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Is the LLM smart or are you not?

https://blog.troed.se/posts/the-anchoring-effect-a...
7 points
0 comments

FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcement...
286 points
74 comments

Steve Jobs 8th Grade Science Fair Project: The Silicon-Controlled Rectifier

https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/3516...
7 points
0 comments

Show HN: Build your own theme park

https://www.magicpatterns.com/theme-park
57 points
25 comments

Lamb Grazing in Solar Farms

https://spacedaily.com/b-lambs-grazing-under-an-or...
5 points
0 comments

Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-28...
195 points
268 comments

The IBM PC, Part 2: Tsunami

https://technicshistory.com/2026/08/29/the-ibm-pc-...
12 points
0 comments

Google Bows to Trump, Renames 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' in Google Maps

https://www.neowin.net/news/google-bows-to-trump-a...
12 points
5 comments

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/openai-jalap...
584 points
380 comments

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo
94 points
59 comments

AI Agent Has Root

https://infernalcode.com/posts/your-ai-agent-has-r...
42 points
68 comments

CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-...
339 points
87 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stri...
249 points
62 comments

Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa...
100 points
25 comments

Police officer arrested after tracking ex-girlfriend on Flock over 2k times

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/26/us/flock-kentucky-p...
103 points
28 comments

American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career

https://simpleflying.com/american-airlines-mechani...
5 points
3 comments

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with...
542 points
543 comments

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and...
334 points
463 comments

Kusama Yayoi has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/arts/yayoi-kusa...
268 points
32 comments

LLM usage in Debian neither endorsed nor prohibited

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte
6 points
5 comments

The ArtQrCode a twist on the classic black and white Quick Response Code

https://art-qrcode.com/
12 points
2 comments

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874...
1003 points
736 comments

You've heard of CSV files, but have you heard of CCSV files?

https://robida.net/entries/2026/08/12/youve-heard-...
37 points
28 comments

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-08-23/comaps-inte...
141 points
40 comments

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/
300 points
210 comments

Show HN: The impact that made the Moon, 262k particles in a browser tab

https://gaploid.github.io/cosmic-collisions/
10 points
9 comments

Secrets of the Atomic City

https://longreads.com/2026/08/06/radiation-paducah...
27 points
7 comments

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb
188 points
54 comments

Visualizing Binary Files

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-08-05/0/POSTING...
134 points
18 comments

M5Stack Launches PaperMono

https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-launch...
162 points
57 comments