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Wednesday, 19 August 2026
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Show HN: Port Zero – how I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0
Hi HN, Recently I wasted several hours wrangling my dev environment only to find out that the browser frontend was talking to the wrong version of the backend. This got me thinking--why on earth are we still using simple numbers to describe which pro
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Visualizing the Artemis II Mission
See also Artemis II Photo Timeline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954394 - April 2026 (28 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063570 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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Fonts In Use – Find out where a font is used
Article URL: https://fontsinuse.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063523 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
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Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary
Article URL: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063175 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
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US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/113236-us-prosecutors-charge-atlanta-man-after-grapheneos-phone.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063022 Points: 193 # Comments: 119
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Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?
Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.
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Show HN: Distill and serve small models with frontier quality for half the cost
Hi HN, we built world-model-optimizer, an open-source tool for continually improve models specialized to agents. Today we are launching `wmo serve`, a tool to route repetitive tasks to distilled smaller models. Agent traces you already capture are op
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Wattage: A token-spend profiler and cost-regression gate for AI agents
Article URL: https://github.com/faizannraza/wattage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063397 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Cursor Bridge – Run Unlimited Claude Code on Your Cursor Subscription
Article URL: https://github.com/hkc5/cursor-bridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063186 Points: 15 # Comments: 18
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Teaching Kids Forth
Article URL: https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/teaching-kids-forth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062700 Points: 38 # Comments: 8
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Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?
As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company may also be wrestling with how to address consumer privacy concerns.
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First teaser for Apple TV's Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
Plus Mike Flanagan's Carrie teaser, trailers for Dark Matter S2 and Matchbox the Movie , and Marvel news.
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Teaching Kids Forth – Anna Liberty
Article URL: https://gracefulliberty.com/articles/teaching-kids-forth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062700 Points: 10 # Comments: 4
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We have proof automation now
Article URL: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2026/07/26/zstd-lean.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062291 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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Multiway Turing Machines (2021 pre-ai)
Article URL: https://bulletins.wolframphysics.org/2021/02/multiway-turing-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062259 Points: 12 # Comments: 3