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Monday, 17 August 2026

• HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons
  duti.dev · Discuss

Sunday, 16 August 2026

• $12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM
  newsletter.semianalysis.com · Discuss

• Linear algebra done right
  linear.axler.net · Discuss

• The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves
  motherjones.com · Discuss

• Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners
  boston.conman.org · Discuss

• GIMP Development Update
  gimp.org · Discuss

• Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)
  infoscience.epfl.ch · Discuss

• AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
  meanhamster.com · Discuss

• Rhombus 1.1 is now available
  blog.racket-lang.org · Discuss

• Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”
  science.org · Discuss

• The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
  ischool.berkeley.edu · Discuss

• The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
  highereddive.com · Discuss

• Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone
  brennan.day · Discuss

• Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
  reticulum.network · Discuss

• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
  simonwillison.net · Discuss

• Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
  daringfireball.net · Discuss

• Claude Seems Down
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
  techcrunch.com · Discuss

• ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days
  theintercept.com · Discuss

• Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI
  cst.cam.ac · Discuss

• The Trumps' Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank
  motherjones.com · Discuss

• Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
  w4g1.dev · Discuss

• Protobuf has LSP support
  buf.build · Discuss

• I've built a free, open-source local and remote memory system for agentw and CL
  lorekit.io · Discuss

• Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy
  sciencedaily.com · Discuss

• A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”
  rvembedded.com · Discuss

• NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
  science.org · Discuss

• The weekend is 100 years old
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
  wptv.com · Discuss

• GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
  newyorker.com · Discuss

• The AI Credit Resale Economy
  vectoral.com · Discuss

• Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
  tasklet.ai · Discuss

• Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users
  wildstatic.com · Discuss

• A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
  rand.org · Discuss

• Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
  support.mozilla.org · Discuss

• Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?
  blog.alaindichiappari.dev · Discuss

• US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged
  independent.co.uk · Discuss

• Claude: System Prompts
  platform.claude.com · Discuss

• A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
  ei3lh.eu · Discuss

• Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Leave your screen unlocked, meet developers paypal.com
  anthony.dev.profullstack.com · Discuss

• Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• AI Coding Without the Vibes
  peterbloem.nl · Discuss

Saturday, 15 August 2026

• Health benefits of Tai Chi
  health.harvard.edu · Discuss

• The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators
  breck.lol · Discuss

• Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
  falstad.com · Discuss

• Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño
  science.org · Discuss

• Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
  anthropic.com · Discuss

• Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns (2018)
  tinkerings.org · Discuss

• Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
  micdrop.gg · Discuss

• Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
  waku.sh · Discuss

• ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year
  aicharts.grok.me · Discuss

• Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record
  abc7.com · Discuss

• AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
  404media.co · Discuss

• Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
  rhonabwy.com · Discuss

• SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)
  sugartrack-beta.vercel.app · Discuss

• Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed
  magic-oracle.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise
  bribes.fyi · Discuss

• Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
  horn.gg · Discuss

• Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf]
  xescu.re · Discuss

• Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977
  en.wikipedia.org · Discuss

• Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
  michael.stapelberg.ch · Discuss

• No-New-Physics Consciousness
  overcomingbias.com · Discuss

• Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
  acc.org · Discuss

• Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
  henrikkarlsson.xyz · Discuss

• Humazon
  hughhowey.com · Discuss

• Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports
  news.ycombinator.com · Discuss

• Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
  severe-weather.eu · Discuss

• AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward
  science.org · Discuss

• First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists
  cen.acs.org · Discuss

• Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
  ycombinator.com · Discuss

• AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
  davidepiffer.com · Discuss

• Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  blog.thunderbird.net · Discuss

• TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In
  treasurydirect.gov · Discuss

• Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves
  bbc.com · Discuss

• The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake
  core77.com · Discuss

• I Remain a Skeptic
  blog.jsbarretto.com · Discuss

• A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms
  nature.com · Discuss

• The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up
  sina.bio · Discuss

• Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
  alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com · Discuss

• AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?
  spectrum.ieee.org · Discuss

• A spectre is haunting Unicode
  dampfkraft.com · Discuss

• Printytron – Describe a part, get a printable STL
  printytron.com · Discuss

• The AI Situation in Software Development
  srikanth.ch · Discuss

• Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
  bbc.co.uk · Discuss

• Cloudflare's AI Psychosis
  opensauce.it · Discuss

• At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis
  smithsonianmag.com · Discuss

• Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul
  alexrios.me · Discuss

• Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents
  stephen-cresswell.com · Discuss

• 388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist
  scientificamerican.com · Discuss

• Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest
  medicalxpress.com · Discuss

• GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
  netflixtechblog.com · Discuss

• Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking
  hormuz.now · Discuss

• Xorshift Generators
  alanzucconi.com · Discuss

• The Problem
  intelligence.org · Discuss

• T3X/0 a Minimal Procedural Language
  t3x.org · Discuss

• Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
  sankalp.bearblog.dev · Discuss

• Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding
  allen.bargi.org · Discuss

• Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions
  lists.debian.org · Discuss

• Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II
  uecker.codeberg.page · Discuss

• Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
  arstechnica.com · Discuss