Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025)
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1034703/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242297 Points: 152 # Comments: 136
London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
Article URL: https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255496 Points: 9 # Comments: 9
France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
Article URL: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/06/france-to-ban-unsolicited-telemarketing-calls-from-august-11_6756208_7.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254880 Points: 153 # Comments: 100
The Water Footprint of AI
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2026.125866 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254351 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
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Squeak 6.1
Article URL: https://squeak.org/release_notes/6.1/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242653 Points: 267 # Comments: 131
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Show HN: Mcptoon – Token-efficient MCP CLI client
Article URL: https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253721 Points: 37 # Comments: 21
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The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
Article URL: https://www.effort.news/uk-lobby Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251411 Points: 464 # Comments: 349
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As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
Article URL: https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250836 Points: 210 # Comments: 195
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Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago
Article URL: https://correctiv.org/en/europe/2026/04/21/half-of-europes-towns-and-villages-have-fewer-residents-than-60-years-ago/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253813 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
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DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself
Article URL: https://manish.sh/writings/models/inside-deepseek-reverse-engineering-an-ai-assistant-by-interviewing-itself Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253738 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%
Article URL: https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253721 Points: 17 # Comments: 6
Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-admins-unhappy-as-microsoft-found-installing-unexpected-new-onedrive-photos-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253329 Points: 32 # Comments: 13
Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases
Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253250 Points: 24 # Comments: 6
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Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero
Article URL: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/why-my-father-is-wrong-a-defense-of-guitar-hero/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253176 Points: 33 # Comments: 15
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H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon
Article URL: https://github.com/antirez/h3.c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252179 Points: 176 # Comments: 19