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The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-90-year-history-of-the-binoculars-bolted-to-scenic-overlooks/
14•sohkamyung•2h ago

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
126•phoenix120•3h ago•30 comments

The Amazon tax

https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
907•herbertl•11h ago•527 comments

Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries

https://github.com/pg83/solo
22•zX41ZdbW•1h ago•20 comments

Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models

https://modelmap.cc
24•lizhaoliu•1h ago•1 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc...
219•NaOH•6h ago•138 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
201•fittingopposite•6h ago•27 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
250•nichochar•2d ago•132 comments

AI usage patterns in software teams

https://linear.app/data
30•giuliomagnifico•2h ago•17 comments

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

https://philo.gay/linecam/
393•otherayden•12h ago•63 comments

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting
455•tomasreimers•1d ago•360 comments

Beware Management Consultants

https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/
431•KolmogorovComp•5h ago•121 comments

Fixing a bricked Framework laptop

https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/
348•jp_sc•11h ago•239 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/25-year-old-brazilian-video-patent-expired-legal-headache-linux/
73•theanonymousone•3d ago•22 comments

GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3
69•apitman•3h ago•32 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...
469•haunter•1d ago•384 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
150•_djo_•7h ago•76 comments

The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks

https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-90-year-history-of-the-binoculars-bolted-to-scenic-overlooks/
14•sohkamyung•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Loft Day – a wedding invitation turned point-and-click game

https://marketa.behdad.org/loft-day
5•behdad•16h ago•1 comments

How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario

https://betakit.com/how-a-giant-battery-is-transforming-a-town-centre-in-cannington-ontario/
13•builtbystef•4d ago•7 comments

Programmable Property-Based Testing

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3828685
13•matt_d•2h ago•1 comments

Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-announces-changes-for-apps-in-the-european-union/
107•newusertoday•8h ago•166 comments

Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?

https://konstantintkachuk.com/writing/depin-is-dead-long-live-infrastructure-as-a-service/
3•Reaktornano•54m ago•0 comments

Norway should buy OpenAI

https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai
205•alexeigannon•5h ago•224 comments

2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/07/colossal-2500-year-old-sculpture-discovered-turkey-une...
69•speckx•5d ago•22 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-...
693•karakoram•1d ago•786 comments

Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a

https://cdn.kuber.studio/chat/hp-laser-1008a-driver
107•amrrs•3h ago•71 comments

Simulated red blood cells and microscopy

https://lucasamoudruz.com/blog/red-blood-cells.html
6•amlucas•6d ago•0 comments

Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion
255•tyre•8h ago•223 comments

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

https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/
158•jeroenjanssens•11h ago•33 comments

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

https://machine0.io
59•bwm•8h ago•36 comments