Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

A developer launched a project called Dark Hours without realizing it closely resembled an existing open-source app with the same name, even reproducing the same bug.

2026-08-09 · 13:20 UTC
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Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta

2026-08-09 · 13:03

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs

2026-08-09 · 13:00

More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.

Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center

2026-08-09 · 12:52

Amazon is proceeding with plans to build an AI data center in Gilroy, California, despite the local community voting…

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

2026-08-09 · 12:43

A developer has ported the Project Oberon System from its original RISC-5 architecture to RISC-V (RV32), converting the…

Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt

2026-08-09 · 12:01

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70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic

2026-08-09 · 11:56

I'm unable to summarize this article because the text provided contains only navigation menu items and footer links (in…

Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space

2026-08-09 · 11:46

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning is a new self-contained AI model that performs reasoning in latent space rather…

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

2026-08-09 · 11:39

A user successfully revived their four-year-old reMarkable 2 tablet that had stopped working by fixing its system clock…

Everything You Do Is Being Recorded

2026-08-09 · 11:30

Why the Memory Chip Shortage Is Reshaping Portfolios Across Semiconductors in 2026

2026-08-09 · 11:01

The global memory chip market is in the middle of one of its tightest supply squeezes in decades, and the ripple effects…

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox

2026-08-09 · 10:17

Researcher Gareth Heyes demonstrates multiple critical security vulnerabilities in major webmail clients (Gmail,…

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

2026-08-09 · 10:06

Digital Equipment's Alpha 21264 is a 64-bit processor available in 1998 that offers significantly faster performance…

Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

2026-08-09 · 09:29

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost

2026-08-09 · 08:00

SAP has suspended most employee travel and hiring to control costs, with exceptions only for AI-related activities,…

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

2026-08-09 · 05:23

A developer has created a fully functional native x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a (codenamed Opus),…

"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)

2026-08-09 · 04:30

In 2011, web designer Jeremy Keith bet $1,000 against Matthew Haughey that a specific URL (www.longbets.org/601) would…

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

2026-08-09 · 04:24

MySpace, once the world's largest social network, is hinting at a relaunch under new ownership by brothers Tim and Chris…

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

2026-08-09 · 03:26

John Gruber retracted his previous article criticizing an Apple App Store rejection of an astronomy app called "Dark…

Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents

2026-08-09 · 03:13

MarketNow is a marketplace offering 9,248 MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers for AI agents, with a real-time security…

"Coding is solved" misses the point

2026-08-09 · 01:50

Language models have made writing code faster, but declaring "coding is solved" misses the broader challenges of real…

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

2026-08-09 · 01:28

# Summary Americans overwhelmingly distrust AI due to a fundamental incompatibility between widespread AI adoption and…

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

2026-08-09 · 01:23

TheoremDB is a public workspace platform designed to help research agents avoid duplicating work by providing a shared,…

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

2026-08-08 · 23:37

Os8088 is a graphical operating system written entirely in assembly language that recreates a 1984 Macintosh-style…

Dithered QR Codes

2026-08-08 · 23:05

The article explains how to create dithered QR codes by modifying the data modules (non-functional parts) of standard QR…

My server is a phone now

2026-08-08 · 22:49

The author repurposed a CMF Phone 1 smartphone as a personal server to replace a paid VPS, running web apps like a…

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

2026-08-08 · 22:32

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for its inventory reservation system by using MySQL 8's SKIP LOCKED feature with a…

Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"

2026-08-08 · 21:34

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger claims in an interview with Tucker Carlson that the encyclopedia has become a…

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

2026-08-08 · 19:41

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

2026-08-08 · 18:09

Denmark's Ministry of Education has implemented mandatory oral defenses for all high school students' written…

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