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US Debt-to-GDP Ratio

https://www.us-debt-clock.com/debt-to-gdp
12•NordStreamYacht•1h ago

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dullcrisp•15m ago
Looking at the list of counties I’m thinking maybe some of these other counties need to pump their debt to GDP ratio up to be more like the US or China.
fedpost•8m ago
AI slop

That graph is deranged and the thresholds are completely made up.

Yes, high debt bad, but don't do the confident bullshit thing and muddy the water please.

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

https://danluu.com/perf-opt/
92•Jach•2h ago•91 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
562•colinprince•11h ago•232 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
452•thepoet•10h ago•155 comments

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://rust-glancer.github.io/blog/hello-world/
54•matklad•7h ago•20 comments

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117136278553665985
24•Cider9986•2h ago•8 comments

Three important steps in my maturation process

https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/
75•tdullien•4h ago•17 comments

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2026/08/10/scientists-release-biggest-2d-map-of-the-universe/
157•NKosmatos•8h ago•50 comments

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

https://kagi.com/changelog#11296
1033•speckx•13h ago•347 comments

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

https://ozbrain.com
48•dariusmonsef•4h ago•20 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
609•floathub•14h ago•776 comments

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

https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa
466•gavide•13h ago•52 comments

People of ACM – Russ Cox

https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox
99•signa11•4d ago•11 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
247•dash2•2d ago•295 comments

OTel isn't going well (and I made a spreadsheet about it)

https://matduggan.com/otel-isnt-going-well-and-i-made-a-spreadsheet-about-it/
39•hn_acker•9h ago•14 comments

Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fault-not-our-trees-ourselves
5•gumby•1d ago•0 comments

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

https://danluu.com/hn-comments/
23•adletbalzhanov•3h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Rex, a parallel functional language for scientific workflows

https://github.com/peterkelly/rex
15•peterkelly•4d ago•2 comments

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer
1•maciejSz•6h ago

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

https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/
113•toebee•11h ago•29 comments

Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

https://www.lambda-symbolics.com/autolith
30•vismit2000•1d ago•8 comments

Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

https://medicine.washu.edu/news/how-early-life-stress-leaves-a-scar-inside-brain-cells/
54•gmays•1d ago•18 comments

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md
212•aakil•12h ago•151 comments

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/08/20/designing-odins-inline-asm/
49•adamrezich•1d ago•16 comments

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

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/
102•ra7•1d ago•57 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/
210•speckx•14h ago•154 comments

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html
120•colinprince•11h ago•33 comments

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023)

https://tumbleforth.hardcoded.net/
62•vicek22•8h ago•8 comments

I'm becoming AI-blind

https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind
286•rcymerys•15h ago•302 comments

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/
35•jonemi•1d ago•0 comments

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw
166•neom•3d ago•16 comments