{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Hacker News Highlights","title":"8.5.26 | Simple skin tone algorithm, Mistral's Shieldstral moderation model, and a 1950 short story","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/29429327\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":718,"description":"This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Aug 5, 2026.\nFeel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights\nShow HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones\nhttps://toneyalexander.github.io/inclusive-color-space/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170165\nMistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation\nhttps://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268\nThere Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]\nhttps://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653\nPi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage\nhttps://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038\nWaymo in Dallas\nhttps://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836\nI am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel\nhttps://twitter.com/gwern/status/2084739205071343837\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900\nlibexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months\nhttps://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606\nAI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol\nhttps://www.africanews.com/2026/08/04/ai-fuels-more-than-half-of-cybercrime-in-africa-as-digital-scams-surge-interpol/\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826\nEight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI\nhttps://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/4nmCVUJ5pUFbIsTy4mvxtFFdN3d3RgMGSU08kiDg2ac/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NWYy/MGY3NDk0MDRhZjdh/MzljNmM4MTE4YzU0/MDNlNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}