Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325384 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
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Applying a photosynthetic process to treat "dry eye"
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325304 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Two major rocket launches almost simultaneously
Two major rocket launches almost simultaneouslyDogeDesigner: SpaceX just set a new record by launching two Falcon 9 rockets only 38.5 minutes apart.SpaceX is operating on another…
Try Grok @Bot!
Try Grok @Bot!@amuse: PRO TIP: If you’re not using Grok @bot you’re missing out. It has replaced OpenClaw, Hermes, & my local model ($10K Mac Minis).…
RT Yun-Ta Tsai:
RT Yun-Ta TsaiSawyer Merritt: Just got this clip from a follower showing their @Tesla avoiding a collision recently on the highway while on FSD (Supervised) V14.Here…
The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325185 Points: 24 # Comments: 1
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
Article URL: https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone
Article URL: https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325092 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Markdown SVG upgrades
I started building my markdown-svg-renderer tool in May, but I've since added enough features to it that it's worth talking about here again. It's evolved into…
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
Article URL: https://reticulum.network/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325061 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
AI Daily Brief — 16 August 2026
Stripe reportedly acquires OpenRouter for $7B+, Anthropic discloses a year-long safety filter outage, and Qwen3.8-27B tops Hugging Face trending.
RT Starlink: For those impacted by Hurricane Lala in Hawaii, Starlink is providing free service through September 17 to new and existing customers. We…
RT StarlinkFor those impacted by Hurricane Lala in Hawaii, Starlink is providing free service through September 17 to new and existing customers. We are coordinating with…
> the PLAN flooding the strait with tens of thousands of fishing boats …amazing. That was the PLAN’s entire plan? Fishing boats, even as Taiwan aims…
> the PLAN flooding the strait with tens of thousands of fishing boats …amazing. That was the PLAN’s entire plan? Fishing boats, even as Taiwan aims…
A: Trump wants to avoid a war with China, and certainly doesn’t feel like intervening in Korea B: your own pro-Israel stance is half of it, he took T…
A: Trump wants to avoid a war with China, and certainly doesn’t feel like intervening in KoreaB: your own pro-Israel stance is half of it, he…
Re Fun bonus: I set Pi up with Qwen 3.8 27B and had it build a script for transforming its own .jsonl transcripts to Markdown… which it did! Here's …
Re Fun bonus: I set Pi up with Qwen 3.8 27B and had it build a script for transforming its own .jsonl transcripts to Markdown... which…
[audio.cpp] Release 0.6: dots.tts, MiniMax-H3 text2audio (up to 3x realtime), MiniMax-Music3 (preview), and more new audio models. 5+ demos included.
Hi all :) audio.cpp release 0.6 has been out for a little while, so this is more of an update on what landed and what has…
Simon Willison: Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
I look to Simon for a broad survey of current LLM tech. Here's his review of playing with Qwen 3.8 27B. His comment on Mastodon was…
Oh God. It’s so quaint that they still treat this as a matter of timelines and China being slow to “wake up”, not a strategic disagreement Quaint b…
Oh God. It’s so quaint that they still treat this as a matter of timelines and China being slow to “wake up”, not a strategic disagreement…
Llama.cpp ROCm 7.2->7.14 upgrade, Radeon 780m iGPU benchmarks: ROCm vs Vulkan
With all the new models released recently one important upgrade went unnoticed: Llama.cpp bumped ROCm from 7.2 to 7.14. I was waiting for that because in…
Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B – I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers htt…
Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs…
Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B – I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers https…
Heees my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs…
Qwen 3.8 27b vs 3.6 27b – how good is with a Turtle library.
Prompt: Provide complete working code for a realistic looking tree in Python using the Turtle graphics library and a recursive algorithm. Difference between 3.6 and 3.8…
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly 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…
Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324087 Points: 7 # Comments: 1