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1.Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
626 points by automatoney 8 days ago | 99 comments
2.Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
715 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 771 comments
3.In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
1644 points by jdcampolargo 8 days ago | 95 comments
4.Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
481 points by riadsila 8 days ago | 133 comments
5.Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
330 points by xnx 8 days ago | 733 comments
6.There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
453 points by pmg101 9 days ago | 445 comments
7.Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
272 points by marojejian 14 days ago | 208 comments
8.DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
382 points by zhoutong 8 days ago | 109 comments
9.AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
292 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago | 248 comments
10.AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
796 points by meysamazad 8 days ago | 465 comments
11.Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
312 points by leonickson 9 days ago | 142 comments
12.Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
333 points by tosh 8 days ago | 79 comments
13.libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
320 points by spyc 8 days ago | 73 comments
14.Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
250 points by cimi_ 8 days ago | 138 comments
15.Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
421 points by fiddlosopher 9 days ago | 53 comments
16.We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
188 points by seg6 8 days ago | 164 comments
17.Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
173 points by edwardbzhang 8 days ago | 53 comments
18. [dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
503 points by askvictor 8 days ago | 6 comments
19.Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
388 points by thewebguyd 8 days ago | 283 comments
20.Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
90 points by firer 10 days ago | 21 comments
21.When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
104 points by doppp 8 days ago | 131 comments
22. [flagged] I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
317 points by mattsterett 8 days ago | 241 comments
23.Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
80 points by sbulaev 12 days ago | 34 comments
24.Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
149 points by simonebrunozzi 8 days ago | 34 comments
25.Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
261 points by depr 8 days ago | 198 comments
26.That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
150 points by wofo 14 days ago | 312 comments
27.FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
465 points by gyan 8 days ago | 97 comments
28.Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
248 points by speckx 8 days ago | 102 comments
29.Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
337 points by stymaar 8 days ago | 82 comments
30.Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
128 points by EndXA 11 days ago | 87 comments

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