QotNews

Black neighborhoods in Chicago had three times as many tobacco billboards as white ones. One man with a paint roller and a homemade cape helped get them banned nationwide. (slate.com)

62 points by eresho 5 hours ago on reddit | 1 comment

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 (research.meta.ai)

34 points by paulkrush 55 minutes ago on hackernews | 18 comments

Zed DeltaDB (zed.dev)

97 points by ahamez an hour ago on hackernews | 25 comments

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models (neon.com)

78 points by moonikakiss an hour ago on hackernews | 13 comments

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)

63 points by lladnar an hour ago on hackernews | 64 comments

COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you. Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds. (nature.com)

200 points by maxkozlov 4 hours ago on reddit | 6 comments

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls (promptarmor.com)

69 points by hackerBanana 2 hours ago on hackernews | 22 comments

Antigravity 2.0 (antigravity.google)

26 points by saikatsg 2 hours ago on hackernews | 32 comments

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects (github.com)

54 points by calvinfo 3 hours ago on hackernews | 1 comment

I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words (dylan.blog)

18 points by harper 3 hours ago on hackernews | 54 comments

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod (hyperprobe.co)

29 points by shailendraht 3 hours ago on hackernews | 18 comments

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (wired.com)

167 points by wiredmagazine 3 hours ago on reddit | 11 comments

Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think (theatlantic.com)

1492 points by F0urLeafCl0ver 2 hours ago on reddit | 227 comments

The Valley of Webhooks (weli.dev)

82 points by weli 4 hours ago on hackernews | 36 comments

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (blog.google)

223 points by colesantiago 4 hours ago on hackernews | 393 comments

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet (nytimes.com)

296 points by louiereederson 4 hours ago on hackernews | 9 comments

China's super-rich 'in shock' and hunting for cash as Beijing issues surprise tax on offshore trusts (cnbc.com)

547 points by NitroLada 5 hours ago on reddit | 25 comments

Discovery Loop (discoveryloop.com)

375 points by xtreak29 3 hours ago on hackernews | 225 comments

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You (sightlessscribbles.com)

162 points by calcifer 5 hours ago on hackernews | 162 comments

Western Sahara (en.wikipedia.org)

87 points by brudgers 21 hours ago on hackernews | 56 comments

Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18 (cnelecar.com)

150 points by iplaypc 5 hours ago on hackernews | 105 comments

Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly (blog.rust-lang.org)

111 points by kmaasrud a day ago on lobsters | 2 comments

Qwen Image 3.0 Pro (qwencloud.com)

188 points by theanonymousone 5 hours ago on hackernews | 52 comments

Painting with Gaussians (yogthos.net)

71 points by yogthos 6 hours ago on hackernews | 13 comments

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search (404media.co)

290 points by cdrnsf 4 hours ago on hackernews | 161 comments

The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

80 points by surprisetalk 6 hours ago on hackernews | 4 comments

The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull (bbc.com)

357 points by Quouar 5 hours ago on reddit | 54 comments

Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck (writingruxandrabio.com)

109 points by rruxandra_l 6 hours ago on hackernews | 99 comments

International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF) (knock-knock.net)

55 points by djkurlander 5 hours ago on hackernews | 8 comments

Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy (apoxy.dev)

40 points by dilyevsky 6 hours ago on hackernews | 8 comments

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness (data4sci.com)

77 points by Anon84 6 hours ago on hackernews | 38 comments

TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas (tson.io)

48 points by andrewjneumann 6 hours ago on hackernews | 46 comments

Offensive Internet Posture (bruceediger.com)

44 points by zk 7 hours ago on lobsters | 11 comments

Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have (franciscotrindade.me)

82 points by gpi 6 hours ago on hackernews | 68 comments

Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words (vocab.top)

16 points by LandoLorinse 6 hours ago on hackernews | 11 comments

Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else (observer.co.uk)

45 points by MaysonL 6 hours ago on hackernews | 51 comments

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work (blog.cloudflare.com)

371 points by speckx 6 hours ago on hackernews | 205 comments

A Sick People (householderkarl.com)

77 points by speckx 6 hours ago on hackernews | 108 comments

Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI (quantamagazine.org)

121 points by pseudolus 8 hours ago on hackernews | 118 comments

we finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)

18 points by seg6 21 hours ago on lobsters | 16 comments

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In (vincentschmalbach.com)

213 points by vincent_s 7 hours ago on hackernews | 90 comments

Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash (iowaattorneygeneral.gov)

58 points by ArcHound 7 hours ago on hackernews | 109 comments

Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia? (scientificamerican.com)

39 points by tzury 8 hours ago on hackernews | 62 comments

Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024) (divingintheshallowend.com)

122 points by embedding-shape 8 hours ago on hackernews | 143 comments

Position: LLMs Can't Jump (openreview.net)

211 points by theanonymousone 9 hours ago on hackernews | 142 comments

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking (wired.com)

410 points by dzdt 9 hours ago on hackernews | 173 comments

No Data Centers in My Backyard (jasmi.news)

46 points by Anon84 9 hours ago on hackernews | 120 comments

Corporate America got billions of dollars in tariff refunds. Where’s your cut? (lite.cnn.com)

1148 points by HumbleRestaurant790 10 hours ago on reddit | 164 comments

A rich maharaja took in 1,000 Polish kids during WWII, recreating their home on Indian soil (upworthy.com)

75 points by ElvisIsNotDjed 12 hours ago on reddit | 4 comments

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup (calpaterson.com)

177 points by calpaterson 10 hours ago on hackernews | 128 comments

The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024 (theguardian.com)

48 points by igortru 10 hours ago on hackernews | 78 comments

The Universe May Not Be Accelerating After All—And It Could Mean Dark Energy Never Existed (popularmechanics.com)

916 points by Letmeirkyou 11 hours ago on reddit | 107 comments

DuckDuckGo’s anti-AI sunglasses won’t spy on anyone (cnet.com)

50 points by Asinine 23 hours ago on tildes | 8 comments

rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (blog.rust-lang.org)

116 points by wezm 13 hours ago on lobsters | 33 comments

Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy (blog.rust-lang.org)

103 points by afdbcreid 14 hours ago on hackernews | 66 comments

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents (arxiv.org)

82 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago on hackernews | 12 comments

Why LLMs generate doxa instead of episteme and why RLHF makes the Gettier problem unresolvable (reddit.com)

12 points by vasilisvj 15 hours ago on reddit | 36 comments

irken: A tiny hackable full-featured IRC client (codeberg.org)

37 points by dzwdz 23 hours ago on lobsters | 13 comments

The Golden Age of British Ice Cream (vittlesmagazine.com)

68 points by bryanrasmussen a day ago on hackernews | 60 comments

The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized (bbc.com)

74 points by 1659447091 15 hours ago on hackernews | 68 comments

Some car companies are operating without regard for a declining customer base (wardsauto.com)

48 points by avonmach 16 hours ago on hackernews | 106 comments

Project backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos aims to save 100 critically endangered species (scientificamerican.com)

345 points by scientificamerican 19 hours ago on reddit | 38 comments

Flowise is shutting down (flowiseai.com)

57 points by llmgraph 20 hours ago on hackernews | 45 comments

After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted (asiae.co.kr)

85 points by mapping365 18 hours ago on hackernews | 104 comments

Bugtraq is back (lists.securityfocus.com)

76 points by bashtoni 20 hours ago on hackernews | 30 comments

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice (arxiv.org)

103 points by teleforce 20 hours ago on hackernews | 89 comments

FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it (808bits.com)

39 points by meehow 20 hours ago on hackernews | 27 comments

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage (blog.fogus.me)

66 points by j11g 23 hours ago on lobsters | 17 comments

Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs (github.com)

32 points by lr0 a day ago on lobsters | 4 comments

Mississippi Medical Examiner Staci Turner's History of Questionable Autopsies of Black People who Died Suspicious Deaths, Including Nolan Wells (thegrio.com)

459 points by grassrootbeer 22 hours ago on reddit | 11 comments

IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay (mysk.blog)

161 points by lapcat 20 hours ago on hackernews | 27 comments

Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication (unit42.paloaltonetworks.com)

48 points by jchanimal 20 hours ago on hackernews | 45 comments

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023) (techascent.com)

142 points by sourdecor 22 hours ago on hackernews | 20 comments

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage (earendil.com)

496 points by luispa 21 hours ago on hackernews | 265 comments

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (blog.hartwork.org)

309 points by spyc 20 hours ago on hackernews | 61 comments