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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-perform...
165•interpol_p•41m ago•100 comments

Apple Introduces 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/
97•interpol_p•39m ago•60 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
100•Hbruz0•1h ago•40 comments

US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons

https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/
16•kuuuzya•34m ago•5 comments

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/
46•zakxxi•57m ago•20 comments

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
44•garo-pro•1h ago•12 comments

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly
25•Bluestein•2h ago•21 comments

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm
531•K7PJP•15h ago•162 comments

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/
774•ComputerGuru•22h ago•379 comments

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-and-work-limits-for-chatgpt-plus-users/
35•MC995•1h ago•20 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926
927•tosh•22h ago•661 comments

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html
177•gmays•12h ago•213 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform
86•geerlingguy•10h ago•24 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europe-is-killing-makers-and-micro-entrepreneurs
1489•l-one-lone•1d ago•932 comments

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://sf.thijs.gg/
533•centrosphere•20h ago•155 comments

Moon (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/moon/
225•simonebrunozzi•15h ago•38 comments

What's new in Emacs 31.1

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-311
244•geospeck•1d ago•47 comments

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf
132•arbayi•14h ago•50 comments

Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents

https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents
94•lbw1215•9h ago•39 comments

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/
287•herbertl•20h ago•623 comments

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/
127•signor_bosco•16h ago•24 comments

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0344538
193•brandonb•22h ago•91 comments

Training AI to Paint with Code

https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code
135•Tiberium•1d ago•16 comments

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4
1•adawg4•19h ago

Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)

https://kylezhe.ng/writes/crafting-qr-codes
106•subset•23h ago•11 comments

The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai
4•swolpers•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

https://tarjan.itch.io/thoreaubasic
88•Gorsefound•1d ago•31 comments

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/
110•neom•12h ago•192 comments

Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

https://github.com/tobi/walgit
121•matallo•22h ago•41 comments

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/
248•inputmice•21h ago•149 comments
Open in hackernews

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
96•Hbruz0•1h ago

Comments

embedding-shape•1h ago
This is amazing, and incredible difficult (or I'm terrible), after ~10 minutes I can't even get in a third guess!
rylando•1h ago
Well this sure makes Wordle feel a lot easier!
whoisnjogu•59m ago
and I still can't believe it took me more than 3 guesses
massimodeluisa•1h ago
Ahahhaha funny! xD
MDTHLN•1h ago
This is quite fun, but I can’t believe the amount of cookies it wants to set!
whstl•1h ago
I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.
grocery_stores•1h ago
One thing I find odd about the rules: it forces you to respect what you've learned via green or yellow tiles, but not gray tiles. The spirit of the rules suggests once you've learned a letter is not in the word, you shouldn't be able to reuse that letter. Perhaps that would simply make the game too difficult, though.
kevsim•1h ago
It didn't let me guess things that had already been eliminated with gray tiles.
ChrisRR•58m ago
Isn't that rule 3?
pbronez•46m ago
It does - you can type them but it rejects the word when you submit it.

I think this DOES make it way harder than regular wordle.

hollylawly•1h ago
Of course the one time I get it in 2 guesses is in this version
bonzini•42m ago
Got to the sixth attempt, 2 words remaining, of course I picked the right one.
stavros•33m ago
I picked the right one out of twelve.
amiga386•9m ago
Having 12 options possible on the last guess is actually very good.
stavros•7m ago
It was only my last guess because I lost :P I had three remaining.
theanonymousone•58m ago
I hope NYT lawyers don't come for you. They did for many other variants of this. Maybe reconsider the name?
lugao•54m ago
Do they go after people using similar names or just any game with similar mechanics?
flexie•57m ago
We are asked to allow hundreds of cookies, not just a few, to play the game.
Madmallard•24m ago
yes top of hacker news and loaded with tracking information and a popular game so likely to garner lots of attention
inigyou•14m ago
What website isn't?

The most shocking part is that Americans care about appearing to follow GDPR, for some reason. For example, HN blatantly doesn't comply and doesn't plan to.

VonGallifrey•7m ago
> HN blatantly doesn't comply

What about HN doesn't comply with GDPR? It does not seem to have tracking cookies.

lugao•56m ago
It is too hard to be fun :P
huhtenberg•51m ago
Some of the suggested plays for yellow EA and green H after the first guess:

    ALMEH
    BEKAH
    BELAH
    DEASH
    OBEAH
    SELAH
Not much fun to play with a dictionary like this :-/
burnt-resistor•49m ago
The goal isn't explained clearly and simply enough.
pasc1878•40m ago
The goal is to get mony from clicks in "legitimate interest"

What is legitimate here. You and the site why does any third party have an interest?

netsharc•49m ago
I'd enjoy it if the rules with some graphics are displayed near the game, for newbies.

e.g. show a word with some green letters and that they have to be in the same spot in the other word. e.g. FUBAR with green B -> __B__

FUBAR with yellow R -> RRRR_ (with gray background and white R to signify "has to be placed somewhere here")

And for the gray letters, I guess.. show them next to the _____ in a trash can?

luciana1u•48m ago
finally a game that respects that I already know all five-letter words and would rather be told not to use them
Folcon•47m ago
Is the word list complete?

I tried WEIRD and it rejected it as not a word

zabzonk•34m ago
that "i before e except after c" rule often gets taken too seriously
LuminousWzrd•27m ago
Oh I've messed that one up before
bigfishrunning•24m ago
i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word
intrasight•46m ago
What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?
astura•41m ago
The word doesn't contain the letter T.

It means you previously guessed a word with T in it and it wasn't marked at green (correct spot) or yellow (word contains letter in different spot).

codechicago277•40m ago
You already guessed a word that had a “T” in it, and the game confirmed that “T” is not in the word. So you can’t guess another word with a “T”.
Angostura•45m ago
If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors
gear54rus•40m ago
Ublock seems to work with this one.
mda•39m ago
I see that terrible cookie permission window (62 legitimate interest) and I close the window,
phren0logy•33m ago
Be happ-ole? (Insert whistling)
lucideer•28m ago
I tried playing this as if its wordle & got it in 2 guesses. How do they do this ??? That's next to impossible in wordle & the probalities seem like they should be the same?
amiga386•20m ago
12935 -> TIZZY (5625) -> OXBOW (2674) -> GRUFF (858) -> MAMMA (195) and I'll let you guess the rest but the next choice left 43 words, and I survived with only 4 words possible.

The rules not letting use a letter you know isn't in the target word drastically cuts your choices, your best bet is to use as few unique letters per word as you can, and as uncommon letters as you can, but as all normal words need vowels you'll be forced into only picking a vowel from the target word soon enough. Try to find letters that are in the word as late as possible so you're not locked into having to use them.

Once you are forced to use letters from the target word, avoid placing them in the right place. Sadly there's a rule not letting you use a known letter more than once in a word (once A is known, you can't write ALPHA), and a rule for not letting you put a known letter in a place you know it doesn't go (so after MAMMA, you can't have HALVE because you know there's not an A in second place, nor ALPHA because you know there's not an A in fifth place).