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NSA and IETF, Part 9

Article URL: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260814-update.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306432 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

Article URL: https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/16/2d-gaussian-splatting-for-bezier-spline-line-art-vectorizati...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306196 Points: 9 # C...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

Article URL: https://sf.gazetteer.co/corgi-kills-short-lived-website-that-ranked-its-female-employees Comments URL: htt...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

The case for overhauling American science

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/13/the-case-for-overhauling-american-science Comments URL:...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

Article URL: https://getsmall.xyz/post/cmstjfl9l000if70ljmpzr4va Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up

PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

RISC-V: They should have known better

Article URL: https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=12.%20RV Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

eigendrum

Article URL: https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305250 Points: 13 # C...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG

At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter re...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Everything is about to "go dark"

Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/08/14/everything-is-about-to-go-dark/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones

Article URL: https://www.oulu.fi/en/news/study-links-coffee-consumption-metabolic-health-and-sex-hormones Comments URL:...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123

Article URL: https://iafisher.com/2026/07/pelham-123 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303957 Points...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Jason Arday, ex-Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism row, found dead

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1ye6n30no Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303774...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11158 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303652 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/14/business/vishal-garg-better-ceo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria

The AI opportunity is huge but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment disc...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]

Article URL: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/f61d49fa5596956a5dec75fea0e973bf6a6a8378/Redacted%20Risk%20Report%20August%2...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Show HN: AletheionAGI – Grounding enforcement for AI agents

Article URL: https://www.aletheionagi.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303499 Points: 3 # Comme...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Z.ai Security Disclosure

Article URL: https://cvd.z.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303433 Points: 20 # Comments: 3

Technology Aug 14, 2026

What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine

Article URL: https://eliasfarhan.ch/gamedev/cpp/2026/08/14/srnative-01-why-a-custom-engine.html Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Samsung has new Galaxy headphones in the works

Strings of code in Samsung's Galaxy Wearable app hint at an upcoming pair of over-ear headphones that could compete with...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

How Claude's text watermarking works

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

High-Performance Array-Backed LRU Hash Table

Article URL: https://github.com/adanil-code/LRUHashTable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303292 Po...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Open WireGuard Endpoints

Article URL: https://proxylity.com/articles/now-available-open-wireguard-endpoints-and-async-lambda.html Comments URL: ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on U.S. water utilities

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United S...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Article URL: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3212428/firefox-is-now-the-last-major-browser-that-still-supports-ublock-o...