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LinkedIn Feed Blocker
Article URL: https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223475 Points: 95 # Comments: 52
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 Points: 70 # Comments: 21
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
Article URL: https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224020 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294 Points: 193 # Comments: 90
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 114 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220313 Points: 78 # Com..
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 Points: 143 # Comments: 145
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392 Points: 21 # Comments: 16
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 86 # Comments: 99
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i..
8:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01
Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218707 Points: 54 # Comments: 17
8:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219508 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 Points: 168 # Comments: 173
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214775 Points: 52 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-internet-says-ex-nsa-chief-after-suspected-iran-attacks/5285070 Comments URL: https://news.ycom..
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 91 # Comments: 38
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Article URL: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386 Points: 308 # Comments: 294
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Möbius-Strip Crosswords
Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211660 Points: 35 # Comments: 4
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921 Points: 94 # Comments: 29
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213029 Points: 99 # Comments: 104
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Article URL: https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4..
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Article URL: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008 Points: 174 # Comments: 110
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Assembly Hall of Shame
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214098 Points: 80 # Comments: 18
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%
Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 Points: 36 # Comments: 14
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
Article URL: https://ancientlibrary.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214770 Points: 23 # Comments: 6
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863 Points: 45 # Comments: 11
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314 Points: 517 # Comments: 484
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208393 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
Article URL: https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208535 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
So i've been working on this project since a few days (or months i should say), it's called wyzer (meaning wiser) it's a statically typed, compiled, resource-oriented programming language with integra..
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?
Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209539 Points: 41 # Comments: 36
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/july-2026-jobs-report-rcna591138 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209546 Points: 87 # Comments: 29
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209572 Points: 14 # Comments: 5
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
Article URL: https://w.on-t.work/web-deployment-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209921 Points: 22 # Comments: 12
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot
Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91576086/ai-psychosis-is-the-new-leadership-blind-spot-ai-leadership-blind-spots Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210077 Points: 19 # Comme..
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
What is a product?
Article URL: https://roge.onwrite.app/what-is-a-product Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202690 Points: 26 # Comments: 10
8:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-p...https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexic...https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/nm-court-orders-meta-to-pay-5...https://www..
8:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software
Article URL: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/ Comme..
8:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day
Article URL: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-data-breach-discussion/83939 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206130 Points: 59 # Comments: 14
8:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200933 Points: 62 # Comments: 45
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
Article URL: https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201930 Points: 216 # Comments: 107
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am...https://chatjimmy.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970 Points: 378 # Comments: 299
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202716 Points: 52 # Comments: 8
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
Article URL: https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202852 Points: 62 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203105 Points: 84 # Comments: 14
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
Author here.Background, for anyone who hasn't followed this fight: IBM's iron–sulfur SQD results (Sci. Adv. 2025) are one of the flagship "quantum computers are useful for chemistry now" claims, and..
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204352 Points: 56 # Commen..
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money
Article URL: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-doge-did-not-save-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204510 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
2:05 am, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/?d=2026/08/06 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199094 Points: 77 # Comments: 49
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
