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When the shortage is the strategy

https://nooneshappy.com/article/when-the-shortage-is-the-strategy/
13•speckx•45m ago

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lowbloodsugar•13m ago
The US is cooked. China is the new economic and industrial super power. The US "free market" is actively blocking all the future tech that the US can't compete with, first cars, latest is robotic parts. The rich are just soaking the rest of us for everything they can get before they GTFO.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
712•speckx•4h ago•257 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
88•thepoet•1h ago•24 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
136•colinprince•2h ago•55 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

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

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

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
222•gavide•5h ago•30 comments

When the shortage is the strategy

https://nooneshappy.com/article/when-the-shortage-is-the-strategy/
18•speckx•45m ago•5 comments

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
12•arguiot•42m ago•1 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/
138•speckx•5h ago•85 comments

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

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

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: Study

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/18/does-ai-stop-children-from-learning
39•dash2•2d ago•130 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
33•ibobev•1h ago•2 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
10•gus_massa•1h ago•1 comments

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

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

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
13•colinprince•2h ago•0 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...
30•cainxinth•4h ago•0 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214
77•pppone•4h ago•26 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...
19•jakelsaunders94•1h ago•15 comments

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

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
13•unprovable•2h ago•3 comments

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

https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate
14•pablo24602•1h ago•5 comments

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser
48•karma_daemon•5h ago•4 comments

New York’s office market is home to the most tech workers: CBRE report

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/new-york-san-francisco-tech-talent-cbre.html
21•toomuchtodo•2h ago•12 comments

LLMs are proof that Unix won

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/unix/
9•Pseudomanifold•2h 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
59•jader201•2h ago•58 comments

I Just Want to Search

https://www.0xsid.com/blog/just-want-to-search
76•ssiddharth•2h ago•28 comments

Code Obfuscation via Local Mixing

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

Omacom Foundation launches with $8M

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/
129•djfergus•2h ago•99 comments

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/
547•throw7•5h ago•296 comments

How I came to write that paper with Leslie Lamport

https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2026/08/21/Lamport.html
29•baruchel•3h ago•8 comments

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

https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html
416•Cider9986•15h ago•764 comments