Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-15 21:37

No-New-Physics Consciousness

Article URL: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/no-new-physics-consciousness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314567 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:37

How I Built a WhatsApp AI Bot That Runs for $0/Month on Windows

I wanted a simple WhatsApp AI bot without paying every month for cloud hosting or an AI API. So I built one that runs on a Windows PC I already have running 24/7. The result: WhatsApp integration with Node.js Optional local AI using Ollama No VPS or cloud server required No paid AI API required Runs on Windows 10/11 Can restart automatically after a reboot «The "$0/month" refers to additiona...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:36

Threat Model Your Apartment Like You Threat Model Your Laptop

Your threat model has a hole shaped like your house. You run endpoint protection on your Mac. You have 2FA, passkeys, hardened browser, DNS filtering. You would never install random software from a forum. Then you walk into your living room that has 14 always-on microphones, 6 cameras, 3 devices that map your floor plan, and a router you have never audited, all running firmware you have never ...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:30

From Arduino To Automotive: How I Escaped The IDE And Owned The Bus

Arduino taught me how to build. Bare metal taught me how the build actually works. I have a lot of respect for Arduino. I mean that sincerely. It is a legitimate engineering platform, not a toy. It put a C compiler, a bootloader, and a sane hardware abstraction layer into the hands of millions of people and said go make something. Museums run on Arduino. Satellites have run on Arduino. My first t...

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How the ZIM Master Prompt Solves AI Code Hallucinations for 2D Canvas
DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:21

How the ZIM Master Prompt Solves AI Code Hallucinations for 2D Canvas

PROMPTED by Dr Abstract - organized by Gemini. If you have ever asked a Large Language Model (LLM) to write code for a specialized or evolving framework, you have likely encountered the "Legacy Fallback" trap: Instead of using the latest idioms, the AI defaults to outdated patterns it saw millions of times in older training data. For ZIM (the JavaScript canvas framework for creative coding), g...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:18

Turning your Obsidian notes into a queryable database with Dataview

If you take notes in Obsidian, you've probably hit the same wall: search finds text, but it can't answer "show me every snippet I've tagged regex" or "what debugging notes do I still have open?" That's what the Dataview plugin is for — it treats your notes' frontmatter (and inline fields) as rows in a database and lets you query them with a SQL-like syntax, right inside a note. The setup...

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Lobsters • 2026-08-15 21:18

Zig Day Seattle, WA

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Lobsters • 2026-08-15 21:18

Zig Day Seattle, WA #3

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:18

PHP FFI on Apple Silicon: your ioctl call is lying to you

I spent an evening building pseudo-terminal support for PHP and lost an hour of it to a bug that reports success. If you use FFI and ioctl anywhere near production, and your CI only runs on Linux, this one is worth ten minutes of your time. The setup PHP can already open a pseudo-terminal. proc_open() accepts ['pty'] descriptors, and on macOS you get a real /dev/ttysNNN back. What you...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:18

Why Edge AI Frameworks Are Too Heavy for Real Microcontrollers (and How to Fix It with Lean C++)

By Kim Mansfield Embedded Firmware Engineer & AI Consultant Modern "cloud-to-edge" AI platforms promise one-click deployments to microcontrollers. But if you have spent decades writing assembly and low-level C drivers, you know the reality: most embedded AI toolchains are too heavy. When deploying machine learning models to space- and power-constrained hardware like the new Raspberry Pi Pic...

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newest submissions : multi • 2026-08-15 21:16

Semantic Regression at Scale

Semantic regression (or bugs) is when the application still works according to its tests and traditional monitoring, but its observable behavior has changed. For example, imagine a library/API that historically returns different error codes for different failure paths: condition A → EINVAL condition B → ENOENT condition C → EBUSY A change causes condition A and B to now return the same error code...

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:16

🚀 Introducing SysPeek v2.0.0 - A Modern System Information Viewer for Windows, macOS, and Linux (New Release!)

Introducing SysPeek v2.0.0: A Modern Cross-Platform System Monitor Built with Electron & React A complete architectural rewrite featuring Electron 43, React 19, TypeScript, Vite, automatic updates, live monitoring, and a secure Electron architecture. Introduction I'm excited to announce the release of SysPeek v2.0.0. While previous versions focused on providing an ...

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-15 21:14

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

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Research shows that the entire website of Reddit has become more negative over time. Moreover, the longer a given community exists, the more negative it becomes — and the longer a comment thread continues, the more negative the thread becomes
newest submissions : multi • 2026-08-15 21:12

Research shows that the entire website of Reddit has become more negative over time. Moreover, the longer a given community exists, the more negative it becomes — and the longer a comment thread continues, the more negative the thread becomes

submitted by /u/WombatusMighty to r/technology [link] [comments]

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:12

⚡ViteDash 2.2: I halved my dashboard bundle, right after doubling it

I maintain ViteDash, a free admin dashboard template built with React 19, Vite 8, and Ant Design 6. It has a clean sidebar I am genuinely proud of, twenty something pages, and a light and dark mode that runs entirely through Ant Design's theme algorithm rather than a pile of CSS overrides. It also shipped a single 1.6 MB JavaScript file and had a dependency it never declared. Version 2.2 is out....

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:11

Who's really winning open models in 2026? It's not who you think

HuggingFace just published their biannual State of Open Models report covering January to August 2026. The headline numbers are big — 2.96 million public model repos, 1 million datasets, 1.44 million Spaces. But the interesting findings are in what the data reveals about how power in open AI has shifted. What actually changed Chinese labs own frontier scale. In almost every month of ...

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Japan Weighs New Russia Sanctions After Putin’s First Visit to Disputed Kuril Islands
newest submissions : multi • 2026-08-15 21:09

Japan Weighs New Russia Sanctions After Putin’s First Visit to Disputed Kuril Islands

submitted by /u/onee_san_bath_water to r/worldnews [link] [comments]

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Hacker News: Front Page • 2026-08-15 21:07

Cornell: Pro Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to US or Lose Funding

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/14/cornell-pro-palestine-student-targeting-ice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314341 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Micron Clay Project is 4 months ahead of schedule, first concrete already poured
newest submissions : multi • 2026-08-15 21:06

Micron Clay Project is 4 months ahead of schedule, first concrete already poured

submitted by /u/CompetitiveLake3358 to r/hardware [link] [comments]

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DEV Community • 2026-08-15 21:06

🍬 Candy Logger v2.1.0 - The Correctness Release

Candy Logger v2.1.0 is now available. This release focuses on making Candy Logger correct, secure, reliable, and production-ready. Version 2.1.0 improves serialization, security, console interception, persistence, UI behavior, accessibility, mobile support, and the underlying architecture. It also introduces a cleaner core API that allows Candy Logger to be used without rendering the UI. GitHu...

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