Hacker News: Front Page

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

NKosmatos — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:36:34 +0000

Direct link to Legacy Survey Sky Viewer: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392200

Points: 147

# Comments: 46

Kobo can run apps now

thepoet — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:25:25 +0000

Article URL: https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390427

Points: 431

# Comments: 145

What happens when a GPU reads memory

ibobev — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:16:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390308

Points: 100

# Comments: 18

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

toebee — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nari-labs.com/blog/qwen3-tts-speed-cost-frontier/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389952

Points: 103

# Comments: 28

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

colinprince — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:17:47 +0000

Article URL: https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389441

Points: 120

# Comments: 29

Felony Bench

colinprince — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:17:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.felonybench.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389430

Points: 520

# Comments: 225

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

aakil — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:31:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/adnanakil/nobuzz/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388752

Points: 201

# Comments: 137

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

speckx — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:56:37 +0000

Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154

Points: 1009

# Comments: 339

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

gavide — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:11:28 +0000

Article URL: https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570

Points: 444

# Comments: 50

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

speckx — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:07:26 +0000

Article URL: https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387525

Points: 205

# Comments: 146

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

floathub — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:10:13 +0000

https://archive.ph/SflVC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386895

Points: 552

# Comments: 726

I'm becoming AI-blind

rcymerys — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:48:05 +0000

Article URL: https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386699

Points: 264

# Comments: 277

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

dares2573 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:33:56 +0000

Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386163

Points: 463

# Comments: 143

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

dash2 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:13:31 +0000

https://archive.is/w1eng

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357530

Points: 231

# Comments: 289

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

neom — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:49:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346444

Points: 157

# Comments: 9