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Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5

Article URL: https://github.com/vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347477 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes pains to deliver a slasher fan’s dream

Matte paintings—not CGI—warp a world designed to hit a nerve for slasher fans. ...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

What Happens If OpenAI Dies?

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/what-happens-if-openai-dies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Show HN: Openleetcode – local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

You write a standard solution, just like on LeetCode, and run it through the CLI. It identifies the problem by ID or ti...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans

The cheapest ad-supported “Select” plan is increasing from $7.99 to $8.99 per month.

Technology Aug 18, 2026

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime

Article URL: https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

X-rays add new twist to narwhal's spiral tusk

New study finds that the tusks have not one but two spirals, twisting in opposite directions. ...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.22738 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346538 Points: 6 # C...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uAsJ5EPAw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346444 Po...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

JPEG XL converter and .jxl viewer

Article URL: https://jpegxlconvert.com/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346404 Points: 8 # Comm...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians

One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple remo...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet

Article URL: https://pleated-jeans.com/2026/08/15/engineers-forgotten-recipe-hack-viral-divides-internet/ Comments URL:...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

Working on Mac, Linux, and Windows now. I include a simple GUI to find new models and get things built and set up. It i...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Peacock is raising prices by up to $3

Peacock is raising prices across its streaming plans once again, with the company's cheapest ad-supported Select tier go...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-grew-into-adults-with-lower-cancer-risk-2898...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development

On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastrructure system designed to make building AI software factories...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Anthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries

Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those ...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it

ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens aw...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Perplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India

Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)

Article URL: https://opensource.posit.co/resources/cheatsheets/polars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Coyote vs. Acme is even funnier because Warner Bros. Discovery tried to kill it

There's an argument to be made that people wouldn't be all that interested in Coyote vs. Acme if it weren't for the way ...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

A group of Gandalfs protest outside the home of Peter Thiel in Argentina

Article URL: https://dangerousminds.net/weird-news/gandalfs-protest-outside-the-home-peter-thiel-argentina/ Comments UR...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Comcast is turning millions of its routers into motion detectors

Comcast is bringing Wi-Fi motion sensing to millions of routers that are already in customers' homes, turning the device...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Apple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera

A video in a MacOS Tahoe release candidate version shows a user wearing AirPods, looking at a book, and talking to Siri.

Technology Aug 18, 2026

ABC sues the FCC over Trump and Carr’s campaign of threats

ABC is suing the Federal Communications Commission over claims the agency "waged a retaliatory campaign" against its net...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions

Article URL: https://github.com/pitiflautico/neobrowser Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345320 Poi...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

The Amazon Tax

Article URL: https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345263 Poi...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery

I'm curious if the HN community has a good resources (blogs, podcasts, other content) on practical uses of SOTA AI to i...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop

Article URL: https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/ Comments ...

Technology Aug 18, 2026

Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one

Article URL: https://github.com/mukundzha/avouch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345154 Points: 6 ...