Night update, generated 2026-08-18.
23 new stories since Lunch.
Sources: Bubbles (Dave Lee), Hacker News
HN: 531 points, 627 comments (discussion)
impose universal health coverage & the jockeying will commence to see who is in charge of it. medical & diet fundamentalists will rejoice at the opportunity to seize control & force everyone to take certain drugs, eat or not eat certain foods or types of foods, exercise a particular way, surrender t...
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 312 points, 52 comments (discussion)
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 265 points, 176 comments (discussion)
> Framework chose to not provide a header for flashing the BIOS, which, when combined with issue #3, forced the use of pogo pins. Op probably missed https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/FrameworkDebugger#jspi . Though, the connector is not populated for cost reasons. Otherwise, I agree with the auth...
Sources: Slashdot, The Register
Also linked: The Register
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 596 points, 408 comments (discussion)
This has been true for years on Amazon and is true for most big services now. Over time the concept of search has mutated from 'locate the exact item I'm looking for' to 'show me a list of semantic search results'. Somehow nobody noticed. Oh and of course those are not random results - you can lite...
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 452 points, 204 comments (discussion)
I hope there will be an update where when my RAM gets full my PC doesn't freeze and becomes unusable... I remember that Linux and Windows do this in different ways and Windows doesn't have the problem.
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 297 points, 149 comments (discussion)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 293 points, 235 comments (discussion)
Instead of creating one more centralized alternative, it's best to invest all effort into a decentralized solution, like Radicle[1][2] or federated Forgejo[3][4]. [1] https://radicle.dev/ [2] https://radicle.network/nodes/seed.radicle.dev/rad%3Az3gqcJU... [3] https://forgejo.org/ [4] https://codeber...
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 255 points, 191 comments (discussion)
500% in a year is just insane. I knew RAM prices were going up, but $3k+ for 128GB of DDR5 makes me wonder how much of this is actually AI demand, and how much is this just manufacturers taking advantage of it. They have done this in the past after all