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A society that runs on stimulants is badly broken

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-society-that...
49 points
23 comments

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unvei...
547 points
357 comments

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022...
276 points
209 comments

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron
681 points
184 comments

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill
48 points
23 comments

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26...
433 points
146 comments

Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

https://twitter.com/andrew_n_carr/status/209352439...
21 points
11 comments

LLM Cliché Highlighter

https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-highlig...
25 points
3 comments

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228
186 points
30 comments

Autistici/Inventati case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says

https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-cas...
48 points
6 comments

The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2...
108 points
83 comments

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw...
89 points
17 comments

Tim Curry has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-c...
721 points
233 comments

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes...
175 points
89 comments

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/
176 points
108 comments

CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API

https://wagtail.org/blog/cms-with-ai-not-ai-cms-wa...
37 points
9 comments

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympa...
89 points
46 comments

Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York, started in 1989

http://panix.com/
42 points
3 comments

Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)

https://github.com/issacnitin/RealDiff
40 points
10 comments

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europ...
1639 points
1029 comments

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/doll...
1600 points
248 comments

Flock CEO's Address Spread Online as Surveillance Backlash Explodes

https://www.gadgetreview.com/flock-ceos-address-sp...
102 points
95 comments

Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock

https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/gnu-lin...
3 points
0 comments

Getting video models to learn better, faster

https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/data-filtering-ge...
36 points
11 comments

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

https://twitterwebviewer.com/
576 points
413 comments

Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2...
263 points
169 comments

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590
298 points
223 comments

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-plat...
442 points
138 comments

Make a Portable Wide-screen Mechanical TV

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mechanical-tv-2677767814
6 points
0 comments

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-the...
193 points
108 comments