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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

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

The Amazon Tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
46•herbertl•1h ago•20 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
343•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/
45•jp_sc•1h ago•12 comments

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

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

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

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
19•jeroenjanssens•49m ago•3 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
82•andrewjanke•6d ago•30 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
106•Vinnl•1h ago•31 comments

Kent Beck: Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests
13•vinipolicena•1h ago•0 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...
313•pseudolus•4h ago•205 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-...
83•DeepLogin•2h ago•39 comments

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

https://github.com/pitiflautico/neobrowser
16•pitiflautico•1h ago•5 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-...
54•danbolt•1h ago•26 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

Oxford Electric Bell

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

Finger: Social network that never died

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

Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints

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

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

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

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

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
822•DeepLogin•17h ago•471 comments

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

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964
63•porridgeraisin•2h ago•13 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
143•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

AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62em5lpvnjo
7•theanonymousone•50m ago

Comments

aaron_m04•40m ago
Or we could fly less.
blondie9x•39m ago
This exactly.
immmmmm•34m ago
Yes.

I read somewhere that 90% of human never took a plane.

brookst•37m ago
Ok, say we somehow cut air travel by 50% overnight. Seems unlikely, but we did it.

Would you advocate to not pursue this approach to mitigating the remaining 50%?

blondie9x•34m ago
Check out other comment. It could actually end up causing more warming in the long term depending on the net change in fuel use or extra maintenance on plane etc.
teiferer•31m ago
The required changes are typically minimal. A little bit of altitude up or down, a minimal detour. Also mentioned in other comments (and in the article).
blondie9x•39m ago
If you shift a route to avoid making contrails and end up on a longer or more turbulent route what is the net benefit to the climate? For example if a plane ends up using more fuel on a longer route to avoid a cold area where contrails could be made or ends up on a route with more headwinds or turbulence.

Is this a bit of green washing?

brookst•35m ago
From TFA:

> Rather than dramatically changing the route of a flight, the trial will mostly involve changing an aircraft's altitude by around 2,000ft.

blondie9x•34m ago
What if there are more headwinds at that height which require increased fuel use?
citrin_ru•35m ago
It's an optimization problem which could be solved if impact of contrails could be estimated. Making a long detour unlikely is good choice but if a small route / altitude changes could help - why not?
dd8601fn•33m ago
That’s not deep insight stuff. I promise you these people are more keenly aware of what constitutes an undesirable solution than that.
talon8635•30m ago
This is not what I was envisioning for major AI breakthroughs

It can hack into companies and exploit anything, but beyond that, forget the medical breakthroughs and real climate solutions, we’re tackling “sky graffiti”. Here I was, an ignorant dolt, unawares that we even had a major “sky graffiti” problem.

notarget137•26m ago
Yeah, let's use a computationally heavy task that contributes to burning coal and gas releasing CO2 into the atmosphere to reduce a slight fraction in emission so we could pat ourselves on the back.