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A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/
23•samizdis•3h ago

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justin66•59m ago
The last I checked, it was weirdly difficult to buy a copy of Last and First Men and be certain you were getting the complete book as it was intended to be read by the author.

Oddly, this article is "adapted from Matthew De Abaitua’s introduction to Olaf Stapledon’s "Last and First Men," which says "abridged" on the cover. I wonder what that's all about.

contact9879•2m ago
It’s freely available from Project Gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79003

GLM-5.3-Flash

https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash
400•Philpax•2h ago•164 comments

AWS Acquires DuckDB

https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws
658•onderkalaci•3h ago•174 comments

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next
378•tosh•3h ago•112 comments

Nebula Sans

https://www.nebulasans.com
103•GavinAnderegg•1h ago•50 comments

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

https://cartefibre.arcep.fr
127•nehalem501•3h ago•73 comments

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash
77•theanonymousone•1h ago•17 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
85•speckx•2h ago•43 comments

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f
103•blimmer•1h ago•58 comments

Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

https://www.risklytics.ai/
5•AlexRisio•34m ago•0 comments

It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI)

https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/
26•zazuke•1h ago•8 comments

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/
42•sreenathmenon•1h ago•34 comments

You could have invented PageRank

https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/
41•pkoird•2h ago•34 comments

Tim Curry, Star of Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King's It, Dies Aged 80

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-leg...
62•mykowebhn•36m ago•12 comments

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think
318•j0selit0•8h ago•144 comments

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer
1•pablo24602•4h ago

Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?

https://hnstats.com
41•beekthos•2h ago•32 comments

11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76809
33•speckx•3h ago•11 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
121•motownphilly•2h ago•42 comments

Tim Curry Has Died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Curry
38•GaryBluto•42m ago•6 comments

A Citation to Asimov

https://www.bookandsword.com/2026/08/25/a-citation-to-asimov/
23•speckx•2h ago•1 comments

AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

https://github.com/AurionMail/docs
23•polo46•1h ago•2 comments

How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk

https://github.com/qisutu/qisutu
19•OFORK•2h ago•3 comments

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/
144•altilunium•7h ago•27 comments

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/
23•samizdis•3h ago•2 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo
37•dazhbog•5h ago•9 comments

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-...
374•garo-pro•6h ago•132 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0
212•zoenolan•4d ago•71 comments

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html
72•tuxie_•6h ago•20 comments

Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/
320•bhouston•3h ago•277 comments

Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace

https://github.com/SWUFE-DB-Group/TexLite
11•thisispi•1h ago•0 comments