Hacker News Daily — August 16, 2026
30 stories · August 16, 2026
In this issue
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Asus Bike Booster
asus.com · 585 points · Discussion
ASUS Oxiis E250G1 Ride Easy. Explore More. Oxiis is a universal, friction-drive motor system that transforms any conventional bicycle into a smart e-bike. Its name fuses the Greek Oxis (agility) and…
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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
support.mozilla.org · 440 points · Discussion
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Claude: System Prompts
platform.claude.com · 434 points · Discussion
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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
scholar.google.com · 318 points · Discussion
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Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work
duckdb.org · 262 points · Discussion
TL;DR: Starting with v2.0, scheduled for fall 2026, DuckDB will support asynchronous reads of Parquet and CSV files. This can significantly speed up queries when synchronous I/O does not saturate the…
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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
rvembedded.com · 218 points · Discussion
Dmitry Grinberg published a long piece explaining his distaste for RISC-V, you can read his article here: RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better - Dmitry.GR. It went to the front page of Hacker News…
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The AI Credit Resale Economy
vectoral.com · 187 points · Discussion
← Home All posts threat-research llm-security August 10, 2026 Matt Lenhard 5 min read Where This Started This is a follow-up article to a piece I recently wrote about the token relay market.…
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The weekend is 100 years old
theguardian.com · 147 points · Discussion
F or 11 years, from 1929 to 1940, the Soviet Union did not have weekends. Instead, to increase productivity citizens were allocated a day off in every seven at random. With 80% of the population at…
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Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
142 points · Discussion
A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my…
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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
w4g1.dev · 141 points · Discussion
Reasoning scores keep climbing while per-token compute keeps dropping. GLM-5.2 scores 99.2% on AIME 2026 with about 40 billion parameters active per token. Qwen3.5 scores 91.3% with 17 billion active.…
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St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
wptv.com · 125 points · Discussion
Unit 1 at the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant was manually shut down Wednesday morning after 3 control rods dropped into the reactor core, according to a notification filed with the Nuclear Regulatory…
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Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware
hwbusters.com · 121 points · Discussion
Built so a car can run a bigger driving model. Interesting to the rest of us because you can finally read the firmware on the bridge chip. George Hotz’s comma.ai shipped something on Wednesday that…
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
science.org · 109 points · Discussion
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A SAT Attack on Tarski's High School Algebra Problem
arxiv.org · 72 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Tarski's high school algebra problem asks whether every true identity concerning addition, multiplication, and exponentiation of positive integers follows from a…
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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
ei3lh.eu · 71 points · Discussion
Hosting a Bulletin Board Service on My Casio VX-4. 11–17 minutes I love my Casio VX-4 so much that I made an AI-generated fake magazine advert for it! August 14, 2026. About a eight weeks ago I had…
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GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
newyorker.com · 61 points · Discussion
A new book, “Little Blue Dot,” by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are. Illustration by Jackson Gibbs Around two years ago, Shachar Maidenbaum, a…
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Superconducting monolayer cuprate with a single CuO2 plane
nature.com · 60 points · Discussion
Data availability The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding authors upon request. References Novoselov, K. S. et al. Two-dimensional gas of…
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Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
nnamgreb.de · 60 points · Discussion
Clamiga -- Common Lisp for the Amiga After the ACE BASIC posts of the last months, this one is about a different project I have been working on for the last half year: CL-Amiga, or Clamiga for short.…
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Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome
buf.build · 47 points · Discussion
Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, production-grade LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or…
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Anton Chekhov played at love most of his life
commonreader.wustl.edu · 44 points · Discussion
A favorite professor of my undergraduate years taught the short stories of Anton Chekhov as models of supreme, writerly virtues: brevity, compression, (seeming) simplicity, a cold realism, yet deep…
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ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days
theintercept.com · 42 points · Discussion
The parking lot outside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif. on May 27, 2026.   Photo: Jill Connelly/AP Adam Rose is deputy director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press…
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MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
math-ai-org.github.io · 30 points · Discussion
Overview MathCode is a terminal AI coding assistant with a built-in math formalization engine. Give it a math problem in plain language and it will automatically convert it into a Lean 4 theorem…
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Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
youtube.com · 26 points · Discussion
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The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank
motherjones.com · 20 points · Discussion
Trump appears at a March 2025 White House cryptocurrency summit alongside Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, whose department houses the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Chris…
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Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
wiki.lowtechlab.org · 20 points · Discussion
Tutorial de  | Categories : Water, Health Low-Tech Lab Dernière modification le 13/03/2023 Description A ceramic water filter is a system for purifying unsanitary water. This tutorial aims…
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Archie G. Norcross' Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
publicdomainreview.org · 20 points · Discussion
In the summer of 1956, the Beat writer Jack Kerouac ascended the North Cascade Mountains, climbing up through the glacial crests of Washington State to Desolation Peak, where he would assume a summer…
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Before Rightmove, there was the Cosmorama
ianvisits.co.uk · 18 points · Discussion
A London estate agent was offering prospective buyers an early form of “virtual property tour” more than 160 years before online listings and digital walk-throughs became commonplace. University of…
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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
pikuma.com · 16 points · Discussion
If you programmed PCs in the late 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside Pentium with MMX' stickers. MMX was, of course, a big marketing buzzword, but it was also Intel's major attempt at…
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The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains
wunc.org · 15 points · Discussion
Tucked away in the mountains of western North Carolina is a mysterious and unusual tunnel. It stretches for about a quarter mile and is wide enough for two lanes of traffic. But you won’t find any…
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Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
bloomberg.com · 14 points · Discussion
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