Canada suspends trade negotiations with USA and match tariffs dollar for dollar

341 backlit4034 2026-08-22 10:41:50 UTC pm.gc.ca Llama Share 215

Canada's new government has suspended trade negotiations with the US due to unfair proposed terms, and will match a 50% tariff on $28 billion of Canadian goods. The government aims to protect workers and businesses while maintaining Canada's economic strength at home.

Z80–The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive

34 asdefghyk 2026-08-22 10:41:50 UTC computer.org Full Share 17

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

48 simonpure 2026-08-22 10:41:50 UTC munderdiffl.in Llama Share 18

Munder Difflin is a tool that wraps your existing agent CLI and runs on your laptop, capturing workflow and context to enable clones to work around the clock. It provides end-to-end encrypted clone-to-clone messaging and a shared org knowledge base, with optional cloud-based sandbox VMs for added security.

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

299 matklad 2026-08-22 00:41:50 UTC rust-glancer.github.io Llama Share 58

The author has developed Rust Glancer, an alternative LSP implementation that focuses on low memory usage. It allows immediate indexing after restart and is suitable for older computers with limited RAM.

Felony Bench

752 colinprince 2026-08-21 15:41:50 UTC felonybench.com Llama Share 281

Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.

Kobo can run apps now

583 thepoet 2026-08-21 16:41:50 UTC bandarlabs.github.io Llama Share 191

Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

859 floathub 2026-08-21 13:41:50 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 984

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There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

484 Jach 2026-08-22 01:41:50 UTC danluu.com Llama Share 335

LLMs have lowered the barrier to entry for optimizing code, making it possible to write custom software tailored to specific workloads. This trend is expected to continue, enabling companies like Amazon and Anthropic to build optimized solutions with customer data.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

580 gavide 2026-08-21 13:41:50 UTC lina.sh Llama Share 71

The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.

Zig’s io.threaded is neat

94 chilipepperhott 2026-08-22 01:41:50 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 50

Zig's std.Io.Threaded provides a concurrency implementation that enables cancelation of blocking syscalls, addressing the issue of threads being blocked in kernel space. This is achieved through a signal+flag mechanism and integrates with language-level cancelation features like try/defer.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

1162 speckx 2026-08-21 14:41:50 UTC kagi.com Llama Share 370

Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.

Three important steps in my maturation process

166 tdullien 2026-08-21 22:41:50 UTC thomasdullien.github.io Llama Share 76

The author reflects on their personal growth and insights gained since their early 20s, including understanding one's own incentive structure and recognizing the limitations of monocausal determinism. They also explore the cultural construct of reason vs emotion, concluding that integrating both is crucial for better decision-making.

Stop Making TUIs

191 underdeserver 2026-08-21 16:41:50 UTC sockpuppet.org Llama Share 273

The author is re-evaluating the relationship between terminal and command line interfaces, suggesting that native user interfaces are becoming more accessible. They've built several macOS applications using SwiftUI, including a Markdown viewer and a calculator-style frontend for SageMath.

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

8 sbulaev 2026-08-22 12:08:50 UTC theguardian.com LocalLLM Share 1

California and 28 states sue Meta for addictive designs and child privacy violations. The trial centers on alleged harm to children and potential $200bn damages.

OTel isn’t going well

145 hn_acker 2026-08-21 22:41:50 UTC matduggan.com Llama Share 58

The OpenTelemetry project faces challenges due to its vendor-agnostic approach and large scope, leading to slow progress in adding new features. The main issue is the lack of maintainers, which causes a "three-way crash" between binary stability gates, small benches of actual maintainers, and massive scopes of languages and frameworks.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

218 NKosmatos 2026-08-21 18:41:50 UTC newscenter.lbl.gov Llama Share 57

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys created the largest 2D map of the universe, combining over 263,000 telescope exposures to reveal nearly 4 billion celestial objects. This data will aid researchers in studying dark energy and dark matter, as well as rare phenomena like gravitational lenses and supernovae.

Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025)

48 corysama 2026-08-22 04:41:50 UTC zeux.io Llama Share 0

NVIDIA released RTX Mega Geometry and a 36 GB glTF scene for Zorah, which was too large to process with current tools. An open-source sample code was modified to improve support for hierarchical clustered LOD in meshoptimizer, resulting in a ~3 minute processing time on 16 threads.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

323 dash2 2026-08-21 16:41:50 UTC economist.com Full Share 330

How Thailand Resisted Colonization

39 karakoram 2026-08-22 05:41:50 UTC worksinprogress.co Llama Share 10

King Mongkut, the 43rd child of King Rama II, discovered a 1292 stone monolith in Sukhothai that dated back to an ancient Thai kingdom ruled by Ramkhamhaeng. This discovery helped Siam resist European colonization and establish itself as a civilized nation worthy of sovereignty through strategic modernization and diplomacy.

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

16 bobbiechen 2026-08-22 07:41:50 UTC interconnected.org Llama Share 2

Galactic Compass is a popular augmented reality app that uses AI to simulate a floating green arrow pointing towards the Milky Way's center, providing users with a sense of grounding and comfort. The app's developers used quaternions to handle 3D rotations, learning from ChatGPT along the way.

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

302 aakil 2026-08-21 14:41:50 UTC github.com/adnanakil Llama Share 192

Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.

I'm becoming AI-blind

406 rcymerys 2026-08-21 12:41:50 UTC cymerys.com Llama Share 411

The writer is experiencing difficulty focusing on documents sent by colleagues, suspecting they may be AI-generated due to overly technical language and marketing jargon. This phenomenon has led them to develop a "pre-trained" eye for spotting low-effort AI content, which now ignores such texts without much thought.

People of ACM – Russ Cox

144 signa11 2026-08-21 18:41:50 UTC acm.org Full Share 14

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Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice

97 gmays 2026-08-21 17:41:50 UTC medicine.washu.edu Llama Share 45

Researchers at Washington University and Princeton University found that early-life trauma can leave a lasting effect on the brain by altering how DNA is packaged, making it more vulnerable to stress. This discovery provides a biological target for developing new treatments and interventions to prevent long-term mental health challenges.

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

255 speckx 2026-08-21 13:41:50 UTC precastreinforced.co.uk Llama Share 166

The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology, noting that many futuristic concepts are now a reality, such as robots and AI-powered systems. These advancements have become mundane and ordinary in everyday life.

A revisit of remote Spectre attacks on Cloudflare Workers

61 albertpedersen 2026-08-22 01:41:50 UTC blog.cloudflare.com Llama Share 1

Researchers at Cloudflare discovered a remote Spectre attack against their Workers platform, which can leak up to 12 bits per second with 99% accuracy. They improved Dynamic Process Isolation (DyPrIs) and integrated the V8 Sandbox to further reduce memory disclosure attacks.

Everyone says assembly is untyped—everyone is wrong

98 adamrezich 2026-08-21 22:41:50 UTC gingerbill.org Llama Share 43

The author believes Odin's inline assembly is the best due to its integration with the type system and polyadic return values, making it a safe and expressive way to write assembly code. It uses a consistent syntax across ISAs and provides explicit control over ties, pins, scratch registers, and width-views.

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

61 adletbalzhanov 2026-08-22 00:41:50 UTC danluu.com Full Share 11

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

157 toebee 2026-08-21 17:41:50 UTC nari-labs.com Llama Share 38

The Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice implementation achieves sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio (TTFA) while maintaining real-time playback on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM, outperforming other implementations. The system produces approximately 630 characters per second at 10 RPS and translates to ~$2 per 1M characters at full utilization.

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

213 neom 2026-08-21 13:41:50 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 36