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286
I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace
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1135
221
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589
114
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574
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Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840728
498
448
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490
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467
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428
412
The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
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406
191
Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
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340
330
GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?"
https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3lvtxbtexg226
331
81
Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit
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305
537
Food, housing, & health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
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293
267
GPT-5 leaked system prompt?
https://gist.github.com/maoxiaoke/f6d5b28f9104cd856a2622a084f46fd7
273
100
How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB
https://radar.com/blog/high-performance-geocoding-in-rust
253
42
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 shortlist
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251
190
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports
230
150
Our European search index goes live
https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/
229
207
New executive order puts all grants under political control
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219
36
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https://hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streamingllm
209
80
Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5
https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-genies-lamp-openai-cant
206
183
AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing
https://rakhim.exotext.com/ai-is-impressive-because-we-ve-failed-at-semantic-web-and-personal-computing
179
105
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175
252
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees
https://newsroom.intel.com/corporate/my-commitment-to-you-and-our-company
172
141
GPT-5 vs. Sonnet: Complex Agentic Coding
https://elite-ai-assisted-coding.dev/p/copilot-agentic-coding-gpt-5-vs-claude-4-sonnet
161
56
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156
39
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152
210
How to teach your kids to play poker: Start with one card
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148
67
AI must RTFM: Why tech writers are becoming context curators
https://passo.uno/from-tech-writers-to-ai-context-curators/
146
Efrit: A native elisp coding agent running in Emacs
https://github.com/steveyegge/efrit
137
164
Why tail-recursive functions are loops
https://kmicinski.com/functional-programming/2025/08/01/loops/
119
33
FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Scheduler/Hybrid
116
138
Someone keeps stealing, flying, fixing and returning this man's 1958 Cessna
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-08/mystery-plane-thief
177
M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/07/10/no-m5-macbook-pro-2025/
112
20
The enduring puzzle of static electricity
https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/78/8/54/3355922/The-enduring-puzzle-of-static-electricityEven
111
26
Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent
https://blog.langchain.com/introducing-open-swe-an-open-source-asynchronous-coding-agent/
27
Turn any website into an API
https://www.parse.bot
101
233
Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024)
https://russellw.github.io/undefined-behavior
21
The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
98
99
HRT's Python fork: Leveraging PEP 690 for faster imports
https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/inside-hrts-python-fork/
50
Byte Buddy is a code generation and manipulation library for Java
https://bytebuddy.net/
96
The BLS can't be replaced by the private sector
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-08/the-bls-can-t-be-replaced-by-the-private-sector
93
40
Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl7bIJ2yu4I
91
How to Not Build the Torment Nexus
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus/
88
GPU-rich labs have won: What's left for the rest of us is distillation
https://inference.net/blog/what-s-left-is-distillation
87
53
Little-known leguminous plant can increase beef production by 60% (2022)
https://www.embrapa.br/en/busca-de-noticias/-/noticia/75361634/little-known-leguminous-plant-can-increase-beef-production-by-60
86
46
How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements
https://sirre.al/2025/08/06/safe-json-in-script-tags-how-not-to-break-a-site/
94
The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning
https://blog.charliemeyer.co/the-gpt-5-launch-was-concerning/
66
What Does Consulting Do?
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34072
82
5
Show HN: Synchrotron, a real-time DSP engine in pure Python
https://synchrotron.thatother.dev/
79
Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why
https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/job-growth-has-slowed-sharply-the
78
32
Artificial biosensor can better measure the body's main stress hormone
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-artificial-biosensor-body-main-stress.html
76
60
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/