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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
171•0xedb•3h ago•184 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
136•gregsadetsky•4h ago•7 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
480•Ariarule•2d ago•230 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
159•tyre•4h ago•63 comments

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-somet...
435•speckx•2h ago•73 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
809•emctech•12h ago•273 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
493•encyclopedism•1d ago•144 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
166•danielvaughn•3h ago•91 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
343•abhisek•9h ago•338 comments

Citizen Devs: Everyone is an engineer now

https://www.massdriver.cloud/blogs/the-citizen-developer
20•metal13•1h ago•15 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
292•EwanG•22h ago•187 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
39•hurrrr•3h ago•8 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
171•mariuz•6h ago•53 comments

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
456•simedw•10h ago•102 comments

Code as an Artifact

https://pradeeproark.com/posts/code-as-an-artifact-means-to-an-end/
9•pradeeproark•1h ago•3 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
50•rafaelc•3h ago•75 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•5h ago

The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis

https://nautil.us/the-wonders-of-the-male-human-pelvis-1283947
10•littlexsparkee•1h ago•0 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
154•Bluestein•7h ago•157 comments

Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
6•gmays•46m ago•0 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html
6•arto•6d ago•0 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
108•codedge•6h ago•85 comments

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

https://tidalcycles.org/
33•gjvc•3h ago•5 comments

Watching TikTok and Instagram deactivates the cognitive control network: Study

https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/
273•Akasci•3h ago•102 comments

Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch

https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html
73•speckx•8h ago•43 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
84•speckx•7h ago•64 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
67•vga805•8h ago•51 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
314•visheshdembla•2d ago•66 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
122•gmays•9h ago•32 comments

Project Cybersyn (2022)

https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html
43•cassepipe•4h ago•30 comments