3:40:23 PM TUESDAY AUGUST 18, 2026 THE HACKER NEWS
herbertl
2 hours ago
The Amazon Tax
It’s not technically a tax. Taxes produce valuable public benefits, like medical research and parks. This is simply legal theft. Amazon makes nearly a billion dollars in profit from search a...
5 HOURS AGO
PSEUDOLUS
Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction
3 HOURS AGO
YTKOKA
Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints
AN HOUR AGO
BAIGY
Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
19 HOURS AGO
DEEPLOGIN
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
8 HOURS AGO
ANDROS
Finger: Social network that never died
18 HOURS AGO
PIZZAIOLO
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
A DAY AGO
GALNAGLI
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
A DAY AGO
LINGGEN
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
A DAY AGO
NEOGODLESS
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
6 DAYS AGO
WHOBRE
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
AN HOUR AGO
PENTAGRAMA
Firefox and Exa Partnership
AN HOUR AGO
PAVEL_LISHIN
The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed
6 DAYS AGO
WHOBRE
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
2 HOURS AGO
KLAAZ0R
ChatGPT has almost stopped citing Reddit
AN HOUR AGO
PENTAGRAMA
Firefox and Exa Partnership
otherayden
3 hours ago
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)
andrewjanke
6 days ago
Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD
Teaching My Kid To Code With a Modern MUD...
Vinnl
3 hours ago
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more. ...
zeristor
2 hours ago
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment. Decades on, it’s revealing how early diet shapes cancer risk, ageing and eating habits for life....
jeroenjanssens
2 hours ago
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars....
El-Necora
an hour ago
JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer
100% private, in-browser JPEG XL converter. No sign-up, no limits, no watermark....
vinipolicena
3 hours ago
Composable Tests
It's not what I thought...
speckx
16 minutes ago
One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?...
https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime/DeepLogin
3 hours ago
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Meta filed for a patent that includes a "memory recall" system that appears to detect people via facial recognition and record them automatically, and show you a highlights real later....
danbolt
3 hours ago
Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development
There are three games he’d still like to make, but feels he’s “done what I set out to do”…...
KentBeck
4 days ago
Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training
I remember walking to the bus from high school, staring at a Motorola 6800 instruction set manual....
Topfi
19 hours ago
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens....
porridgeraisin
3 hours ago
Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
just Claude writing a MacOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows support...
ibotty
a day ago
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and...
moultano
3 days ago
Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data
Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math...
plurby
a day ago
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading ...