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Asus Bike Booster | 💬350+ Software Engineering fundamentals matter more | 💬141+ Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work | 💬26+ What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? | 💬156+ Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems | 💬102+ Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns | 💬20+

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them | 💬336+ Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk | 💬228+ The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis | 💬70+ A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms | 💬68+ Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history | 💬66+ Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI | 💬79+

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist | 💬130+ Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia | 💬51+ eigendrum | 💬57+ Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel | 💬38+ Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus | 💬56+ Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 | 💬83+

Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet | 💬552+ Every Fucking Website | 💬420+ Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election | 💬273+ Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin | 💬103+ In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half | 💬213+ Seven books I keep close because I love them | 💬129+

GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities | 💬377+ Hello, me. It's been a while | 💬161+ Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? | 💬258+ Bluesky Protocol Services | 💬53+ US conducted mass spying campaign against leftwing and anti-ICE protesters | 💬43+ SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles | 💬34+

Gemini 3.7 Flash | 💬325+ DeepSeek Harness developer preview | 💬234+ Spaghettifying DRAM | 💬137+ Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview | 💬296+ Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast | 💬157+ Gloomberb | 💬192+

ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux | 💬208+ Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified | 💬188+ Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe | 💬199+ What's New in Flutter 3.47 | 💬167+ Antiqua–Fraktur Dispute | 💬51+ DeepSeek Harness | 💬29+

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug | 💬126+ DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 | 💬254+ AI is removing the middle class of software engineering | 💬606+ License Plate Reader Searches Should Require a Warrant | 💬325+ Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | 💬101+ Grok 4.6 | 💬372+

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 | 💬163+ Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content | 💬206+ llama.cpp | 💬136+ 2026 Eclipse Webcams | 💬51+ CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York | 💬141+ New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner | 💬80+

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs | 💬200+ Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp | 💬43+ Mojo 1.0 Is Here | 💬117+ OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining | 💬327+ Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering | 💬272+ Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch | 💬157+

France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls | 💬328+ The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America | 💬603+ Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers | 💬77+ Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states | 💬85+ Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released | 💬32+ More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts | 💬154+

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models | 💬358+ Sonic Pi v5 Released | 💬76+ Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's | 💬436+ Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification | 💬339+ Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia | 💬61+ Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb | 💬83+

Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model | 💬192+ Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents | 💬229+ What Happened to HackerOne? | 💬155+ Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code | 💬260+ Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice | 💬54+ Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro | 💬30+

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM | 💬278+ I use LLMs to learn complex topics | 💬187+ Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy | 💬154+ Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's | 💬120+ Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley | 💬73+ Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) | 💬563+

Dithered QR Codes | 💬27+ Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled | 💬170+ Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection | 💬32+ Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 | 💬123+ The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011) | 💬79+ Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults | 💬154+

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers | 💬345+ Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating | 💬228+ Fastmail offers EU data region | 💬136+ Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country | 💬104+ LinkedIn Feed Blocker | 💬97+ Don't use your phone while you poop | 💬149+

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded | 💬164+ Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night | 💬71+ NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year | 💬61+ New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. | 💬161+ DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones | 💬33+ SupererDuperer | 💬27+

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 | 💬245+ Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK | 💬243+ 99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots | 💬339+ App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours | 💬154+ Assembly Hall of Shame | 💬49+ US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data | 💬67+

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects | 💬501+ New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health | 💬257+ Sao Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest | 💬87+ Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media | 💬110+ Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day | 💬39+ Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer | 💬42+

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index | 💬263+ GitHub Actions Is Down | 💬257+ AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon | 💬238+ Almost no skill required to cook a steak | 💬301+ Quake – 30th Anniversary Update | 💬89+ Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks | 💬129+