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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones (toneyalexander.github.io)
627 points by automatoney 29 days ago | 99 comments
2.
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)
720 points by surprisetalk 30 days ago | 771 comments
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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years (stephenwolfram.com)
1645 points by jdcampolargo 29 days ago | 95 comments
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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation (mistral.ai)
482 points by riadsila 29 days ago | 133 comments
5.
Waymo in Dallas (waymo.com)
332 points by xnx 29 days ago | 743 comments
6.
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] (wpi.edu)
453 points by pmg101 30 days ago | 445 comments
7.
Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area (science.org)
272 points by marojejian 35 days ago | 208 comments
8.
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X (github.com/ryanzhou)
382 points by zhoutong 30 days ago | 109 comments
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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol (africanews.com)
292 points by bookofjoe 29 days ago | 248 comments
10.
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog (nelson.cloud)
796 points by meysamazad 30 days ago | 465 comments
11.
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone (github.com/leonickson1)
312 points by leonickson 30 days ago | 141 comments
12.
Harness engineering for self-improvement (lilianweng.github.io)
334 points by tosh 30 days ago | 80 comments
13.
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months (hartwork.org)
320 points by spyc 29 days ago | 74 comments
14.
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack (aikido.dev)
251 points by cimi_ 30 days ago | 138 comments
15.
Twenty Years of Pandoc (pandoc.org)
421 points by fiddlosopher 30 days ago | 53 comments
16.
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars (seg6.space)
188 points by seg6 29 days ago | 164 comments
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Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone (deepgrove.ai)
173 points by edwardbzhang 29 days ago | 53 comments
18.
 [dupe] Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) (short-stories.co)
503 points by askvictor 30 days ago | 6 comments
19.
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI (techcrunch.com)
389 points by thewebguyd 29 days ago | 285 comments
20.
Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power (sharedobject.blog)
90 points by firer 31 days ago | 21 comments
21.
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (arxiv.org)
104 points by doppp 29 days ago | 131 comments
22.
 [flagged] I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (twitter.com/gwern)
319 points by mattsterett 29 days ago | 242 comments
23.
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed (github.blog)
80 points by sbulaev 33 days ago | 34 comments
24.
Everything I Know (1975) (bfi.org)
149 points by simonebrunozzi 30 days ago | 34 comments
25.
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) (sec.gov)
261 points by depr 29 days ago | 198 comments
26.
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)
151 points by wofo 36 days ago | 312 comments
27.
FFmpeg 9.0 (github.com/ffmpeg)
466 points by gyan 30 days ago | 97 comments
28.
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed (weekinsecurity.com)
253 points by speckx 29 days ago | 103 comments
29.
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024) (troyhunt.com)
338 points by stymaar 29 days ago | 82 comments
30.
Dates That Don't Exist (2015) (yossarian.net)
128 points by EndXA 32 days ago | 87 comments

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