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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

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The BBC Tetris Companion

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Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

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Curlese, Five Years Later

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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

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Jujutsu 0.44.0

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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

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I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

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How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature

Germany's gas gamble puts Europe's winter at risk

App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours

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The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem

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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

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Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust

Proxmox VE now available for ARM64

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LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

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Claude Code: Starting August 14, auto mode will be the default permission mode

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GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2

Bubble Memory

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Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

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Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

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We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars

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What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check

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Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Month on Vegan Diet Shifts Epigenetic Patterns Assoc with Aging and Inflammation

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Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'

SpaceX 10GW in 2027 – Why It's Real, Will Drive $300B ARR for SpaceX

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Informing HTTP Extension Design with Data

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The DISTINCT in Your COUNT

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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

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200 Milliseconds

Nobel Disease

Show HN: File-based HTTP endpoints for Python with its own isolated dependencies

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How the words we teach English language learners changed

Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery

AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners

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California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time

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The AI Productivity Gap

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Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

A Gallery of Installing from .dmg

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

US Sold Euros to Save the Yen, Europe Found Out After

The Warp Agent CLI

Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone

Show HN: XSAF – Extra Small Agent Framework

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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

OpenDoctrines, open source grand strategy game moddable via WASM in 13 languages

Western Sahara

New Keyboard: Alicja v2

What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not

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Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

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OpenBGPD 9.2 Released

Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more

Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2

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Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says

The Law of Jante (2015)

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

Massively Parallel Postgres Backups

Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

The Origins of Vintage Comics Part 1

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Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

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Detach from your work to make it work

Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops

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Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

\"I loved every minute of it, however hard it had been\" [video]

Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research

US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money

Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable

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MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

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Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet

Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed

BSD Make extravaganza: Mandelbrot Set In bmake

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

The Lisp Machine: Your Next Step in Computing

Meta's Ray-Bans are getting banned from UK pubs, and the EU is circling

MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

Constructor Theory – David Deutsch(2012)

Show HN: A Handwritten Blogging Platform

Holocloth

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Amazon Germany to Accept Wero

AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included

Run full-blown macOS on iPadOS 16

Show HN: HUD, an open-source minimal terminal UI for ClaudeCode, Codex, OpenCode

Proxmox Virtual Environment now available for 64-bit ARM (ARM64)

William Orbit, pop producer for Madonna, All Saints and more, dies aged 69

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Official: Ford's $29,945 Small EV Truck Is Called Fathom

The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5

Original iPhone Loses Its Last Cellular Network as T-Mobile Kills 2G

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No Meat Proxy

Learning to fly FPV drones with AI flight coach

Smalltalk Report from 1991 to 1996

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The Religion of Speed

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Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant

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Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top

How Ham Radio Made Silicon Valley

Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface

Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (2019)

Don't be a meat proxy

iOS 26 Gets First Jailbreak Thanks to Dopamine

They don't make 'em like Sublime Text anymore

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KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone

Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

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Cloudflare Workers and Containers now support inbound TCP connections and gRPC

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Canada adds 75,000 new jobs in July, unemployment rate lowest in 2 years

Claude Code sessions can now message each other

Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding

Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

I'm Begging You: Never Write with A.I

Mosh in a Lift (2012)

A Promising Heart Drug Fails, Challenging a Long-Held Theory of Disease

Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons?

Show HN: My receipt printer prints an original artwork every morning

Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N

Show HN: Fuse – statically typed functional programming language

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

Apps for Kobo

Planned satellite megaconstellations could generate runaway space debris

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way

Diátaxis

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Show HN: Modern Browsers Don't Need the Cookie Anymore

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AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

Godox Transparent Viewfinder Camera C100

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From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)

Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?

ESP32-C3 SuperMini antenna modification

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RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]

The German Mittelstand

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

I've succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian

Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300

Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries

Beauty in my backyard

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Fedora Approves a Smaller Grub

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Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI

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SearXNG in Rust

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Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7

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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust

Linux on ESP32

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Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

OpenAI slows release of Astra model, citing cyber capabilities

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console

Cyberscript

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ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine

Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types

Ioskeley Mono

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U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

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Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite

The Witness

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Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

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Why and how the Austrian Military moved to LibreOffice (Part 1)

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Bank of America spends $250M a year on GLP-1 drugs for its employees

Flock Pitched a Plan to Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers into Roaming Surveillance

C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior

Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management

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Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

OpenAI and four rivals just agreed on one standard for AI agents

Glyphs 4 – the leading Mac font editor

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Salem Brought a Guillotine to Oppose New Data Center

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xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout

OpenAI's latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

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How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

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Kelly Criterion Simulator

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7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems

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KOReader

OpenAI Trained Its Models for Months While They Coordinated Exploits

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Oxide RFD 284: Loading the Host Operating System

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

Psychological distress isolates men more than women, according to a 14-year study. Men are often expected to be self-reliant and emotionally stoic, which may discourage them from disclosing difficulties or asking others for support.

Study finds infant mortality increased by 43% after Greece introduced austerity measures in 2010. The increase was persistent and sharp.

'Physical Scar': Early Trauma Can Fundamentally Change Brain Cells. Study found that when stresses hit mice at a young age, the coiled DNA inside VTA neurons is marked to loosen slightly, making its gene dials more accessible.

E-scooters far more dangerous than motorbikes or bicycles. Study of accidents in England and Wales shows e-scooter riders 3x more likely to suffer traumatic brain injury than bikers. They also sustained more internal organ and blood vessel damage than did motorcyclists or pedal cyclists.

Parental conservatism does not improve the transmission of religious beliefs, study shows. Young adults are more likely to share their parents’ religious habits when they view their upbringing as warm but structured.

Mental health workers may hold negative beliefs about people who misuse opioids

Wildfires now the dominant contributor of unhealthy levels of air pollution for pregnant women in the US

Researchers have pinpointed the molecular players responsible for plants “feeling full” once they’ve taken up enough nitrogen.

The geometry of ketchup-cap hinges explain how creased-curve origami shells can hold multiple stable shapes, a discovery that led engineers to build a robot that shifts shape and moves using magnets and no motors [PNAS]

Hawaii’s dolphin tourism boom may be taking a toll on spinner dolphins, study finds

Too much screen time increases suicidal thoughts for college students

Common microplastic may increase risk of fatty liver disease. Research found people who ate a more Western-style diet, including foods like burgers and sodas, may have a greater chance of progressing to fatty liver disease if they are also exposed to polyethylene

Atmospheric data show Siberian methane emissions rose 12 teragrams a year between 2010 and 2023, and could offset a fifth of global methane cuts needed by 2050.

How snails engineer their slime | Calcium tunes snail mucus–based materials to multiple functions

Community health workers delivering telehealth coaching plus a structured feedback loop with doctors lowered long-term blood sugar by 1.0 percentage point more than usual care over 12 months, in a randomized trial of 257 uninsured Hispanic adults with diabetes

When parents are stressed, kids get more screen time: according to U.S. study, parents experiencing emotional distress were less likely to consistently enforce screen-time limits, while those who felt overwhelmed by their child's behavior were more likely to use screens to manage difficult moments

A phone-based adherence app raised tuberculosis treatment success from 74% to 82% and cut dropout by nearly a third in Argentina.

The link between vitamin intake and depression largely vanishes when factoring in lifestyle

Patient Experiences and Safety Concerns Regarding GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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JDK 28 EA Build10 is now available for download and includes JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) from Project Valhalla

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