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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I'm working on moving beyond the LeetCode interview for software developers.Most software engineering interviews are a “signal crisis”. They measure recall, not real-world engineering.I'm working on moving the evaluation from “writing code under pressure” to technical judgment via structured code review.https://entrevue.app/tryEver since I read this https://paulbupejr.com/developing-the-optigap-sensor-system/ I've wanted to build a system that takes in a shape and adds bends and fiber routing so you can dynamically create readable objects. I was initially imagining wanting to add the bending points manually but I'm not so…
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FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as “military-grade” in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows

FCC moves to ban LiDAR-equipped foreign drones from US — classifies the technology as “military-grade” in a proposal that could also hit thermal models and the swarms used in drone light shows

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is moving to ban drones with LiDAR obstacle-avoidance features, a move that would remove a number of popular consumer drones from US shelves. In a public notice published in the Federal Register on August 3 (DA 26-758), the agency proposed retroactively banning the import and sale of any foreign-made drone on its Covered List that “contains or integrates” a LiDAR sensor, categorizing the technology under a broad “military-grade” umbrella.The proposal builds on a ban the FCC set in motion late…
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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer’s – how complex mental maps and spatial reasoning protect your brain

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Taxi and ambulance drivers are less likely than workers in almost any other job to die of Alzheimer’s disease. That was the surprising result of a 2024 study examining the death certificates of nearly 9 million people in the U.S. These findings stopped me in my tracks because those two jobs rely on the same thing as my own work: maps. I have spent more than two decades staring at maps. Not paper maps on a wall, but digital ones with multiple layers: flood boundaries…
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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

💥 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Media & Entertainment,AI policy,AI regulation,Elon Musk,Equity podcast,Jill Lepore,sam altman ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I spoke to Lepore — a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for…
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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

✨ Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Media & Entertainment,AI policy,AI regulation,Elon Musk,Equity podcast,Jill Lepore,sam altman 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In her upcoming book “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are increasingly replacing the functions of democratic government. This shift, she said, marks “a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines.” On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I spoke to Lepore — a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer who recently won a Pulitzer Prize for…
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Lilly’s message | Kibotronics

Lilly’s message | Kibotronics

💥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: From John C. Lilly’s “The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography” 1978 In the isolation tank with K, John received a new message as follows: What is the purpose of Man’s existence on the planet Earth? Man is a form of biological life which is sustained in the presence of water. A very large fraction of his body, like that of other organisms on the planet Earth, consists of water and carbon compounds. His Biocomputer depends on water and the flow of ions through membranes. It…
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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours — Terry Godier

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who created another web app called DarkHours.app replied to my comment on Bluesky yesterday to show me how similar the project was to his, including the name. The thread is here. I told him I’d significantly differentiate the featureset, change the name, and write up a blog post to show people his project.…
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Latent Reasoning

Latent Reasoning

🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning. A self-contained model that does thinking in latent space, NVFP4-quantized, with a production vllm form for serving runtime. https://huggingface.co/nmitchko/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning Published on blog.n.ichol.ai Where the last edition left off Last time I grafted a CoLaR head (Compressed Latent Reasoning) onto DeepSeek Flash v4. The work had all the makings of a demo. A head that lets the model think in latent space. A learned stop head that decides when it has thought enough. A riddle that showed why plain autoregressive generation regurgitates cached answers instead…
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A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI

A Surveillance ‘Cat-and-Mouse’ Game With AI

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthony “Bingy” Arillotta waited years to become a made man in the Genovese crime family, and when at last the call came in August 2003, he followed directions to the letter. According to sworn testimony, Arillotta was summoned to a steak house in the Bronx, where he was made to hand over his cellphone, beeper, and jewelry before being driven to an apartment building. When he got there, he was taken to a small bathroom and strip-searched for electronic devices. For his big meeting with…
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The Alpha 21264: NT’s Greatest RISC

The Alpha 21264: NT’s Greatest RISC

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: [Editor's note: This article was originally scheduled for publication in the September 1998 issue of BYTE Magazine but was canceled when BYTE folded in June 1998. It appeared instead in Windows NT Magazine and in C'T, a German computer magazine. This text is the original English version.]While the world waits for Intel's 64-bit Merced chip and Microsoft's 64-bit version of Windows NT, Digital Equipment is offering a sneak preview of the next generation in NT processing. The Alpha 21264 is a 64-bit processor that runs…
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