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AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html

122•Cider9986•1h ago•70 comments

The August 17 outage

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/

385•0xedb•8h ago•429 comments

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674

9•TheP1000•50m ago•1 comments

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

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick

613•Ariarule•2d ago•266 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/

629•encyclopedism•1d ago•170 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/

420•abhisek•14h ago•374 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/

208•tyre•10h ago•80 comments

Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K

https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/4nhs-bkwh

18•supermagnet•6d ago•5 comments

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/

41•mooreslaw•3h ago•81 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier

111•rafaelc•9h ago•164 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...

368•EwanG•1d ago•221 comments

Captain Zilog

https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/

11•rbanffy•3d ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit

204•Bluestein•12h ago•218 comments

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

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/

239•danielvaughn•9h ago•138 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html

211•mariuz•12h ago•73 comments

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source

360•visheshdembla•2d ago•84 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html

923•emctech•17h ago•295 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page

254•gregsadetsky•9h ago•39 comments

Speeding Up (Small) Ruby Hashes

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2026/08/13/speeding-up-ruby-hashes.html

30•arto•6d ago•0 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/

64•hurrrr•8h ago•15 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview

130•codedge•12h ago•109 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/

128•speckx•13h ago•86 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale

294•meetpateltech•2d ago•96 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...

1180•speckx•8h ago•265 comments

Artificial Intelligence Policy

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/academics/registrar/academic-rules/artificial-intelligence-policy/

28•hackerBanana•2h ago•18 comments

Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762

200•nunodonato•1d ago•122 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern

1•HPMOR•11h ago

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146

140•gmays•14h ago•34 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...

84•vga805•14h ago•74 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

90•speckx•13h ago•48 comments

Open in hackernews

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674

6•TheP1000•50m ago

Comments

TheP1000•50m ago

Our codex on AWS Bedrock read / write cache ratio was less than 5%. Cache writes are very expensive and they were never being used. This results in codex on Bedrock causing ~10x what it should due to no caching and massive writes.

The workaround in issue resolved for me: web_search = "disabled"