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Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

Woxi is a Wolfram Language interpreter implemented in Rust. Run code in the browser playground, on the CLI, in Jupyter, or in the Woxi Studio notebook editor.

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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

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Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

Guillaume Técher — Personal website

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Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests and Issues.

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Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard

Climate dashboard

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Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

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2026 Eclipse Webcams

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Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

A single native C binary that uses a few MBs of RAM. Local models are first-class via llama.cpp and Ollama; also OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and Codex.

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Shade Map

Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any date and time

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HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

Building a SPA (Single-page Application) is a complex puzzle: a JavaScript framework that draws the view, an API serving JSON, and 2 independent…

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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released

To meet the demand for Codex, our API now supports the Responses API format, with the base_url being https://api.deepseek.com.

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Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

Tailscale and SQLite developers traced maddening corruption incidents to find the WAL-Reset data race, then uncovered a second stale expression index bug.

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Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions

Your frustration has a submit button now.

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Felix and I

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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is a large-scale mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek. $0.435 per million input tokens, $0.87 per million output tokens. 1,048,576 token context window, maximum output of 384,000 tokens.

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License plate reader searches should require a warrant

So while I work with police departments regularly, I think it is critically important that technology be used reasonably. While this may be off-putting to some of my clients, I worked with the Institute for Justice as an expert witness in their trial Schmidt v City of Norfolk. (Any opinions herein are my own and…

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Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles

You will own Reflex's go-to-market motion end-to-end, strategy through execution. We have strong product-market signals (1M+ apps built, 28k+ GitHub stars, Fortune 500 adoption) but no formalized GTM engine. We need someone who has built this before, taken an early-stage startup from unstructured inbound and founder-led sales to a repeatable, scalable pipeline, and can bring that playbook to Reflex. You will: - Engineer Systems to Assist with GTM and Growth - Define and execute Reflex's GTM strategy: segmentation, positioning, channel mix, and pipeline architecture from the ground up - Build the top-of-funnel engine, turning open-source adoption, product usage signals, and community engagement into qualified pipeline - Stand up th

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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten major problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including the first construction of a non-sofic group,…

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

A continuously updating analysis of bot vs. human traffic, AI scraping, fetching, search indexing, browsing, robots.txt compliance, and AI chat referrals across 5,000+ websites.

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On this day

Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

Why Tiny JPEGs Look Different in Chrome

Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues

Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

2026 Eclipse Webcams

Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C

Shade Map

HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions

Felix and I

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813

License plate reader searches should require a warrant

Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles

What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

On this day

Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010.

Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria.

The Unite the Right rally occurs in Charlottesville, Virginia, leading to three deaths and injuring nearly 50 more.

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.

The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.

Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.

Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

Japan Air Lines Flight 123, a Boeing 747, crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, becoming the worst single-plane air disaster.

An infamous brawl takes place at the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium between the Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres.

The IBM Personal Computer is released.

The first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.

The Sri Lanka Riots, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power. Over 300 Tamils are killed.

Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War.

Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside.

South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country's racist policies.

Echo 1A, NASA's first successful communications satellite, is launched.

Thermonuclear bomb testing: The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4) using a "layered" scheme.

The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.

The Night of the Murdered Poets: Thirteen prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.

Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.

Between 15 and 150 unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement are killed by Pakistani police.

Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which at least 40,000 people are killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, becoming the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.

World War I: France, the United Kingdom and the British Empire declare war on Austria-Hungary.

World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets, a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.

The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States where it is formally recognized as Hawaii.

The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs the first antiseptic surgery.

Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.

French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.

Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires re-takes the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina after the first British invasion.

The Rhône and Loire départments are created when the former département of Rhône-et-Loire is split into two.

The Anjala conspiracy is signed.

Treaty of Allahabad is signed. The Treaty marks the political and constitutional involvement and the beginning of Company rule in India.

Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.

Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.

Charles de La Vieuville is arrested and replaced by Cardinal Richelieu as the French king's chief advisor.

First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.

Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.

Andronikos IV Palaiologos enters Constantinople by force and captures his father, emperor John V Palaiologos, and his younger brothers during the Byzantine civil war of 1373–1379.

The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod Republic is signed, regulating the border between the two countries for the first time.

The Republic of Venice acquires the right to Crete from Boniface I of Montferrat.

Battle of Harim: Nur ad-Din Zangi defeats the Crusader armies of the County of Tripoli and the Principality of Antioch.

Battle of Didgori: The Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.

First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon: Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.

On this day

Six people, five victims and the perpetrator are killed in Keyham, Plymouth in the worst mass shooting in the UK since 2010.

Thirty-nine civilians, including a dozen children, are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Sarmada, Syria.

The Unite the Right rally occurs in Charlottesville, Virginia, leading to three deaths and injuring nearly 50 more.

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the city of Manbij from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

At least two massive explosions kill 173 people and injure nearly 800 more in Tianjin, China.

The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.

Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.

Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.