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Superpowers, Not Superintelligence

https://bond.now/news/superpowers-not-superintelligence

4•edbernays•55m ago

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JohnMakin•23m ago

You can tell the people pioneering this are utterly miserable and soulless. "Let's build something to automate all the parts of your life that are actually your life."

What person that was even mildly satisfied with living their life would want this? What's next, agents that play video games and watch tv for me? What's the point?

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/

262•otherayden•4h ago•45 comments

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/

195•jp_sc•4h ago•116 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/

445•herbertl•4h ago•312 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting

181•tomasreimers•1d ago•125 comments

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM

https://pixelcluster.dev/VRAM-Overcommit/

414•flaburgan•9h ago•172 comments

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

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/

83•jeroenjanssens•3h ago•12 comments

Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI

https://machine0.io

11•bwm•56m ago•7 comments

Degraded performance for multiple models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/q7txxvbsftgq

120•matt89•55m ago•97 comments

Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD

https://tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon

150•andrewjanke•6d ago•49 comments

Splitting a Git Commit

https://blog.gnoack.org/post/git-history-split

52•signa11•3d ago•20 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22738

24•baigy•2h ago•26 comments

Composable Tests

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests

49•vinipolicena•4h ago•37 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-...

124•zeristor•3h ago•32 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

239•Vinnl•4h ago•126 comments

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/memory-prices-climb-500-percent-in-12-months-up-to...

153•haunter•23h ago•105 comments

Superpowers, Not Superintelligence

https://bond.now/news/superpowers-not-superintelligence

5•edbernays•55m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?

18•Abh1Works•2d ago•14 comments

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/18/google-buys-crashed-airline-spirits-data-at-auct...

463•pseudolus•7h ago•327 comments

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

https://notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/shoehorn/

22•rhgraysonii•2h ago•2 comments

We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/weve-flown-a-radiation-blocking-vest-to-the-moon-and-back...

4•rbanffy•4d ago•0 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-...

184•DeepLogin•4h ago•124 comments

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-...

417•karakoram•1d ago•556 comments

California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year

https://grist.org/transportation/californias-new-tire-efficiency-rules-could-save-drivers-1b-a-year/

57•littlexsparkee•14h ago•83 comments

Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

https://github.com/therepanic/openleetcode

6•therepanic•1h ago•1 comments

Rethinking Database Programming

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

183•honungsburk•9h ago•96 comments

Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

111•sharts•1d ago•84 comments

Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training

https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/baking-a-model

29•KentBeck•3d ago•3 comments

Finger: Social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/

133•andros•10h ago•43 comments

Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/diesel-margins-top-100-a-barrel-to-reach-recor...

11•toomuchtodo•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

https://saggar.marginalutility.dev/

45•mcclowes•1d ago•48 comments