Hacker News Daily — August 11, 2026
29 stories · August 11, 2026
In this issue
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As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
thewalrus.ca · 831 points · Discussion
I t turns out a lot of people ask Google when the sun will set. It’s a good fact to know. Getting a ballpark on twilight can help you plan a bike ride, barbecue, or a perfectly timed promposal. The…
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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
bbc.com · 438 points · Discussion
Getty Images England is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show. The target of treating 80% of all…
- 3
H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
github.com · 413 points · Discussion
h3-metal Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon. The project is being built as a sequence of working vertical slices: deterministic host/model metadata first, then portable Metal block parity,…
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
stolen-thoughts.com · 381 points · Discussion
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs Alexander Panfilov 1 2 3 4 * David Schmotz 2 3 4 * Ilia Shumailov 5 * Luca Beurer-Kellner 6 Joachim Schaeffer 1 Ameya Prabhu 2 4 7 ‡ Jonas…
- 5
Chicken Scheme 6.0
code.call-cc.org · 292 points · Discussion
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Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp
github.com · 265 points · Discussion
Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp Published on August 11, 2026 by Francesco Bonacci and Johnny Franks If you've been following Cua from the start, you may…
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Nvidia's Risky Business
stratechery.com · 248 points · Discussion
On January 1, 1870, Jay Cooke, hailed as an American hero for his role in financing the Union effort in the Civil War, signed a contract that would, if you squint, lead to world war. In 1864, Congress…
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Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
developers.googleblog.com · 184 points · Discussion
For a while now, software engineering has undergone a profound, fundamental shift: Where we once wrote most lines of code by hand, we now ask AI coding assistants and agents to generate large swaths…
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Mojo 1.0
modular.com · 178 points · Discussion
Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023. Mojo has grown into a general-purpose language with a vibrant…
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OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
ft.com · 141 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/W48UV https://aimagazine.com/news/why-did-openai-head-of-ethics-ch...
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London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
btp.police.uk · 139 points · Discussion
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What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy
lighthousenewsletter.com · 133 points · Discussion
Hello, Rafael here - every week I cover interesting challenges and developments that I’ve come across recently through the lens of an engineer building AI systems. Subscribe to get weekly issues 👇…
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Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
photosynthesis.camera · 126 points · Discussion
Zoom and enhance. For real this time. An innovative camera app for iPhone. Each capture fires two lenses at once then combines the results into one high-res photo, giving real optical detail with no…
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Jolt: Clojure compiler implemented with Chez Scheme
jolt-lang.github.io · 112 points · Discussion
Jolt is a self-hosted Clojure implementation that runs on Scheme — Chez natively, Gambit for JavaScript. No JVM, no build step — most portable Clojure runs unchanged. The compiler is written in…
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Manus will return to operating as an independent company
manus.im · 108 points · Discussion
Product · Tuesday, August 11 A Note to Our Users Manus will soon return to operating as an independent company, which will see us continue to serve our millions of users around the world. As we go…
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Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
github.com · 98 points · Discussion
Stab your git history into shape — every commit's message, author, and dates, edited like a table. A clean desktop GUI for editing git commit metadata directly — message, author date, committer date,…
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Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
blogs.nvidia.com · 82 points · Discussion
As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3…
- 18
Compression Is Prediction
ngrok.com · 71 points · Discussion
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- 19
OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1
openssh.org · 71 points · Discussion
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How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
ironicsans.ghost.io · 62 points · Discussion
One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer. It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at…
- 21
The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
economist.com · 53 points · Discussion
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Making holograms with a pen plotter
blog.jordan.matelsky.com · 49 points · Discussion
I have a pen-plotter! It’s great. It’s like having a printer but slow and it breaks more often. I got it on eBay and it came sorta broken and I immediately spent the difference between what I paid and…
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Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
writemd.app · 46 points · Discussion
A Markdown editor for macOS A Markdown editor for macOS that you can shape around the way you like to write. Free and open source. No account. No telemetry. # Rooms for writing Some words need quiet.…
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Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything
trykeet.com · 33 points · Discussion
Hi HN! We’re Zack and Tommy the Co-Founders of Keet ( https://trykeet.com ). We are building a mobile app that generates courses on any topic, with short videos for explanation and games for…
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A new study of a bot running a store finds it is friendly but not very smart
nytimes.com · 32 points · Discussion
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CSS properties you should know for better text designs
master.dev · 31 points · Discussion
Like the graphic design of a physical poster, sometimes we need some eye-catching text on the web too. Picking the right font is just the beginning. Text weight, style, spacing, and decoration can go…
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Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app
techcrunch.com · 27 points · Discussion
Decentralized social network Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024, following the U.S. elections. But now, nearly two years later, the social…
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Your phone is the most intricate machine you've ever held. Let's take it apart.
everythingmachine.io · 27 points · Discussion
01 / 14 Screen Fin g erprint Resistant Coating An impossibly thin slippy surface Run your finger across a window. Smooth, but it drags. Now do the same on your phone. Your finger glides. The…
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Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting
smithsonianmag.com · 26 points · Discussion
This Amazing Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting. Here’s How Joel Sartore Built His ‘Photo Ark’ For 20 years, the National Geographic photographer has showcased Earth’s…