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Authoritarianism of Code

It's my belief that authoritarianism is so ingrained in the fabric of software development internalized to such a degree -authoritarian people cannot avoid...

The Best Mattress Toppers I've Tried (2026): Supportive, Plush, Memory Foam The Best Mattress Toppers I've Tried (2026): Supportive, Plush, Memory Foam

These toppers can alleviate your aches, insanely comfortable memory foam, supportive coils like a mattress. My favorite toppers layers and memory hybrid to...

Aug 22, 2026
ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

Article URL: https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49400408 Points: 92 # Comments: 27

Aug 22, 2026
W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’

The comedian, activist, podcast host, author, ’t behind.

Aug 22, 2026
Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging

, naturally occurring events like earthquakes. In others, we intentionally create waves using things like explosives, providing the opportunity to do imagi...

Aug 22, 2026
The $225 Pebble Time 2 is a refreshingly fun smartwatch

The new $225 Pebble Time 2 smartwatch feels like a toy, . The refreshed version smartwatch brand, rebooted by its original founder, feels casual, fun, and ...

Aug 21, 2026
Show HN: SteppeWM – a stacking IceWM-like Wayland compositor

steppewm-readme.mp4 steppewm Stacking small wlroots window manager

Aug 21, 2026
Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

std.Io.Threaded implementations of Zig’s new Io interface that enables concurrency. This is a boring “just use threads” impl. I personally though — I wante...

Aug 21, 2026
Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecode

A 3D desktop — driven by a live spiking simulation FlyWire connectome. It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides cursor neurons a .

Aug 21, 2026
Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout

In 1966 and 1967, robotic spacecraft into orbit around the Moon. Constructed for the primary purpose of finding landing sites for Apollo, the Lunar Orbiter...

Aug 21, 2026
c100

Article URL: https://caligra.com/c100/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389392 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Aug 21, 2026
My big, fat, technophobic cat

I’ve tried nearly everything weight. I’m not winning this battle.

Aug 21, 2026
Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

August 20, 2026 Reading time: 4 minutes key "series-homelab"), ordered oldest-first. --> Ever since I first read "Burstiness and Memory in Complex Systems"...

Aug 20, 2026
The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis

There’s a lot of research on the female pelvis, reason. The so-called “obstetrical dilemma”—why childbirth seems particularly difficult for humans compared...

Aug 20, 2026
Ameliorate

Ameliorate is a collaborative problem-solving a reality.

Aug 20, 2026
GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

In yesterday’s recent GitHub outage, there was a detail in the writeup that I didn’t say anything about: the autoscaling policy on the service with the sat...

Aug 20, 2026
Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

Making “anti-ai” fonts that obfuscate or scramble text is a fools errand. scramble text, it's an accessibility problem, since the scrambled screen readers ...

Aug 20, 2026
FromSoftware can do anything

Andrew WebsterAug 20, 2026, 2:00 : NintendoAndrew Webster is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video gam...

Aug 20, 2026
Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

The lesson ’s episodes—and the countless before it— incapable of solving the root causes for prompt injections, the most severe vulnerability classes they’...

Aug 20, 2026
Don't Paste the AI, please

Someone asked you a real question. You popped it into a chatbot, copied the answer, . . It felt helpful. And it usually isn't.

Aug 20, 2026
Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training

arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop features directly on our website.

Aug 20, 2026
Xwayland 26.1.0 rc1

Article URL: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-August/062280.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366474 Points: 30 # Comments: 7

Aug 19, 2026
Digital Immortality

Even now, as you’re reading these words, hundreds of robots are poring over them, and carrying them away. Winging internet to massive data centres, joining...

Aug 19, 2026
DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

Inference is the bottleneck . Agents read, plan, , . They consume tokens at a approached. tokens takes a full forward . , we are building the inference sta...

Aug 19, 2026
FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

In 2024, the FCC raised its broadband benchmark to 100Mbps downstream and 20Mbps upstream, setting the new standard whether deployment is reasonable and ti...

Aug 19, 2026
Go 1.27

pleased to release Go 1.27. binary archives and installers on the download page.

Aug 19, 2026
Introducing MicroLighter

I made a smol client-side syntax highlighter Custom Highlights API called MicroLighter. I’ I a I wanted to… ahem… highlight… features.

Aug 19, 2026
Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

-air, two ways. HANDS — camera: spread volume, , soften the tone, together for silence. A laptop webcam a phone. GYRO — on a phone, tilt it instead: left-r...

Aug 19, 2026
Berd

Berd is a weird, playful desktop app for building with AI agents.

Aug 19, 2026
The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck

In 2013, a violent storm exposed a shipwreck province, central Vietnam. The discovery quickly drew the attention of local villagers, triggering a frantic w...

Aug 19, 2026
OpenLogi

Remap any buttonBind any of 44 built-in actions to each physical button, per device — plus custom shortcuts, app launchers and scripted actions.

Aug 19, 2026
That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis

Shakespeare and friends would call punctuation “distinctions,” according tradition, or “pointing,” because of the medieval practice of placing dots or poin...

Aug 19, 2026
The Integer

I . I remembered that dimly. Then one, then two, then ten thousand. I had been assigned, compared, copied, passed into functions whose names I never learne...

Aug 19, 2026
The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks

Article URL: https://www.dpreview.com/news/the-90-year-history-of-the-binoculars-bolted-to-scenic-overlooks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Aug 19, 2026
Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries

-linked executable. At runtime, 's existing glibc-linked GPU driver. No container, no AppImage, and no second process.

Aug 19, 2026
Show HN: PantheonGPU – GPU health testing and AI workload benchmarking

Pantheon tests GPU compute, memory, cache, interconnect, and power behavior. Run focused workloads, capture telemetry, results for comparison.

Aug 18, 2026
Muse Glimmer is a memory hierarchy disguised as a 30B Transformer

The answer a memory hierarchy disguised as a 30B Transformer.

Aug 18, 2026
JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer

Drop your images here JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, GIF or .jxl — converted instantly on your device Select images 🔒 100% in your browser — uploaded Convert to Qua...

Aug 18, 2026
Kent Beck: Composable Tests

Kent BeckNov 10, 2025The Test Desiderata desires 12 properties for tests, :

Aug 18, 2026
Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

In 2023, I a new laptop that should hopefully a while. While looking at my options, I was seduced by Framework’s promise of a repairable and upgradable lap...

Aug 18, 2026
Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars

Aug 18, 2026
As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers As temperatures get hotter, pesticides are more dangerous to farmworkers

Heat stresses the body, making it more vulnerable to pesticides and other toxicants, and protective clothing stress. Hotter temperatures higher evaporation...

Aug 18, 2026
The Benchmarkpocalypse

There's been a vulnpocalypse, to which I don't because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (, less serious...

Aug 18, 2026
scScript for Linux

scScript is a powerful but simple to use C-like scripting language. It compiles to efficient bytecode () a fast virtual machine. scScript is integrated wit...

Aug 18, 2026
Skylight Buddy Review (2026): Kid Routines Just Got Easy Skylight Buddy Review (2026): Kid Routines Just Got Easy

Like many 4-year-olds, stubborn. He' distract and resist basic activities, like getting , brushing his teeth, . The Skylight Buddy—’ device from the makers...

Aug 17, 2026
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen

Startup wields subterranean lightning strikes to conjure the gas

Aug 16, 2026
Tea5767-Radio-Tuner

ESP32- TEA5767 tuner, KY-040 rotary encoder, PAM8403 amplifier, and 0.96" OLED display. Custom PCB design.

Aug 16, 2026
Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments

I keep coming criminally slept-on Model:Samples and Model:Cycles.

Aug 15, 2026
Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

For anyone unfamiliar with it, Yadda is a BDD library for JavaScript. Like Cucumber, it maps ordinary language specifications to executable code, designed ...

Aug 15, 2026
Retrospec Joe Rev 2 Review (2026): Putting the ‘Joy’ in Joyride Retrospec Joe Rev 2 Review (2026): Putting the ‘Joy’ in Joyride

Though I’ve since gotten , every time I ride the electric 2 electric BMX, people stare. , eyes narrowed. “ riding a BMX bike?” I imagine the thought proces...

Aug 15, 2026
NSA and IETF, Part 9

, I minions had called and were packing standardizing a specification remove the ECC seatbelt from hybrid ECC+ML-. For example, 's Mike Jenkins, mailing li...

Aug 15, 2026
Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus

arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop features directly on our website.

Aug 15, 2026
The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

Article URL: https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306443 Points: 8 # Comments: 2

Aug 15, 2026
eigendrum

A drumhead clamped vibrate in certain shapes, at certain frequencies. Those shapes and frequencies are the solutions of

Aug 15, 2026
Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

Scriptable . Write parametric 2D and 3D models export them to 3MF, STL, OBJ, PLY, OFF, AMF, or SCAD, or render them straight to a PNG.

Aug 14, 2026
The 4 Best Planners of 2026: Roterunner, Hobonichi, Cloth & Paper The 4 Best Planners of 2026: Roterunner, Hobonichi, Cloth & Paper

There’s nothing like the feeling of a brand-new planner. If you're looking to get a little more organized having somewhere to write everything down, there'...

Aug 14, 2026
Lamborghini’s flagship Revuelto levels up with SV trim

SV stands for Supervolce, or ‘super fast.’ And that’s an apt description -seeking missile of a sports car.

Aug 14, 2026
Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

Marco Arment, the indie developer who created popular apps like Overcast and Instapaper, and who previously served as Tumblr’s chief technology officer, la...

Aug 14, 2026
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