3:51:12 AM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2026

THE HACKER NEWS

fagnerbrack

3 hours ago

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

In 2004 I played too much RuneScape on a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen at once - in the...

AN HOUR AGO

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Ex-Crips leader found guilty in 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur

2 DAYS AGO

REASONABLEKLOUT

No country for mediocre mathematicians

2 DAYS AGO

ADEC314

Optimal transport is art: images to collection of optimally placed particles

18 HOURS AGO

METROFUN

OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor

A DAY AGO

ZIOFILL

Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting

A DAY AGO

TOSH

uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache

10 HOURS AGO

TZURY

'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions

A DAY AGO

CRESCIT_EUNDO

Accidental Aesthetics and Romance of Power Wires

A DAY AGO

ZDW

“I just chose words carefully”

speckx

11 hours ago

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.

thm

15 hours ago

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Apple's unusually timed announcement of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI hardware, according to The Information. Appl...

Anon84

4 hours ago

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Sel...

jcurbo

16 hours ago

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour...

gone35

3 days ago

Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public

The Labirinto Borges, part of the Giorgio Cini Foundation, reopens in Venice this week after an extensive renovation...

con

3 days ago

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

Point a projector and a webcam at a wall, draw with a laser pointer, and the projector paints your strokes. Open source, runs in the browser....

geox

2 days ago

Smartphone LED detects hidden cameras with AI

Smartphone LED and AI Detect Hidden Cameras KAISTs SweepLED achieves 94% accuracy with 10,000 won LED device...

Tomte

4 days ago

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

Infamously simulation-heavy colony builder Dwarf Fortress is getting a Myth and Magic update later in 2026 that generates a sorcery system to fit your world....

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/dwarf-fortress-is-getting-the-mother-of-all-magic-updates-extending-to-the-fundamental-cosmological-makeup-of-the-universe

asaiacai

6 days ago

Visualizing Combos in Judo in R

As the Judo World Championship draws near this June in Budapest, it feels like the perfect time to bring together my passion for Judo (and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu) with my gusto for complex netw...

kushagrchitkar

12 hours ago

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

An agent on its own computer, signed into your tools, with a wiki of everything your company knows. You text it work. It texts you when it's done....

kstonekuan

13 hours ago

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

SDK for robotics teams to verify the quality of their data used for AI model training. - Hebbian-Robotics/hflow...

__vivek

7 hours ago

How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails

We integrated the OpenTelemetry Ruby logs SDK in a Rails app to export logs directly to a vendor, without running a Collector....

thecsw

3 days ago

Damn fine tiny cafe

I love them miniatures. It started off with Rolife series, where the first hit had come from a [[https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini-libra......

notRobot

3 days ago

Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT

It seems like there was a dimethal mercury incident on the MIT campus with one student directly exposed. A terrible tragedy and a terrible way to go....

ingve

17 hours ago

Agent memory as a file format

Memoryfields - a vastly simpler way to do agent memory...

jruohonen

2 days ago

DNS abuse and criminal infrastructure

Evidence suggests that criminals may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations. Although the precise scale remains contested, the article asks whether current DNS Abuse measures ...