Hacker News Daily — August 29, 2026

29 stories · August 29, 2026

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Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework

github.com · 365 points · Discussion

Boot a virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework using PCC research VM infrastructure. Prerequisites Host: Apple Silicon macOS 15+ (Sequoia) Xcode + iOS SDK (cross-compiles the guest daemon)…
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The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now

stephendiehl.com · 332 points · Discussion

I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. It was slow, ugly, unreliable, and full of cranks, a strange world of wheezing dial-up modems, Usenet flamewars, <marquee> tags, and…
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EVE Online moves to Python 3

eveonline.com · 249 points · Discussion

Capsuleers,  EVE continues to evolve, as a part of the EVE Evolved initiative, and it is time to cast the spotlight on the code itself!  Underneath every gate jump, market order, and fleet…
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Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

chipsandcheese.com · 225 points · Discussion

In-memory compute has been an attractive proposition for many years because compute within a memory chip can exploit its higher internal bandwidth. Additionally, in-memory compute avoids the long…
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Glacier Mice

en.wikipedia.org · 216 points · Discussion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Glacier mice on Île de la Possession. Glacier mice are colonies of mosses found on some glaciers and adjacent ecosystems. They are composed of multiple species of…
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Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux

zackbartel.com · 215 points · Discussion

I didn't miss macOS, but... When I went to Linux full time I was surprised to not miss much from macOS. tldr; I made Tether to do all the things I did miss. No AirPlay kinda sucked, but the one thing…
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GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

bsky.app · 186 points · Discussion

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DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

theguardian.com · 155 points · Discussion

T he Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has…
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Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

newsletter.eng-leadership.com · 143 points · Discussion

This newsletter is sponsored by Unblocked. [Webinar] How to stop babysitting your agents Agents can generate code. Getting it right for your system, team conventions, and past decisions is the hard…
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SQLite as a Document Database (2020)

dgl.cx · 131 points · Discussion

SQLite has had JSON support for a while. However recently it added a killer feature: generated columns. (This was added in 3.31.0, released 2020-01-22.) This makes it possible to insert JSON straight…
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Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems

sigma-star.at · 101 points · Discussion

Our daily work usually revolves around Linux and security topics, deep down in the software stack. Still, more often than you might think, we end up debugging applications which live much higher up.…
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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

science.nasa.gov · 92 points · Discussion

Roman Launch Countdown Roman is set to launch August 30, 2026 at 07:26 am EDT on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Learn More About the…
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Show HN: Galaxium, an experimental WebGPU space explorer

galaxium.app · 87 points · Discussion

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Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

typebase.io · 82 points · Discussion

Hey HN! I built Typebase, a library that gives you Convex's DX with Supabase's openness. After trying Supabase I liked how fast it is to spin up a DB and auth, but really didn't like using RLS and SQL…
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Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack

uecker.codeberg.page · 58 points · Discussion

Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack Martin Uecker, 2026-08-29 Introduction We discussed last time how one can use nested functions on GCC 17 and Clang for callbacks…
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Creating the Aetheryte Radio

haz.ee · 56 points · Discussion

ffxiv plays the whirs at random intervals, pitches, and gain (volume). these are all added to create an illusion of life(?) that make it harder to detect when an asset is repeating. thankfully, ffxiv…
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Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

tucker.wales · 54 points · Discussion

My recent move from Monzo to Engine by Starling brought a familiar feeling rushing back: the intense, almost overwhelming urge to prove my worth immediately. When starting a new job, it’s completely…
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Quantifying Colour

ekunazanu.foo · 48 points · Discussion

There are billions of monitors worldwide that can reproduce the exact same colour when instructed to. This in itself is an engineering marvel, but it glosses over the fact that this is only possible…
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Tencent Releases and Open-Sources Tencent Hy4 Preview

tencent.com · 46 points · Discussion

Ranked among the top tier of open-source models, Hy4 preview is built for real-world productivity tasks, delivering outstanding performance across coding, office work, and scientific research Tencent…
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Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

claude.com · 44 points · Discussion

In our series,, we highlight how startups are transforming their industries with AI. In this article, we share how Warp turned stateless user feedback into a self-improvement loop for its agents. The…
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Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

r136a1.dev · 44 points · Discussion

Losing access to VirusTotal Intelligence at the start of the year was surprisingly productive. Unable to hunt for interesting new malware, I stopped adding to my “TODO” pile and finally worked through…
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vLLM v0.28.0

github.com · 37 points · Discussion

v0.28.0 Highlights This release features 584 commits from 270 contributors (76 new)! Kimi-K3 performance push: a major optimization effort for Kimi-K3 across the stack — Decode Context Parallel (DCP)…
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A better SQL in 11 lines of code

prela-lang.org · 28 points · Discussion

Prela is a new query language being developed at UCLA RePL. The language is quite different from SQL, but its key ideas are very simple. In this short tutorial, we will build a toy version of Prela in…
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LLMs are making me lose my savviness

pgaleone.eu · 12 points · Discussion

I don’t know what’s going on. I always wanted to solve problems and create things, but now that I have access to a tool that’s able to speed up the whole design and development process… I’m just…
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Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)

coolboulder.org · 9 points · Discussion

If you look at old photos of Colorado Front Range cities, you won’t see many trees. And if you look up native trees of Colorado, you will find a lot of mountain-growing conifers and just a few…
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Domain-Driven Agents

coldtake.dev · 9 points · Discussion

I've been using LLMs heavily in the last years in coding, or more generally, in software engineering. I watched many times what productivity boost I could gain from it, and I used LLMs in more and…
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Recovering Corrupt Zip Files

construct.net · 8 points · Discussion

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Kmart Digicam Mod Part 2

mason.bearblog.dev · 6 points · Discussion

Thoughts Of A Guy Named Mason Home Contact | Photography Programming Links | I Published A Photography Book 24 Aug, 2026 Ok, so last week the 'c mount lens' I got on ebay for $20 came. So actually it…
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Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns

dl.acm.org · 3 points · Discussion

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