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Taste Is All That's Left
Article URL: https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199346 Points: 28 # Comments: 20
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199357 Points: 37 # Comments: 28
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/federal-communications-commission-scraps-limit-broadcast-tv-ownership-rcna587641 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200390 Points:..
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off"
Article URL: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200439 Points: 45 # Comments: 56
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-upte-tech-workers-union Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200510 Points: 30 # Comments: 13
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200652 Points: 144 # Comments: 60
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Article URL: https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me
Article URL: https://illegal.solutions/posts/xai_pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201342 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
The DISTINCT in Your COUNT
Article URL: https://boringsql.com/posts/distinct-in-your-count/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201369 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189075 Points: 201 # Comments: 46
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
NVIDIA’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-vera-whitepaper-has-a-thread Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189234 Points: 161 # Comments: 34
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287 Points: 328 # Comments: 161
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Article URL: https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191624 Points: 2..
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566 Points: 367 # Comments: 120
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
Article URL: https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation/issues/1426 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193173 Points: 131 # Comments:..
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Mario Meets Pareto
Article URL: https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195231 Points: 163 # Comments: 29
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM
This started life as a graphics tool for a specific problem: gen AI can make retro-styled sprites but can't follow exact hardware constraints of pixels and colors.While building this I liked the idea ..
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
Article URL: https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195468 Points: 34 # Comments: 10
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Telephones Caught in Between
Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-08-02-telephone-leasing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195819 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 6, 2026 Hacker News
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185983 Points: 69 # Comments: 22
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186720 Points: 25 # Comments: 9
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: ClickBench Playground – a playground for 110 database systems
I created it mostly for testing and exploration, but the main reason was that it became possible after previous work. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186732 Points: 3 # Comments:..
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186762 Points: 78 # Comments: 13
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
Article URL: https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187061 Points: 64 # Comments: 68
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
Article URL: https://norbertkozsir.com/posts/work-in-the-second-dimension/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187084 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Zed DeltaDB
Article URL: https://zed.dev/deltadb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256 Points: 97 # Comments: 26
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog
Article URL: https://sagredo.dev/projects/sula/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187259 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187575 Points: 34 # Comments: 18
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187977 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/helsinki-hn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180407 Points: 156 # Comments: 104
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Article URL: https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181083 Points: 114 # Comments: 69
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 207 # Comments: 91
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psilocybin-could-kick-start-anorexia-recovery-early-results-suggest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181419 Points: 27 # Co..
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181519 Points: 37 # Comments: 18
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
Article URL: https://divingintheshallowend.com/three-six-mafia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181678 Points: 97 # Comments: 93
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w1lvn7d9go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181773 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
Article URL: https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182041 Points: 57 # Comments: 19
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash
Article URL: https://www.iowaattorneygeneral.gov/newsroom/attorney-general-brenna-bird-leads-coalition-demanding-transparency-from-openai-after-ai-breach-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com..
2:05 pm, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Flowise is shutting down
Article URL: https://flowiseai.com/sunset Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176920 Points: 43 # Comments: 26
8:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Bugtraq is back
Article URL: https://lists.securityfocus.com/hyperkitty/list/bugtraq@securityfocus.com/thread/CHKLXLA7SJEWLDFHWXB3QU57ADOXGL2E/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176947 Points: 38 #..
8:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3
Article URL: https://github.com/Carloscodix/qapla Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178464 Points: 17 # Comments: 6
8:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178608 Points: 23 # Comments: 5
8:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179039 Points: 46 # Comments: 25
8:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176055 Points: 61 # Comments: 45
2:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust
I wrote libcorrect in C in 2016 and wanted to revisit it in Rust. Instead of doing just a direct conversion, I went down the rabbit hole of making Rust's std::simd work for me. I ended up with a templ..
2:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606 Points: 121 # Comments: 4
2:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it
Article URL: https://808bits.com/articles/fips-140-3-not-a-security-guarantee/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176634 Points: 25 # Comments: 10
2:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication
Article URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/passwordless-authentication-security-risks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176644 Points: 37 # Comments: 32
2:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
Article URL: https://mysk.blog/2026/08/04/webkit-proxy-icloud-private-relay-ip-leak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176697 Points: 37 # Comments: 4
2:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830 Points: 61 # Comments: 25
2:05 am, August 5, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
