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OpenRouter is joining Stripe

https://openrouter.ai/blog/announcements/openrouter-is-joining-stripe/
246•rvz•2h ago•169 comments

Go 1.27

https://go.dev/blog/go1.27
122•database64128•1h ago•16 comments

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/
540•kareiva•8h ago•69 comments

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/dynamic-3.0-ggufs
25•jonesy827•1h ago•4 comments

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html
116•CommonGuy•4h ago•31 comments

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/
322•yassa9•7h ago•55 comments

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/
58•coloneltcb•3h ago•25 comments

OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en
1448•amatheus•17h ago•389 comments

How Kubernetes Probes Work

https://ngrok.com/blog/probes
62•cyndunlop•3h ago•9 comments

Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
33•guyb3•3h ago•11 comments

Introducing MicroLighter

https://daverupert.com/2026/08/microlighter/
19•tobr•1h ago•2 comments

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/12/remote-workers-report-highest-well-being-study-7700-emp...
302•downbad_•4h ago•147 comments

Mathematics in the Age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
55•jonbaer•4h ago•30 comments

Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

https://theremin.bizibah.com/
203•gurov•9h ago•74 comments

PostgreSQL for Everything

https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/
226•karlmush•6h ago•157 comments

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08679
40•florianherrengt•3h ago•25 comments

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

https://twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan/status/2090050162441752787
412•heydenberk•6h ago•185 comments

Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/affidavit-police-officer-used-flock-cameras-track-estranged-w...
29•speckx•40m ago•1 comments

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730
527•exceptione•7h ago•331 comments

Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5

https://github.com/vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c
92•dhorthy•1d ago•27 comments

Rules of Good Social Skills

https://liamrosen.com/2025/07/24/33-rules-of-good-social-skills/
6•bilsbie•1h ago•1 comments

The A.I. In Google's New Pixel 11 Is Not Helpful

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/technology/personaltech/google-pixel-11-review.html
32•cdrnsf•1h ago•22 comments

A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D)

https://kolja.rs/algorithm-d/
153•nk_kolja•6d ago•31 comments

Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy
82•robin_reala•6d ago•29 comments

Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023
9•Animux•1h ago•1 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4
441•sunils34•19h ago•256 comments

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

https://blog.cloudflare.com/revisiting-spectre-attacks-on-workers/
10•albertpedersen•1h ago•0 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
866•nichochar•3d ago•675 comments

Turning molecules into reliable electronic devices

https://news.mit.edu/2026/turning-molecules-into-reliable-electronic-devices-0803
14•gmays•5d ago•0 comments

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-forged-meteorites-fashionable-ancient-greek.html
107•pseudolus•5d ago•40 comments
Open in hackernews

Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman

https://www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shiny-thing-cop-explains-why-he-used-license-plate-reader-to-stalk-woman/
34•cdrnsf•1h ago

Comments

NoDodgeQuestion•1h ago
Can a native English speaker explain what "I saw a shiny thing" means?
avgDev•1h ago
They see a good looking attractive woman and spy on them. Their low IQ vanishes completely and all the blood rushes to their pants.

They are like a toddler in a toy store and want the shiniest thing.

knodi•29m ago
Toddler with guns and a license to kill.
dgellow•12m ago
and qualified immunity. And civil asset forfeiture. And generally protected by institutions
paimapi•19m ago
relatedly: https://abcnews.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story...
overtone1000•1h ago
It's a metaphor. He was comparing seeing the woman to seeing an attractive or valuable object like a coin on the ground or a jewel.
mrguyorama•6m ago
The police officer is saying that he is so brain damaged or otherwise incapable of self control, rational thought, and restraint, that an attractive woman existing in his presence caused him to immediately commit many crimes to see her again.

Pay close attention to how he insists that she was coming on to him. He genuinely believes that. He lives in a fake reality that he adjusts in whatever way will make him happiest because he has spent so long in a system that has zero repercussions or accountability.

He probably shouldn't be allowed to own a gun.

Men like this know they are doing bad things. They don't care. There are no repercussions. They do not feel bad about doing these bad things.

See also: https://www.bwss.org/abusive-men-describe-the-benefits-of-vi...

Basically, these people just choose to not care about other people. They know they are hurting someone. But minor personal convenience is more important to them than not hurting another person.

avgDev•1h ago
Just unacceptable all around.

I've studied criminal justice before CS, and after getting to know cops I decided it isn't for me. The culture is awful. It is like high school, a lot of drama, sleeping around, many divorces, abuse of power and just screwed up mentality.

What makes this story worse is this for me: "The detective investigating Roman told the man “you’ll get past this bro” during his arrest, and later told the victim that he was "remorseful" and urged her not to post about the incident on social media, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media."

The detective urged the victim not post about it.....both should be stripped of badges immediately and never get certified again.

krapp•1h ago
These are people who wear Punisher logos unironically - because they wish they could be Frank Castle and act as judge, jury and executioner (and in the US, they can more or less because the American public wants Punishers in the force when they see too few white faces around them.) I can understand where the "defund the police" movement was coming from. Even the US military has higher standards for discipline and decorum.
avgDev•1h ago
Yep. I don't understand how departments even allow wearing the punisher logo. It is unprofessional imo. Also, a good indicator of a total toddler of a cop.
idle_zealot•40m ago
Look into what "defund" means in this context. It's a slogan that leaked from more formal and academic discussion into general usage and is misinterpreted as "let's not do law enforcement." That's not what anyone well-meaning means when they use it. They mean that the police are ineffective as a law enforcement institution, and the money spent on them would be better used on other safety projects. Giving a poorly designed institution more money does not improve safety. Maybe an effective public safety institution needs more money than the police get currently (though I doubt that) but no matter how much you give to these guys they'll spend it on retired military gear, warrior training, and building a panopticon of always-on public cameras via private partnerships.
quickthrowman•1h ago
If he didn’t say “Because I wanted to have sex with her,” he is lying. He wanted to have sex with her so he stalked her. I bet this is several orders of magnitude more common than hat is reported among police with access to databases.
cucumber3732842•6m ago
Cops abuse every system that's given to them, to varying extents. Whining about lack of access controls and rogue (i.e. not using to do their job properly) cops is implicitly saying that this system could/would/should exist if it has "proper" access controls, whatever that means. It's like seeing a slave labor gulag and saying that the prisoners need better recreation ad more frequent laundry. To say these little things like access controlled need to be fixed is advocating for turd polishing. Even with proper access controls the purpose of these systems is to create misery at the hands of the state. The turd is still a turd.
srustagi•5m ago
> to varying extents

Is doing an INSANE amount of heavy lifting here for that generalization but yeah point taken.

krapp•11m ago
>Look into what "defund" means in this context. It's a slogan that leaked from more formal and academic discussion into general usage and is misinterpreted as "let's not do law enforcement."

No it didn't. It came from black activist movements and got popularized by BLM and the Black Visions Collective during the George Floyd protests, and abolition was very much an intended part of the message.

It then leaked into more formal and academic discussion as it was adopted by the white liberal mainstream because the original message was too radical to be acceptable. Which is understandable.

ishouldbework•37m ago
To be fair, the full quote is

> I can’t tell you what to post or not post, but if you could refrain from posting anything until my investigation is over, I would appreciate it.

emphasis mine, given that, "The detective urged the victim not post about it" seems like taking things bit out of context.

jazzyjackson•33m ago
You’re focusing on the bad behavior of a couple individuals but the bigger story is the license plate cameras going up all over the country may be used just as easily to stalk ex girlfriends as they are to solve crimes.