THE HACKER NEWS

j0selit0
6 hours ago
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
Six approaches to retrieval-based AI, from minimal to elaborate...
A DAY AGO
RAATTGIFT
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
16 HOURS AGO
ZDW
Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others
A DAY AGO
SURPRISETALK
Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
10 MINUTES AGO
SPECKX
Who Makes Your Supplements?
A DAY AGO
SPECKX
Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
4 HOURS AGO
RBANFFY
U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers
3 HOURS AGO
ROBTHEROBBER
Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off
AN HOUR AGO
PSYCHANARCH
Meta agrees to settle social media addiction suit with states for up to $16B
12 HOURS AGO
GDAD
Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems
onderkalaci
2 hours ago
AWS Acquires DuckDB
DuckLabs provides services around the DuckDB in-process OLAP data management system directly from its main developers.
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pablo24602
3 hours ago
Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring
About Proliferate Proliferate is the open-source, self-hostable AI IDE where you can collaborate with agents as a team. Longer term, we are building the substrate through which companies d...
sunnynagra
20 hours ago
FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people aged 2 years and older living with diabetes. ...
interpol_p
a day ago
New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics....
interpol_p
a day ago
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities....
mikhael
2 hours ago
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated...
bmulholland
a day ago
OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets...
altilunium
6 hours ago
Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
OSM US is incredibly excited to announce the latest Charter Project: OldInsuranceMaps.net (OIM)!If you’re a map nerd you’ll remember ever seeing a Sanborn Insurance Map in person. They often...
https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/
runako
a day ago
New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
Apple announced the new Mac mini with the all-new M6 and powerful M5 Pro, delivering a dramatic boost in performance and more versatility in its supersmall desktop design....
rbanffy
18 hours ago
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
Some internet standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet. Thus, a mapping from Unicode to ASCII for use in domain names is required. NameP...
Banditoz
a day ago
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
https://web.archive.org/web/20260825143445/https://twiiit.com/ Every instance has the same Instance has been rate limited. error....
dazhbog
4 hours ago
Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds
Former Air France stewardess Sophie Lainault has had her cancer recognised as an occupational disease....
conbrian
a day ago
How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
As inflation-weary businesses raise prices to cover credit card interchange fees, the pain isn't universal, says research by Mark L. Egan. ...
smiths1999
a day ago
Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases
Embedded single-file knowledge graph database with vector search and full-text search for AI/RAG apps - jeffhajewski/latticedb...
swimmingbrain
17 hours ago
Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
FOSS browser-based LaTeX editor with live preview, on-demand packages and git integration. No accounts, no installs, no servers. - swimmingbrain/texbrain...
helsinkiandrew
21 hours ago
Dolly Parton has died
Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes...