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Stories from August 8, 2026 (UTC)
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1.
A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava (runnersworld.com)
425 points by aanet 3 days ago | 97 comments
2.
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative (anl.gov)
345 points by moelf 1 day ago | 148 comments
3.
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs (github.com/xoreaxeaxeax)
351 points by epestr 19 hours ago | 95 comments
4.
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (space.com)
358 points by wglb 1 day ago | 81 comments
5.
“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers (senko.net)
602 points by senko 12 hours ago | 371 comments
6.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones (deepmind.google)
395 points by bhavansig 17 hours ago | 119 comments
7.
Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments (mezha.net)
522 points by theanonymousone 8 hours ago | 248 comments
8.
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded (nixos.org)
385 points by Meleagris 1 day ago | 202 comments
9.
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face (simonwillison.net)
353 points by 882542F3884314B 15 hours ago | 357 comments
10.
_for-sale DNS records (specification.website)
359 points by shaunpud 13 hours ago | 134 comments
11.
US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide (bloomberg.com)
256 points by rbanffy 16 hours ago | 406 comments
12.
SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)
160 points by zdw 7 days ago | 35 comments
13.
Fastmail offers EU data region (fastmail.com)
330 points by groomlake 10 hours ago | 156 comments
14.
Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II) (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
105 points by rfarley04 14 hours ago | 84 comments
15.
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU (getutm.app)
142 points by electricant 13 hours ago | 27 comments
16.
ao486: x86-compatible Verilog core implementing all features of a 486 SX (2014) (github.com/alfikpl)
69 points by csmantle 6 days ago | 9 comments
17.
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator (zaneham.github.io)
79 points by rahen 13 hours ago | 12 comments
18.
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt? (hackaday.com)
173 points by gumby 10 hours ago | 116 comments
19.
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years (travelandtannins.com)
131 points by yk 4 days ago | 63 comments
20.
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires (arstechnica.com)
150 points by 01-_- 16 hours ago | 13 comments
21.
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country (newrepublic.com)
212 points by geox 9 hours ago | 132 comments
22.
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength (twitter.com/un1c0rnioz)
227 points by ilamont 1 day ago | 164 comments
23.
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload (treehouse.systems)
154 points by happosai 13 hours ago | 105 comments
24.
BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments (omnistrate.com)
69 points by kkgupta 5 days ago | 11 comments
25.
From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree (0xkrt26.github.io)
47 points by denismenace 4 days ago | 3 comments
26.
From your doorbell to your home network (of0x.cc)
80 points by mmoogle 4 days ago | 10 comments
27.
k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number (arxiv.org)
68 points by matt_d 8 days ago | 15 comments
28.
LinkedIn Feed Blocker (github.com/andrewpollack)
165 points by andrewpollack 10 hours ago | 99 comments
29.
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
217 points by sbulaev 16 hours ago | 291 comments
30.
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS (classicbits.net)
50 points by skibz 9 hours ago | 13 comments

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