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More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/more-half-adults-us-say-they-lack-basic-statistical-under...
42•giuliomagnifico•1h ago•46 comments

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
1079•interpol_p•18h ago•1027 comments

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuo...
355•sunnynagra•11h ago•174 comments

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
35•zoenolan•4d ago•12 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
431•bmulholland•16h ago•283 comments

Queryable Executables

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables
116•rguiscard•6h ago•18 comments

Secret Cold War IBM Supercomputer Was Built for One Job

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm
8•jnord•1h ago•0 comments

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
750•interpol_p•18h ago•492 comments

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

https://github.com/runetes/maiao
64•zdw•8h ago•34 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
225•raattgift•14h ago•167 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-n...
480•runako•17h ago•297 comments

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21503
25•gdad•4h ago•13 comments

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html
130•Retr0id•11h ago•75 comments

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python

https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability
99•rbanffy•10h ago•44 comments

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
820•Banditoz•13h ago•686 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
321•surprisetalk•16h ago•209 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
303•speckx•16h ago•155 comments

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
151•speckx•13h ago•69 comments

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/
156•ibobev•14h ago•39 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
339•Hbruz0•19h ago•120 comments

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

https://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain
77•swimmingbrain•8h ago•16 comments

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch
127•petruspennanen•15h ago•35 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
1406•helsinkiandrew•13h ago•212 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
137•smiths1999•14h ago•37 comments

A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

https://zakpodmore.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-federal-lift-ticket
58•CGMthrowaway•11h ago•11 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
524•sarreph•14h ago•143 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1
346•yboris•13h ago•89 comments

Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer
1•gfavvas•13h ago

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html
101•zdw•1d ago•18 comments

Tracking Costco gas prices

https://www.jack.bio/blog/costco-gas-tracking
108•lafond•1d ago•101 comments
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Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
35•zoenolan•4d ago

Comments

thebeardisred•4d ago
Thanks @CliffStoll for the wonderful talk.
CliffStoll•3d ago
Quite welcome, Red Beard. I had fun doing that spoutathon. Meeting old friends at DefCon. Way fun.
Moru•1h ago
Yes, thank you! Our whole family of nerds enjoyed it and I had to explain quite a few things to daughter but not the over head projector at least, she did bump into that tech in school for some art project.

She just installed linux on the laptop for university study and got to hear about what people used before "more" and "less" :-)

Quai•9m ago
You are on my short-list of people I look up to.

Thank you!

EvanAnderson•2d ago
I watch a lot of videos at 1.5x. Older Cliff Stoll videos don't work at 1.5x. Cliff at 1.0x is already like other people at 1.5x.

I am so stoked to see Cliff at 1.0x in 2026 is still like other people at 1.5x. I am so glad to see Cliff still out there talking. "The Cuckoo's Egg"[0] was formative for me when I was a kid getting into computers. I am so happy that Cliff is out there making formative experiences for new hackers today.

Great talk, Cliff. (The "adjusted for inflation" quip about the budget made my day, too.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

ssl-3•9m ago
The book is brilliant.

Also worth mentioning is the rather dramatic PBS Nova episode from 1990, The KGB, the Computer, and Me -- starring, of course, Cliff Stoll. It's an entertaining take of the same topic.

I couldn't find a way to pay for a copy of it[], but this one on YouTube is pretty clean compared to the state of many other old NTSC things on our modern interweb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW8YBrH4Q6o

[]: Of course, a person is free to toss PBS a few dollars and/or buy an Acme Klein Bottle. :)

avmich•2d ago
Fantastic book, great story, awesome memories. Thank you, Cliff.
pi-rat•58m ago
Such a fun and enthusiastic guy. I’ve one of his klein bottles from like 20 years ago, think he still sells them.
vanderZwan•49m ago
You know, it just occured to me that technically we're all inside all of his Klein bottles. Or all Klein bottles, really.
peterbmarks•45m ago
Did he really break the screen on someone's phone during the talk? He seems dangerous to be around.
netfortius•17m ago
I saw him live in a presentation he gave in Chicago, early 90s. He and his book are the cause of my switching from a very young PhD in thermodynamics career to going back to school for CS, then working in the latter field until retirement, years back. I also read his Silicon Snake Oil book, as soon as it came out, which he - himself - publicly claimed to have been in error, in parts, sometimes, but about which I now think - looking at X, TruthSocial, TikTok, etc. - that may, in fact, has been premonitory...
jdw64•14m ago
"I bought this person's book too. I didn't know they were still alive. I really enjoyed reading The Cuckoo's Egg—it was such a fun read. They really have a way with words