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Wednesday, 19 August 2026

• The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
  modular.com · Discuss

• Where Human Sleep Went Wrong
  nautil.us · Discuss

• "Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Berd
  berd.xyz · Discuss

Tuesday, 18 August 2026

• λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics
  dl.acm.org · Discuss

• Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
  tipiirai.com · Discuss

• Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
  economist.com · Discuss

• OpenLogi
  openlogi.org · Discuss

• The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck
  koh-antique.com · Discuss

• That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis
  lithub.com · Discuss

• Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield
  cam.ac.uk · Discuss

• Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
  bfi.uchicago.edu · Discuss

• Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Cerebras CS-4
  cerebras.ai · Discuss

• Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
  konstantintkachuk.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models
  modelmap.cc · Discuss

• The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks
  dpreview.com · Discuss

• Programmable Property-Based Testing
  dl.acm.org · Discuss

• Who owns the code? AI code == no author == no copyright
  whoownsthecode.com · Discuss

• AI usage patterns in software teams
  linear.app · Discuss

• GLM-5.3 Artificial Analysis Benchmarks
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.
  fx.sh · Discuss

• Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a
  cdn.kuber.studio · Discuss

• Companies promote incompetent employees to management tolimit damage they can do
  lawsofsoftwareengineering.com · Discuss

• Find Chicago Parking Cops
  secondcitycitation.com · Discuss

• Norway should buy OpenAI
  onethousandmeans.com · Discuss

• Beware Management Consultants
  about.iceland.co.uk · Discuss

• IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections
  burgeonlab.com · Discuss

• US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking
  pantheongpu.com · Discuss

• Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
  openai.com · Discuss

• How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
  ikea.com · Discuss

• Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
  asmedigitalcollection.asme.org · Discuss

• And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
  shkspr.mobi · Discuss

• Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
  support.claude.com · Discuss

• Degraded performance for multiple models
  status.claude.com · Discuss

• Superpowers, Not Superintelligence
  bond.now · Discuss

• Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI
  machine0.io · Discuss

• What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
  wheresyoured.at · Discuss

• One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
  oaklandside.org · Discuss

• Finger: A Protocol from 1977 Is Still Delivering Malware in 2026
  artemissecurity.com · Discuss

• Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore
  82mhz.net · Discuss

• Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
  theconversation.com · Discuss

• Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
  opensource.posit.co · Discuss

• The Amazon tax
  seths.blog · Discuss

• Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
  quantum5.ca · Discuss

• Composable Tests
  newsletter.kentbeck.com · Discuss

• Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development
  videogameschronicle.com · Discuss

• Things That Used to Be Normal and Are Now a Luxury
  albertogalca.com · Discuss

• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  philo.gay · Discuss

• Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
  fairphone.com · Discuss

• Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
  privacyguides.org · Discuss

• As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
  theregister.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Loft Day – a wedding invitation turned point-and-click game
  marketa.behdad.org · Discuss

• Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
  pixelcluster.dev · Discuss

• Rethinking Database Programming
  acadia.engineering · Discuss

• Finger: the 1971 social network that never died
  en.andros.dev · Discuss

Monday, 17 August 2026

• I don't enjoy the Internet any more
  btao.org · Discuss

• Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with
  cell.com · Discuss

• California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
  grist.org · Discuss

• The Benchmarkpocalypse
  danluu.com · Discuss

• Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents
  axios.com · Discuss

• PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history
  pm.gc.ca · Discuss

• Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
  repaircafe.org · Discuss

• Puppy PPE
  amosdudley.com · Discuss

• Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates
  atlpresscollective.com · Discuss

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  timmarinin.net · Discuss

• scScript for Linux
  scapplications.com · Discuss

• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  fabiensanglard.net · Discuss

• Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
  catcrafts.net · Discuss

• My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
  fast.ai · Discuss

• GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
  openrouter.ai · Discuss

• Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
  responsiblestatecraft.org · Discuss

• GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform
  status.cursor.com · Discuss

• The Origin of Consciousness (2008)
  blog.plover.com · Discuss

• Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?
  beachfront.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
  rickmanelius.com · Discuss

• How I Under-Engineered My Book
  chriskiehl.com · Discuss

• India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions
  bbc.com · Discuss

• AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models
  blog.roboflow.com · Discuss

• How I Over-Engineered My Book
  ben.balter.com · Discuss

• Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng
  secretspec.dev · Discuss

• GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
  tomshardware.com · Discuss

• Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
  moddedbear.com · Discuss

• Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
  cursor.com · Discuss

• Buy Your Friends Batteries
  domenkozar.com · Discuss

• Sun Clock
  sunclock.net · Discuss

• GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
  dhruv2038.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• The Size of the World Wide Web
  worldwidewebsize.com · Discuss

• Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
  current.org · Discuss

• Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
  ysph.yale.edu · Discuss

• Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
  speko.ai · Discuss

• Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules
  reason.com · Discuss

• Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
  piszczek.pl · Discuss

• The only known trebuchet casualty in history
  arstechnica.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
  saggar.marginalutility.dev · Discuss

• How to put 170 atoms in an atom
  signoregalilei.com · Discuss

• AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
  wiz.io · Discuss

• Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz
  flagquizzes.com · Discuss

• Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals
  bundeskartellamt.de · Discuss

• How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
  librarian.net · Discuss

• Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• How to ship a database every day
  turbopuffer.com · Discuss

• A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
  duckdb.org · Discuss

• Incident with Github.com
  githubstatus.com · Discuss

• GitHub down again? no PR access
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
  1667.ai · Discuss

• Incident with Github.com
  githubstatus.com · Discuss

• Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug
  npr.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
  mkornreich.me · Discuss

• Mexico crackdown on coastal development
  yucatanmagazine.com · Discuss

• GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
  blog.roboflow.com · Discuss

• Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed
  bgr.com · Discuss

• People are worried about America's solvency
  ft.com · Discuss

• Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
  labs.ripe.net · Discuss

• Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
  desktopcolors.com · Discuss