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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
Death to px, long live ch
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/death-to-px-long-live-ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408889 Points: 20 # Comments: 10
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
What Is a Harness?
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409092 Points: 27 # Comments: 15
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Authoritarianism of Code
Article URL: https://zedshaw.com/blog/2020-10-07-authoritarianism-of-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409184 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras
Article URL: https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409200 Points: 21 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00767-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406398 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive
Article URL: https://skylens.yantraai.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407309 Points: 30 # Comments: 4
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
The Sloppification of Peptides
Article URL: https://henryaj.substack.com/p/the-sloppification-of-peptides Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407341 Points: 67 # Comments: 48
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407507 Points: 110 # Comments: 55
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days
Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/22/iranian-hackers-shut-down-uk-power-plant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407509 Points: 38 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg92y1wzn8o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407576 Points: 68 # Comments: 40
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
Article URL: https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408550 Points: 50 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405331 Points: 65 # Comments: 15
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
I Dream of Quieter Computing
Article URL: https://henry.codes/writing/i-dream-of-quieter-computing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405682 Points: 55 # Comments: 23
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
Article URL: https://martypc.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405816 Points: 93 # Comments: 23
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer
Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405870 Points: 88 # Comments: 49
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/world/europe/poland-estonia-cryptocurrency.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406069 Points: 30 # Comments: 10
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
The End of an Athlon
Article URL: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-end-of-an-athlon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406333 Points: 47 # Comments: 7
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
JIT Compiling Code in 5μs
Article URL: https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406387 Points: 33 # Comments: 2
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/wi-fi-8-first-wireless-upgrade-years-isnt-chasing-speed-home-networks-need-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406539 Points: 49 # Comm..
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)
Article URL: https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402181 Points: 6 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Scrap (2006)
https://xcancel.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402189 Points: 314 # Comments: 176
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel
Article URL: https://thinkinginpython.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402202 Points: 50 # Comments: 12
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
Article URL: https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402213 Points: 19 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
Article URL: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402232 Points: 181 # Comments: 62
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
NetBSD and my life (2005)
Article URL: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402781 Points: 96 # Comments: 24
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier
Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49404380 Points: 44 # Comments: 12
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2g23ng8p4o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405110 Points: 31 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Software Engineering in the Agentic Era
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/agentic-engineering-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405117 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)
Article URL: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/mi/2021/06/09623402/1yJTvlRLmhi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398158 Points: 98 # Comments: 49
8:05 pm, August 22, 2026 Hacker News
New MCP Roadmap
Article URL: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/mcp-roadmap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49399591 Points: 143 # Comments: 111
8:05 pm, August 22, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
