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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
AI Testing
