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Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
Article URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162086 Points: 59 # Comments: 30
2:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode
Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/zx-spectrum-system-tour-text-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161801 Points: 22 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
LLMs reward expertise
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 456 # Comments: 198
2:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
Article URL: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160437 Points: 124 # Comments: 131
2:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer
Article URL: https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakCOD Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159970 Points: 38 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Apple is getting this wrong
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164649 Points: 144 # Comments: 127
8:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
Article URL: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162787 Points: 34 # Comments: 25
8:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
Article URL: https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158333 Points: 142 # Comments: 52
8:05 am, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448 Points: 166 # Comments: 162
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/mqqfa38-lead-full-stack-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167444 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Buckminster Fuller: everything I know
Article URL: https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167147 Points: 41 # Comments: 15
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113 Points: 406 # Comments: 241
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
Article URL: https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166984 Points: 37 # Comments: 6
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Nobel Disease
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166918 Points: 49 # Comments: 37
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
Article URL: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166874 Points: 43 # Comments: 7
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic
Article URL: https://ekxide.io/blog/byte-wise-atomic-wrapper-to-prevent-ub/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166672 Points: 8 # Comments: 4
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)
Article URL: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491 Points: 152 # Comments: 35
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02412 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166442 Points: 27 # Comments: 4
2:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/04/investors-in-situational-awareness-deserved-to-lose-their-shirts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173576 Poi..
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Poi..
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
We are Rui and Michael and we’re building EdotEnv (https://edotenv.com): self-improving RL environments from Quant Trading workflows.With all the benchmaxxing around, evals saturate and become meani..
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Waymo – Dallas Open to All
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836 Points: 45 # Comments: 35
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Web security is too hard
Article URL: https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172834 Points: 106 # Comments: 38
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Blackmail Fail (2013)
Article URL: https://gwern.net/blackmail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172597 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172550 Points: 77 # Comments: 69
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game
Article URL: https://hop.earth/?server=lkhr7&route=fQ5nuu9R Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172405 Points: 37 # Comments: 23
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries
Article URL: https://www.vlt.io/blog/1-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172251 Points: 37 # Comments: 7
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?
Article URL: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2026/aug/what-is-behind-sharp-drop-labor-force-participation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172159 Points: 15 # Comments: 1..
8:05 pm, August 4, 2026 Hacker News
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04221 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176983 Points: 16 # Comments: 8
2:05 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: 15 #..
2:05 am, 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: 13 # 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
AI Testing
