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Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
188•otherayden•3h ago•37 comments

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime

https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime/
27•speckx•20m ago•13 comments

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
125•jp_sc•2h ago•53 comments

The Amazon Tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
292•herbertl•2h ago•220 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/
384•flaburgan•7h ago•150 comments

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

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
53•jeroenjanssens•2h ago•8 comments

JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer

https://jpegxlconvert.com/en/
8•El-Necora•58m ago•1 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon
121•andrewjanke•6d ago•39 comments

An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet

https://pleated-jeans.com/2026/08/15/engineers-forgotten-recipe-hack-viral-divides-internet/
26•alexandrehtrb•1h ago•18 comments

Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests
32•vinipolicena•2h ago•21 comments

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

https://theconversation.com/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-...
57•zeristor•1h ago•6 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
173•Vinnl•3h ago•80 comments

Splitting a Git Commit

https://blog.gnoack.org/post/git-history-split
14•signa11•3d ago•6 comments

Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...
400•pseudolus•5h ago•269 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-...
137•DeepLogin•3h ago•90 comments

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
640•gavide•17h ago•401 comments

How I Under-Engineered My Book

https://chriskiehl.com/article/how-i-under-engineered-my-book
7•goostavos•20h ago•0 comments

Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints

https://github.com/ytkoka/impersonate-proxy
15•ytkoka•2h ago•2 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-...
81•danbolt•2h ago•51 comments

Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training

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

Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22738
5•baigy•50m ago•3 comments

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

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
443•shdon•17h ago•189 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

https://acadia.engineering/blog/rethinking-database-programming
163•honungsburk•8h ago•78 comments

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

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
893•DeepLogin•18h ago•517 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
578•Topfi•18h ago•379 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
108•andros•8h ago•34 comments

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

https://twitter.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089377982536388964
91•porridgeraisin•3h ago•28 comments

The Size of the World Wide Web

https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
3•1970-01-01•23h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

https://notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/shoehorn/
5•rhgraysonii•1h ago•1 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
12•neom•55m ago•0 comments