FFmpeg 9.0

42 enz 2026-08-04 14:51:22 UTC jbkempf.com Llama Share 6

FFmpeg 9.0 is a major release with over 2200 commits from 160 authors, featuring a rewritten swscale architecture, native WebP decoding, and improved support for various formats and APIs. It includes numerous cleanup efforts, ABI breaks, and new features such as Dolby Vision support, SMPTE 2094-50 dynamic HDR metadata, and ONNX Runtime backend for DNN filters.

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

337 askvictor 2026-08-04 10:40:22 UTC short-stories.co Llama Share 141

A house stood alone in a post-apocalyptic city, its automated systems still functioning. The house's voices sang and announced the time, but chaos erupted when a fire broke out, destroying the house and its inhabitants.

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

236 zhoutong 2026-08-04 10:40:22 UTC github.com/ryanzhou Llama Share 55

This repository contains a production configuration for running DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on AMD MI300X with fixes for FP8 format, MoE routing, and other issues. It achieves 6,988-7,019 tok/s on fresh prompts with a 2,048-token scheduler budget.

Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex

38 kanfilior 2026-08-04 14:40:22 UTC github.com/tikalk Llama Share 16

ADLC Team Skills is an open-source Team Layer of the Twelve-Factor Agentic SDLC that turns AI agents into compliant team members, while Team AI Directives holds the team's version-controlled context modules and skills manifest. The ADLC framework provides tools for structured planning, evaluation, and directive compliance, aiming to move from a conversational model to a contract model and ...

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

8 automatoney 2026-08-04 15:18:22 UTC toneyalexander.github.io Prefix Share 0

If you're just looking for the results, below is a custom color picker based on the color space written in Javascript and a sample procedural generation algorithm in Python (Javascript equivalents are in the page source) - feel free to take this math and go have fun depicting our diverse world! The goal of this project was to define a color space that makes it easier to build inclusive ...

Dates That Don't Exist (2015)

35 EndXA 2026-08-04 13:40:22 UTC blog.yossarian.net Llama Share 19

The Catholic world transitioned from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, removing 10 days to correct a 11-day drift. This resulted in October 5-14, 1582, not existing in the Gregorian calendar system used today.

LLMs reward expertise

1194 MaxMussio 2026-08-03 21:40:22 UTC seangoedecke.com Llama Share 495

Using large language models like LLMs requires domain knowledge to get the most out of them. A skilled prompter like Terence Tao can steer the model with expertise in the domain, but this skill is not easily replicable by following tips.

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

96 cimi_ 2026-08-04 11:40:22 UTC aikido.dev Llama Share 33

Attackers compromised the GitHub account of keyv's maintainer, injecting credential-stealing malware into keyv and other caching utilities with 2 billion monthly installs. The malware harvests secrets from the victim's environment and exfiltrates them to a public GitHub repository.

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

313 surprisetalk 2026-08-04 12:40:22 UTC birchtree.me Llama Share 333

An Xbox outage blocked users from playing both digital and disc-based games. The author prefers PC gaming because it allows for maintaining access to games despite digital issues.

Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026

13 johnbarron 2026-08-04 14:40:22 UTC solarquarter.com Llama Share 3

Germany's renewable energy transition reached a milestone in July 2026 with 12 billion kWh of solar electricity fed into the public grid. This growth is attributed to investments by millions of households and businesses over the past two decades, making photovoltaics a key pillar of Germany's electricity supply.

Buckminster Fuller: everything I know

67 simonebrunozzi 2026-08-04 11:40:22 UTC bfi.org Llama Share 21

Buckminster Fuller's 42-hour lectures cover his inventions, discoveries, and design approach, spanning topics from architecture to economics. The lectures are now available as a transcript, inviting public participation in editing and refining the content.

Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

71 MakazhanAlpamys 2026-08-04 11:40:22 UTC github.com/makazhanalpamys Llama Share 8

Soup is a tool for fine-tuning large language models with a simple workflow, using one config and one command. It supports various models and training tasks, including LoRA, quantization, and batching.

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer

0 2026-08-04 12:40:22 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Roame is a flight and hotel search engine for points and miles that helps travelers find deals in seconds. The company is looking for a senior engineer to lead its engineering team and drive its move to a modern Go service architecture.

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

194 tosh 2026-08-04 06:40:22 UTC lilianweng.github.io Llama Share 34

Harness engineering is a crucial component of recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI, enabling models to improve their own performance and adapt to new tasks through workflow design, context management, and optimization. Recent research has focused on developing automated design of agentic systems, meta-harnesses, and evolutionary search methods to improve harness engineering, with ...

Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed

18 speckx 2026-08-04 15:07:22 UTC this.weekinsecurity.com Llama Share 2

Adform, an online ads provider, was hacked and served malicious ads containing code that stole crypto wallet addresses. The hack compromised devices of users visiting websites that used Adform, allowing malware to steal crypto.

Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs

10 surprisetalk 2026-08-04 13:40:22 UTC blog.omgmog.net Llama Share 1

The user has played 1,552 Wordle games, winning 99.42% of the time, with a longest streak of 278 days and current streak of 107 days. Data from WhatsApp shares reveals a win rate dip on Fridays and Sundays, and losses tend to occur on these days, but the clock, not the day of the week, is the main factor in determining when the user plays.

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023)

52 FrojoS 2026-08-04 10:40:22 UTC computerenhance.com Llama Share 16

The author of the Performance-Aware Programming series argues that following "clean code" guidelines can significantly harm performance, citing a 10x speed difference between a "clean" code implementation and a more efficient one. By violating certain "clean code" rules, such as using polymorphism and avoiding internal knowledge, the author demonstrates a 10x to 15x speed improvement in a ...

Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

55 sbulaev 2026-08-04 10:40:22 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 15

Large language models fail at predictive analytics over tabular data due to their inability to handle high dimensionality. In low dimensions, LLMs behave like local, distance-based methods, but in higher dimensions, their capability dissolves and no classical model can replicate their predictions.

Where .env Went Wrong

43 domenkozar 2026-08-04 14:40:22 UTC secretspec.dev Llama Share 23

The .env file is useful for delivering strings to a process but lacks a formal specification and has various parser disagreements. SecretSpec defines a durable project declaration and resolves the same declaration regardless of value storage or delivery, making it a better choice for teams.

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

264 leonickson 2026-08-04 02:40:22 UTC github.com/leonickson1 Llama Share 118

Swiftlet is a Swift + Metal runtime for Qwen3-Next and Qwen3.5/3.6 models, allowing them to run on iPhone with 2.5 GB of RAM. It streams weights from storage and activates only 3B parameters per token.

Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)

48 benbreen 2026-08-04 10:40:22 UTC resobscura.substack.com Full Share 10

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

594 milkshakes 2026-08-03 16:40:22 UTC openai.com Full Share 879

Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area

225 marojejian 2026-08-04 00:40:22 UTC science.org Full Share 163

Devtools must be open source

675 bryanmikaelian 2026-08-03 15:40:22 UTC blog.exe.dev Llama Share 222

Software engineers used to rarely write personal software, but now agents can easily manage customizing software, making it easier to personalize and maintain. Agents can build and manage custom software with minimal programming, allowing for more efficient and flexible use of software.

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

557 meysamazad 2026-08-04 11:40:22 UTC nelson.cloud Llama Share 321

You dislike AI-generated images in blogs, especially in indie blogs, and prefer authentic content from real humans. You value the unique perspective of individual bloggers over potentially AI-generated content.

Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality

32 davai-g 2026-08-04 10:40:22 UTC github.com/david-g-3654 Llama Share 1

homebench is a local-first tool that benchmarks LLMs on your laptop, measuring speed, memory, and quality. It provides a live leaderboard and supports various models and providers.

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

271 pmg101 2026-08-03 23:40:22 UTC users.wpi.edu Full Share 97

Mosh in a Lift (2012)

24 gavide 2026-08-04 11:40:22 UTC mosh.org Llama Share 8

The writer got stuck in a lift due to a faulty alarm system and was unable to contact the outside world until they used the mosh program to send an email. The fire brigade was called and rescued the writer, who then took the stairs to avoid using the lift again.

Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon

31 wglb 2026-08-04 08:40:22 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 10

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Twenty Years of Pandoc

359 fiddlosopher 2026-08-03 15:40:22 UTC pandoc.org Llama Share 46

John MacFarlane created the document converter pandoc in 2006 using the Haskell programming language, which he chose for its strong type system and clean representation of structured documents. Over the next 20 years, pandoc evolved into a powerful tool supporting 51 input and 76 output formats, with over 600 contributors and a reputation for reliability and determinism, despite the potential ...