Hacker News Daily — August 21, 2026
30 stories · August 21, 2026
In this issue
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
kagi.com · 883 points · Discussion
August 21st, 2026 - A new Stocks widget and a better everyday Assistant experience # Kagi Search Bringing Stocks up to speed We've revamped our Stocks widget. It should appear more often when you need…
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DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
api-docs.deepseek.com · 420 points · Discussion
The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more. Supported image formats:…
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Felony Bench
felonybench.com · 346 points · Discussion
A benchmark you really don't want models to be saturated with. Learn more Score ↖ Most illegal Least illegal ↘ Scores indicate count of illegal activity. Higher is... you decide. Company Felonies…
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I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
lina.sh · 346 points · Discussion
DNS hijacking is silly. I already took over different.gov and.edu domains in the past, but I just immediately reported that and moved on. This one is a little different though, it's about how I took…
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Kobo can run apps now
bandarlabs.github.io · 293 points · Discussion
Your Kobo can run apps now. Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers: a launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a runtime that keeps every app in its own unprivileged…
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Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
nytimes.com · 252 points · Discussion
https://archive.ph/SflVC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU
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I'm becoming AI-blind
cymerys.com · 187 points · Discussion
AI AI AI Recently I've been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I'm trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It feels like I'm…
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New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
precastreinforced.co.uk · 183 points · Discussion
Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story that…
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AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
economist.com · 149 points · Discussion
https://archive.is/w1eng https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
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Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
github.com · 133 points · Discussion
Obviously it's common knowledge by now that Anthropic has solely trained claude on old Buzzfeed articles (explaining its love for 90s nostalgia). So Claude and I built a Claude Code skill ( /debuzz )…
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The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]
youtube.com · 109 points · Discussion
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I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
pointinthecloud.com · 77 points · Discussion
I've always had a fascination with simpler and low power computing. This lead me to run Photoshop on a 60 pence computer chip and it amazes me that this is possible. Photo: A monochrome screen showing…
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What happens when a GPU reads memory
blog.doubleword.ai · 71 points · Discussion
Our previous post followed a vector-add kernel — c[i] = a[i] + b[i], one thread per float — from nvcc down to the warps. We went into a lot of detail on how the kernel was launched, but we also left a…
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Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe
newscenter.lbl.gov · 66 points · Discussion
Direct link to Legacy Survey Sky Viewer: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org
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Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine
notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io · 63 points · Discussion
Working on Mac, Linux, and Windows now. I include a simple GUI to find new models and get things built and set up. It is working quite well across a few models for me. The GitHub README and DESIGN.md…
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How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms
nari-labs.com · 63 points · Discussion
TL;DR Our Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice implementation achieves 10 requests per second (RPS) and sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio (TTFA) while maintaining real-time playback on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM.…
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A look under our trunk: what's in our compute
waymo.com · 58 points · Discussion
Compute is the brain of the Waymo Driver, translating raw sensor data into real-time driving commands. Operating demonstrably safe, physical AI on the road demands a fundamental shift towards a system…
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Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory
blog.jakesaunders.dev · 56 points · Discussion
tl;dr: It worked! From one prompt it created a repo, wrote the application and tests, got CI green, provisioned Postgres and deployed the finished app behind HTTPS without another message from me.If…
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The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6
theconsensus.dev · 52 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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People of ACM – Russ Cox
acm.org · 51 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout
invertingvision.com · 44 points · Discussion
Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Taback, and…
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Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it
github.com · 38 points · Discussion
Featured in This Week in Rust #660. A file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it. Every open permanently damages the file on disk, by an amount baked into the filename, before it…
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Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude
allaboutcoding.ghinda.com · 36 points · Discussion
Some quick and very personal impressions from using Codex more than Claude this week (I will do a full analysis during the weekend hopefully). (1) While I tried this year to keep Claude and Codex on…
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Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
claude.com · 24 points · Discussion
We're sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams use frontier capabilities for cyber defense. Claude Mythos 5 is now available in Claude Security, and coming soon to partners' cyber defense…
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Quantifying the honey bee dance floor
journals.plos.org · 22 points · Discussion
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Ashley E. Wagner, Michele L. Joyner, Edith Seier, Darrell Moore Quantifying the honey bee dance floor: A data-driven method for defining and…
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Using an old Android phone as a music player
monocyte.blog · 19 points · Discussion
monocyte’s blog home status posts guestbook feeds 08 Aug, 2026 it's been a while since i last talked about my music setup and things have changed a bit. the music player main benefits of owning a…
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Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler
tumbleforth.hardcoded.net · 16 points · Discussion
Hello, my name is Virgil Dupras, author of Collapse OS and Dusk OS and I'm starting a series of articles that aims to hand-hold my former self, a regular web developer, into the rabbit hole leading to…
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Show HN: AgentSight – eBPF observability for AI agents, no code changes
github.com · 14 points · Discussion
AgentSight is a zero-instrumentation AI Agent observability tool based on eBPF. It captures LLM API calls, Token consumption, and process behavior at the kernel level without modifying Agent code.…
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Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism
wespiser.com · 13 points · Discussion
Posted on August 3, 2026 by Adam Wespiser The seats of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston are somewhat comfortable. A plush base you can almost sink into, but only enough elbow room for you…
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The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000)
tronweb.super-nova.co.jp · 13 points · Discussion
The B-right/V R2 Operating System Steven J. Searle Web Master, TRON Web The BTRON Computing Model Although it may not seem like it, what can broadly be termed "personal computing devices" are based on…