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Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys

https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/08/19/260819-sing-song/
5•zdw•3d ago

GPT-6 Astra

https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
1552•kibae•10h ago•1326 comments

.name Termination

https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/
1554•pavel_lishin•14h ago•410 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
504•altertable•11h ago•153 comments

A Mysterious Kidney Disease Has Arrived in Texas

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ckdu-kidney-disease-immigration/
49•johntfella•2h ago•33 comments

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight

https://gwern.net/xanadu
53•andsoitis•3h ago•8 comments

Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools

https://www.agentconnect.md/blog/grep-beat-lsp-harness/
41•kaonashi-tyc-01•1h ago•19 comments

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM86DBOqgPM
248•feb•2d ago•177 comments

How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language

https://news.mit.edu/2026/how-mit-research-project-became-global-programming-language-0831
53•theanonymousone•3d ago•12 comments

From Hookswitch to Grave

https://computer.rip/2026-06-14-hookswitch-to-grave.html
15•Sniffnoy•2h ago•1 comments

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/artificial-beaver-dams-california
202•speckx•13h ago•63 comments

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://babyloniantwins.com/blog/porting-a-1993-amiga-game-to-godot/
236•rabahs•15h ago•68 comments

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gps-glitched-across-the-us-by-as-much-as-33-feet-scientists-have-nev...
156•thread_id•1d ago•94 comments

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
278•karimf•13h ago•88 comments

Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out

https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install
151•screm•8h ago•53 comments

Show HN: Reactor Atlas

https://reactoratlas.com
10•fedecaccia•17h ago•0 comments

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

https://anyhumanever.com/
528•thinkingemote•14h ago•254 comments

New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7328614
90•colinprince•2d ago•64 comments

Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

36•sukit•18h ago•46 comments

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007
242•gmays•1d ago•69 comments

Xanadu was waiting for agents

https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu
105•nsm•2d ago•43 comments

Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom

https://jactl.io/blog/2026/08/28/jactl-virtual-threads
20•jaccomo•2d ago•1 comments

GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB

https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-and-other-glp-1s-are-being-linked-to-fewer-serious-infections-includi...
94•gumby•6h ago•48 comments

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer
1•mayop100•8h ago

Unusual Suspects

https://neal.fun/unusual-suspects/
140•beeperboy95•1d ago•27 comments

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it

https://www.kevin.md/the-business-card-that-lights-up.md/
61•thekevintang•2d ago•19 comments

The true horror of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories lies in their confessions

https://yalereview.org/article/emily-ogden-edgar-allan-poe
65•lermontov•1d ago•27 comments

The asteroid currently hitting front end web development

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/23/the-asteroid-currently-hitting-frontend-web-development/
118•codechicago277•10h ago•123 comments

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PLisnSFir8y5AHkmP/how-concerned-should-we-be-about-astra-s-recurrent
114•yurivish•12h ago•72 comments

Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys

https://blog.vrypan.net/2026/08/19/260819-sing-song/
5•zdw•3d ago•0 comments

The browser's main thread is expensive

https://kciter.so/posts/the-expensive-main-thread/en/
387•kciter•2d ago•135 comments