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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
)
643 points
by
surprisetalk
20 hours ago
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673 comments
2.
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
(
toneyalexander.github.io
)
520 points
by
automatoney
17 hours ago
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90 comments
3.
In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
(
stephenwolfram.com
)
1317 points
by
jdcampolargo
13 hours ago
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75 comments
4.
Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
(
science.org
)
261 points
by
marojejian
6 days ago
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199 comments
5.
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
(
mistral.ai
)
400 points
by
riadsila
16 hours ago
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98 comments
6.
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
(
wpi.edu
)
378 points
by
pmg101
1 day ago
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400 comments
7.
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
(
github.com/ryanzhou
)
370 points
by
zhoutong
22 hours ago
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93 comments
8.
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
(
github.com/leonickson1
)
304 points
by
leonickson
1 day ago
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137 comments
9.
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
(
nelson.cloud
)
758 points
by
meysamazad
21 hours ago
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442 comments
10.
Harness engineering for self-improvement
(
lilianweng.github.io
)
311 points
by
tosh
1 day ago
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73 comments
11.
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
(
aikido.dev
)
242 points
by
cimi_
21 hours ago
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130 comments
12.
Waymo in Dallas
(
waymo.com
)
288 points
by
xnx
14 hours ago
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508 comments
13.
[dupe]
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)
(
short-stories.co
)
497 points
by
askvictor
22 hours ago
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6 comments
14.
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
(
africanews.com
)
223 points
by
bookofjoe
10 hours ago
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174 comments
15.
Twenty Years of Pandoc
(
pandoc.org
)
401 points
by
fiddlosopher
1 day ago
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51 comments
16.
Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
(
techcrunch.com
)
365 points
by
thewebguyd
17 hours ago
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261 comments
17.
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
(
hartwork.org
)
262 points
by
spyc
9 hours ago
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54 comments
18.
I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
(
twitter.com/gwern
)
274 points
by
mattsterett
12 hours ago
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179 comments
19.
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
(
arxiv.org
)
97 points
by
doppp
16 hours ago
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95 comments
20.
Everything I Know (1975)
(
bfi.org
)
139 points
by
simonebrunozzi
21 hours ago
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33 comments
21.
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
(
sec.gov
)
243 points
by
depr
12 hours ago
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138 comments
22.
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
(
ochagavia.nl
)
138 points
by
wofo
6 days ago
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297 comments
23.
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
(
github.blog
)
67 points
by
sbulaev
4 days ago
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27 comments
24.
FFmpeg 9.0
(
github.com/ffmpeg
)
440 points
by
gyan
23 hours ago
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94 comments
25.
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
(
seg6.space
)
123 points
by
seg6
10 hours ago
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103 comments
26.
Show HN: Maple-Preview – Ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
(
deepgrove.ai
)
109 points
by
edwardbzhang
13 hours ago
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31 comments
27.
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
(
weekinsecurity.com
)
229 points
by
speckx
17 hours ago
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88 comments
28.
Video2NAND – Abusing video codecs for great computational power
(
sharedobject.blog
)
61 points
by
firer
2 days ago
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11 comments
29.
Dates That Don't Exist (2015)
(
yossarian.net
)
119 points
by
EndXA
3 days ago
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79 comments
30.
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
(
troyhunt.com
)
287 points
by
stymaar
11 hours ago
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73 comments
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