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Archives for 05 Aug 2026

1. A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava
   (443 points | Comments)

2. The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
   (443 points | Comments)

3. Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
   (208 points | Comments)

4. I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
   (138 points | Comments)

5. Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
   (253 points | Comments)

6. When online commenters detect my art as AI
   (117 points | Comments)

7. I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
   (481 points | Comments)

8. Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
   (325 points | Comments)

9. Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
   (333 points | Comments)

10. Zed DeltaDB
    (529 points | Comments)

11. Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
    (442 points | Comments)

12. Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
    (435 points | Comments)

13. Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)
    (175 points | Comments)

14. Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
    (304 points | Comments)

15. Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
    (283 points | Comments)

16. I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
    (135 points | Comments)

17. Discovery Loop
    (953 points | Comments)

18. Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind
    (371 points | Comments)

19. Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
    (864 points | Comments)

20. Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
    (299 points | Comments)

21. Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
    (303 points | Comments)

22. The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life
    (224 points | Comments)

23. The Valley of Webhooks
    (247 points | Comments)

24. Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
    (330 points | Comments)

25. How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]
    (101 points | Comments)

26. Qwen Image 3.0 Pro
    (192 points | Comments)

27. Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
    (202 points | Comments)

28. The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
    (207 points | Comments)

29. Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links
    (115 points | Comments)

30. Show HN: What if one fund held tokenized Gold, tech stocks and digital assets?
    (129 points | Comments)

31. Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
    (194 points | Comments)

32. Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field
    (107 points | Comments)

33. Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
    (126 points | Comments)

34. The Entropy of a Markov Chain
    (145 points | Comments)

35. Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
    (663 points | Comments)

36. Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
    (134 points | Comments)

37. Painting with Gaussians
    (115 points | Comments)

38. TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
    (267 points | Comments)

39. Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
    (171 points | Comments)

40. Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
    (155 points | Comments)

41. Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
    (499 points | Comments)

42. Position: LLMs Can't Jump
    (302 points | Comments)

43. Making difficulty curves in games
    (171 points | Comments)

44. Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
    (184 points | Comments)

45. Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
    (120 points | Comments)

46. Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
    (101 points | Comments)

47. The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground
    (138 points | Comments)

48. Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
    (106 points | Comments)