Don't use your phone while you poop
Article URL: https://nate.spot/no-phone-while-poop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221939 Points: 43 # Comments: 45
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Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
Article URL: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221864 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
Claude Code in 9 lines python
I was wondering what a minimal coding agent implementation would look like that can be used like Claude Code or Codex Not feature-by-feature of course but…
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
Article URL: https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221711 Points: 38 # Comments: 3
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator
Article URL: https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221679 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 Points: 54 # Comments: 23
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
Article URL: https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221220 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference
Article URL: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/cpu-back-rethinking-cpu-gpu-split-llm-inference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221089 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
MI25 for 80-100€ worth it?
seems to be about as good as a vega 56 with 16Gb of VRAM, is it worth it? (don’t want to deal with NVIDIA drivers on…
Has anyone here fiddled with TPUs for inference ?
I discovered recently that Google uses their own TPUs, like tiny ASIC cards like the toy ones that existed for bitcoin. And while it sounds inefficient…
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392 Points: 21 # Comments: 16
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220390 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 Points: 22 # Comments: 5
US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with-cluster-of-deaths-by-suicide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220339 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220313 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
A local code index for coding agents that resolves imports without a language server (Rust, MIT, runs offline)
Last time I posted about this here someone asked the right question: why not just use rust-analyzer, and how do you build a call graph without…
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
Real-Time Conversational Agents (RTCA) Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026 — submissions now open, deadline Aug 29 AoE [N]
Real-Time Conversational Agents (RTCA) workshop at NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney, Dec 11–12). Submissions are now open on OpenReview. What the workshop is about Conversational AI has crossed…
FAQ: Isn't AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help?
Introduction I think reprogenetics (human germline genomic engineering) can be done in a widely acceptable and beneficial way, and should be pursued aggressively. In particular, as…
2027 Memory Capacity Is Reportedly Sold Out
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Reasoning was not made for Deduction
Science as attunement, from Galileo to language models. Crossposted from my website. Written by me and edited in collaboration with Claude Fable (Anthropic).Many would agree that…
Simplifying the anthropic impossibility result
I previously demonstrated an anthropic impossibility theorem, showing that in Duplicates Sleeping Beauty, there was no possible probability theory that obeyed both the martingale condition and…
Qwen3.6 27B + 35B on vLLM, single R9700 (gfx1201)
I've been tuning my new Radeon AI Pro R9700, and figured that this would be useful information for people who are trying to optimise their setups.…
model: support Longcat-Flash (need testing) by ngxson · Pull Request #19182 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
This PR should be ready for testing now. I tested with a very small (8B params) sub-model extracted from the original one. Appreciate if someone can…