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Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding

https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2026/08/03/paul-atkins-misreads-adam-smith-and-the-american-...
20•zaik•54m ago•0 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
397•thepoet•8h ago•136 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
484•colinprince•9h ago•219 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
505•floathub•12h ago•690 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
134•NKosmatos•5h ago•43 comments

Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/electric-shock-gloves-already-in-use-by-pol...
15•rendx•1h ago•10 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
986•speckx•10h ago•333 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
222•dash2•2d ago•281 comments

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

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
420•gavide•11h ago•45 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/
20•tdullien•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

https://ozbrain.com
18•dariusmonsef•1h ago•8 comments

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
450•dares2573•13h ago•142 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
1•maciejSz•3h ago

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

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
97•toebee•8h ago•24 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
114•colinprince•9h ago•27 comments

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
88•ra7•1d ago•38 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
81•signa11•4d ago•10 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
183•aakil•9h ago•131 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
49•vicek22•5h ago•4 comments

What happens when a GPU reads memory

https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory
95•ibobev•8h ago•16 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
252•rcymerys•12h ago•260 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
146•neom•3d 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
515•Cider9986•21h ago•833 comments

'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ghost-job-ads-are-getting-so-bad-that-lawmakers-want-to-ban...
50•bcaulfield•2h ago•26 comments

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

https://henriemategui.com/post/remotely-unlocking-electric-scooters
18•henriemategui•2h ago•2 comments

Using an old Android phone as a music player

https://monocyte.blog/using-an-old-android-phone-as-a-music-player/
34•surprisetalk•4d ago•18 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...
77•jakelsaunders94•7h ago•48 comments

Rust Glancer

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/21/rust-glancer.html
26•surprisetalk•5h ago•3 comments

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

https://github.com/aravpanwar/decayfmt
44•unprovable•8h ago•18 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...
50•cainxinth•10h ago•2 comments
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Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/electric-shock-gloves-already-in-use-by-police-departments-in-bellevue-omaha/
15•rendx•1h ago

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rendx•48m ago
Compliant Technologies Glove 4&5 User Manual https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQ176YYgNl3VXCgLX0ScoihsfXy...
dtagames•24m ago
Ghandi said you can judge a society by how it treats animals.

And to that we can add "and it's schoolchildren."

tchalla•1m ago
Gandhi*
vlovich123•11m ago
Setting aside the morality of these vs other force options, these run at $1650/pair if I’m reading it correctly - $66k for 40. Anyone else find it like an insane amount of money for a device that’s so simple?
Aachen•7m ago
Feel free to recreate and calibrate and guarantee safe shock levels to offer it cheaper if that fits your morals
rootusrootus•3m ago
Why is there a requirement to guarantee it safe? I don't believe that requirement exists for tasers, for example, which are just considered less lethal. Same for rubber bullets.
tamimio•6m ago
Just add “tactical” to any product you make and you can charge 40% extra.
01100011•6m ago
Are these worse than Tasers? I would think a Taser's form factor makes it far more likely to be used.
tamimio•2m ago
Not really, because the whole idea is to have it used in discrete manner, a taser will be obvious and mostly recorded and shared online, plus once used there’s some time needed to reuse it again (the taser gun), those on the other hand, are discrete and can be used on multiple people quickly. The forced military draft will be “fun” to watch in the US!