fp.

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/

160•thepoet•2h ago•64 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/

195•colinprince•3h ago•91 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

790•speckx•5h ago•279 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/

18•NKosmatos•33m ago•3 comments

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning

83•dash2•2d ago•148 comments

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa

269•gavide•5h ago•33 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/

392•dares2573•8h ago•129 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html

40•colinprince•3h ago•4 comments

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift

29•arguiot•1h ago•3 comments

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm/3f326076-7415-46a1-921e-8a1b1d6ee2b6

1•ij23•2h ago

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html

97•floathub•7h ago•159 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox

14•signa11•4d ago•1 comments

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/

35•toebee•3h ago•9 comments

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/

21•ra7•1d ago•2 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory

40•ibobev•2h ago•10 comments

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-sa...

38•cainxinth•5h ago•1 comments

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

https://passo.uno/if-you-are-an-agent-read-this/

25•theletterf•4d ago•6 comments

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456

14•Ariarule•1w ago•1 comments

Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

http://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-better-lower-bound-for-n17.html

16•gus_massa•2h ago•1 comments

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

https://blog.jakesaunders.dev/building-an-almost-fully-self-hosted-sandboxed-agentic-software-fac...

28•jakelsaunders94•2h ago•20 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind

134•rcymerys•7h ago•128 comments

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt

21•unprovable•3h ago•6 comments

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/

154•speckx•6h ago•107 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html

43•eatonphil•7h ago•1 comments

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

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

51•rhgraysonii•3d ago•10 comments

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214

84•pppone•5h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate

23•pablo24602•2h ago•12 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw

73•neom•3d ago•5 comments

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/21/galactic

7•bobbiechen•1h ago•2 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md

89•aakil•4h ago•81 comments

Open in hackernews

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/

21•ra7•1d ago

Comments

p-o•22m ago

They really are the impressive tech, it's really a shame that they aren't the one capturing all the media spotlight.

I don't know if we'll get there eventually, but if we do, I won't be surprised if it's because of Waymo.

kilroy123•13m ago

Riding in one is pretty mind-blowing at first. But what's more shocking is how fast you get used to it. After a while it's just a boring car ride.

I wish more people would experience it and see that the future is now.