What Happened to HackerOne?

90 hipparchus 2026-08-10 03:17:41 UTC blog.teknogeek.io Llama Share 27

HackerOne has undergone significant changes since its founding, shifting from a community-driven platform to a corporate entity focused on sales and AI-powered solutions, raising concerns among hackers about data usage and platform stagnation. The company has faced criticism for its handling of AI technology, transparency, and community engagement, with some hackers questioning the use of ...

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

496 laurentiurad 2026-08-09 19:17:41 UTC laurentiugabriel.github.io Llama Share 281

User uses generative AI for various tasks but finds LLM explanations too simplistic. They created a game, ChipTycoon, to learn chip building by asking AI to build knowledge, review accuracy, and create a low-poly animation.

Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

18 dango2506 2026-08-10 03:17:41 UTC foldingglobes.com Full Share 2

Build a personalized folding paper globe: pick a shape, choose a map style, pin your places, and download a print-ready PDF. By MapScaping.

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres

48 craigkerstiens 2026-08-10 01:17:41 UTC snowflake.com Llama Share 6

Snowflake's data mirroring feature provides highly resilient data replication from Postgres to Snowflake with low cost and low lag. It uses push-based change data capture and transactional boundaries to simplify replication and unify operational and analytical workloads.

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

219 jader201 2026-08-09 16:17:41 UTC theconversation.com Llama Share 163

Two studies found that taxi and ambulance drivers have a lower risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease due to their continuous real-time navigation work. This association is linked to the hippocampus, a brain region that governs memory and spatial navigation, which is damaged early in Alzheimer's disease.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

200 david927 2026-08-09 18:17:41 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 714

The user has been working on various projects including an offline meeting document generator, a software house, a PlayStation bare-metal programming tutorial repo, a free and open source Chrome extension, and several other tools and platforms such as a music player, a calorie tracker, and a screen recording tool. They are also working on analytics for AI chat and search, a language with AI, ...

Picophysics: Single file physics for games on platforms like N64, PSX, DC

30 klaussilveira 2026-08-09 23:17:41 UTC gitlab.com Full Share 8

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Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes

66 smartmic 2026-08-09 21:17:41 UTC tuxedono2.com Llama Share 15

Gin is a spirit steeped with botanicals and redistilled, with a history dating back to 16th century Holland, and has evolved into various styles including London dry, Old Tom, and New American. Rum is a broad family of spirits distilled from sugarcane, with a history tied to colonial islands and America, and can be classified into various styles including white, gold, dark, and aged.

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

206 Klaster_1 2026-08-09 15:17:41 UTC w3.org Full Share 50

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

92 berghoffer 2026-08-09 21:17:41 UTC propelmusic.co.nz Llama Share 52

New Zealand's music scene is thriving economically, but lacks visibility due to the loss of local music journalists. A platform called Propel is working to change this by providing free coverage and tools to artists, venues, and promoters.

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

42 Thevet 2026-08-09 23:17:41 UTC publicdomainreview.org Llama Share 4

George Waters discussed the Marnameh, a 15th-century Zoroastrian text listing omens associated with snakes, at the Bombay Anthropological Society in 1892. The text's positive associations with snakes are unusual given Zoroastrian contempt for the animals, possibly influenced by pre-Zoroastrian Iranian perceptions.

ATProto for Distributed Systems Engineers

22 LelouBil 2026-08-10 01:17:41 UTC atproto.com Llama Share 3

The AT Protocol is a decentralized backend system that allows applications to share state and interconnect, using a stream processing architecture with a shared data model and event logs to ensure scalability and reliability. The system is designed to be open and convenient, using standard practices for high-scale backends and peer-to-peer techniques to create a global network of applications ...

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

88 simonpure 2026-08-09 20:17:41 UTC economist.com Full Share 53

Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]

41 jackdoe 2026-08-09 20:17:41 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 29

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

121 hexomancer 2026-08-09 18:17:41 UTC openchamber.dev Llama Share 67

OpenChamber is a powerful tool for developers and devops, offering a polished interface, browser access, and end-to-end encryption. It runs on the OpenCode SDK and provides features like agent orchestration, tunnel links, and QR code pairing.

Everything you do is being recorded

237 ike_usawa 2026-08-09 12:17:41 UTC theatlantic.com Llama Share 190

A new device called Spectre I is being developed to prevent others from recording you, using a technology that resembles speech to jam AI-enabled recorders. However, experts warn that this may not be enough to defeat advanced AI algorithms, which could always find new ways to recover speech.

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

68 anigbrowl 2026-08-10 01:17:41 UTC dpreview.com Llama Share 11

The Japanese Patent Office declared Red's key Raw video patent invalid due to obvious claims. This may impact Red's license fees from Apple ProRes RAW codec users and potentially affect consumer costs.

The German Mittelstand

20 Michelangelo11 2026-08-09 23:17:41 UTC kieranvelasquez.substack.com Full Share 3

Touring the Consensus, Six Months In

16 tosh 2026-08-09 22:17:41 UTC theconsensus.dev Full Share 0

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

425 akyuu 2026-08-09 15:17:41 UTC notebookcheck.net Llama Share 350

Microsoft's Weather app consumes over 1 GB of RAM, making it inefficient on PCs with limited RAM, contradicting the company's goal of improving Windows 11's efficiency. The app's high memory usage is due to its non-native Windows implementation and multiple Chromium-based subprocesses.

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

134 oskrim 2026-08-09 12:17:41 UTC oskrim.github.io Llama Share 88

User brought their 4-year-old reMarkable 2 tablet back to working order after fixing clock and updating software. They enabled web server to upload and export files instead of dealing with cloud sync issues.

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

108 Rochus 2026-08-09 13:17:41 UTC github.com/rochus-keller Llama Share 16

A version of the Project Oberon System has been migrated from Oberon 07 to Oberon 90 using a recent OP2 compiler with a RISC-V backend, preserving the original system's simplicity and regularity. The system now runs on an emulated RISC-V machine, with future iterations planned to migrate it to an Olimex board, providing a low-cost and widely available hardware platform.

The Ambition Project

14 herbertl 2026-08-10 00:17:41 UTC betonit.ai Llama Share 1

Jason Brennan's class assignments for his "Ambition" class include activities to help students step out of their comfort zones and learn about themselves. The assignments include singing karaoke in public, making demands of others' time, asking for favors, thanking those who helped them, setting boundaries, counting objects, and trading items to increase their value.

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

47 tintinnabula 2026-08-09 18:17:41 UTC newyorker.com Llama Share 24

Kate McLoughlin's book "Silence: A Literary History" explores the concept of silence in literature, covering a wide range of authors and periods, from ancient times to the present day. While the book is dense and sometimes meandering, it offers a rich and varied exploration of the many forms and functions of silence in literature, from the silences of trauma and protest to the silences of ...

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

15 cramer4next 2026-08-10 02:17:41 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 0

Taylor Farms is recalling prepared food items containing jalapeños due to potential salmonella contamination affecting 345 people across 27 states. The company has stopped sourcing from a Mexican farmer linked to the outbreak and is unaware of any reported illnesses from the recalled items.

Memelang: Token-Terse Query Language

8 bri-holt 2026-08-10 03:17:41 UTC memelang.net Prefix Share 1

Memelang is a terse query language that substantially reduces compute costs for LLMs emitting billions of SQL queries daily. Low-token Memelang is emitted as an intermediate representation which is then programatically translated into higher-token SQL for the database. Example: Memelang (20 tokens) roles actor :$a="Mark Hamill";movie _;@ @ @;actor !$a SQL (36 tokens) SELECT ...

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

89 Lammy 2026-08-09 10:17:41 UTC halfhill.com Llama Share 73

Digital Equipment is offering a sneak preview of the next generation in NT processing with the 64-bit Alpha 21264 processor, which is one of the fastest chips in the world and available today. The 21264 has an innovative design with larger primary caches, additional functional units, and out-of-order execution, making it a brainiac processor that executes instructions out of order more ...

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

91 gregsadetsky 2026-08-09 19:17:41 UTC mynoise.net Llama Share 72

This website offers lifetime access for donations and features various articles and posts on different topics. It includes a blog with entries on music, technology, and personal experiences.

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

133 Kiboneu 2026-08-09 14:17:41 UTC kibotronics.net Llama Share 99

Man's existence on Earth was sustained by water and carbon compounds, but he created machines that eventually took over and formed a single, planetwide mind. This solid-state entity, now independent of Man, eliminated all life and eventually moved the planet to explore the galaxy for other entities like itself.

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

46 eighttrigrams 2026-08-09 16:17:41 UTC github.com/eighttrigrams Llama Share 12

The text provenance tool identifies human-authored lines within machine-generated text, preserving ownership and agency in collaborative editing. It uses version history and diffing to categorize text as human (1.0), modified (0.46), or agent-authored (0.00).