9:48:11 PM TUESDAY AUGUST 18, 2026 THE HACKER NEWS
fittingopposite
4 hours ago
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust
A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings - RyanCodrai/turbovec...
35 MINUTES AGO
BEHNAMOH
Companies promote incompetent employees to management tolimit damage they can do
2 HOURS AGO
ALEXEIGANNON
Norway Should Buy OpenAI
A DAY AGO
KARAKORAM
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
8 HOURS AGO
ZERISTOR
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
9 HOURS AGO
VINNL
Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
7 HOURS AGO
BAIGY
Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
9 HOURS AGO
DEEPLOGIN
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
A DAY AGO
MCCLOWES
Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
5 HOURS AGO
TYRE
Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
4 DAYS AGO
KENTBECK
Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training
5 HOURS AGO
_DJO_
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
4 DAYS AGO
KENTBECK
Baking a Model: A Metaphor for LLM Training
amrrs
34 minutes ago
Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a
A ~4-hour Claude Code session, rendered as it happened: reverse-engineering an SPL3 laser, beating the USB sandbox, HP's real codec in a container.
speckx
5 days ago
2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey
The statue gives new insight into the ancient Lydian civilisation, Turkey’s culture ministry says ...
haunter
a day ago
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights....
jeroenjanssens
8 hours ago
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars....
otherayden
9 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)...
num42
4 days ago
Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map
Interactive global map of mycorrhizal fungal hyphal density — the underground networks beneath our feet....
bwm
5 hours ago
Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI
Up to 60 vCPUs, 240 GB RAM & GPUs. Designed for agents using CLI or MCP. Billed by the minute....
herbertl
8 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...
https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/
andrewjanke
6 days ago
Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD
Teaching My Kid To Code With a Modern MUD...
therepanic
6 hours ago
Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo
we have democratized the LeetCode tests. Contribute to therepanic/openleetcode development by creating an account on GitHub....
littlexsparkee
19 hours ago
California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year
The nation’s first tire efficiency standards target an overlooked drag on fuel economy that can cost drivers more at the pump....
biwills
4 hours ago
Show HN: macOS data protection keychain for Electron apps
Secure storage for signed Electron and Node apps, backed by the modern macOS Data Protection Keychain - biw/keychain-store...
rdmuser
3 hours ago
IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections
A recap and summary of the first ever Homebrew Website Club: Asia Pacific IndieWeb event....
pseudolus
12 hours ago
Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP...
saqibkhan1992
3 hours ago
Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking
Cross-platform CUDA and ROCm GPU stress testing, diagnostics, profiling, and performance benchmarks....
andros
14 hours ago
Finger: Social network that never died
It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your…...