Hacker News: Newesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/newestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:18:05 +0000<![CDATA[In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years]]>Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165

Points: 354

# Comments: 16

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:51:38 +0000https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/jdcampolargohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165<![CDATA[All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen]]>Article URL: https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656

Points: 328

# Comments: 200

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:00:28 +0000https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/NDlurkerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656<![CDATA[Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones]]>Hello HN!

I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy.

I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has.

The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for others as I have found it! There's lots of room for improvements (see the Future Work section), but I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170165

Points: 386

# Comments: 84

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:16:22 +0000https://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/automatoneyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170165https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170165<![CDATA[Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc]]>Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448

Points: 505

# Comments: 551

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:01:02 +0000https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/surprisetalkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448<![CDATA[AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog]]>Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113

Points: 710

# Comments: 427

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:30:17 +0000https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/meysamazadhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113<![CDATA[U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war]]>Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860

Points: 320

# Comments: 531

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:59:08 +0000https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.htmltcp_handshakerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860<![CDATA[Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)]]>Article URL: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491

Points: 492

# Comments: 6

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:13:13 +0000https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmjaskvictorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491<![CDATA[DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X]]>Article URL: https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386

Points: 339

# Comments: 87

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:00:55 +0000https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300xzhoutonghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386<![CDATA[FFmpeg 9.0]]>Article URL: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202

Points: 413

# Comments: 94

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:30:33 +0000https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTESgyanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202<![CDATA[There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653

Points: 322

# Comments: 357

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:24:53 +0000https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdfpmg101https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653<![CDATA[LLMs reward expertise]]>Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518

Points: 1300

# Comments: 537

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:13:53 +0000https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/MaxMussiohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518<![CDATA[Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science]]>Article URL: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157930

Points: 611

# Comments: 903

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:27:12 +0000https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/milkshakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157930<![CDATA[Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days]]>Article URL: https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157128

Points: 302

# Comments: 259

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:31:32 +0000https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/speckxhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157128https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157128<![CDATA[Twenty Years of Pandoc]]>Article URL: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750

Points: 388

# Comments: 49

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:04:53 +0000https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.htmlfiddlosopherhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750<![CDATA[Devtools must be open source]]>Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111

Points: 700

# Comments: 230

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:15:47 +0000https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-sourcebryanmikaelianhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111<![CDATA[Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs]]>Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011

Points: 331

# Comments: 73

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:09:00 +0000https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhousenikolay_sivkohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011<![CDATA[MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video]]>Article URL: https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155629

Points: 320

# Comments: 91

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:34:43 +0000https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyuivblancohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155629https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155629<![CDATA[Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time]]>Article URL: https://www.intellinews.com/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-germany-for-the-first-time-ever-458379/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155359

Points: 369

# Comments: 315

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:13:02 +0000https://www.intellinews.com/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-germany-for-the-first-time-ever-458379/just_some_userhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155359https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155359<![CDATA[SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?]]>Article URL: https://research.jfrog.com/post/sqlite-critical-cves-or-llm-slops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154332

Points: 720

# Comments: 371

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:28:54 +0000https://research.jfrog.com/post/sqlite-critical-cves-or-llm-slops/ymir_ehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154332https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154332<![CDATA[Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code]]>Article URL: https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153374

Points: 521

# Comments: 433

]]>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:32:07 +0000https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/mpweiherhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153374https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153374