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Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325384 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325185 Points: 47 # Comments: 16
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
Article URL: https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159 Points: 4..
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone
Article URL: https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325092 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
Article URL: https://reticulum.network/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325061 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985 Points: 45 # Comments: 17
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323686 Points: 10..
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Points: 199 #..
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
An open-source, candle-only crypto pump detector–looking for ML contributors
Article URL: https://github.com/aleks-ent/pump-dump-crypto-screener Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323256 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI
Article URL: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323136 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM
Article URL: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326825 Points: 35 # Comments: 14
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler
Article URL: https://linear.axler.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326816 Points: 46 # Comments: 22
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GIMP Development Update
Article URL: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326156 Points: 78 # Comments: 26
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)
Article URL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326071 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
On A.I. regulation and messaging
https://xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325789 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
Article URL: https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325714 Points: 73 # Comments: 9
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
Article URL: https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325458 Points: 41 # Comments: 2
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325304 Points: 40 # Comments: 9
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Incident with Github.com
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684 Points: 141 # Comments: 69
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GitHub down again? no PR access
Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330632 Points: 30 # Comments: 9
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
Hi HN. I built 1667 for my own fiction work and now use it each day. This probably has a limited audience. Maybe an audience of one...Why a terminal interface for story writing? I'm a dev. I like to u..
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists."Edit: at the time of posting there was..
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer?
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330456 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
Article URL: https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330215 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330139 Points: 30 # ..
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post
Article URL: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2089227290769080656 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329844 Points: 36 # Comments: 19
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway
Article URL: https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329583 Points: 33 # Comments: 4
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Article URL: https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329575 Points: 73 # Comments: 46
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Article URL: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336050 Points: 55 # Comme..
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335600 Points: 54 # Comments: 16
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models
Article URL: https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335517 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
How I Over-Engineered My Book
Article URL: https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335292 Points: 30 # Comments: 21
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335216 Points: 57 # Co..
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng
Article URL: https://secretspec.dev/blog/we-are-forking-dotenvy-into-dotenv-ng/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335001 Points: 15 # Comments: 15
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334991 Points: 40 # Comments: 7
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334544 Points: 178 # Comments: 90
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Sun Clock
Article URL: https://sunclock.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333824 Points: 77 # Comments: 30
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
Article URL: https://www.repaircafe.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339097 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Puppy PPE
Article URL: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338953 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Article URL: https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338459 Points: 225 # Comments: 156
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
scScript for Linux
Article URL: https://scapplications.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338428 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338328 Points: 142 # Comments: 66
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Article URL: https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285 Points: 80 # Comments: 20
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
Article URL: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-08-18-returning-to-AI/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338139 Points: 26 # Comments: 77
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337630 Points: 30 # Comments: 5
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Points: 117 # Comments: 53
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392 Points: 76 # Comments: 16
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with
Article URL: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379126004052%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Commen..
8:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
The Benchmarkpocalypse
Article URL: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340299 Points: 77 # Comments: 16
8:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
