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The Golden Rule for Becoming a Better Writer
Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-golden-rule-of-becoming-a-better-writer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405870 Points: 88 # Comments: 49
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust
Article URL: https://martypc.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405816 Points: 93 # Comments: 23
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
I Dream of Quieter Computing
Article URL: https://henry.codes/writing/i-dream-of-quieter-computing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405682 Points: 55 # Comments: 23
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)
Article URL: https://nappertime.com/the-art-of-and-beauty-of-blade-runner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405331 Points: 65 # Comments: 15
8:05 am, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
Article URL: https://securelist.com/android-head-unit-malware/121106/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408550 Points: 50 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg92y1wzn8o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407576 Points: 68 # Comments: 40
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days
Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/22/iranian-hackers-shut-down-uk-power-plant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407509 Points: 38 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes
Article URL: https://www.xda-developers.com/qwen-3-8-27b-reverse-engineering-job-frontier-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407507 Points: 110 # Comments: 55
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
The Sloppification of Peptides
Article URL: https://henryaj.substack.com/p/the-sloppification-of-peptides Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407341 Points: 67 # Comments: 48
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive
Article URL: https://skylens.yantraai.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407309 Points: 30 # Comments: 4
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(26)00767-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406398 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras
Article URL: https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409200 Points: 21 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Authoritarianism of Code
Article URL: https://zedshaw.com/blog/2020-10-07-authoritarianism-of-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409184 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
What Is a Harness?
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409092 Points: 27 # Comments: 15
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
Death to px, long live ch
Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/death-to-px-long-live-ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408889 Points: 20 # Comments: 10
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes
Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-about-cults-scams-and-schemes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408858 Points: 48 # Comments: 13
8:05 pm, August 23, 2026 Hacker News
A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights
Article URL: https://github.com/l3a0/claude-plugins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424758 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424606 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Article URL: https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424387 Points: 17 # Comments: 5
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog
Article URL: https://textlog.cc/post/2059 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424167 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Anger, Anxiety and Agency
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424082 Points: 40 # Comments: 30
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon
Article URL: https://github.com/getkern/kern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423927 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Your "File" Menu Isn't About Files
Article URL: https://adam.farkas.pro/your-file-menu-isnt-about-files/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423886 Points: 24 # Comments: 34
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
What Is a Syslog Server?
Article URL: https://blog.greencloudvps.com/what-is-a-syslog-server.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423799 Points: 19 # Comments: 8
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff
Article URL: https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423495 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139, https://xcancel.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422784 Points: 147 # Comments: 55
8:05 pm, August 24, 2026 Hacker News
How Universities Should Prepare Founders
Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/prepare.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428121 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
What languages are agent skills written in?
Article URL: https://plicara.ai/research/agent-skill-languages/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427825 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
Article URL: https://github.com/murerkinn/bookshelf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427001 Points: 33 # Comments: 11
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=1ptvdtcm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426564 Points: 221 # Comments: 48
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Moon (2024)
Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/moon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49426466 Points: 99 # Comments: 17
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/style/china-tang-dynasty-never-existed-hoax-intl-hnk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425819 Points: 130 # Comments: 103
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425800 Points: 55 # Comments: 12
2:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown
It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. No screenshots, no video, or OCR. It writes plain markdown, one file per day, into..
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Volcanoes that made history
Article URL: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2026/volcanoes-that-made-history Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428972 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents
Article URL: https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428882 Points: 49 # Comments: 15
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
SiFive's First Server Platform
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428638 Points: 36 # Comments: 7
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Article URL: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2026/august/thomson-reuters-leverages-its-world-class-data-assets-to-launch-its-own-frontier-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
Article URL: https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428080 Points: 69 # Comments: 82
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
Article URL: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433759 Points: 7 # Comments: 5
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons
Article URL: https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433372 Points: 35 # Comments: 29
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433316 Points: 136 # Comments: 71
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433292 Points: 2..
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
Article URL: https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433064 Points: 56 # Comments: 24
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-and-work-limits-for-chatgpt-plus-users/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432879 Points: 45 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Don't Wordle
Article URL: https://dontwordle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432319 Points: 105 # Comments: 43
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)
Article URL: https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432317 Points: 57 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application
Article URL: https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432227 Points: 29 # Comments: 22
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Perplexity Portable Computer
Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-portable-computer-for-local-first-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439535 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co..
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
