THE HACKER NEWS

jacquesm
9 hours ago
On A.I. regulation and messaging
1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important con...
15 HOURS AGO
ZACHARYOZER
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
2 DAYS AGO
LERMONTOV
Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
3 DAYS AGO
EVAKHOURY
A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs
A DAY AGO
ADJOHU
Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users
5 DAYS AGO
ABELANGER
Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
5 DAYS AGO
SBULAEV
Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
5 DAYS AGO
SAMCLEMENS
Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
bilsbie
11 hours ago
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
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ibobev
4 days ago
SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs....
cwwc
3 days ago
The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes
Over the past decade, ultrarunning has gone from a fringe pursuit for distance freaks to a hypercompetitive sport attracting big-time sponsors. But a mysterious training condition is suddenl...
forhappy
10 hours ago
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
Prolly is a content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees. It gives applications immutable snapshots, cheap branching, structural sharing, efficient diffs and merges, sync primitives, ...
tosh
a day ago
Claude: System Prompts
See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android app](https://anthropic.com/android)....
lumpa
8 hours ago
GIMP Development Update
Development Update, August 2026...
ankitg12
4 days ago
Production-ready detection and response queries for osquery
Production-ready detection & response queries for osquery - chainguard-dev/osquery-defense-kit...
ropbear
13 hours ago
Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea ...
https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing
karakoram
20 hours ago
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are....
_delirium
6 hours ago
$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM
How America's greatest grid wasted billions and is putting ratepayers at risk by using bad models, no not those models....
txrx0000
4 days ago
Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
George Hotz's comma.ai eGPU dock ships with open-source ASM2464PD firmware: $249 for the dock, $799 with a Radeon RX 9060, and it works on a normal PC....
mayop100
a day ago
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
This creates a defining product-design challenge: inventing how people and teams work with AI that does real work, not merely chats. We're looking for a Head of Design Engineering to own tha...
walrus01
11 hours ago
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants....
lentil_soup
20 hours ago
The weekend is 100 years old
In 1926, Henry Ford gave his employees both Saturdays and Sundays off – and the two-day chunk of time to party, pray or simply do nothing was born. Now it’s changed beyond recognition...