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The terrifying mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/27/the-terrifying-mechanics-of-the-nepali-flash-flood
33•vinni2•5h ago

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pm2222•38m ago
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-tibet-glacie...

CCTV footage is there. Horrific scene. When you see it coming at you it’s already too late.

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/
252•TangerineDream•2h ago•70 comments

Small Models Have Arrived

https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived
247•tosh•4h ago•115 comments

507 Mechanical Movements

https://507movements.com/
373•helloplanets•6h ago•55 comments

We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290
70•dclavijo•2h ago•45 comments

Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/nvidia-starts-a-pac-as-ai-chip-maker-buids-influe...
48•rarisma•1h ago•16 comments

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/
110•saretup•3h ago•52 comments

Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4523
40•slantedview•1h ago•26 comments

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/
114•knackers•5h ago•43 comments

Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
397•robotswantdata•9h ago•156 comments

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica
113•zdw•4h ago•86 comments

Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview
31•surprisetalk•2h ago•12 comments

Bild AI (YC W25) is hiring product and AI engineers

https://www.bild.ai/jobs
1•rooppal•3h ago

M5Stack Launches PaperMono

https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-launches-papermono-a-compact-e-ink-development-termin...
40•marksully•2h ago•10 comments

Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS

https://morphing.cloud/afterglow/
33•NaOH•19h ago•12 comments

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

https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31
125•RahulMJ•6h ago•52 comments

The turbulent AI era is here

https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-...
106•nanna•1d ago•376 comments

Launching Route 53 Files

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html
71•louis-paul•5h ago•27 comments

Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds into food

https://acs.digitellinc.com/live/37/session/586399
38•ehwa37•4h ago•28 comments

Show HN: Voronoi Go

https://voronoigo.com/
22•igpay•2h ago•3 comments

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

29•Salem_robotics•4h ago•18 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
1773•mfiguiere•19h ago•828 comments

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/
203•Labo333•11h ago•105 comments

A curmudgeon tries a language server

https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server
95•crescit_eundo•1d ago•61 comments

The terrifying mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/27/the-terrifying-mechanics-of-the-nepal...
33•vinni2•5h ago•1 comments

Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

https://aphantasia.com/guide
74•ksec•7h ago•196 comments

Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/20/humanity-has-the-debate-about-ai-consciousness-bac...
52•semiquaver•17h ago•173 comments

Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go
128•vinni2•2h ago•66 comments

Gemini-3.5-Transcribe

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/
6•k9294•2h ago•1 comments

Trade (and Tariffs)

https://xkcd.com/3290/
374•throw0101d•6h ago•161 comments

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill
35•ahmadpiran•5h ago•16 comments