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Explain it to me like I'm ten

https://timharford.com/2026/08/explain-it-to-me-li...
196 points
73 comments

80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-cant-stop-80-of-de...
38 points
4 comments

Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-sof...
299 points
156 comments

Quantum battery upends the rules of charging

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260824-this-q...
55 points
64 comments

Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/migrating-a-synolog...
71 points
58 comments

Show HN: I built a lite LPU that can do inference on Karpathy's MicroGPT

https://www.lpulite.com
17 points
3 comments

Fable and the end of the free lunch

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/08/23/fable-the-end-...
223 points
249 comments

Felony Bench

https://www.felonybench.com/
847 points
346 comments

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-...
88 points
59 comments

Cave Radio – Talking Through Solid Rock

https://makezine.com/article/electronics/cave-radi...
3 points
0 comments

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgvyy4x2mvo
723 points
1681 comments

Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20186
51 points
35 comments

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/sam...
1104 points
1376 comments

Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests

https://studyfinds.com/coconut-oil-jet-fuel-matche...
188 points
227 comments

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/
131 points
22 comments

Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threa...
166 points
95 comments

Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/24/wo...
192 points
148 comments

Walgit leans on S3 primitives but has classic distsys bugs

https://twitter.com/kellabyte/status/2092105110381...
4 points
0 comments

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

https://malisper.me/jit-compiling-code-in-5-us/
163 points
107 comments

Declarative WebGPU with S-Expressions

https://hugodaniel.com/posts/declarative-webgpu-wi...
46 points
11 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-web...
1057 points
337 comments

Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo

https://www.afro.who.int/countries/democratic-repu...
131 points
68 comments

The Government Report That Made Me Stop Trusting Our Statistical Agencies

https://econjared.substack.com/p/the-government-re...
58 points
8 comments

Kobo can run apps now

https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/
657 points
209 comments

Show HN: Tblue – 614 passive security scanners for any website, runs locally

https://github.com/taylannuhogluofficial-png/Tblue
14 points
4 comments

Qwen 3.6 is now much easier to run locally on your Mac, thanks to JetBrains

https://www.neowin.net/news/qwen-36-is-now-much-ea...
39 points
13 comments

Mac OS X on Xbox 360

https://github.com/osx360/osx360-drivers
23 points
2 comments

Creating under 256 byte 32-bit x86 based Linux binaries

http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Linux
12 points
0 comments

OpenAI claims its new chips can outperform Nvidia processors in tests

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25...
16 points
2 comments

Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

https://github.com/runvendo/vendo
64 points
22 comments