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Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
10•NKosmatos•19m ago
Direct link to Legacy Survey Sky Viewer: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org

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therobot24•20h ago
make sure you watch the youtube video embedded in the website, it adds some real perspective of just how massive this is
br0ceph•19h ago
is there anyway to download the entire map, and play with it locally
fercircularbuf•15h ago
Wow, this is humbling

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
140•thepoet•2h ago•60 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
772•speckx•4h ago•277 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
176•colinprince•3h ago•77 comments

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

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
261•gavide•5h ago•32 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
389•dares2573•8h ago•128 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
68•dash2•2d ago•143 comments

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

https://circleback.ai/blog/how-we-rebuilt-our-electron-recording-engine-in-swift
27•arguiot•1h ago•2 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
28•colinprince•3h ago•1 comments

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
76•floathub•6h ago•135 comments

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

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

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
9•signa11•4d ago•1 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
10•NKosmatos•19m ago•3 comments

LLMs are proof that Unix won

https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/2026/unix/
26•Pseudomanifold•2h ago•7 comments

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

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
33•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/
17•ra7•1d 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...
37•cainxinth•5h ago•1 comments

Does whispering to agents in docs help?

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

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456
13•Ariarule•1w 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/
152•speckx•5h ago•101 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
38•ibobev•2h ago•9 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...
27•jakelsaunders94•2h ago•19 comments

Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

http://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-better-lower-bound-for-n17.html
13•gus_massa•2h ago•1 comments

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/08/21/galactic
7•bobbiechen•1h ago•2 comments

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

https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate
21•pablo24602•2h ago•10 comments

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

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

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
126•rcymerys•7h ago•121 comments

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

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
19•unprovable•2h ago•5 comments

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214
82•pppone•5h ago•27 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
71•neom•3d ago•5 comments

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

https://notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/shoehorn/
49•rhgraysonii•3d ago•9 comments