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Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds

Article URL: https://github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204388 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

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Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204352 Points: 26 # Comments: 6

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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204060 Points: 27 # Comments: 8

worik 2 weeks ago

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Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters

Author here.Background, for anyone who hasn't followed this fight: IBM's iron–sulfur SQD results (Sci. Adv. 2025) are one of the flagship "quantum computers are useful for chemistry now" claims, and a published critique (arXiv:2501.07231) argues the quantum samples never beat classical selected-CI...

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Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203105 Points: 31 # Comments: 6

gnabgib 2 weeks ago

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Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2

Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350 microcontroller. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled from ARMv4T to Cortex-M33 and the Game Boy Advance's video hardware is reimplemented in software on the second core. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203059 Points: 24 # Comments:...

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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

Article URL: https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202852 Points: 22 # Comments: 1

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Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight microbes linked to cancers

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202716 Points: 12 # Comments: 0

Audiophilip 2 weeks ago

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What Is a Product?

Article URL: https://roge.onwrite.app/what-is-a-product Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202690 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/civilians-that-were-under-siege-by-a-mexican-cartel-fight-back-with-ak-47s-and-grenades Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202321 Points: 51 # Comments: 16

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Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface

Article URL: https://physicsworld.com/a/astronomers-capture-highest-resolution-image-ever-of-the-suns-surface/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202278 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

layer8 2 weeks ago

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AMD acquires startup Taalas to boost inference perf by etching models in silicon

https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970 Points: 7 # Comments: 8

itvision 2 weeks ago

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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

Article URL: https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201930 Points: 54 # Comments: 26

dsubburam 2 weeks ago

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State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer

Article URL: https://keel-iot.eu/blog/state-oriented-consistency.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201540 Points: 4 # Comments: 2

fcravio 2 weeks ago

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The DISTINCT in Your COUNT

Article URL: https://boringsql.com/posts/distinct-in-your-count/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201369 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

gmcabrita 2 weeks ago

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xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me

Article URL: https://illegal.solutions/posts/xai_pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201342 Points: 25 # Comments: 2

speckx 2 weeks ago

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Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings

Article URL: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20260803/k00/00m/010/133000c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201065 Points: 52 # Comments: 18

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Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

Article URL: https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

collinmanderson 2 weeks ago

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Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200933 Points: 24 # Comments: 2

bschne 2 weeks ago

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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200652 Points: 144 # Comments: 60

apitman 2 weeks ago

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Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work

Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-upte-tech-workers-union Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200510 Points: 30 # Comments: 13

ughitsaaron 2 weeks ago

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My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off"

Article URL: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200439 Points: 16 # Comments: 19

luu 2 weeks ago

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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/federal-communications-commission-scraps-limit-broadcast-tv-ownership-rcna587641 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200390 Points: 18 # Comments: 9

pseudolus 2 weeks ago

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Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49199357 Points: 37 # Comments: 28

tedsanders 2 weeks ago

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