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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

laurentiurad — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:16:49 +0000

Article URL: https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234675

Points: 474

# Comments: 268

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

akyuu — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:11:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138

Points: 401

# Comments: 336

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

satvikpendem — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:20:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231154

Points: 571

# Comments: 256

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

minimaxir — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:26:00 +0000

Thread for original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214863

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228166

Points: 329

# Comments: 64

Dithered QR Codes

jmusall — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:05:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742

Points: 361

# Comments: 41

My server is a phone now

seg6 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:49:23 +0000

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636

Points: 493

# Comments: 236

We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled

adletbalzhanov — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:32:50 +0000

Article URL: https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226536

Points: 330

# Comments: 246

Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments

theanonymousone — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294

Points: 623

# Comments: 276

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

geox — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:27:52 +0000

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845

Points: 253

# Comments: 166

Fastmail offers EU data region

groomlake — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082

Points: 496

# Comments: 287

“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

senko — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:32:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189

Points: 874

# Comments: 534

_for-sale DNS records

shaunpud — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668

Points: 429

# Comments: 161

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

882542F3884314B — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:57:44 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609

Points: 421

# Comments: 405

US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

rbanffy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:04:25 +0000

https://archive.ph/W2tpE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220339

Points: 306

# Comments: 495

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

bhavansig — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:18:50 +0000

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126

Points: 439

# Comments: 129

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

epestr — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:04:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219508

Points: 373

# Comments: 102

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

wglb — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:49:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218179

Points: 376

# Comments: 82

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

Meleagris — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:12:45 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993

Points: 401

# Comments: 212

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

moelf — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946

Points: 350

# Comments: 160

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

Bender — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:19:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/water-system-controllers-dont-belong-on-the-internet-says-ex-nsa-chief-after-suspected-iran-attacks/5285070

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216362

Points: 252

# Comments: 164