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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

2026-08-06T20:23:11Z

847 points by itvision | 637 comments

Article: https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/06/amd-acquires-ai-chip-startup-taalas-to-boost-inference-performance-by-etching-models-into-silicon/5284344
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49201970
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

2026-08-07T10:28:55Z

819 points by defrost | 771 comments

Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49208314
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

2026-08-07T00:06:28Z

641 points by boplicity | 355 comments

Article: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49204352
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204352

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

2026-08-06T20:21:19Z

382 points by dsubburam | 185 comments

Article: https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49201930
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201930

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

2026-08-07T12:42:58Z

325 points by ceejayoz | 322 comments

Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/july-2026-jobs-report-rcna591138
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49209546
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209546

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

2026-08-07T14:51:57Z

287 points by petercooper | 273 comments

Article: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49211386
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

2026-08-06T19:14:21Z

269 points by collinmanderson | 185 comments

Article: https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49201003
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

2026-08-06T21:52:16Z

203 points by gnabgib | 33 comments

Article: https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49203105
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203105

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

2026-08-06T21:18:32Z

196 points by Audiophilip | 59 comments

Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49202716
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202716

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

2026-08-07T14:55:08Z

178 points by Bender | 45 comments

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49211438
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211438

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

2026-08-07T17:36:30Z

170 points by delduca | 104 comments

Article: https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49213754
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213754

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

2026-08-07T11:00:35Z

166 points by poly2it | 77 comments

Article: https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49208535
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208535

USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

2026-08-07T14:02:15Z

165 points by cdrnsf | 67 comments

Article: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience-data/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49210589
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210589

Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)

2026-08-07T16:44:28Z

155 points by mooreds | 132 comments

Article: https://www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/economics/tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-only-benefit-the-rich-debunking-trickle-down-economics
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49213097
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213097

AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

2026-08-07T13:27:30Z

152 points by rwmj | 96 comments

Article: https://www.fastcompany.com/91576086/ai-psychosis-is-the-new-leadership-blind-spot-ai-leadership-blind-spots
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49210077
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210077

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

2026-08-07T12:28:55Z

144 points by v0id_isgood | 78 comments

Article: https://github.com/Wyzer-Lang/wyzer
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49209385
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209385

xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout

2026-08-06T19:38:45Z

143 points by speckx | 120 comments

Article: https://illegal.solutions/posts/xai_pollution
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49201342
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201342

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

2026-08-06T21:30:21Z

137 points by sebg | 9 comments

Article: https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49202852
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202852

Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day

2026-08-07T05:17:57Z

136 points by RobinHirst11 | 50 comments

Article: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-data-breach-discussion/83939
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49206130
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206130

The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

2026-08-07T11:19:15Z

134 points by Anon84 | 157 comments

Article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49208686
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208686

DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says

2026-08-07T12:27:40Z

128 points by ceejayoz | 65 comments

Article: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/doge-savings-overstated-watchdog-report-01027797
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49209368
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209368

Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades

2026-08-06T20:48:14Z

110 points by starkparker | 90 comments

Article: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/civilians-that-were-under-siege-by-a-mexican-cartel-fight-back-with-ak-47s-and-grenades
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49202321
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202321

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

2026-08-07T10:42:07Z

104 points by m3h | 26 comments

Article: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49208393
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208393

Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

2026-08-06T19:07:33Z

103 points by bschne | 62 comments

Article: https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49200933
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200933

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

2026-08-07T17:56:20Z

98 points by tosh | 55 comments

Article: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49214008
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008

Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?

2026-08-07T12:42:27Z

94 points by RickJWagner | 193 comments

Article: https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49209539
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209539

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

2026-08-07T10:52:21Z

94 points by stagas | 38 comments

Article: https://textlog.cc/about
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49208458
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208458

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

2026-08-07T07:58:24Z

93 points by inigyou | 97 comments

Article: https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49207236
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236

ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests'

2026-08-07T18:15:33Z

90 points by geox | 43 comments

Article: https://apnews.com/article/ice-body-cameras-officers-shootings-dab1b294c8dc412d9ef8557ccbebfd57
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49214306
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214306

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

2026-08-07T16:39:36Z

88 points by artninja1988 | 91 comments

Article: https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49213029
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213029

What is a product?

2026-08-06T21:16:52Z

87 points by rogix | 58 comments

Article: https://roge.onwrite.app/what-is-a-product
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49202690
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202690

Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money

2026-08-07T00:31:10Z

83 points by petethomas | 48 comments

Article: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-doge-did-not-save-money/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49204510
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204510

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

2026-08-07T15:24:53Z

83 points by MarcoDewey | 28 comments

Article: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49211921
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921

Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings

2026-08-06T19:18:52Z

77 points by m463 | 49 comments

Article: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20260803/k00/00m/010/133000c
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49201065
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201065

Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029

2026-08-07T15:57:59Z

71 points by brandonb | 119 comments

Article: https://eco3min.fr/en/us-children-vs-adults-65-and-older/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49212424
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212424

New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software

2026-08-07T00:37:30Z

71 points by champagnepapi | 116 comments

Article: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49204546
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204546

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

2026-08-07T13:39:45Z

70 points by JumpCrisscross | 3 comments

Article: https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/july-jobs-report-unemployment-0d7c08a7
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49210240
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210240

I won't read LLM authored fiction

2026-08-07T07:45:56Z

67 points by chr15m | 111 comments

Article: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/why-i-won-t-read-llm-authored-fiction
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49207146
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207146

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

2026-08-07T05:15:27Z

63 points by frays | 78 comments

Article: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/anthropic-ceo-reportedly-worried-hires-160000647.html
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49206115
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206115

Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

2026-08-07T10:33:00Z

63 points by almog | 24 comments

Article: https://www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-plow-through-big-bend-national-park-sparking-fury-in-texas-12295668
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49208341
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208341

Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

2026-08-07T15:59:57Z

59 points by gorbachev | 28 comments

Article: https://www.wired.com/story/mamdani-assembles-his-nyc-tech-team/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49212459
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212459

Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined

2026-08-07T15:16:20Z

58 points by eappleby | 77 comments

Article: https://www.freeformatter.com/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49211758
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211758

The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

2026-08-07T13:15:36Z

58 points by meetpateltech | 57 comments

Article: https://w.on-t.work/web-deployment-model
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49209921
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209921

The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [video]

2026-08-06T21:06:23Z

54 points by milkshakes | 8 comments

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49202566
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202566

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

2026-08-06T23:30:03Z

52 points by worik | 40 comments

Article: https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49204060
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204060

Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware

2026-08-07T04:04:07Z

51 points by bhavansig | 34 comments

Article: https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-open-source-malware
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49205790
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205790

Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses

2026-08-07T06:31:15Z

51 points by CaRDiaK | 23 comments

Article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3j3ngevmo
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49206642
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206642

Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'

2026-08-07T10:22:38Z

50 points by 1659447091 | 28 comments

Article: https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5922530
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49208270
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208270

This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again

2026-08-07T16:14:37Z

50 points by mooreds | 15 comments

Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-opinion-australia-tungsten-mine-us-war-defense-china/
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49212698
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212698

Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2

2026-08-06T21:49:07Z

49 points by mdeeds | 28 comments

Article: https://github.com/mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350
Comments: https://hcker.news/?comments=49203059
hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203059