Hacker News on Sunday, 9 August 2026

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics(laurentiugabriel.github.io)

763 points by laurentiurad 2 months ago | 489 comments

Personal blog post by Laurentiu Raducu describing how he uses LLMs to learn complex topics, including building an interactive chip-making game called ChipTycoon.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM(notebookcheck.net)

570 points by akyuu 2 months ago | 505 comments

Notebookcheck news article reporting that Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM, far more than Apple's macOS Weather app.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours(blog.terrygodier.com)

568 points by satvikpendem 2 months ago | 255 comments

Terry Godier's blog post apologizing for problems with Dark Hours, a website he launched to show what can be seen in the night sky.

Everything you do is being recorded(theatlantic.com)

393 points by ike_usawa 2 months ago | 334 comments

An Atlantic article by Ross Andersen on pervasive recording by AI wearables and other surveillance, and whether people can fight back.

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's(theconversation.com)

358 points by jader201 2 months ago | 254 comments

The Conversation article on why taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's and how mental maps and spatial reasoning may protect the brain.

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

290 points by david927 2 months ago | 1009 comments

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)(w3.org)

278 points by Klaster_1 2 months ago | 67 comments

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection(daringfireball.net)

237 points by minimaxir 2 months ago | 32 comments

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone(techeblog.com)

214 points by Thorondor 2 months ago | 70 comments

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy(techcrunch.com)

203 points by evo_9 2 months ago | 156 comments

I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video](mynoise.net)

199 points by gregsadetsky 2 months ago | 160 comments

The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves(linebender.org)

190 points by raphlinus 2 months ago | 38 comments

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

184 points by doubletwoyou 2 months ago | 87 comments

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order(gukov.dev)

178 points by gukoff 2 months ago | 31 comments

Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud(pubsonline.informs.org)

169 points by iamnothere 2 months ago | 78 comments

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port(github.com)

161 points by BruceEel 2 months ago | 66 comments

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment(openchamber.dev)

159 points by hexomancer 2 months ago | 76 comments

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2(oskrim.github.io)

142 points by oskrim 2 months ago | 95 comments

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)(kibotronics.net)

133 points by Kiboneu 2 months ago | 99 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition(economist.com)

127 points by simonpure 2 months ago | 84 comments

Incentives are for losers(experimental-history.com)

127 points by bkudria 2 months ago | 87 comments

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it(propelmusic.co.nz)

123 points by berghoffer 2 months ago | 85 comments

Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes(tuxedono2.com)

122 points by smartmic 2 months ago | 36 comments

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5(github.com)

112 points by Rochus 2 months ago | 16 comments

Saying No(rozumem.xyz)

110 points by rozumem 2 months ago | 84 comments

The Hacker's Renaissance (2025)(phrack.org)

105 points by yu3zhou4 2 months ago | 74 comments

Differential Heuristics(redblobgames.com)

103 points by ibobev 2 months ago | 7 comments

Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia(pxl-th.github.io)

102 points by pxl-th 2 months ago | 18 comments

Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age(itsfoss.com)

101 points by WaitWaitWha 2 months ago | 68 comments

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse(wtoc.com)

99 points by chirau 2 months ago | 70 comments

Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes(github.com)

95 points by carpdiem 2 months ago | 19 comments

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US(tomshardware.com)

94 points by f-serif 2 months ago | 69 comments

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

92 points by Lammy 2 months ago | 75 comments

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent(dpreview.com)

86 points by anigbrowl 2 months ago | 18 comments

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics(theoremdb.org)

84 points by frozenseven 2 months ago | 13 comments

The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)(blog.andymasley.com)

84 points by mef 2 months ago | 62 comments

A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022)(iagoleal.com)

83 points by Brajeshwar 2 months ago | 8 comments

CSS: The bomb inside your inbox(portswigger.net)

74 points by ashurandi 2 months ago | 23 comments

Is it all just vapourware?(kirahowe.com)

65 points by Lyngbakr 2 months ago | 96 comments

Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium(euronews.com)

65 points by andrewstetsenko 2 months ago | 58 comments

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager(theregister.com)

65 points by joebuckwilliams 2 months ago | 27 comments

Interview with Amit Patel, Creator of “Solar Realms Elite” (2013)(breakintochat.com)

61 points by bananaboy 2 months ago | 14 comments

Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost(404media.co)

59 points by theanonymousone 2 months ago | 32 comments

Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards(nytimes.com)

59 points by bookofjoe 2 months ago | 43 comments

Every fast write moves work somewhere else(shayon.dev)

53 points by shayonj 2 months ago | 19 comments

The Legend of the Novell NE2000 [video](youtube.com)

53 points by voxadam 2 months ago | 20 comments

To recruit teachers, school districts are building homes(nytimes.com)

52 points by mooreds 2 months ago | 45 comments

The Ambition Project(betonit.ai)

52 points by herbertl 2 months ago | 8 comments

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones(github.com)

48 points by campuscodi 2 months ago | 29 comments

Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game(nicole.express)

48 points by nicole_express 2 months ago | 10 comments

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing(github.com)

46 points by eighttrigrams 2 months ago | 12 comments

Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt(youtube.com)

44 points by johnbarron 2 months ago | 36 comments

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack(abc.net.au)

43 points by stared 2 months ago | 34 comments

Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center(tomshardware.com)

43 points by mikhael 2 months ago | 23 comments

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon(frequal.com)

42 points by TeaVMFan 2 months ago | 41 comments

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding(bbc.com)

41 points by cwwc 2 months ago | 20 comments

Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change(82mhz.net)

40 points by reallydontask 2 months ago | 22 comments

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style(arstechnica.com)

40 points by Eloissssss 2 months ago | 20 comments

I've yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union(mastodon.neilzone.co.uk)

38 points by severine 2 months ago | 10 comments

If experience is the goal, then you always win(startingfromnix.com)

38 points by jger15 2 months ago | 6 comments