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Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
106•thepoet•2h ago•39 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
736•speckx•4h ago•266 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
153•colinprince•3h ago•65 comments

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

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
237•gavide•5h ago•31 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
386•dares2573•7h ago•126 comments

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
19•arguiot•56m 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/
28•toebee•2h ago•7 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
52•dash2•2d ago•136 comments

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

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/litellm/3f326076-7415-46a1-921e-8a1b1d6ee2b6
1•ij23•1h ago

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

https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/
146•speckx•5h ago•91 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
37•ibobev•2h ago•5 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
19•colinprince•3h ago•1 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...
35•cainxinth•4h ago•0 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...
25•jakelsaunders94•2h ago•17 comments

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

https://passo.uno/if-you-are-an-agent-read-this/
19•theletterf•4d ago•4 comments

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456
10•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
12•gus_massa•1h ago•1 comments

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/21/galactic
5•bobbiechen•59m ago•1 comments

Making stinkarm stink less, or more – userspace armv7 emulator

https://xnacly.me/posts/2026/making-stinkarm-stink-less/
6•xnacly•4d ago•2 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/08/16/transactions-in-cassandra.html
37•eatonphil•6h ago•1 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214
78•pppone•4h ago•26 comments

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

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
16•unprovable•2h ago•4 comments

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

https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate
17•pablo24602•1h ago•7 comments

How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin

https://lithub.com/how-orchids-inspired-the-groundbreaking-work-of-charles-darwin/
6•prismatic•22h ago•0 comments

When the shortage is the strategy

https://nooneshappy.com/article/when-the-shortage-is-the-strategy/
26•speckx•58m ago•15 comments

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
49•karma_daemon•5h ago•5 comments

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/08/21/obfuscation_part_iii_local_mixing.html
24•fbrusch•3h ago•1 comments

Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/health/flight-attendants-pilots-radiation-cancer-deaths
63•jader201•3h ago•67 comments

How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/08/21/Lamport.html
32•baruchel•3h ago•9 comments

I Just Want to Search

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/just-want-to-search
77•ssiddharth•2h ago•31 comments
Open in hackernews

LLMs are proof that Unix won

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/unix/
10•Pseudomanifold•2h ago

Comments

pjmlp•36m ago
My Java, .NET, Go, JavaScript/Typescript code running on serverless deployments, or low code/no code agentic tools, don't care what OS is powering the underlying type 1 hypervisor running their containers.
vessenes•7m ago
s/Unix/The CLI/

But yes. That’s true.