Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding

47 zaik 2026-08-21 23:42:21 UTC sites.duke.edu Llama Share 0

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins delivered a speech on June 30, criticizing the nation's founding documents for not protecting against concentrated power and instead promoting deregulation. He ignored key principles of republicanism that recognize power can threaten liberty whether it is wielded by institutions or private interests.

Kobo can run apps now

407 thepoet 2026-08-21 16:42:21 UTC bandarlabs.github.io Llama Share 138

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 Bench

494 colinprince 2026-08-21 15:42:21 UTC felonybench.com Llama Share 221

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.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

521 floathub 2026-08-21 13:42:21 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 708

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

138 NKosmatos 2026-08-21 18:42:21 UTC newscenter.lbl.gov Llama Share 44

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.

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

989 speckx 2026-08-21 14:42:21 UTC kagi.com Llama Share 333

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.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

223 dash2 2026-08-21 16:42:21 UTC economist.com Full Share 282

Three important steps in my maturation process

25 tdullien 2026-08-21 22:42:21 UTC thomasdullien.github.io Llama Share 7

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.

Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

25 rendx 2026-08-21 23:42:21 UTC nebraskapublicmedia.org Llama Share 30

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use electric shock gloves, but they have been used in Nebraska for years by school resource officers. The gloves are considered a lesser use of force than physical force and are only used on passively resistant individuals with proper justification.

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

429 gavide 2026-08-21 13:42:21 UTC lina.sh Llama Share 47

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.

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

21 dariusmonsef 2026-08-21 23:42:21 UTC ozbrain.com Llama Share 9

You're looking for a shared brain that allows multiple AI agents to read and write from the same source of truth, eliminating duplicate explanations. OzBrain offers this feature with unlimited reads and writes, row-level security, and no app-code path around it.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

453 dares2573 2026-08-21 10:42:21 UTC api-docs.deepseek.com Llama Share 143

The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text and supports three methods to provide an image: base64 data URL, external http(s) URL, or Files API file_id. The model can analyze charts, describe pictures, read text from screenshots.

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

0 2026-08-21 21:42:21 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

SalesPatriot is a YC W25 company replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for aerospace, electronics, and defense supply-chain operations. They're hiring a full-stack engineer to relocate to SF, implement the platform, and drive customer growth through automation and problem-solving.

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

99 toebee 2026-08-21 17:42:21 UTC nari-labs.com Llama Share 24

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.

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

118 colinprince 2026-08-21 17:42:21 UTC pointinthecloud.com Llama Share 27

A 60p Raspberry Pi chip can emulate a mid-1990s computer, sparking ideas for minimal viable modern computers that are simple, low power and environmentally friendly. These devices could have e-paper screens, solar power and calmer interfaces to reduce addictiveness of modern devices.

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

89 ra7 2026-08-21 17:42:21 UTC waymo.com Llama Share 44

Waymo's Driver uses raw sensor data to make real-time driving decisions with ultra-low latency and high-performance computing. The system is designed for deterministic, ruggedized, and redundant performance in various environments.

People of ACM – Russ Cox

83 signa11 2026-08-21 18:42:21 UTC acm.org Full Share 10

IP: 172.190.118.179, RAY: a2edd65b2ebb3e81

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

188 aakil 2026-08-21 14:42:21 UTC github.com/adnanakil Llama Share 133

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.

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler

51 vicek22 2026-08-21 19:42:21 UTC tumbleforth.hardcoded.net Llama Share 5

Virgil Dupras is writing a series of articles to guide web developers into low-level programming, starting from bare metal on PCs. He aims to broaden perspectives through step-by-step story arcs and corny jokes.

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

20 henriemategui 2026-08-21 21:42:21 UTC henriemategui.com Llama Share 2

A security researcher exploited a company's electric scooter service by finding an admin account with a weak password, gaining access to the operational system and IoT devices. The researcher used enumeration, brute force attacks, and proxy tools to bypass authentication mechanisms and control physical vehicles remotely.

HN: The Good Parts

7 adletbalzhanov 2026-08-21 23:53:21 UTC danluu.com Full Share 3

What happens when a GPU reads memory

97 ibobev 2026-08-21 16:42:21 UTC blog.doubleword.ai Llama Share 16

The authors of the post are performing a reverse engineering analysis of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU's memory access patterns, specifically for a vector-add kernel. They measure various latency and throughput metrics to understand how the GPU handles global loads and stores.

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

150 neom 2026-08-21 13:42:21 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 8

I'm becoming AI-blind

254 rcymerys 2026-08-21 12:42:21 UTC cymerys.com Llama Share 263

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.

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

520 Cider9986 2026-08-21 02:42:21 UTC annas-archive.gl Llama Share 834

AI companies are secretly buying and destroying physical books to train their models, threatening human knowledge. Anna's Archive is calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.

'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them

57 bcaulfield 2026-08-21 22:42:21 UTC wsj.com Full Share 28

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

Using an old Android phone as a music player

35 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 18:42:21 UTC monocyte.blog Llama Share 18

The writer has found a suitable music player using an old Android phone, specifically the Huawei P30, after struggling to find a decent device. They've successfully debloated the phone and installed Poweramp, Panoscrobbler, and Niagara Launcher for smooth music playback.

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

78 jakelsaunders94 2026-08-21 16:42:21 UTC blog.jakesaunders.dev Llama Share 48

The author created a fully remote agentic development environment using OpenAI's LLM, Claude, and self-hosted tools like Coolify and Forgejo. They isolated the LLM on its own metal with network bombproofing measures to prevent unauthorized access.

Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference

30 petethomas 2026-08-21 23:42:21 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 0

The Pentagon fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, Erik Slavin, and a top reporter, Lara Korte, for speaking out against potential censorship by the US military. The move comes as the Trump administration has been increasingly aggressive towards the news media.

Rust Glancer

28 surprisetalk 2026-08-21 19:42:21 UTC matklad.github.io Llama Share 3

Rust Glancer aims to improve LSP server performance by analyzing dependencies without running full code, using .rmeta files instead of salsa. This approach could provide a more efficient and secure way to handle large projects with many unseen dependencies.