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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...
682•interpol_p•5h ago•556 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/
558•interpol_p•5h ago•330 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
50•raattgift•1h ago•20 comments

Nitter project received cease and desist

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
183•Banditoz•1h ago•116 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...
313•runako•5h ago•163 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
83•sarreph•1h ago•17 comments

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
168•speckx•4h ago•106 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•1h ago

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
19•speckx•1h ago•6 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
35•bmulholland•4h ago•1 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
30•smiths1999•1h ago•5 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
150•surprisetalk•4h ago•112 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
240•Hbruz0•6h ago•98 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
175•helsinkiandrew•30m ago•21 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/
30•ibobev•1h ago•5 comments

A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant

https://www.judegomila.com/posts/riemann-lambda-0.1787854
23•judegomila•1h ago•3 comments

Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler

https://www.kurz.net/posts/fuzzing-gleam-compiler
15•crowdhailer•2h ago•1 comments

Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon
15•ygagaga•1h ago•7 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING-en.html
27•zdw•1d ago•9 comments

Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3820012
22•coffeeaddict1•3h ago•2 comments

Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents

https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/sandbox/minecraft
13•someguy101010•2h ago•2 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
23•yboris•37m ago•2 comments

Solving the 1+N Query Problem

https://acadia.engineering/blog/solving-the-1-plus-N-query-problem
24•wheatBread•6h ago•13 comments

Starbase, LA

https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la
71•bilsbie•1h ago•66 comments

Otto Dix, Nietzsche, and the Great War (2019)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/beyond-good-and-evil-nietzsche-and-great-war
28•samizdis•3h ago•16 comments

HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly
73•Bluestein•6h ago•40 comments

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

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
260•garo-pro•6h ago•117 comments

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

https://dfarq.homeip.net/happy-20th-birthday-to-windows-95/
96•giuliomagnifico•11h ago•54 comments

SiFive's First Server Platform

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform
120•geerlingguy•15h ago•37 comments

DOJ prosecutes single FOIA dodger while defending systemwide evasion

https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-prosecutes-single-foia-dodger-while-defending-systemwid...
14•hn_acker•57m ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents

https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/sandbox/minecraft
13•someguy101010•2h ago

Comments

lostmsu•24m ago
Run ... without graphics acceleration.
orbital-decay•4m ago
But... why? Computer use is probably the least efficient way to do this. There are agentic mods and plugins that are a lot better. See also SkyrimNet, people have been building agents for gaming and roleplay long before tool use was even a thing, let alone the current agentic craze.