Gemini 3.7 Flash

186 thisisauserid 2026-08-13 17:23:56 UTC blog.google Llama Share 128

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the latest model, offering substantial improvements in coding and agent tasks with a lower price point than Gemini 3.6 Flash. It delivers strong gains in debugging, issue resolution, and code accuracy across various workflows and domains.

Mistral OCR 4.1

68 spelk 2026-08-13 17:21:56 UTC docs.mistral.ai Full Share 18

Our latest OCR service powering our Document AI stack, with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores.

Spaghettifying DRAM

308 matt_d 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC github.com/xoreaxeaxeax Llama Share 90

The skitter-creek-bath-salts project exploits a vulnerability in AMD Family 16h CPUs by manipulating the DRAM controller to scramble memory, bypassing security features like SEV and SGX. This allows for unrestricted access to protected regions of memory, including PSP private memory and SMRAM.

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

34 tosh 2026-08-13 17:48:56 UTC mcfunley.com Llama Share 11

The author reflects on the importance of technology choices in a company, emphasizing that innovation tokens should be spent wisely and that "boring" technologies like MySQL or PHP can be good enough. They advocate for mindful choice of technology to avoid overwhelming unknowns and operational costs.

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

25 jkrauska 2026-08-13 17:46:56 UTC donkeybas.com Full Share 9

DONKEY.BAS shipped with early IBM PC DOS as a demo of color graphics and sound in BASICA. It was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen in 1981 (version 1.10 in 1982). You only switch lanes — avoid the donkey, or BOOM. This page recreates the original CGA gameplay in JavaScript with some liberties. Original source: DONKEY.BAS · GitHub

Tocharian Online

21 Bluestein 2026-08-13 17:21:56 UTC lrc.la.utexas.edu Llama Share 0

Tocharian is a closely related Indo-European language family, consisting of two distinct languages A and B, discovered in Chinese Turkestan documents along the Silk Road. Tocharian texts date back to the 6th-8th centuries AD and include translations of Buddhist texts.

Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

45 cainxinth 2026-08-13 15:21:56 UTC uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com Llama Share 11

John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert invented the ENIAC, a pioneering computer in the 1940s, but their innovations continued with other computers like UNIVAC and Skeduflo. Mauchly's vision for using computers to solve problems led to significant advancements in programming and data processing.

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

431 bjin 2026-08-13 13:21:56 UTC deepseek.com Llama Share 198

DeepSeek Harness is now in developer preview, offering a plugin-based system for agent developers to create custom harnesses. It provides various modes, including standard, code, minimal and creator modes with tools and capabilities that can be swapped or extended.

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

14 tdx 2026-08-13 17:49:56 UTC 0.mk Llama Share 2

A 17-year-old database backup of the old 0.mk URL shortener was restored and crawled, revealing that only a small percentage of links still load. The majority of links point to non-existent pages or have been blocked by websites.

How art invented humanity

47 prismatic 2026-08-13 16:21:56 UTC aeon.co Full Share 7

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Gloomberb

288 rbanffy 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC gloom.sh Full Share 149

See what's new in 0.10.4 ▞▀▖▜ ▌ ▌ ▌▄▖▐ ▞▀▖▞▀▖▛▚▀▖▛▀▖▞▀▖▙▀▖▛▀▖ ▌ ▌▐ ▌ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▛▀ ▌ ▌ ▌ ▝▀ ▘▝▀ ▝▀ ▘▝ ▘▀▀ ▝▀▘▘ ▀▀ Gloomberb is command-bar first. Type a ticker or a shortcut like DES AAPLor TOP and jump straight into the market view. Ranked stories, breaking news, sector feeds, global indices, FX, macro events, yield curves, movers, and sentiment.

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

95 stevehipwell 2026-08-13 15:21:56 UTC oxide.computer Llama Share 32

The author, as Oxide's first Solutions Software Engineer, aimed to build software to solve customer problems by integrating Kubernetes with Oxide.

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

19 timmmmmmay 2026-08-13 17:21:56 UTC jdagostino.github.io Llama Share 6

The author is building a custom AI server using old computer parts, including four GPUs and an Intel Core i9 processor, to run the Deepseek V4 Flash model. They've overcome initial challenges with booting and fan control to get the system up and running with Ubuntu 24.04.

Ordinary abundance

91 yen223 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC ordinaryabundance.com Llama Share 36

People have made significant advancements in technology and daily life, including music on demand, electric light, art reproductions, vision correction, instant communication, clean running water and refrigeration.

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

122 toddmorey 2026-08-13 13:21:56 UTC netlify.com Llama Share 56

Netlify has launched a partnership with OpenRouter, offering two new pieces of functionality: the AI Gateway and Agent Runners. Users can now choose from various open models for their projects, including Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and DeepSeek V4.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

397 allanrbo 2026-08-13 05:21:56 UTC community.openai.com Llama Share 275

The ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now available in preview, offering a native experience with supported Ubuntu and Debian versions. It provides a workspace for managing projects and running Codex alongside ChatGPT.

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

88 dreamforever 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC alexmorleyfinch.github.io Llama Share 51

A user built a personal search engine over a weekend, cataloging 560,000 sites for $10 and renting an overnight GPU. The engine uses a small local language model to summarize pages and has features like fuzzy matching and category filtering.

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

47 pcbmaker20 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC github.com/fellowgeek Llama Share 26

MCP-Memory is a server for AI agents with persistent memory capabilities using the Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.2) standard and SQLite indexing. It enables long-term memory storage, search, and retrieval across sessions with automatic setup and configuration.

ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

0 2026-08-13 12:21:56 UTC atg.science Full Share

Careers Create systems that think, reason, and act. We're looking for curious minds from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.

We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

57 omrimaya 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC echo.ai Llama Share 38

Echo scans the NanoClaw container with multiple independent scanners to identify vulnerabilities, then separates findings into "safe to bump" and "needs real work." Echo's proprietary backporter agent applies security patches from newer versions of packages to older versions.

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals

40 bookofjoe 2026-08-13 15:21:56 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 6

A mathematician proved a new uncertainty principle that applies to fractals, which are shapes with intricate patterns. This principle shows that quantum particles cannot be trapped in fractal-like paths forever.

From 13.5M installs to 499 active devices

16 boban-lukic 2026-08-13 17:21:56 UTC games.lukicengineering.com Llama Share 5

The author created a successful game without budget or publisher, reaching 2 million installs in 2014. However, the app's success declined due to changes in Google Play's algorithm and lack of organic discovery.

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

22 adi1 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC codewithbullet.com Llama Share 20

A tool called Bullet was created to speed up agent runs by eliminating unnecessary steps and parallelizing independent tasks, saving hours of waiting time. It is now used internally at the company that developed it, which aims to help others achieve similar results.

Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data

13 fraywing 2026-08-13 16:21:56 UTC ojcp.dev Llama Share 2

OJCP tools are valid MCP tools, enabling standard application mechanisms and candidate data opt-in. The platform aims to shape the future of agent-ready hiring through ATS integration and secure resume embeddings.

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

147 thehoff 2026-08-13 15:21:56 UTC wired.com Llama Share 175

The author accessed their McDonald's data after signing up for the loyalty program years ago, revealing a 515-page report detailing past transactions and predicted future purchases. The report showed an alarming level of detail about the author's habits, raising concerns about commercial surveillance and data privacy.

The Indo-European Family Tree

37 benbreen 2026-08-13 16:21:56 UTC djbinder.com Full Share 22

From English and Hindi to Latin and Persian, the Indo-European languages all descend from Proto-Indo-European—an unrecorded language spoken around 4500 BCE. Click any language to learn more.

GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

9 gregsadetsky 2026-08-13 17:21:56 UTC goaccess.io LocalLLM Share 0

GoAccess is a fast, terminal-based log analyzer for real-time web server statistics and security monitoring. It supports multiple log formats and can generate HTML, JSON, or CSV reports for analytics and visualization.

Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia

90 pxl-th 2026-08-13 11:21:56 UTC pxl-th.github.io Llama Share 12

GaussianSplatting.jl version 2.0 improves performance and UI with features like multi-threading, progress bars, loss plots, and depth supervision. It also introduces new techniques such as Sky Dome and sky segmentation masks to disentangle the sky from the scene.

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

334 Markoff 2026-08-13 12:21:56 UTC tradersunion.com Llama Share 364

China has authorized Deutsche Bank to clear renminbi transactions in Europe, expanding the use of yuan in international trade and investment. This move strengthens a payments franchise for Deutsche Bank while broadening China's efforts to increase the currency's global role.

The mathematical physics of rainbows and glories (2001) [pdf]

26 num42 2026-08-13 14:21:56 UTC tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu Full Share 2