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We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng
Article URL: https://secretspec.dev/blog/we-are-forking-dotenvy-into-dotenv-ng/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335001 Points: 15 # Comments: 15
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335216 Points: 57 # Co..
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
How I Over-Engineered My Book
Article URL: https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335292 Points: 30 # Comments: 21
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models
Article URL: https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335517 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335600 Points: 54 # Comments: 16
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336050 Points: 55 # Comme..
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Article URL: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Article URL: https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329575 Points: 73 # Comments: 46
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway
Article URL: https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329583 Points: 33 # Comments: 4
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post
Article URL: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2089227290769080656 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329844 Points: 36 # Comments: 19
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330139 Points: 30 # ..
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
Article URL: https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330215 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer?
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330456 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance
Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists."Edit: at the time of posting there was..
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
Hi HN. I built 1667 for my own fiction work and now use it each day. This probably has a limited audience. Maybe an audience of one...Why a terminal interface for story writing? I'm a dev. I like to u..
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GitHub down again? no PR access
Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330632 Points: 30 # Comments: 9
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Incident with Github.com
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330684 Points: 141 # Comments: 69
2:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325304 Points: 40 # Comments: 9
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
Article URL: https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325458 Points: 41 # Comments: 2
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
Article URL: https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325714 Points: 73 # Comments: 9
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
On A.I. regulation and messaging
https://xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325789 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)
Article URL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326071 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GIMP Development Update
Article URL: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326156 Points: 78 # Comments: 26
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler
Article URL: https://linear.axler.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326816 Points: 46 # Comments: 22
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM
Article URL: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/12b-of-us-ratepayers-money-wasted Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326825 Points: 35 # Comments: 14
8:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI
Article URL: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323136 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
An open-source, candle-only crypto pump detector–looking for ML contributors
Article URL: https://github.com/aleks-ent/pump-dump-crypto-screener Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323256 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323381 Points: 199 #..
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323686 Points: 10..
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985 Points: 45 # Comments: 17
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
Article URL: https://reticulum.network/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325061 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone
Article URL: https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325092 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
Article URL: https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325159 Points: 4..
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325185 Points: 47 # Comments: 16
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325384 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
2:05 am, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
The AI Credit Resale Economy
Article URL: https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320611 Points: 167 # Comments: 64
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320673 Points: 52 # Comments: 45
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
Article URL: https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control-rods-drop-into-reactor-core Comments URL: https:/..
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
The weekend is 100 years old
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-hybrid-working-ruined-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320984 Points..
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321353 Points: 88 # Comments: 33
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"
Article URL: https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Points: 158 # Comments: 80
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silently had injected a JS analytics snippet in my HTML-o..
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
Article URL: https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322330 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome
Article URL: https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322573 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Article URL: https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322695 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/UJ4vH2F-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319215 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
Article URL: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319389 Points: 56 # Comments: 27
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Claude: System Prompts
Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319556 Points: 56 # Comments: 20
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged
Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/strategic-petroleum-reserve-trump-iran-war-gas-prices-b3033680.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493195..
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?
Article URL: https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/what-to-do-when-tokens-run-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319582 Points: 20 # Comments: 28
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
