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Felony Bench

Article URL: https://www.felonybench.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389430 Points: 255 # Comments: 116
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I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

Article URL: https://pointinthecloud.com/2026-08-19-144600.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389441 Points: 59 # Comments: 11
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What happens when a GPU reads memory

Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/what-happens-when-a-gpu-reads-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390308 Points: 50 # Comments: 11
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Kobo can run apps now

Article URL: https://bandarlabs.github.io/Cobalt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390427 Points: 211 # Comments: 83
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Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

Hi HN- I'm Pablo, the founder of Proliferate (YC S25)! Proliferate ( https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate ) is an open-source, self-hostable AI IDE that lets you work and automate tasks with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Grok in one place. Here's a quick 2m demo of how we use Proliferate to build Proliferate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNX0oaWmBY I started building Proliferate after my team onboarded to OpenAI Codex. Within days, we were using it for everything: usin...
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Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

Article URL: http://gus-massa.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-better-lower-bound-for-n17.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390775 Points: 21 # Comments: 4
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Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode

Show HN: Galactic Compass – an app that points to the galactic center - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39389858 - Feb 2024 (60 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391348 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here
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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here

Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.
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Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles

Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles, Electrek reports. Sources "close to the program" told the publication that Tesla has informed its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer available to order, and that only conventional solar panels will be supplied going forward. While Tesla […]
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Blue Eye Samurai’s second season will hit Netflix in January

Good news for Blue Eye Samurai fans: Netflix has shared the first trailer and release timeline for the second season of the animated series, and confirmed the series' return for a third and final season. The second season's new teaser ends with the announcement that it'll be available to stream on Netflix in January 2027, […]
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Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]
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Google’s Pixel 10A is a great deal at 15 percent off

This week, all of Google’s Pixel 11 phones launched, including the $899 Pixel 11, the $1,099 Pixel 11 Pro (with the same processor and starting 12GB RAM as the standard model, but with better cameras), and the $1,899 Pixel 11 Pro Fold. They’re good phones, but if you don’t mind missing out on their new, […]
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Why does it seem like food recalls are out of control this year?

Just weeks after Taylor Farms issued a recall of its iceberg lettuce amid a massive cyclospora outbreak, the Food and Drug Administration recalled more than one million eggs that may be contaminated with salmonella. The eggs, which come from Midwest Poultry Services, were distributed to Kroger and smaller grocery stores across the South and Southwest […]
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Extending the Login Session to 1 Year for Kiosk‑Mode TV Screens (Next.js API Route)

Extending the Login Session to 1 Year for Kiosk‑Mode TV Screens (Next.js API Route) TL;DR: I changed the maxAge of the auth cookie from 30 days to 365 days in src/app/api/login/route.ts . The tweak lets a TV kiosk stay logged in without a daily refresh, while keeping the same security flags. The Problem Our kiosk‑mode deployment runs on large‑format TVs that display a live dashboard. The UI is protected by the same JWT‑based authentication we use for the web app. Afte...