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Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language
So i've been working on this project since a few days (or months i should say), it's called wyzer (meaning wiser) it's a statically typed, compiled, resource-oriented programming language with integra..
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD
Article URL: https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208535 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208393 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314 Points: 517 # Comments: 484
2:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/app_store_rejection_of_the_week_dark_hours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863 Points: 45 # Comments: 11
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
Article URL: https://ancientlibrary.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214770 Points: 23 # Comments: 6
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%
Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 Points: 36 # Comments: 14
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Assembly Hall of Shame
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214098 Points: 80 # Comments: 18
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
Article URL: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008 Points: 174 # Comments: 110
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
Article URL: https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4..
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213029 Points: 99 # Comments: 104
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921 Points: 94 # Comments: 29
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
Möbius-Strip Crosswords
Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211660 Points: 35 # Comments: 4
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
Article URL: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386 Points: 308 # Comments: 294
8:05 pm, August 7, 2026 Hacker News
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 91 # Comments: 38
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-internet-says-ex-nsa-chief-after-suspected-iran-attacks/5285070 Comments URL: https://news.ycom..
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/repsych Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214775 Points: 52 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 Points: 168 # Comments: 173
2:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219508 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01
Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20260731053721/http://github.com/ancaferro/myNetwork/pull/3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218707 Points: 54 # Comments: 17
8:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i..
8:05 am, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 86 # Comments: 99
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392 Points: 21 # Comments: 16
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 Points: 143 # Comments: 145
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220313 Points: 78 # Com..
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 114 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294 Points: 193 # Comments: 90
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
Article URL: https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224020 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 Points: 70 # Comments: 21
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
LinkedIn Feed Blocker
Article URL: https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223475 Points: 95 # Comments: 52
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP
Article URL: https://toonk.io/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223105 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Fastmail offers EU data region
Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082 Points: 177 # Comments: 90
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223079 Points: 64 # Comments: 18
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Message your other Claude Code sessions
Article URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222824 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189 Points: 241 # Comments: 167
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
Article URL: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221864 Points: 120 # Comments: 84
8:05 pm, August 8, 2026 Hacker News
The AI Apocalypse Is Here
Article URL: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227521 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
Article URL: https://os8088.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923 Points: 34 # Comments: 10
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Dithered QR Codes
Article URL: https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
My server is a phone now
Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636 Points: 98 # Comments: 45
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Should you stop cracking your knuckles?
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226563 Points: 9 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
Article URL: https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536 Points: 49 # Comments: 12
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
Article URL: https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-park-following-second-beaver-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922..
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]
Article URL: https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%20Wigner).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225676 Points: 26 # Comm..
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
Article URL: https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-..
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294 Points: 512 # Comments: 243
2:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
Article URL: https://github.com/jmarshall23/msword Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228663 Points: 40 # Comments: 15
8:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)
Article URL: http://longbets.org/601/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228458 Points: 115 # Comments: 37
8:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age
Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228350 Points: 77 # Comments: 43
8:05 am, August 9, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
