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C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
Article URL: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439499 Points: 80 # Comments: 36
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson
Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440410 Points: 63 # Comments: 29
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
Article URL: https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441033 Points: 148 # Comments: 117
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sits..
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others
Article URL: https://github.com/runetes/maiao Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441666 Points: 26 # Comments: 8
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Queryable Executables
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442589 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442743 Points: 10 # Comm..
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437210 Points: 99 # Comments: 48
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Nitter project received cease and desist
Article URL: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 Points: 294 # Comments: 204
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go
Article URL: https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437361 Points: 24 # Comments: 9
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
Article URL: https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437483 Points: 57 # Comments: 23
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437566 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437946 Points: 111 # Comments: 14
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Dolly Parton has died
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/entertainment/dolly-parton-de...https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/arts/music/dolly-parton-d..., https://archive.ph/w4vsEhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-ne..
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents
Article URL: https://pgbot.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438492 Points: 36 # Comments: 9
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co..
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Perplexity Portable Computer
Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-portable-computer-for-local-first-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439535 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application
Article URL: https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432227 Points: 29 # Comments: 22
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)
Article URL: https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432317 Points: 57 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Don't Wordle
Article URL: https://dontwordle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432319 Points: 105 # Comments: 43
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-and-work-limits-for-chatgpt-plus-users/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432879 Points: 45 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
Article URL: https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433064 Points: 56 # Comments: 24
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433292 Points: 2..
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433316 Points: 136 # Comments: 71
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons
Article URL: https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433372 Points: 35 # Comments: 29
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
Article URL: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433759 Points: 7 # Comments: 5
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
Article URL: https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428080 Points: 69 # Comments: 82
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Article URL: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2026/august/thomson-reuters-leverages-its-world-class-data-assets-to-launch-its-own-frontier-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
SiFive's First Server Platform
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428638 Points: 36 # Comments: 7
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents
Article URL: https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428882 Points: 49 # Comments: 15
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Volcanoes that made history
Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2026/volcanoes-that-made-history Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428972 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown
It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. No screenshots, no video, or OCR. It writes plain markdown, one file per day, into..
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800 Points: 55 # Comments: 12
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/style/china-tang-dynasty-never-existed-hoax-intl-hnk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425819 Points: 130 # Comments: 103
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Moon (2024)
Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/moon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426466 Points: 99 # Comments: 17
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426564 Points: 221 # Comments: 48
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
Article URL: https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427001 Points: 33 # Comments: 11
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
What languages are agent skills written in?
Article URL: https://plicara.ai/research/agent-skill-languages/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427825 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428121 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139, https://xcancel.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422784 Points: 147 # Comments: 55
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff
Article URL: https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423495 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
What Is a Syslog Server?
Article URL: https://blog.greencloudvps.com/what-is-a-syslog-server.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423799 Points: 19 # Comments: 8
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Your "File" Menu Isn't About Files
Article URL: https://adam.farkas.pro/your-file-menu-isnt-about-files/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423886 Points: 24 # Comments: 34
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon
Article URL: https://github.com/getkern/kern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423927 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Anger, Anxiety and Agency
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424082 Points: 40 # Comments: 30
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
Article URL: https://textlog.cc/post/2059 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424167 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Article URL: https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424387 Points: 17 # Comments: 5
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424606 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights
Article URL: https://github.com/l3a0/claude-plugins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424758 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408858 Points: 48 # Comments: 13
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
