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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Article URL: https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309549 Points: 110 # Comments: 37
2:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding
Article URL: https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309451 Points: 24 # Comments: 17
2:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II
Article URL: https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308685 Points: 43 # Comments: 20
2:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 Points: 21 # Comments: 7
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists
Article URL: https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biotechnology/human-trial-chemogenetic-brain-therapy/104/web/2026/08 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313097 Points: 9 # Comme..
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313047 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them
Article URL: https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845 Points: 192 # Comments: 147
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312823 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
BriskDB
Article URL: https://github.com/schapman1974/briskdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312707 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In
Article URL: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/idme-one-month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312465 Points: 40 # Comments: 33
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxy0wqqd9o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312413 Points: 74 # Comments: 49
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
Article URL: https://www.core77.com/posts/144869 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312165 Points: 56 # Comments: 30
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312008 Points: 104 # Comments: 40
8:05 pm, August 15, 2026 Hacker News
The complete AI SEO playbook: from zero to 4.6M impressions in 3 months
Article URL: https://github.com/TraceCohenTech/ai-seo-playbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315620 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner
Article URL: https://github.com/turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315456 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)
Article URL: https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314884 Points: 21 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf]
Article URL: https://xescu.re/keeta-consensus.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314642 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314615 Points: 57 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314596 Points: 65 # Comments: 16
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
Article URL: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314579 Points: 34 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403 Points:..
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 Points: 80 # Comments: 23
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Article URL: https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winter-2026-2027-forecast-impact-united-states-canada-europe-fa/ Comments URL: https:/..
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
Article URL: https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317760 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
Article URL: https://github.com/jitpass/jit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317546 Points: 31 # Comments: 22
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Health benefits of Tai Chi
Article URL: https://www.health.harvard.edu/exercise-and-fitness/the-health-benefits-of-tai-chi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317279 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
Article URL: https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316872 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316611 Points: 38 # Comments: 24
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stimulated-geologic-hydrogen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316395 Points: 15 # Comments: 5
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316271 Points: 60 # Comments: 20
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns
Article URL: https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315995 Points: 37 # Comments: 9
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
Article URL: https://www.micdrop.gg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315742 Points: 51 # Comments: 19
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA
Article URL: https://github.com/PhillipChaffee/big-pickle-swe-atlas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315563 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
Article URL: https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319892 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Article URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633 Points: 19 # Comments: 8
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?
Article URL: https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/what-to-do-when-tokens-run-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319582 Points: 20 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged
Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/strategic-petroleum-reserve-trump-iran-war-gas-prices-b3033680.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493195..
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Claude: System Prompts
Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319556 Points: 56 # Comments: 20
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
Article URL: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319389 Points: 56 # Comments: 27
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/UJ4vH2F-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319215 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Article URL: https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322695 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome
Article URL: https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322573 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
Article URL: https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322330 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-o..
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
Article URL: https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Points: 158 # Comments: 80
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321353 Points: 88 # Comments: 33
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
The weekend is 100 years old
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-hybrid-working-ruined-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320984 Points..
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
Article URL: https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control-rods-drop-into-reactor-core Comments URL: https:/..
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320673 Points: 52 # Comments: 45
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
The AI Credit Resale Economy
Article URL: https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320611 Points: 167 # Comments: 64
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
