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 1.                                                                Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) ( short-stories.co )           
     223 points by askvictor 4 hours ago | hide | 60 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                        
 2.                                                                DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X ( github.com/ryanzhou )                                     
     189 points by zhoutong 4 hours ago | hide | 47 comments                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                        
 3.                                                                Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc ( birchtree.me )                                
     238 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | hide | 242 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                        
 4.                                                                LLMs reward expertise ( seangoedecke.com )                                                           
     1151 points by MaxMussio 17 hours ago | hide | 481 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                        
 5.                                                                FFmpeg 9.0 Released ( ffmpeg.org )                                                                   
     7 points by LaSombra 37 minutes ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                        
 6.                                                                Buckminster Fuller: everything I know ( bfi.org )                                                    
     55 points by simonebrunozzi 3 hours ago | hide | 18 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                        
 7.                                                                Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack ( aikido.dev )                 
     65 points by cimi_ 3 hours ago | hide | 15 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                        
 8.                                                                Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement ( lilianweng.github.io )                                    
     160 points by tosh 8 hours ago | hide | 30 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                        
 9.                                                                Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU ( github.com/makazhanalpamys )                   
     51 points by MakazhanAlpamys 3 hours ago | hide | 8 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                        
10.                                                                Dates That Don't Exist (2015) ( yossarian.net )                                                      
     9 points by EndXA 1 hour ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                        
11.                                                                Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer ( ycombinator.com )                                           
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12.                                                                AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog ( nelson.cloud )                            
     471 points by meysamazad 3 hours ago | hide | 273 comments                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                        
13.                                                                Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone ( github.com/leonickson1 )
     250 points by leonickson 12 hours ago | hide | 115 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                        
14.                                                                Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction ( arxiv.org )                                   
     36 points by sbulaev 4 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                        
15.                                                                Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024) ( resobscura.substack.com )  
     38 points by benbreen 4 hours ago | hide | 7 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                        
16.                                                                Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science ( openai.com )                          
     581 points by milkshakes 22 hours ago | hide | 869 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                        
17.                                                                Devtools must be open source ( exe.dev )                                                             
     665 points by bryanmikaelian 1 day ago | hide | 216 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                        
18.                                                                Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs ( omgmog.net )              
     3 points by surprisetalk 1 hour ago | hide | discuss                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                                                        
19.                                                                Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area ( science.org )                  
     211 points by marojejian 14 hours ago | hide | 155 comments                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                        
20.                                                                Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality ( github.com/david-g-3654 )          
     22 points by davai-g 4 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                        
21.                                                                There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf] ( wpi.edu )                                                  
     254 points by pmg101 15 hours ago | hide | 90 comments                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                        
22.                                                                Mosh in a Lift (2012) ( mosh.org )                                                                   
     18 points by gavide 2 hours ago | hide | 2 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                        
23.                                                                Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone ( learning-rust.github.io )
     22 points by dumindunuwan 4 hours ago | hide | 1 comment                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                        
24.                                                                FFmpeg 9.0 ( github.com/ffmpeg )                                                                     
     330 points by gyan 5 hours ago | hide | 63 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                        
25.                                                                "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (2023) ( computerenhance.com )                                    
     20 points by FrojoS 4 hours ago | hide | 4 comments                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                        
26.                                                                That time when I failed the Microsoft interview ( ochagavia.nl )                                     
     102 points by wofo 12 hours ago | hide | 198 comments                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                        
27.                                                                Archaeologists Find Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon ( nytimes.com )                                     
     23 points by wglb 6 hours ago | hide | 9 comments                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                        
28.                                                                Twenty Years of Pandoc ( pandoc.org )                                                                
     340 points by fiddlosopher 23 hours ago | hide | 42 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                        
29.                                                                Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale ( cloudflare.com )                             
     247 points by ascorbic 21 hours ago | hide | 61 comments                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                        
30.                                                                Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)                                                                 
     203 points by whoishiring 16 hours ago | hide | 189 comments                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                        
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