Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-16
- AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain davidepiffer.com - 403 comments 465 points
- Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel sankalp.bearblog.dev - 91 comments 414 points
- Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com - 277 comments 400 points
- Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding allen.bargi.org - 188 comments 295 points
- At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis www.smithsonianmag.com - 86 comments 245 points
- Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI www.acc.org - 169 comments 224 points
- A spectre is haunting Unicode www.dampfkraft.com - 71 comments 206 points
- Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter www.severe-weather.eu - 95 comments 167 points
- A controversial Alzheimer’s surgery is said to reverse symptoms www.nature.com - 77 comments 165 points
- Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history horn.gg - 103 comments 152 points
- Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born - 2023 www.henrikkarlsson.xyz - 32 comments 137 points
- AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward www.science.org - 62 comments 126 points
- The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake www.core77.com - 55 comments 120 points
- Cloudflare’s AI Psychosis opensauce.it - 89 comments 107 points
- Europe’s scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves www.bbc.com - 98 comments 105 points
- I Remain a Skeptic blog.jsbarretto.com - 87 comments 103 points
- The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts www.404media.co - 77 comments 103 points
- Using GCC’s Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II uecker.codeberg.page - 45 comments 92 points
- Could a computer scientist build a brain? stankerstjens.github.io - 63 comments 83 points
- Software Engineering fundamentals matter more rhonabwy.com - 20 comments 81 points
- The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977 en.wikipedia.org - 19 comments 81 points
- Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL printytron.com - 36 comments 80 points
- Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days? news.ycombinator.com - 135 comments 78 points
- Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case arstechnica.com - 56 comments 76 points
- Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign blog.thunderbird.net - 22 comments 71 points
- The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up sina.bio - 66 comments 69 points
- Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died spectrum.ieee.org - 4 comments 68 points
- Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI? www.bbc.co.uk - 70 comments 67 points
- Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions lists.debian.org - 57 comments 66 points
- Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions www.politico.com - 25 comments 63 points
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