Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing
Article URL: https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232300 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
Article URL: https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232253 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138 Points: 33 # Comments: 17
RT Kyle Cranmer: BEEEEEEP… boop… BEEEP… kshhhhh-SQUEEEEEE-chk-chk-kshhhhh… Your modem was actually characterizing the phone line before using it. …
RT Kyle CranmerBEEEEEEP… boop… BEEEP… kshhhhh-SQUEEEEEE-chk-chk-kshhhhh…Your modem was actually characterizing the phone line before using it. It sent known signals and listened to what came back,…
lol another one of the things i like most about openai is tibo
lol another one of the things i like most about openai is tiboStats Wire: @sama How much they celebrate with Anthropic
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
Article URL: https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232110 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Underestimated budget solution: radeon 780m iGPU
There are so many posts where people complaining about high prices and asking for solution <= 1000 EUR. So, there is one solution to consider: PC/mini…
Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.
Lessons from the hacks
Musings on model alignment, what determines safety, and where we go from here.
ECCV workshop, camera ready instructions? [D]
Does anyone have any idea about the instructions for the camera ready at workshops? The deadline is August 15, but there are no indications and workshop…
I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won
Article URL: https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231838 Points: 9 # Comments: 5
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
Article URL: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231809 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future
Article URL: https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231777 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly…
A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231586 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
RT Simon Willison: Re @GergelyOrosz I've been vibe coding a few games recently and it has given me SO much respect for game designers Churning out som…
RT Simon WillisonRe @GergelyOrosz I've been vibe coding a few games recently and it has given me SO much respect for game designersChurning out something that…
Who does the confessing, and will they confess to anything
TL;DR: Introspection adapters are tools designed to get models with built-in quirks (operationalized here with concurrent adapters) to confess said misbehavior. We look at this through…
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)
Article URL: https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231397 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
Article URL: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231154 Points: 33 # Comments: 14
The world will be full of "sci-fi" things, and everyone will be bored and disappointed
I usually try to make posts with graphs and numbers, or at least something more than just opinions and anecdotes. This one is not like that.Very…
RT X Freeze: Grok Build is quickly turning into an all-in-one creation environment It can now also generate images and videos with Grok Imagine direct…
RT X FreezeGrok Build is quickly turning into an all-in-one creation environmentIt can now also generate images and videos with Grok Imagine directly inside your workflowYou…
RT Mike Lee: All year long we heard “we’ll get to the SAVE America Act when we have time,” realizing it would likely take a few weeks. We waited pa…
RT Mike LeeAll year long we heard “we’ll get to the SAVE America Act when we have time,” realizing it would likely take a few weeks.We…
Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid
AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their assignments, and…
Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5
Article URL: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230891 Points: 8 # Comments: 0