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Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed)

ComfyUI v0.27.0 introduced INT8 ConvRot, a quantization method that outperforms the previously standard FP8 formats on…

The Hidden Trillion-Dollar AI Commitments Behind Big Tech 

Big Tech’s largest artificial intelligence wager is no longer measured solely by processors, data centers, or…

Twenty Years of Pandoc

John MacFarlane released the first version of Pandoc on August 3, 2006, as a Haskell-based document converter supporting…

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

This is a hiring thread from Hacker News (August 2026) where job seekers post their information in a standardized format…

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

This is a Hacker News "Who is Hiring?" thread from August 2026 where companies post open positions directly.

Will a new kind of AI that understands physical reality change the world again?

AI chatbots can describe reality in words, but don’t truly understand cause and effect in the real world.

Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley appeared on The Drivecast podcast to discuss the company's automatic license plate…

Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

The author discovered that Apple's Mail app contacts iCloud servers when sending non-iCloud emails, despite having…

Devtools must be open source

Software development tools must be open source to enable engineers to easily personalize and maintain customized…

Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs

Andy Pavlo, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor who has tracked ClickHouse's development since 2016,…

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

MiniMax H3, an open-weights omni-modal video model, launched today with native support in ComfyUI and can generate…

SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records are single DNS TXT records starting with "v=spf1" that contain mechanisms,…

Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video

When using vision LLMs to process videos, selecting which frames to include is critical since models can only afford…

Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

A Hacker News user asks for search engine alternatives after becoming dissatisfied with DuckDuckGo's handling of search…

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered…

Pacifimax Corporate Review 2026: Scaling Multi-Asset Brokerage Infrastructure in the Asian Financial Sector

Executive Brief: International online brokerage firm Pacifimax has completed a major infrastructure deployment across…

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's…

Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

JFrog security researchers discovered that a batch of SQLite vulnerability advisories published on GitHub and quickly…

9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

AirLLM is a technology that enables running large language models with dramatically reduced memory requirements—allowing…

Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone

Nightcrawler is an autonomous penetration testing agent that runs entirely on a smartphone, using a small AI model (1.2…

How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark

Automotive lights are better than they've ever been, but there's a trade-off.

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

The author uses coding assistants on personal projects but manually retypes all LLM-generated code rather than copying…

What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not

DMARC is a narrow authentication protocol that verifies whether the visible "From" address in an email is authorized…

MPs demand answers on Fujitsu's inclusion in lucrative frameworks

MPs on the Business and Trade Select Committee are demanding clarity from the government over Fujitsu's inclusion in…

PISIGuard: Protect your personal and sensitive info when you chat with AI

PISIGuard is a browser-based tool that automatically detects and masks sensitive personal information—such as names,…

The true power of regular expressions (2012)

Modern regular expressions are far more powerful than the formal definition suggests, despite the common misconception…

Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge

UniFi gateways like the UDM Pro/Max and EFG suffer from poor PPPoE performance (typically 1200-2400 Mbps on connections…