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Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made. Altar II has fully mechanical switches, plus a magnetically detachable dial, haptic feedback, a red backlight, and…
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Mario Meets Pareto
Article URL: https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195231 Points: 482 # Comments: 96
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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566 Points: 235 # Comments: 92
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Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Article URL: https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191624 Points: 203 # Comments: 216
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The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287 Points: 207 # Comments: 94
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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189075 Points: 224 # Comments: 54
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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Article URL: https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188022 Points: 210 # Comments: 173
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Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187575 Points: 203 # Comments: 120
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Zed DeltaDB
Article URL: https://zed.dev/deltadb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256 Points: 207 # Comments: 91
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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186762 Points: 226 # Comments: 47
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Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
Article URL: https://github.com/denoland/celld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185430 Points: 223 # Comments: 38
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Discovery Loop
Article URL: https://www.discoveryloop.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 Points: 273 # Comments: 124
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa... https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders... https://www.discoveryloop.com/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 ,…
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Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184746 Points: 223 # Comments: 50
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Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184190 Points: 248 # Comments: 127
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 Points: 218 # Comments: 118
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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 202 # Comments: 91
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Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Article URL: https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181083 Points: 244 # Comments: 166
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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830 Points: 211 # Comments: 172
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Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038 Points: 204 # Comments: 75
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I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel
https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768 , https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768 https://gwern.net/guardian-angel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 Points: 209 # Comments: 127
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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 285 # Comments: 14
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Waymo in Dallas
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836 Points: 249 # Comments: 368
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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation…
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How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Article URL: https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/08/xibalba64-making-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168622 Points: 344 # Comments: 115
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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
Article URL: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166874 Points: 207 # Comments: 107
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U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860 Points: 221 # Comments: 319
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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Article URL: https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166386 Points: 290 # Comments: 64
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FFmpeg 9.0
Article URL: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202 Points: 219 # Comments: 41
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Article URL: https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653 Points: 231 # Comments: 79
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LLMs reward expertise
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 225 # Comments: 89
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Twenty Years of Pandoc
Article URL: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750 Points: 288 # Comments: 35
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