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Archives for 04 Aug 2026
  1. Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
    (291 points | Comments)

  2. IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
    (183 points | Comments)

  3. libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
    (320 points | Comments)

  4. Western Sahara
    (127 points | Comments)

  5. We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
    (188 points | Comments)

  6. Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
    (546 points | Comments)

  7. DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
    (147 points | Comments)

  8. AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
    (292 points | Comments)

  9. Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
    (337 points | Comments)

  10. Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
    (104 points | Comments)

  11. I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
    (317 points | Comments)

  12. Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
    (261 points | Comments)

  13. Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
    (172 points | Comments)

  14. In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
    (1643 points | Comments)

  15. LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models
    (169 points | Comments)

  16. Waymo in Dallas
    (330 points | Comments)

  17. Web Security is Too Hard
    (226 points | Comments)

  18. Why some people mow a lawn better than others
    (205 points | Comments)

  19. How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
    (145 points | Comments)

  20. The Warp Agent CLI
    (111 points | Comments)

  21. All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
    (397 points | Comments)

  22. Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
    (481 points | Comments)

  23. Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
    (138 points | Comments)

  24. When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
    (104 points | Comments)

  25. The AI Demand Bubble
    (112 points | Comments)

  26. Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
    (388 points | Comments)

  27. Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
    (626 points | Comments)

  28. Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees
    (125 points | Comments)

  29. Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
    (247 points | Comments)

  30. Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
    (141 points | Comments)

  31. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
    (492 points | Comments)

  32. Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
    (714 points | Comments)

  33. Everything I Know (1975)
    (149 points | Comments)

  34. AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
    (796 points | Comments)

  35. Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
    (138 points | Comments)

  36. Nobel Disease
    (124 points | Comments)

  37. Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
    (250 points | Comments)

  38. U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
    (380 points | Comments)

  39. Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)
    (503 points | Comments)

  40. Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
    (115 points | Comments)

  41. DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
    (382 points | Comments)

  42. "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)
    (161 points | Comments)

  43. The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)
    (114 points | Comments)

  44. FFmpeg 9.0
    (465 points | Comments)

  45. Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal
    (115 points | Comments)

  46. NHS apologises and admits Palantir have access to identifiable patient data
    (155 points | Comments)

  47. You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript
    (140 points | Comments)

  48. Harness engineering for self-improvement
    (332 points | Comments)

  49. Apple is getting this wrong
    (290 points | Comments)

  50. As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
    (242 points | Comments)

  51. Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer
    (159 points | Comments)