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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957 Points: 30 # Comments: 29
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Stop Eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379253 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Article URL: https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583 Points: 284 # Comments: 90
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Risk Engineering
Article URL: https://risk-engineering.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372661 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-imagery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372994 Points: 22 # Comments: ..
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-passes-law-levy-tech-giants-that-fail-pay-local-news-2026-08-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373123 Points: 33 ..
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proof-of-human/jobs/ZTZHEbb-member-of-technical-staff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373423 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15).The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it ..
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Browser De-Slop
Article URL: https://www.sacredheartsc.com/blog/browser-de-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373616 Points: 25 # Comments: 20
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374067 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust
Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/canonical-backs-new-project-to-translate-large-c-codebases-into-safe-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374162 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload
Article URL: https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364745 Points: 493 # Comments: 203
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
Article URL: https://os8088.com/spotlight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367256 Points: 84 # Comments: 38
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367350 Points: 232 # Comments: 132
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
Article URL: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/turns-are-better-than-radians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369408 Points: 170 # Comments: 71
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260818-00/?p=112621 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370440 Points: 47 # Comments: 23
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030825-00/?p=42803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371006 Points: 83 # Comments: 16
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364745 Points: 27 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Introducing MicroLighter
Article URL: https://daverupert.com/2026/08/microlighter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365326 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Go 1.27
Article URL: https://go.dev/blog/go1.27 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365405 Points: 161 # Comments: 21
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Rules of Good Social Skills
Article URL: https://liamrosen.com/2025/07/24/33-rules-of-good-social-skills/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365419 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs
Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/dynamic-3.0-ggufs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365443 Points: 43 # Comments: 6
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times
Article URL: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/affidavit-police-officer-used-flock-cameras-track-estranged-wife-717-times/5DVBYU2XTJEVDJR7LPZCBR7M5M/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?..
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker
Article URL: https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/07/01/cricut-unlock/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365841 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Ramp Launches a Model Router
Article URL: https://router.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366067 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24491 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366115 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/981956/google-pixel-11-pro-fold-review Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366264 Points: 6 # Comments: 4
8:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
Article URL: https://www.modular.com/blog/modcon-announcements Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358327 Points: 135 # Comments: 50
2:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam
Article URL: https://theremin.bizibah.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359425 Points: 104 # Comments: 51
2:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Article URL: https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360015 Points: 38 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360242 Points: 221 # Comments: 122
2:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming
Article URL: https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360545 Points: 83 # Comments: 18
2:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
PostgreSQL for Everything
Article URL: https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361279 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
Article URL: https://twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan/status/2090050162441752787 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361395 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355105 Points: 200 # Comments: 141
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
Article URL: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355142 Points: 353 # Comments: 211
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield
Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tiny-satellite-will-use-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-to-eavesdrop-on-whispers-from-the-early-universe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4..
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis
Article URL: https://lithub.com/on-that-disgraceful-disreputable-wonderful-form-of-punctuation-the-parenthesis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355360 Points: 28 # Comments: 16
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck
Video and explanation on the ship discovery:Why This Wood Costs US$360/kg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5b5bKlvdhQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355451 Points: 32 # Comment..
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
OpenLogi
Article URL: https://openlogi.org/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355606 Points: 460 # Comments: 123
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
Hi HN, I've become lazier in my old age and struggle to replay my favorite Sierra games from the 80s and 90s because I keep getting into those situations where I need an item from 3 acts ago, I have n..
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
https://archive.ph/a3165 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355825 Points: 209 # Comments: 157
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355968 Points: 85 # Comments: 16
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829151 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357501 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 19, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps
Hey HN,I've been working on Hansel [1] (an encrypted personal data store you can query with agents), and there wasn't a good way to use the modern macOS Data Protection Keychain.Electron's safeStorage..
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349898 Points: 98 # Comments: 11
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Article URL: https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc79.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349984 Points: 106 # Comments..
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350031 Points: 18 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking
Hi HN, I built PantheonGPU because I wanted a better way to answer a simple question: is this GPU actually healthy and performing the way it should?A GPU can show normal temperatures and utilization a..
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
