QotNews

Bookclub and Sources Wednesday! (reddit.com)

26 points by AutoModerator 17 hours ago on reddit | 1 comment

Static Allocation, Constant Work (matklad.github.io)

20 points by cgrinds 10 hours ago on lobsters | 5 comments

Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems (cbsnews.com)

172 points by ck2 a day ago on hackernews | 45 comments

Reasons robotics is hard (secondthoughts.ai)

61 points by ddp26 6 hours ago on hackernews | 24 comments

Reflections on Americans' Net Worth (betonit.ai)

31 points by cwwc 4 hours ago on hackernews | 46 comments

Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters (wasmi-labs.github.io)

60 points by herobird a day ago on hackernews | 3 comments

Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code (martinfowler.com)

38 points by ingve 5 hours ago on hackernews | 69 comments

Implementing FMA and finding bugs in C and Rust standard libraries (shnatsel.github.io)

16 points by itamarst 12 hours ago on lobsters | 3 comments

METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident (metr.org)

98 points by stikit 5 hours ago on hackernews | 83 comments

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s (news.ycombinator.com)

35 points by lloydarmbrust 5 hours ago on hackernews | 43 comments

Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect (bbc.com)

114 points by yakkomajuri 6 hours ago on hackernews | 85 comments

Muse Spark 1.3 (developer.meta.com)

443 points by bvaldivielso 8 hours ago on hackernews | 295 comments

Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too? (smithsonianmag.com)

69 points by JulianPGough 10 hours ago on hackernews | 56 comments

Single Americans want potential partners earning at least six figures, according to new study—Millennials set the 'ideal' bar at $160,000 | Fortune (fortune.com)

1900 points by DJPho3nix 8 hours ago on reddit | 715 comments

Dependent if expressions without dependent types (haskellforall.com)

15 points by Gabriella439 10 hours ago on lobsters | 1 comment

NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll (npr.org)

390 points by horseradishstalker 7 hours ago on reddit | 15 comments

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora (blog.cloudflare.com)

82 points by torutofu a day ago on hackernews | 32 comments

Fable 5.1 World Modeling (github.com)

163 points by surreal_ 8 hours ago on hackernews | 54 comments

AI Agents and the Refactoring That Never Happens (rosenfeld.page)

42 points by rosenfeld 8 hours ago on hackernews | 55 comments

Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023) (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

95 points by gumby 9 hours ago on hackernews | 56 comments

I wanna live an NPC life (signalundefied.bearblog.dev)

217 points by conferza 8 hours ago on hackernews | 196 comments

Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS (tweedegolf.nl)

67 points by kooi 9 hours ago on hackernews | 34 comments

The Post-AI Internet Doesn't Look Great (jordangoodman.xyz)

71 points by speckx 8 hours ago on hackernews | 79 comments

An Ohio college student died in an apparent suicide. His family says he felt ‘humiliated’ by his ICE ankle monitor (cnn.com)

206 points by cnn 10 hours ago on reddit | 22 comments

Introducing Muse Spark 1.3 (research.meta.ai)

64 points by scrlk 8 hours ago on hackernews | 0 comments

I Don’t Have a Smartphone… (ploum.net)

45 points by cgrinds 9 hours ago on lobsters | 20 comments

The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified (marginallycompelling.com)

72 points by skmurphy 9 hours ago on hackernews | 101 comments

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business (nytimes.com)

301 points by donohoe 13 hours ago on hackernews | 188 comments

A note on subscription prices from LWN (lwn.net)

63 points by zg 12 hours ago on lobsters | 3 comments

Why do so many tools have JSON config files? (textlog.cc)

22 points by stagas 9 hours ago on hackernews | 59 comments

What programming/technical projects have you been working on? (tildes.net)

7 points by unknown user 12 hours ago on tildes | 21 comments

I Don't Have a Smartphone (ploum.net)

211 points by speckx 10 hours ago on hackernews | 200 comments

AI Policy (dbushell.com)

50 points by duck 12 hours ago on hackernews | 72 comments

Mushroom hunting with LLMs: what can go wrong? (quesma.com)

50 points by stared 11 hours ago on hackernews | 71 comments

What will you do after tech? (lobste.rs)

21 points by iamalnewkirk 14 hours ago on lobsters | 63 comments

Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x (frontierharness.org)

72 points by shiqimei 12 hours ago on hackernews | 52 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)

76 points by simonsarris 12 hours ago on hackernews | 0 comments

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine (github.com)

94 points by saikatsg 14 hours ago on hackernews | 17 comments

When I Was 10 Weeks Old, My Dad Was Arrested for Breaking Three of My Bones. It Was Front-Page News for Years. Now It’s My Turn to Write the Story. (slate.com)

214 points by Slate 12 hours ago on reddit | 32 comments

Who's Hiring? Q4 2026 (lobste.rs)

32 points by eterps 16 hours ago on lobsters | 5 comments

A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for (hausresearch.com)

124 points by jakobgreenfeld 14 hours ago on hackernews | 45 comments

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber (blog.google)

880 points by bratao 13 hours ago on hackernews | 515 comments

Scams in the US are at a record high. Yet most victims get no help and some end up losing even more (apnews.com)

177 points by Jetamors 13 hours ago on reddit | 6 comments

LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost (openteams.com)

73 points by theanonymousone 15 hours ago on hackernews | 38 comments

Exit the Cave (turtlespace.blog)

221 points by akkartik 14 hours ago on hackernews | 81 comments

Check if a file was made with Claude (claude.com)

155 points by frexs 15 hours ago on hackernews | 115 comments

Poisson Disk Sampling (stripeacross.com)

136 points by vismit2000 14 hours ago on hackernews | 19 comments

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them (studyfinds.com)

229 points by mdp2021 15 hours ago on hackernews | 102 comments

Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero (aisle.com)

161 points by goobreee 14 hours ago on hackernews | 54 comments

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them (trellner.com)

334 points by jakobgreenfeld 14 hours ago on hackernews | 159 comments

Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds (studyfinds.com)

1063 points by homothebrave 14 hours ago on reddit | 8 comments

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training? (help.mistral.ai)

392 points by teekert 15 hours ago on hackernews | 165 comments

Your future is in Virginia | Massive AI infrastructure is being built out across the US. But if you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, visit Loudoun County, Virginia, where that future arrived 20 years ago. (theverge.com)

180 points by theverge 15 hours ago on reddit | 26 comments

Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London (nltimes.nl)

223 points by TechTechTech 15 hours ago on hackernews | 206 comments

Just Bury Your Trash (worksinprogress.news)

96 points by eamag 14 hours ago on hackernews | 159 comments

A note on subscription prices from LWN (lwn.net)

687 points by rwky 15 hours ago on hackernews | 128 comments

Ending my elixir exploratory writing (lucassifoni.info)

71 points by ffin 16 hours ago on hackernews | 46 comments

HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen (github.com)

28 points by danialkhilji 15 hours ago on hackernews | 28 comments

A Small Telescope That Surprised Me (adfr.io)

91 points by speckx a day ago on hackernews | 81 comments

Move in C++ without a std:move (andreasfertig.com)

37 points by dalvrosa a day ago on hackernews | 46 comments

Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model (multiversecomputing.com)

164 points by amunozo 18 hours ago on hackernews | 105 comments

It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025) (code.mendhak.com)

71 points by biscuits1 17 hours ago on hackernews | 47 comments

Ask HN: How do you survive a job you hate which is slowly making you sick? (news.ycombinator.com)

45 points by _override 20 hours ago on hackernews | 66 comments

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 (dfarq.homeip.net)

335 points by giuliomagnifico 19 hours ago on hackernews | 175 comments

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH (brennan.day)

390 points by diktomat 21 hours ago on lobsters | 300 comments

America’s Oldest Natural History Museum to Close Sept 30th, 2026 (ansp.org)

410 points by xxThe_Designer a day ago on reddit | 12 comments

The Endless Temptation of Claude (discardpile.pika.page)

32 points by FedericoSchonborn a day ago on lobsters | 36 comments

WebFPGA (2019) (webfpga.io)

107 points by gurjeet a day ago on hackernews | 36 comments

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks (arxiv.org)

269 points by schmuhblaster a day ago on hackernews | 101 comments

Fine, I'll build my own text editor (dbushell.com)

232 points by Alephinitesimal a day ago on hackernews | 203 comments

True Rate of Unemployment (lisep.org)

297 points by ptrhvns a day ago on hackernews | 336 comments

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses (krebsonsecurity.com)

375 points by tatersolid a day ago on hackernews | 254 comments

A Crash Course in Predicate Logic (hillelwayne.com)

47 points by hwayne a day ago on lobsters | 6 comments

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican (simonwillison.net)

62 points by elsewhen a day ago on hackernews | 19 comments

This Month in KDE Linux: August 2026 (blogs.kde.org)

26 points by FedericoSchonborn a day ago on lobsters | 4 comments