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Japanese polka dot artist Yayoi Kusama dies aged 97

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4k0re3vwo
42•herbertl•22m ago•4 comments

507 Mechanical Movements

https://507movements.com/
131•helloplanets•2h ago•19 comments

Software engineering is about managing complexity

https://hack8s.com/422/once-again-software-engineering-is-about-managing-complexity
59•justorius•1h ago•33 comments

Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
265•robotswantdata•5h ago•110 comments

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8
1632•mfiguiere•15h ago•762 comments

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31
78•RahulMJ•2h ago•23 comments

Launching Route 53 Files

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html
30•louis-paul•1h ago•15 comments

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-08-23/comaps-integration-with-the-wider-floss-ecosystem/
77•janandonly•2h ago•9 comments

Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots

10•Salem_robotics•30m ago•2 comments

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
49•pbui•3h ago•34 comments

Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cx2zl5kwlxjo
10•brudgers•38m ago•1 comments

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom
16•gtzi•1h ago•8 comments

Trade (and Tariffs)

https://xkcd.com/3290/
210•throw0101d•2h ago•65 comments

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica
9•zdw•21m ago•3 comments

Adentris (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adentris/jobs/ZpMXZ0C-founding-engineer-ai-rcm-healthcare-p...
1•SergeyYudovskiy•4h ago

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill
20•ahmadpiran•2h ago•7 comments

French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress

https://github.com/JPLeRouzic/Mitra-15-for-SIMH
14•JPLeRouzic•1h ago•1 comments

The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT

https://www.mux.com/blog/the-broadcast-squeezeback-rebuilt-with-css-grid-and-webvtt
4•mmcclure•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)

https://github.com/issacnitin/RealDiff
30•issacnitin•2h ago•4 comments

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/
491•tmp10423288442•16h ago•149 comments

Needle: The benchmark your search engine can't memorize

https://keenable.ai/blog/needle-the-benchmark-your-search-engine-can-t-memorize
8•matt4711•58m ago•1 comments

Harness Engineering

https://Habitat-Thinking.github.io/ai-literacy-superpowers/plugins/ai-literacy-superpowers/explan...
88•tomrod•2h ago•37 comments

Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know

https://www.accessnow.org/apple-threat-notifications-and-spyware/
24•ricobecks•2h ago•4 comments

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/
84•Labo333•7h ago•32 comments

Peter Cullen, Voice of Optimus Prime in 'Transformers,' Dies at 85

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-cullen-optimus-prime-transformers-eeyor...
43•cocacola1•1h ago•4 comments

Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS

358•leumon•6h ago•204 comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/
377•pizzaiolo•17h ago•197 comments

Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens

https://forgeeks.net/nvidia-673-billion-ai-growth-forecast/
4•kuuuzya•1h ago•0 comments

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days

https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/
4•knackers•1h ago•0 comments

Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/corporate-political-donations-shatter-record-646-million...
28•petethomas•1h ago•6 comments
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Launching Route 53 Files

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html
30•louis-paul•1h ago

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GuinansEyebrows•1h ago

    > Q. Is this HIPAA compliant?
    > A. Please do not store patient information in DNS.
love this. reminds me a little of something else in the realm of DNS "hosting" posted to hn a few years ago [0][1]

[0]https://banner.triweb.dev [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39502097

ChiperSoft•1h ago
Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this? Outside of various txt records, most of my domains are mapped to specific resources via automation.
cperciva•58m ago
There are apparently many people managing their S3 Objects by hand but long to have them in a file system, yes.
esseph•47m ago
> Are there that many people managing their dns by hand that they need this?

How many thousands or millions of employees does your org have?

regularfry•46m ago
I don't think this is there to satisfy "need".

But "automation" with this could legitimately (well, mostly) be based on a git repo with an s3files mount inside it. And a cron job, if you really want to get fancy.

cperciva•39m ago
Files which aren't DNS keys get ignored by Route 53 Files. So you could absolutely have a git checkout and update your DNS with 'git pull'.
colechristensen•37m ago
This is... well it's mostly a joke. It's funny but you can indeed use and interact with DNS as a file store or have a file system based control over records.

Both DNS and S3 or any filesystem really... they're just key/value stores.

DNS also has considerably higher reliability and compatibility than almost anything else

stackskipton•27m ago
Last job, we did for various control/audit reasons BUT it was all IaC and tickets.
mlhpdx•35m ago
At first I thought this was a general purpose file system over R53, ala Corey Quinn. But my, what a gorgeously terrible idea. Well done.
colechristensen•32m ago
to be fair, it's also that just with some severe restrictions on filenames
srvmshr•19m ago
I think its best usecase can be in agentic automation from what I can understand so far. I don't know if this is the correct read on the design choice; please correct me if I'm wrong.

If models/agents don't have to learn the various Route 53 & DNS API, and (with some guardrails) execute DNS jobs looking at it like a filesystem, it could make deployment automation quite simpler - and less prone to looping over wild esoteric solutions. (A year ago I asked Gemini about a Vertex deployment and it was a mess going through two dozen weird circus tricks - none that worked). FWIW a lot of the final knob pushes still require someone using a browser & clicking bunch of buttons. This simplifies it. "Everything is a file in UNIX" idea, but carried over to DNS & resource management

dbarlett•18m ago
Speaking as a former Blog Bar Raiser, cperciva has internalized the AWS blog style guide better than most Amazonians. This is spot-on.
cperciva•13m ago
Wait, there's an official style guide?

(In all seriousness, I've been reading AWS launch posts for 20 years; this one was mainly imitating the S3 Files launch post but I diverged by adding the customer quote and the FAQ -- because of course I started this process with a PRFAQ, and some of the questions in the FAQ are legitimately important.)

tonymet•9m ago
Am I the only one who thinks that read() and write () (block based api) would be a poorer experience for managing key/value dns records?