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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
110•otherayden•1h ago•20 comments

The Amazon Tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
37•herbertl•1h ago•16 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
341•flaburgan•6h ago•114 comments

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
44•jp_sc•1h ago•12 comments

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
18•jeroenjanssens•45m ago•3 comments

Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one

https://github.com/mukundzha/avouch
17•mukundzha6•1h ago•7 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
79•andrewjanke•6d ago•30 comments

Kent Beck: Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests
13•vinipolicena•1h ago•0 comments

Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

https://www.fairphone.com/nl/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more
98•Vinnl•1h ago•31 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...
309•pseudolus•4h ago•203 comments

NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

https://github.com/pitiflautico/neobrowser
16•pitiflautico•58m ago•5 comments

Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/08/17/meta-files-patent-for-facial-recognition-automatic-...
80•DeepLogin•2h ago•37 comments

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-just-not-as-much-fun-for-me-anymore-deus-ex-creator-...
51•danbolt•1h ago•25 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
622•gavide•16h ago•389 comments

Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/baking-a-model
16•KentBeck•3d ago•1 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
81•andros•7h ago•32 comments

Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints

https://github.com/ytkoka/impersonate-proxy
5•ytkoka•1h ago•0 comments

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

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
424•shdon•16h ago•181 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
551•Topfi•17h ago•365 comments

Oxford Electric Bell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell
5•gurjeet•4d ago•0 comments

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

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
817•DeepLogin•17h ago•470 comments

Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964
60•porridgeraisin•2h ago•12 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
142•honungsburk•6h ago•67 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
258•pizzaiolo•16h ago•61 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc
64•kls0e•2d ago•31 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
674•ibotty•1d ago•120 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...
75•newsomix9xl•9h ago•36 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
502•inigyou•6d ago•91 comments

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

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
406•galnagli•1d ago•150 comments

The Benchmarkpocalypse

https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/
147•cyndunlop•12h ago•45 comments
Open in hackernews

NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

https://github.com/pitiflautico/neobrowser
16•pitiflautico•58m ago

Comments

Johnny_Bonk•30m ago
Interesting, I will have to check this out as a lot of what I do everyday involves asking claude and chat go use my signed in profile, I even built a skill for it with some other tools.
nateb2022•16m ago
https://github.com/browser-use/browser-use has been great so far
sanex•11m ago
Any opinion on browser-use vs Vercel's agent browser or Claude's built in chrome driver?
Icingdeath•5m ago
When I need an coding agent to interact with an existing session I just use

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome-profile-stable and tell it

billylo•3m ago
This pattern of using original source code and rewrite to improve them (and get rid of technical debt) is very real. I did one for an old app in Objective C, move it to Flutter and said goodbye to my old //TODOs. And get an Android build as a bonus. :-)