code if you use Cursor Origin.

neuronexmachina•34m ago
I imagine Codeberg's LLM ban might make it a poor fit for many Cursor users.
aabhay•38m ago
With the Grok code incident in recent memory I have zero interest in trusting our company’s crown jewels with this service.

Agents are here. Just self host and let the agents help cover your ass in network config, HA, whatever.

JSR_FDED•37m ago
One of the few areas in my life i have control over is who I associate with and who I spend my money with. Elon ain’t it.
Jackobrien•31m ago
Diabolical timing. Incredible. Too bad it requires mirroring GitHub.
internet2000•29m ago
Awesome stuff, about time.

A common refrain in the commentariat is "if AI makes you so more productive, where's all the new ambitious software?" Here you are, here's an AI assisted Github clone.

dimbletimbers•1m ago
Not sure how well “new ambitious software” and “____ clone” go together there.

Seems like even most critics would agree LLMs are capable of producing impressive-for-the-timescale clones of existing software, but is that valuable?

roughly•28m ago
Boy, if you want to trust your company’s codebase to xAI, I don’t know what to tell you except good luck and Godspeed. GitHub’s been terrible lately, but the answer surely isn’t to hitch your wagon to Elon’s AI bet.
pianopatrick•18m ago
now that software is easy to make and github has problems, how many "git as a service" offerings will there be?

My guess is there will be at least dozens if not hundreds.