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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...
715•interpol_p•5h ago•596 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/
582•interpol_p•5h ago•340 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
71•raattgift•1h ago•29 comments

Nitter project received cease and desist

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442
221•Banditoz•1h ago•138 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
122•sarreph•2h ago•29 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalapeno-better-than-nvidia
67•bmulholland•4h ago•13 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...
330•runako•5h ago•169 comments

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/
34•speckx•1h ago•11 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

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bomb-fishing-coral-reefs
176•speckx•4h ago•111 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead
329•helsinkiandrew•56m ago•42 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
36•smiths1999•2h ago•6 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/
40•ibobev•2h ago•7 comments

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

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

Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents

https://pgbot.dev/
6•sashash•28m ago•3 comments

Starbase, LA

https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la
83•bilsbie•2h ago•77 comments

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

https://www.imkylelambert.com/articles/building-a-backyard-office-the-build-and-cost-breakdown
159•surprisetalk•4h ago•122 comments

Don't Wordle

https://dontwordle.com/
241•Hbruz0•7h ago•101 comments

Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler

https://www.kurz.net/posts/fuzzing-gleam-compiler
20•crowdhailer•2h ago•1 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
48•yboris•1h ago•6 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

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

Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon
18•ygagaga•1h ago•8 comments

Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics

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

Solving the 1+N Query Problem

https://acadia.engineering/blog/solving-the-1-plus-N-query-problem
27•wheatBread•6h ago•17 comments

Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents

https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/sandbox/minecraft
14•someguy101010•2h ago•6 comments

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

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

HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)

https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly
73•Bluestein•7h ago•40 comments

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

https://tarjan.itch.io/thoreaubasic
102•Gorsefound•2d ago•35 comments

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

https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
270•garo-pro•7h ago•122 comments

How much of HN is AI?

https://blog.coredump.cx/p/how-much-of-hn-is-ai
203•surprisetalk•3h ago•198 comments
Open in hackernews

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
48•yboris•1h ago

Comments

yboris•47m ago
I'm curious how many HN people in 2026 have not yet heard of JPEG XL / jxl
tosti•13m ago
I'm curious why a PDF with a jxl in it takes ages to load.
etatoby•6m ago
I have only heard of it in passing. I wonder what it adds beyond Webp and Avif.
Gander5739•26m ago
Chrome appears to be doing the same: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/-gDoj...
concinds•9m ago
With both Firefox and Chromium using jxl-rs (Rust-based), I wonder what Apple will do about the libjxl (C++) they already shipped. I know they're doing some memory-safety with Swift, but are they shipping any Rust in their platforms so far?

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Also, I was under the impression that after backtracking, Chromium was relying on Mozilla to come up with a Rust port, but it seems it was the reverse. Good on Google Research.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/08/intent-to-ship-jpeg-xl/

> So, we laid down a challenge to the JPEG XL team at Google Research: Build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG XL decoder in Rust, and we’ll ship it. That challenge was met; Google Research built jxl-rs, and it’s the core of our JPEG XL support in Firefox.

ChoosesBarbecue•6m ago
Another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421758