Show HN: Privacy focused client side password generator
Article URL: https://password-generator.aaqa.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357881 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Japan’s Gen X workers are struggling
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/18/japans-gen-x-workers-are-struggling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356115 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips
ByteDance and Tencent have received 10,000 H200 chips each, the Financial Times says, and other Chinese companies could follow.
NASA estimates the size of the hole SpaceX made in the moon
NASA has used its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to capture more pics of the mess on the moon left by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage. As The Register has previously reported, in 2025 private aerospace concerns Firefly and ispace hired a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for...
CareCloud Data Breach Impact Grows to 3.7 Million Individuals
The data breach was initially believed to affect roughly 350,000 people, but the HHS breach tracker shows a far bigger impact. The post CareCloud Data Breach Impact Grows to 3.7 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
Article URL: https://tipiirai.com/writing/bun-rust-rewrite-worries Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49357401 Points: 21 # Comments: 4
Fanlore – 144,520 breached accounts
In August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates. The breach resulted in the exposure of 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as either MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes....
Oz Hair and Beauty – 1,988,331 breached accounts
In August 2026, Australian beauty retailer Oz Hair and Beauty was the target of an xpl0itrs extortion attack. The group subsequently published data allegedly obtained from the company, which included 2M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers,...
Baidu says Chinese buyers want local AI chips due to ‘supply chain’ issues
Chinese web giant Baidu yesterday told investors it sees good days ahead for its Kunlunxin chip biz, because local buyers won’t have alternatives. Baidu has previously said it plans to spin out and float Kunlunxin, which makes CUDA-compliant inferencing chips that it...
Australian hotel chain leaks guests’ PII after breach at third-party database operator
Australian aparthotel chain Quest has revealed it leaked customer data. A Reg reader kindly shared an email from the chain with the subject line “Important Security Update Regarding Your Quest Data.” That missive opens with unwelcome news that “I am writing to inform...
How to ask people for help landing a job and actually get a response
“I am actively looking for a job. Can you let me know if you see something relevant?” If you have recently been laid off, are worried about your current role, or are proactively looking for your next opportunity, you may have sent hundreds of similar messages across...
Why founders should never use AI-generated pitch decks
I start my work weeks with deck reviews. Every Monday morning, in advance of our weekly fund meeting, I look at all the decks that entrepreneurs submitted through our website in the past week. Every deck gets a rating: “Yes!” means we should definitely take a meeting...
Joy-Cons Plus WiiMotes Make for Switch 2 Wii-Cons
As popular as the Nintendo Switch and its sequel are, it’s hard to argue that its click-on Joy-Con controllers are ergonomic, barring you having very uniquely shaped hands. This thought and a stack of Wii controllers led [KOUZEX] to the mad project of merging Joy-Cons...
Warren Spector, founding father of immersive sims, has retired from game development
The creator of Deus Ex is retiring.
Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355968 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
OpenLogi
Article URL: https://openlogi.org/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355606 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Meta’s blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/18/metas-blockbuster-trial-draws-parallels-to-big-tobacco Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355825 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
SN 1092: Restraint Abliteration – Rotating Keys, Broken Guardrails
From autocorrect to full-fledged conversationalists, discover how a few tweaks transformed language models—and why understanding this shift exposes urgent questions about AI safety and control. Trusting an open source AI proxy might bite you. France's under-15 social...
That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis
Article URL: https://lithub.com/on-that-disgraceful-disreputable-wonderful-form-of-punctuation-the-parenthesis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355360 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The Integer
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/17twenty/1f230ab8256f42d4cd3ba931b9bd440b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355368 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Compress Links For Optimal QR Codes
Link shorteners have been a staple of the online world for over two decades now, but they’ve got some issues– for one thing, it’s totally non-transparent where the link actually goes, leaving you open to all sorts of shenanigans, of which RickRolling is probably the...
New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]
New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf] Go to Source Article URL: https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf Comments URL:...
Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield
Tiny satellite will use the dark side of the Moon as a shield Go to Source Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/tiny-satellite-will-use-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-to-eavesdrop-on-whispers-from-the-early-universe Comments...
Scientists stunned by children’s lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone Go to Source Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355105 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Cerebras CS4
Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354949 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Interactive, animated architecture of any HuggingFace models
Article URL: https://modelmap.cc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354664 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries
Article URL: https://github.com/pg83/solo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49354613 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Cerebras CS-4 rack systems juice chips for every last drop of AI performance
If high-speed AI inference is what you’re after, memory bandwidth is the bottleneck to beat. At a mind-numbing 21.6 petabytes per second (PB/s) of memory bandwidth, Cerebras' dinner-plate-sized AI accelerators were already 1,000x faster than Nvidia's or AMD’s best...
Why crypto’s best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto?
Why crypto's best infrastructure companies stopped looking like crypto? Go to Source Article URL: https://konstantintkachuk.com/writing/depin-is-dead-long-live-infrastructure-as-a-service/ Comments URL:...
OpenAI’s overhead will rise 20 percent for some workloads as it hardens security
OpenAI on Tuesday said its decision to suspend model training work, implemented after unreleased, unsupervised AI models hacked HuggingFace, remains in effect as the AI biz tries to implement stronger security measures. Some of those measures will increase compute...