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Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367350 Points: 232 # Comments: 132
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a
Article URL: https://os8088.com/spotlight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367256 Points: 84 # Comments: 38
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117057099753905023 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364745 Points: 493 # Comments: 203
8:05 am, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload
Article URL: https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374269 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust
Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/canonical-backs-new-project-to-translate-large-c-codebases-into-safe-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374162 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374067 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Browser De-Slop
Article URL: https://www.sacredheartsc.com/blog/browser-de-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373616 Points: 25 # Comments: 20
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15).The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it ..
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proof-of-human/jobs/ZTZHEbb-member-of-technical-staff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373423 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Australia passes law to levy tech giants that fail to pay for local news
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-passes-law-levy-tech-giants-that-fail-pay-local-news-2026-08-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373123 Points: 33 ..
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery
Article URL: https://research.google/blog/seeing-beyond-bmi-estimating-cardiometabolic-risk-with-smartphone-imagery/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372994 Points: 22 # Comments: ..
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Risk Engineering
Article URL: https://risk-engineering.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372661 Points: 24 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
Article URL: https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583 Points: 284 # Comments: 90
2:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Stop Eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379253 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957 Points: 30 # Comments: 29
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah.I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to ..
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions
Article URL: https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378630 Points: 122 # Comments: 50
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378446 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser
Kandelo is an open-source, Wasm-based multi-process kernel that runs POSIX programs in browsers and Node.js.Kandelo is still experimental, but it already runs a substantial range of existing software...
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Consumer Rights Wiki
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378243 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
Article URL: https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377923 Points: 21 # Comments: 14
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
I should have loved biology
Article URL: https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377853 Points: 95 # Comments: 36
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
Project Cybersyn (2022)
Article URL: https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377739 Points: 30 # Comments: 16
8:05 pm, August 20, 2026 Hacker News
It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use
Article URL: http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382200 Points: 27 # Comments: 7
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
Article URL: https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382152 Points: 20 # Comments: 17
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382041 Points: 100 # Comments: 82
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP"
Article URL: https://search.parqdb.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382022 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Stealth Model
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381896 Points: 32 # Comments: 16
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour
Article URL: https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381311 Points: 26 # Comments: 9
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Article URL: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite..
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
Article URL: https://tidalcycles.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378950 Points: 56 # Comments: 9
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review
Article URL: https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378933 Points: 62 # Comments: 12
2:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
Article URL: https://remapradio.com/articles/the-lost-treasure-of-sid-meiers-pirates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384896 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
Article URL: https://encore.dev/blog/firecracker-apple-silicon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384716 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Argentic – An L402 Lightning toll booth for AI scraping agents
Article URL: https://Argentic.network Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384477 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)
Article URL: https://philipdick.com/resources/miscellaneous/the-religious-experience-of-philip-k-dick-by-r-crumb-from-weirdo-17/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384224 Points: 22 ..
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384180 Points: 75 # Comments:..
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness
Article URL: https://github.com/vivekhaldar/seed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384113 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/37674 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383326 Points: 126 # Comments: 38
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Article URL: https://annas-archive.gl/blog/physical-destruction.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383026 Points: 289 # Comments: 211
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Ox Alpha
https://twitter.com/OpenRouter/status/2090544970923184269, https://xcancel.com/OpenRouter/status/2090544970923184269 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381896 Points: 122 # Comments..
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
The August 17 outage
Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957 Points: 480 # Comments: 549
8:05 am, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387856 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
Article URL: https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387497 Points: 93 # Comments: 24
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
I'm Becoming AI-Blind
Article URL: https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386699 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
Article URL: https://ixuvo.com/blog/tigerbeetle-core-system-architecture-performance-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386659 Points: 65 # Comments: 27
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0
Article URL: https://github.com/yaroslav/kino Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386383 Points: 32 # Comments: 6
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386163 Points: 245 # Comments: 62
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Small, native web tricks worth remembering
Article URL: https://htmlcat.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385860 Points: 137 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
Better Batteries
Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/20/better-batteries.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385068 Points: 29 # Comments: 17
2:05 pm, August 21, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
