Hacker News Daily — August 25, 2026
30 stories · August 25, 2026
In this issue
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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
apple.com · 820 points · Discussion
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/apple-debuts-its-most-powe... https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/25/m6-mac-mini-vs-m4-mac-mini-he...
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Dolly Parton has died
theguardian.com · 819 points · Discussion
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/entertainment/dolly-parton-de... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/arts/music/dolly-parton-d..., https://archive.ph/w4vsE…
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New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
apple.com · 643 points · Discussion
opens in new window PRESS RELEASE August 25, 2026 Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra — the ultimate desktop for on‑device AI and the most extreme pro workflows…
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New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
apple.com · 370 points · Discussion
opens in new window PRESS RELEASE August 25, 2026 Apple’s new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro, delivers a massive leap in AI performance, supercharging the leading desktop for always-on…
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Nitter project received cease and desist
github.com · 362 points · Discussion
This repository was archived by the owner on Aug 25, 2026. It is now read-only. zedeus / nitter Public archive Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 778 Star 13.5k…
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My Friend Aaron
rorz.io · 303 points · Discussion
The following is a short story. This one is about my friend, Aaron. I met him at school, and in our first year when we were eleven years old I told him I wanted to be his best friend but he said he…
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Don't Wordle
dontwordle.com · 258 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
e360.yale.edu · 211 points · Discussion
This article was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A bomb-fished coral reef in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Ocean Agency Fishers…
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Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown
imkylelambert.com · 196 points · Discussion
I wrote up my experience building a backyard office because I wish I had come across more articles like this when planning my build. I hope this post helps you on your journey: I have worked remotely…
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OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
newsletter.semianalysis.com · 173 points · Discussion
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-25/openai-cl..., https://archive.ph/yCTrr
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Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
groups.google.com · 170 points · Discussion
Timothy Nikkel unread, Aug 24, 2026, 7:15:09 AM (yesterday)  Aug 24 to dev-pl...@mozilla.org As of Firefox 157 I intend to turn JPEG XL decoding on by default on all platforms. It has been…
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Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
arxiv.org · 126 points · Discussion
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: It is widely repeated in the popular literature and elsewhere that the singularity at the center of a black hole is a point. It is not true. Two observers who…
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Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines
tarjan.itch.io · 116 points · Discussion
I started writing Thoreau BASIC because I wanted a small, old-fashioned BASIC interpreter: line numbers, immediate mode, simple graphics, strings, arrays, the sort of environment where the computer…
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FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
fda.gov · 96 points · Discussion
FDA News Release New device can help people with diabetes detect warning signs of a dangerous complication before it becomes a medical emergency For Immediate Release: August 25, 2026 The U.S. Food…
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Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
nil.wallyjones.com · 79 points · Discussion
My homepage now runs on OpenBSD with httpd(8) and Let's Encrypt via acme-client(1). I previously hosted it on GitHub Pages and then eventually moved to Cloudflare Pages because both options were free…
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HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
github.com · 75 points · Discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0zxIfJJLAY
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Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
blog.master.dev · 67 points · Discussion
On the question listing pages for my product, FrontPrep, I display company logos next to the interview questions. When you hover over a logo, a tooltip shows the company name. One thing had been…
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Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases
github.com · 64 points · Discussion
We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.
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Visualizing Binary Files
movq.de · 53 points · Discussion
blog - git - desktop - contact 2026-08-05 This is my hex editor bine: It's all black and white, basically. A while ago, Vim's xxd gained the ability to color the output (this is not included in Vim…
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Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
github.com · 50 points · Discussion
Found that you can actually run a 35B Qwen model on a Pi with very impressive intelligence and stability. Built connectors for car ODB to read all about car internals, and manufacturer's cloud service…
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Solving the 1+N Query Problem
acadia.engineering · 44 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant
judegomila.com · 39 points · Discussion
A complete walkthrough of the proof A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant is at most 0.1787854 I'm Jude Gomila and I've been exploring the zeta function in private since 2025. This post…
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Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler
kurz.net · 37 points · Discussion
Can you find bugs in a compiler by generating random programs? Published on: Tue Aug 25 2026 Introduction I regularly check on Gleam’s changelog and issue tracker. I am very fond of this project and…
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Otto Dix, Nietzsche, and the Great War (2019)
historytoday.com · 35 points · Discussion
I t was not the front, but the journey to the front that was the worst: ‘There was some shit in people’s pants, I tell you.’ Two years into the war, Otto Dix had seen it all. In 1914 he had signed up…
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Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics
dl.acm.org · 34 points · Discussion
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTD4yvGWgvA
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Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go
github.com · 28 points · Discussion
Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS. Single Go binary, ~5MB RAM usage. Monitors CPU, memory, swap, disk, network, uptime, and process count. Web UI with login, auto-refreshes every 5 seconds.…
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Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha's provenance
ctgt.ai · 17 points · Discussion
Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on August 20, “developed and operated by a third-party model provider”.[[fn: OpenRouter ]] Hypotheses quickly converged on the model being a part of the GLM…
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Perplexity Portable Computer
perplexity.ai · 16 points · Discussion
Read via the links — full text wasn’t available.
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Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market
ycombinator.com · Discussion
You'll own Clara's growth engine, supporting our mission by helping more patients discover Clara and turn to it for their day-to-day primary care needs. Landing pages, onboarding funnel,…