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2026-08-04
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Stories from August 4, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
(
birchtree.me
)
605 points
by
surprisetalk
16 hours ago
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643 comments
2.
Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
(
science.org
)
261 points
by
marojejian
6 days ago
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196 comments
3.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
(
stephenwolfram.com
)
1126 points
by
jdcampolargo
9 hours ago
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61 comments
4.
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
(
github.com/ryanzhou
)
367 points
by
zhoutong
18 hours ago
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91 comments
5.
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
(
nelson.cloud
)
743 points
by
meysamazad
17 hours ago
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438 comments
6.
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
(
wpi.edu
)
363 points
by
pmg101
1 day ago
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386 comments
7.
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
(
github.com/leonickson1
)
300 points
by
leonickson
1 day ago
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134 comments
8.
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
(
toneyalexander.github.io
)
483 points
by
automatoney
13 hours ago
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90 comments
9.
Harness engineering for self-improvement
(
lilianweng.github.io
)
307 points
by
tosh
22 hours ago
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72 comments
10.
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
(
aikido.dev
)
240 points
by
cimi_
17 hours ago
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127 comments
11.
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
(
mistral.ai
)
343 points
by
riadsila
12 hours ago
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83 comments
12.
[dupe]
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)
(
short-stories.co
)
497 points
by
askvictor
18 hours ago
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6 comments
13.
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
(
techcrunch.com
)
344 points
by
thewebguyd
13 hours ago
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253 comments
14.
Waymo in Dallas
(
waymo.com
)
273 points
by
xnx
10 hours ago
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432 comments
15.
Twenty Years of Pandoc
(
pandoc.org
)
390 points
by
fiddlosopher
1 day ago
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50 comments
16.
Everything I Know (1975)
(
bfi.org
)
138 points
by
simonebrunozzi
17 hours ago
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33 comments
17.
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
(
ochagavia.nl
)
137 points
by
wofo
6 days ago
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297 comments
18.
FFmpeg 9.0
(
github.com/ffmpeg
)
433 points
by
gyan
19 hours ago
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94 comments
19.
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
(
sec.gov
)
225 points
by
depr
8 hours ago
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114 comments
20.
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
(
arxiv.org
)
86 points
by
doppp
12 hours ago
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89 comments
21.
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
(
weekinsecurity.com
)
219 points
by
speckx
13 hours ago
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80 comments
22.
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
(
africanews.com
)
171 points
by
bookofjoe
6 hours ago
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123 comments
23.
Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
(
yossarian.net
)
116 points
by
EndXA
3 days ago
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77 comments
24.
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
(
hartwork.org
)
209 points
by
spyc
5 hours ago
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26 comments
25.
U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
(
cnbc.com
)
359 points
by
tcp_handshaker
17 hours ago
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650 comments
26.
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
(
troyhunt.com
)
257 points
by
stymaar
7 hours ago
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69 comments
27.
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
(
twitter.com/gwern
)
222 points
by
mattsterett
7 hours ago
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140 comments
28.
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
(
github.blog
)
59 points
by
sbulaev
4 days ago
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20 comments
29.
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
(
pudding.cool
)
173 points
by
carlos-menezes
10 hours ago
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157 comments
30.
Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU
(
github.com/makazhanalpamys
)
125 points
by
MakazhanAlpamys
17 hours ago
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24 comments
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