NC Results

“I just chose words carefully” 387 by zdw | 97 comments on Hacker News.

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root 386 by trap0xcc | 389 comments on Hacker News.

Creepy Crawlies 428 by zdw | 203 comments on Hacker News.

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions 419 by firefax | 94 comments on Hacker News.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now 420 by ibobev | 284 comments on Hacker News.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" 475 by pluc | 441 comments on Hacker News.

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 504 by miniBill | 150 comments on Hacker News.

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven 586 by ckardaris | 290 comments on Hacker News.

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight 549 by jeudesprits | 199 comments on Hacker News. https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713 https://ift.tt/BbxnRyj

Get your Windows license refund 548 by smartmic | 215 comments on Hacker News.

Trade (and Tariffs) 533 by throw0101d | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache 551 by TangerineDream | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children 528 by bhouston | 530 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account 550 by motownphilly | 367 comments on Hacker News.

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B 652 by mfiguiere | 273 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/uYFwWSv... (paywalled) https://ift.tt/64cYuih...

Tim Curry has died 550 by mykowebhn | 189 comments on Hacker News.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 541 by tosh | 174 comments on Hacker News.

GLM-5.3-Flash 577 by Philpax | 273 comments on Hacker News.

Nitter project received cease and desist 587 by Banditoz | 413 comments on Hacker News.

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game 584 by centrosphere | 168 comments on Hacker News. https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139 , https://ift.tt/n04A1Xh

Dolly Parton has died 736 by helsinkiandrew | 110 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/NFsvLCz... https://ift.tt/cFDBHxI... , https://ift.tt/HWpIK1i https://ift.tt/sdLtJ0a...

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra 611 by interpol_p | 360 comments on Hacker News.

Oceans hit highest temperature on record 559 by tcp_handshaker | 433 comments on Hacker News.

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID 479 by ComputerGuru | 190 comments on Hacker News.

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch 441 by bilsbie | 547 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/sHglPIe

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded 425 by tosh | 252 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/EUAyRX1

What Is a Harness? 306 by tosh | 135 comments on Hacker News.

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes 291 by raybb | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras 287 by dredmorbius | 117 comments on Hacker News.

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day 347 by dr_pardee | 142 comments on Hacker News.

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM 412 by matklad | 104 comments on Hacker News. https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/21/rust-glancer.html

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down 484 by tartoran | 1225 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/FN65IMA...

I'm becoming AI-blind 473 by rcymerys | 478 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp 494 by dares2573 | 153 comments on Hacker News.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border 515 by floathub | 702 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/MUfTrzu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s 439 by EwanG | 262 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/5rLskXv

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera 558 by throw7 | 302 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device 564 by simedw | 113 comments on Hacker News. I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The model then continues what you played, entirely on-device. The app is free if anyone wants to try it. Happy to answer questions about the model, training, Core ML, or the many things that didn't work.

The August 17 outage 590 by 0xedb | 675 comments on Hacker News.

HTML Can Do That 617 by encyclopedism | 168 comments on Hacker News.

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence 661 by speckx | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma 498 by heydenberk | 231 comments on Hacker News.

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 543 by exceptione | 345 comments on Hacker News.

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare 545 by kareiva | 70 comments on Hacker News.

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM 536 by flaburgan | 297 comments on Hacker News.

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit 565 by pseudolus | 386 comments on Hacker News.

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study 641 by karakoram | 736 comments on Hacker News.

The Amazon tax 604 by herbertl | 414 comments on Hacker News.

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter 606 by Topfi | 420 comments on Hacker News.

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) 513 by mooreds | 312 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub 455 by dhruv3006 | 291 comments on Hacker News. Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives?

Incident with Github.com 438 by SpyCoder77 | 826 comments on Hacker News. Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists." Edit: at the time of posting there was not an incident on githubstatus.com. Now there is. https://ift.tt/mQN3nC9 Original Title: "Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded"

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 433 by ibotty | 69 comments on Hacker News.

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" 348 by Narishma | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" 336 by Alifatisk | 118 comments on Hacker News.

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI 314 by theanonymousone | 283 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/mWRXDVp

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker 338 by pentagrama | 133 comments on Hacker News.

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist 349 by rdl | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Seven books I keep close because I love them 365 by surprisetalk | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking 428 by vslira | 227 comments on Hacker News.

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption 446 by u1hcw9nx | 265 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin 456 by DemiGuru | 174 comments on Hacker News.

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election 431 by tcp_handshaker | 345 comments on Hacker News.

Qwen 3.8 27B 546 by erdaltoprak | 363 comments on Hacker News.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast 631 by pr337h4m | 248 comments on Hacker News.

Spaghettifying DRAM 633 by matt_d | 162 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini 3.7 Flash 507 by thisisauserid | 308 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/4UZm90k...

DeepSeek Harness developer preview 505 by bjin | 229 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/hpfTxSX https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/guide...

License plate reader searches should require a warrant 518 by apwheele | 318 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 519 by explosion-s | 189 comments on Hacker News.

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering 460 by florianherrengt | 385 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining 456 by ilamont | 432 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/ND8foUc https://ift.tt/dnv5bWY...

Compression is prediction 475 by nikolay | 202 comments on Hacker News.

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs 432 by quantumgarbage | 175 comments on Hacker News.

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C 424 by stevekemp | 300 comments on Hacker News.

The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America 411 by slowin | 276 comments on Hacker News.

What Happened to HackerOne? 367 by hipparchus | 193 comments on Hacker News.

Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open 391 by colesantiago | 134 comments on Hacker News.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM 382 by akyuu | 318 comments on Hacker News.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics 410 by laurentiurad | 230 comments on Hacker News.

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year 372 by wglb | 82 comments on Hacker News.

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating 416 by theanonymousone | 195 comments on Hacker News.

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded 380 by Meleagris | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Assembly Hall of Shame 401 by piotrgrabowski | 98 comments on Hacker News.

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers 415 by RickJWagner | 532 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 426 by tosh | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update 393 by dsubburam | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak 395 by yusyd | 412 comments on Hacker News.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon 440 by itvision | 340 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/SodPXIp... https://chatjimmy.ai/

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index 414 by apitman | 267 comments on Hacker News.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing 411 by ExMachina73 | 201 comments on Hacker News.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models 415 by moonikakiss | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs 469 by colesantiago | 587 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/QFPvOeT... https://ift.tt/ktQhrXB... https://ift.tt/HKDIel5 , https://ift.tt/K0Vw14B https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 , https://ift.tt/X9lmr8n

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work 452 by speckx | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking 440 by dzdt | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Discovery Loop 443 by xtreak29 | 284 comments on Hacker News.

FFmpeg 9.0 444 by gyan | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones 511 by automatoney | 92 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for others as I have found it! There's lots of room for improvements (see the Future Work section), but I'm really happy with how it turned out.

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years 641 by jdcampolargo | 38 comments on Hacker News.

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc 489 by surprisetalk | 535 comments on Hacker News.

LLMs reward expertise 360 by MaxMussio | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code 351 by mpweiher | 291 comments on Hacker News.

Devtools must be open source 346 by bryanmikaelian | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Karpathy’s Pelican 355 by delichon | 277 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/laMmIUB

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built 304 by tomilan | 98 comments on Hacker News.

NetBSD 11.0 303 by jaypatelani | 148 comments on Hacker News.

How to Exist 365 by walterbell | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science 383 by milkshakes | 256 comments on Hacker News.

The AI Aesthetic 370 by montroser | 176 comments on Hacker News.