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Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
182•flaburgan•3h ago•35 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
72•honungsburk•3h ago•18 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
547•gavide•12h ago•358 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
472•Topfi•14h ago•295 comments

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...
46•pseudolus•53m ago•13 comments

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

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
366•shdon•13h ago•155 comments

Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/fairly-ranking-the-most-brilliant-birds/
32•moultano•2d ago•3 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
212•pizzaiolo•13h ago•48 comments

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc
38•kls0e•2d ago•7 comments

I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf)

https://www.rainydaygc.com/
8•mdstrobe•5d ago•2 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
646•ibotty•21h ago•116 comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
573•DeepLogin•14h ago•347 comments

The Benchmarkpocalypse

https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/
123•cyndunlop•8h ago•32 comments

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

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
379•galnagli•20h ago•145 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
459•inigyou•6d ago•84 comments

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-...
76•hermitcrab•4d ago•51 comments

Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A...
36•newsomix9xl•6h ago•10 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
221•linggen•17h ago•45 comments

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/
250•neogodless•17h ago•157 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2
78•whobre•6d ago•31 comments

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

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
341•plurby•22h ago•162 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
306•ColinWright•20h ago•181 comments

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

https://www.repaircafe.org/
122•rglover•11h ago•22 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/
169•qingcharles•18h ago•64 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
236•Gecko4072•18h ago•80 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
906•mooreds•15h ago•553 comments

Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world
149•bookofjoe•16h ago•54 comments

Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure

https://irz.fr/en/articles/openclimbing-open-guide-en/
20•zbycz•2d ago•10 comments

India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xnwqe00v1o
159•monkey_monkey•15h ago•193 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
8•andros•3h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auction-because-ai/5288962
46•pseudolus•53m ago

Comments

KORraN•39m ago
Duplicate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339599
everyone•30m ago
How the fuck is that even remotely legal? ... "deidentified" my ass.
embedding-shape•24m ago
Ah, but Google promised to remove PII they found in this deidentified dataset, so worry not.

> If you’ve flown Spirit and worry that Google will soon know about a testy conversation you had with the airline’s call center, you’re being told not to worry. The court filing says the data was deidentified before being put on sale and Google has promised to scrub any PII it finds in the trove.

sscaryterry•17m ago
Ah, trust me bro :)
akoboldfrying•7m ago
I basically agree, but I'd also say: Every Gmail user has already accepted such a promise as sufficient.
noir_lord•2m ago
You know when we (they) tell you not to do any personal computing on work devices/systems and to keep your devices completely separate from work ones.

Yeah this (and lawsuits/investigations) are why, the employer owns the data, in some contexts (like this one) it can become an asset (or a liability) but in either case it's not yours.

blitzar•13m ago
The headline is a little on the nose. Nice try but it isnt going to hit the levels of "Headless body in topless bar".
steveBK123•13m ago
Maybe they are building a social credit score system
radres•13m ago
they wrote a shit article while trying to make some airline puns
stuaxo•4m ago
Woke up on the wrong side of the bed?
js2•8m ago
> Google bought itself 100 million emails and 500 million items from Microsoft Teams, 17 million OneDrive files and 20.5 million items from SharePoint. The search giant also now owns over 30 million recorded customer service calls, and more than 15 million customer service chat records. 600,000 ServiceNow tickets are another element of the collection, along with 13.7 million active emails addresses from Oracle’s Responsys marketing application, and details of 11 million sales of in-flight Wi-Fi services.

> There’s also operational data in the trove, describing over 763,000 flights, five million crew pairings, more than 1.2 million fuel slips, and records describing purchases of 787,452 parts.

> Google has reportedly said it bought the data to improve its AI services.

Gives "this call is being recorded for training purposes" new meaning.