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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

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 c…
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

Article URL: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491…
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448…
OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"

OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.…
2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

Chevy's 721-hp hybrid ups the ante with few compromises, but at a steep cost.…
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

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: 211 # Com…
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4916711…
Nothing CMF is launching its first open earbuds

Nothing CMF is launching its first open earbuds

Open earbuds are having a bit of a moment right now, and Nothing is the latest company jumping on the trend. Its budget sub-brand has introduced the C…
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.…
Peak Design’s latest bags have clever integrated hooks

Peak Design’s latest bags have clever integrated hooks

Peak Design's new City Line collection includes six lightweight bags designed for everyday carry. There's a 15-liter and 22L City Backpack, 15L City T…
OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a…
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Article URL: https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158333 Points: 186 # Comments: 80…
Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time: How French Open-Weight AI Is Capitalizing on US Tech Turmoil

Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time: How French Open-Weight AI Is Capitalizing on US Tech Turmoil

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that c…
Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product o…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics: Inside the 2026 Backlash

How Data Centers Broke American Politics: Inside the 2026 Backlash

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.…
Twenty Years of Pandoc

Twenty Years of Pandoc

Article URL: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750 Points: 190 # Comments: 22…
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158581 Points: 184 # Commen…
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

Article URL: https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154228 Points: 185 # Comments: 75…
LLMs reward expertise

LLMs reward expertise

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 252 # Comments: 1…
The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adventures with a machinelike pr…
Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?

Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?

Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine made, but will a…
An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Top scores increased by 5x.…
Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.…
Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Research roundup: 6 cool science stories we almost missed

Also: Cyborg diving suits for cockroaches, why sleepy sperm whales blow bubbles, Betelgeuse's companion star.…
Samsung’s discounted smart monitor is $349.99, its lowest price yet

Samsung’s discounted smart monitor is $349.99, its lowest price yet

Samsung makes a variety of TVs and computer monitors, but if want both and you’re limited on space, you might want to consider the M80F. This capable …
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

Article URL: https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155629 Points: 207 # Co…
Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011 Points: 212 # Comment…
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors

Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/blob/main/src/2026/move-trait.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152…
Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

Article URL: https://www.intellinews.com/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-germany-for-the-first-time-ever-458379/ Comments URL: https://news.yc…
Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.…