Is it all just vapourware?
Article URL: https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourware Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235859 Points: 54 # Comments: 58
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Believe them. They mean exactly what they say.
Believe them. They mean exactly what they say.X Freeze: You’re the biggest idiot if you bring a poisonous snake into your home, feed it, protect it,…
Team Terafab opted to remind me that the badge is a Privilege, not a Right. Grand Vizier Boar's light touch days are over; Emperor Elon's broom sweeps…
Team Terafab opted to remind me that the badge is a Privilege, not a Right. Grand Vizier Boar's light touch days are over; Emperor Elon's broom…
Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
Article URL: https://tuxedono2.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235697 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Hitler was a far-left socialist Therefore, socialists are Hitler Inescapable logic 😂
Hitler was a far-left socialist Therefore, socialists are HitlerInescapable logic 😂Brivael Le Pogam: On a réussi le plus gros scam idéologique du XXe siècle : coller…
New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
Article URL: https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235641 Points: 20 # Comments: 4
The Gemma team will host a special event on August 20
Tweet by u/hackerllama Could be copium, but I would love to see Gemma 4.1 there with unified audio input for all model sizes perhaps even up…
The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv5441 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235572 Points: 3 # Comments: 3
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.
RT Ali Zaid: 17 hours into building superstage for @swyx's "help kill my saas" hackathon. not 17 hours straight, i've taken breaks 😅 i think the pl…
RT Ali Zaid17 hours into building superstage for @swyx's "help kill my saas" hackathon.not 17 hours straight, i've taken breaks 😅i think the platform is basically…
Archival Resource Key (Ark) Alliance
Article URL: https://arks.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235486 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
[2606.05682] Beyond Output Matching: Preserving Internal Geometry in NVFP4 LLM Distillation
Demand for low-precision inference, including NVFP4-based approaches, has grown as large language models are increasingly deployed in latency and cost constrained production environments. Quantization-aware distillation (QAD)…
The Hacker's Renaissance
Article URL: https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235378 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
How not to turn ideologically crazy
Article URL: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235349 Points: 14 # Comments: 11
Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win
I've been working on a simple multiplayer word game called Alphabet Soup.It's a bit like NYT Spelling Bee, except it's multiplayer and only your best (longest)…
Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium
Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/09/poland-now-sixth-largest-eu-economy-ahead-of-switzerland-and-belgium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235323 Points: 33 # Comments: 29
Anthropic and XAI have their own aliens, guys. Reminder, these are the both labs who want to save humanity.By keeping the models private.Продолжение следует.
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Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
Article URL: https://github.com/yegors/deGDID Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235242 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
"Community Notes" resolution for vague predictions
Is there some kind of "get prediction markets, or predictions, onto twitter as a central object" project going? If so, how is it going?I'm thinking through…
The tragedy of the commons, AI edition
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235011 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices
Article URL: https://blog.raed.dev/posts/motocycle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234980 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-the-40-something-it-manager/5284499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234724 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.
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ui: degrade the working directory picker when file search is off (#26…