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The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada
Article URL: https://thetariffcost.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453161 Points: 70 # Comments: 41
8:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454314 Points: 20 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Dallas startup enriches Uranium
Article URL: https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-to-produce-haleu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454419 Points: 8 # Co..
8:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Super Curry Combat II Turbo – Legend Edition
Article URL: https://curry-combat-2.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454496 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp
https://xcancel.com "On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are se..
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-rivals-deepseek Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446422 Points: 267 # ..
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446442 Points: 46 # Comments: 16
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447480 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447600 Points: 148 # Comments: 18
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Article URL: https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447682 Points: 224 # Comments: 296
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
A curmudgeon tries a language server
Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448150 Points: 27 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448210 Points: 137 # Comments: 45
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
AWS Acquires DuckDB
Article URL: https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448321 Points: 284 # Comments: 63
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448819 Points: 58 # Comments: 26
2:05 pm, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440410 Points: 109 # Comments: 46
8:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21503 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443523 Points: 43 # Comments: 14
8:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/cold-war-codebreaker-nsa-ibm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444232 Points: 22 # Comments: 6
8:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
Article URL: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/more-half-adults-us-say-they-lack-basic-statistical-understanding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444514 Points: 67 # Comments..
8:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Apple Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 1.2TB/S Memory Bandwidth
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444661 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation
Article URL: https://zakpodmore.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-federal-lift-ticket Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439296 Points: 33 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality
Article URL: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439499 Points: 80 # Comments: 36
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson
Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440410 Points: 63 # Comments: 29
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
Article URL: https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441033 Points: 148 # Comments: 117
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sits..
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others
Article URL: https://github.com/runetes/maiao Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441666 Points: 26 # Comments: 8
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Queryable Executables
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442589 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442743 Points: 10 # Comm..
2:05 am, August 26, 2026 Hacker News
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437210 Points: 99 # Comments: 48
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Nitter project received cease and desist
Article URL: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 Points: 294 # Comments: 204
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go
Article URL: https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437361 Points: 24 # Comments: 9
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
Article URL: https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437483 Points: 57 # Comments: 23
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437566 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437946 Points: 111 # Comments: 14
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Dolly Parton has died
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/25/entertainment/dolly-parton-de...https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/arts/music/dolly-parton-d..., https://archive.ph/w4vsEhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-ne..
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents
Article URL: https://pgbot.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438492 Points: 36 # Comments: 9
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels
Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co..
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Perplexity Portable Computer
Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-portable-computer-for-local-first-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439535 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application
Article URL: https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/HelloAssembly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432227 Points: 29 # Comments: 22
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)
Article URL: https://modelscope.cn/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432317 Points: 57 # Comments: 14
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Don't Wordle
Article URL: https://dontwordle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432319 Points: 105 # Comments: 43
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/24/openai-restores-5-hour-codex-and-work-limits-for-chatgpt-plus-users/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49432879 Points: 45 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
Article URL: https://www.cybernetica.fr/piratage-des-impots-comment-en-est-on-arrive-la/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433064 Points: 56 # Comments: 24
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433292 Points: 2..
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433316 Points: 136 # Comments: 71
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons
Article URL: https://forgeeks.net/us-data-centers-water-use-17-billion-gallons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433372 Points: 35 # Comments: 29
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI
Article URL: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49433759 Points: 7 # Comments: 5
2:05 pm, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)
Article URL: https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428080 Points: 69 # Comments: 82
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Article URL: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2026/august/thomson-reuters-leverages-its-world-class-data-assets-to-launch-its-own-frontier-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
SiFive's First Server Platform
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/sifives-first-server-platform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428638 Points: 36 # Comments: 7
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents
Article URL: https://www.laude.org/updates/headlong-a-microharness-for-persistent-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428882 Points: 49 # Comments: 15
8:05 am, August 25, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
