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Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows

https://www.terminal-bench-science.ai/announcement

1 hour ago

21 upvotes – 3 comments

Show HN: Caravan, a flexible TypeScript-first logger for JavaScript applications

https://github.com/carlos-menezes/caravan

1 hour ago

★ 67 TypeScript MIT
5 upvotes – 0 comments

The Easy Part of Building Is Over

https://debarshibasak.github.io/readables/blogs/building-is-going-to-be-more-difficult

1 hour ago

5 upvotes – 2 comments

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbzMqJGH4k

37 minutes ago

5 upvotes – 0 comments

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8

1 day ago

2 changes
1830 upvotes – 855 comments

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive

1 day ago

★ 1.5k Python
939 upvotes – 648 comments

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/

8 hours ago

515 upvotes – 140 comments

Microduck

https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/

14 hours ago

1 change
510 upvotes – 183 comments

Trade (and Tariffs)

https://xkcd.com/3290/

12 hours ago

478 upvotes – 233 comments

507 Mechanical Movements

https://507movements.com/

11 hours ago

1 change
468 upvotes – 67 comments

Small Models Have Arrived

https://calv.info/small-models-have-arrived

9 hours ago

463 upvotes – 208 comments

Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462253

15 hours ago

1 change
458 upvotes – 257 comments

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

https://louisabraham.github.io/load-bearing/

16 hours ago

1 change
348 upvotes – 169 comments

Kusama Yayoi has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/arts/yayoi-kusama-dead.html

23 hours ago

4 changes
259 upvotes – 30 comments

US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"

https://crimethinc.com/2026/08/27/us-government-designates-host-of-noblogsorg-a-global-terrorist

12 hours ago

1 change
211 upvotes – 119 comments

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-story-of-suica

9 hours ago

191 upvotes – 158 comments

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/

8 hours ago

186 upvotes – 139 comments

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days

https://blog.chrislewis.au/decompiling-a-nintendo-64-game-in-84-days/

10 hours ago

1 change
181 upvotes – 119 comments

We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290

7 hours ago

178 upvotes – 136 comments

Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go

8 hours ago

162 upvotes – 93 comments

Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462427

15 hours ago

155 upvotes – 3 comments

Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode

https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31

12 hours ago

152 upvotes – 64 comments

Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow

https://twitter.com/LocumRex/status/2092993787605717176

8 hours ago

143 upvotes – 41 comments

Gemini-3.5-Transcribe

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/

7 hours ago

143 upvotes – 34 comments

Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

https://aphantasia.com/guide

12 hours ago

134 upvotes – 304 comments

CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem

https://www.comaps.app/news/2026-08-23/comaps-integration-with-the-wider-floss-ecosystem/

12 hours ago

1 change
133 upvotes – 29 comments

Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/

5 hours ago

129 upvotes – 26 comments

Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity

https://humanprogress.org/ac-is-not-a-luxury-it-is-a-necessity/

13 hours ago

117 upvotes – 269 comments

Harness Engineering

https://Habitat-Thinking.github.io/ai-literacy-superpowers/plugins/ai-literacy-superpowers/explanation/harness-engineering/

11 hours ago

117 upvotes – 42 comments

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

12 hours ago

114 upvotes – 72 comments

Software engineering is about managing complexity

https://hack8s.com/422/once-again-software-engineering-is-about-managing-complexity

11 hours ago

112 upvotes – 78 comments

Yayoi Kusama has died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4k0re3vwo

9 hours ago

1 change
108 upvotes – 2 comments

Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world/australia/australia-ai-music-chart-ban.html

15 hours ago

105 upvotes – 92 comments

Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model

https://github.com/experientiallabs/experiential

4 hours ago

★ 472 Python Apache-2.01 change
102 upvotes – 15 comments

Launching Route 53 Files

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-08-27-Launching-Route-53-Files.html

11 hours ago

102 upvotes – 37 comments

Peter Cullen has died

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/peter-cullen-optimus-prime-transformers-eeyore-1236683075/

10 hours ago

1 change
102 upvotes – 17 comments

Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens

https://forgeeks.net/nvidia-673-billion-ai-growth-forecast/

10 hours ago

102 upvotes – 99 comments

Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/with-the-backlash-to-data-centers

5 hours ago

92 upvotes – 114 comments

M5Stack Launches PaperMono

https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-launches-papermono-a-compact-e-ink-development-terminal-for-connected-projects

7 hours ago

92 upvotes – 38 comments

$900M paid out to end wind farm project going to firm run by Mar-a-Lago neighbor

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-windfarm-money-neighbors-florida-b3040628.html

5 hours ago

91 upvotes – 22 comments

Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4523

7 hours ago

89 upvotes – 115 comments

Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/nvidia-starts-a-pac-as-ai-chip-maker-buids-influence-force-in-dc

7 hours ago

89 upvotes – 39 comments

Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS

https://morphing.cloud/afterglow/

1 day ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/20/humanity-has-the-debate-about-ai-consciousness-backwards

23 hours ago

1 change
87 upvotes – 267 comments

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

https://www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser-period-why-the-ai-boom

11 hours ago

86 upvotes – 78 comments

Laion Big Video Dataset

https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/

23 hours ago

85 upvotes – 23 comments

Pnpm 12.0

https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/12.0

20 hours ago

84 upvotes – 61 comments

Show HN: Voronoi Go

https://voronoigo.com/

7 hours ago

83 upvotes – 11 comments

Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/

17 hours ago

82 upvotes – 28 comments

The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/27/the-terrifying-mechanics-of-the-nepali-flash-flood

10 hours ago

1 change
82 upvotes – 37 comments

Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives

https://acs.digitellinc.com/live/37/session/586399

10 hours ago

1 change
82 upvotes – 58 comments

Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview

7 hours ago

79 upvotes – 28 comments

Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/corporate-political-donations-shatter-record-646-million-so-far-us-midterms-2026-08-27/

10 hours ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments

Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466512

10 hours ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

https://github.com/kelviq/tare

9 hours ago

★ 72 Python MIT
67 upvotes – 52 comments

Six months of writing code exclusively with agents

https://blog.exe.dev/engineering-with-ai

11 hours ago

1 change
66 upvotes – 98 comments

Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cx2zl5kwlxjo

10 hours ago

63 upvotes – 34 comments

Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2584861-antidepressant-withdrawal-symptoms-are-prompting-a-radical-rethink-of-how-we-treat-depression/

3 hours ago

61 upvotes – 67 comments

Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance

https://github.com/elyosh/OpenTIE/

3 hours ago

★ 54 C
61 upvotes – 15 comments

Did Meta's Big Settlement Actually Help It?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/business/dealbook/meta-settlement-teens.html

12 hours ago

55 upvotes – 48 comments
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