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More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

2026-08-26 @ 05:49:20Points: 77Comments: 111

Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

2026-08-26 @ 05:09:07Points: 32Comments: 9

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

2026-08-26 @ 02:35:25Points: 49Comments: 16

Queryable Executables

2026-08-26 @ 00:20:49Points: 163Comments: 34

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

2026-08-25 @ 22:40:07Points: 77Comments: 43

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

2026-08-25 @ 22:08:50Points: 92Comments: 20

TeXbrain is a static site with no backend. pdfTeX is compiled to WebAssembly (SwiftLaTeX) and runs in your browser. The editor can read and write your project folder through the File System Access API, so you can use git, any local TeX install, local AI Agents, or any other editor on the same files. Git is built in through isomorphic-git for anyone who would rather not touch a terminal and clone, branch, commit, push or pull via commands. No account is needed, no analytics, and everything works offline after the first load.

Try it out: https://tex.swimmingbrain.dev/ (Chromium browsers get direct folder access, while Firefox or Safari fall back to a virtual filesystem)

Or for self-hosting/contributing: https://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain (MIT, the pdfTeX engine is EPL 2.0 / GPL 2.0 and is listed in the THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES file).

The part I'm most proud of getting to work is the package loading. The engine itself is only 1.8 MB. When it asks for a file it doesn't have, then a service worker intercepts the request and resolves it through Cache Storage first, then a small bundled subset, then a TeX Live tree mirrored on jsDelivr, then a SwiftLaTeX style server as a last resort. Every file is fetched once at most and after the first successful compilation, the core subset is prefetched in the background so that the offline story actually holds. Only file names go over the network, never any document content.

So far, it only supports pdfTeX (no XeTeX or LuaTeX), so fontspec or polyglossia won't work, packages are pinned to the TeX Live 2020 era to stay coherent with the engine's format file and there is no bibtex or biber in the engine yet, which is maybe the roughest edge.

This is should be a good solution for people on a work laptop, a Chromebook, or a university lab PC where installing TeX Live isn't always an option, and people who don't want to maintain a TeX install at all. If you already have a local setup you like, keep it. This isn't necessarily thought as a replacement for that.

Some people have already used it for their thesis in the past months and their bug reports (which I would never have hit on my own) were then most of the summer's work. The first outside PR also landed recently, so if something doesn't compile for you, an issue with the package name or the bug itself is the most useful thing you can send me!

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python

2026-08-25 @ 20:49:03Points: 116Comments: 47

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

2026-08-25 @ 19:38:24Points: 145Comments: 83

A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

2026-08-25 @ 19:25:43Points: 62Comments: 11

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

2026-08-25 @ 19:07:01Points: 378Comments: 188

Dolly Parton has died

2026-08-25 @ 18:02:22Points: 1438Comments: 220

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

2026-08-25 @ 17:55:23Points: 366Comments: 93

Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market

2026-08-25 @ 17:28:52Points: 1

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

2026-08-25 @ 17:23:07Points: 161Comments: 72

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

2026-08-25 @ 17:08:21Points: 893Comments: 736

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

2026-08-25 @ 17:02:49Points: 234Comments: 174

My Friend Aaron

2026-08-25 @ 16:53:33Points: 548Comments: 147

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

2026-08-25 @ 16:52:05Points: 151Comments: 39

We have been using graph DBs more and more at work. I found them painful to work with locally and decided to try and build something better.

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

2026-08-25 @ 16:35:36Points: 170Comments: 45

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

2026-08-25 @ 15:20:20Points: 135Comments: 37

So now it can answer car questions such as "when should I add oil and what kind of oil?" and help you fully offline, and when online talk with the agent family that includes all the most powerful models so they know how the car is, plan new features and develop itself with them.

For example, if car breaks and can't move the car agent informs my agent family and they can already look for a suitable train ticket without me needing to check things or do something.

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

2026-08-25 @ 14:29:32Points: 313Comments: 160

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

2026-08-25 @ 14:20:36Points: 338Comments: 211

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

2026-08-25 @ 14:06:02Points: 464Comments: 300

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

2026-08-25 @ 13:13:00Points: 489Comments: 300

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

2026-08-25 @ 13:03:17Points: 765Comments: 503

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

2026-08-25 @ 13:01:22Points: 1118Comments: 1072

Don't Wordle

2026-08-25 @ 11:49:48Points: 347Comments: 121

How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer

2026-08-25 @ 11:37:24Points: 170Comments: 311

Visualizing Binary Files

2026-08-24 @ 18:21:17Points: 113Comments: 18

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

2026-08-22 @ 01:52:24Points: 76Comments: 21

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