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US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350955 Points: 91 # Comments: 35
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club Asia Pacific: Reflections
Article URL: https://burgeonlab.com/blog/inaugural-hwc-ap-recap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350980 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Argus, agentic QA for teams whose coding agents move faster than QA
Article URL: https://github.com/argus-testing/argus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351020 Points: 7 # Comments: 3
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Beware Management Consultants
Article URL: https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/beware-management-consultants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351324 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Norway Should Buy OpenAI
Article URL: https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49351330 Points: 74 # Comments: 57
8:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
Article URL: https://philo.gay/linecam/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344825 Points: 66 # Comments: 12
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Things That Used to Be Normal and Are Now a Luxury
Article URL: https://albertogalca.com/5-things-that-used-to-be-normal-and-are-now-a-luxury Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345013 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is retiring from game development
Article URL: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/its-just-not-as-much-fun-for-me-anymore-deus-ex-creator-warren-spector-is-retiring-from-game-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c..
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: A local MitM proxy to control TLS fingerprints
Article URL: https://github.com/ytkoka/impersonate-proxy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345091 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Kent Beck: Composable Tests
Article URL: https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/composable-tests Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345094 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one
Article URL: https://github.com/mukundzha/avouch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345154 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Fixing a Bricked Framework Laptop
Article URL: https://quantum5.ca/2026/08/16/fixing-bricked-amd-7040-series-framework-13-laptop-with-20-tools/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345220 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Ask HN: Good content on using AI to modernize professional services delivery
I'm curious if the HN community has a good resources (blogs, podcasts, other content) on practical uses of SOTA AI to improve professional services (e.g. outsourced finance, etc.)I've read a fair amou..
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
NeoBrowser: An MCP server that drives real Chrome with your logged-in sessions
Article URL: https://github.com/pitiflautico/neobrowser Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345320 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
A group of Gandalfs protest outside the home of Peter Thiel in Argentina
Article URL: https://dangerousminds.net/weird-news/gandalfs-protest-outside-the-home-peter-thiel-argentina/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345438 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
The Benchmarkpocalypse
Article URL: https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340299 Points: 77 # Comments: 16
8:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with
Article URL: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791%2826%2900405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379126004052%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Commen..
8:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392 Points: 76 # Comments: 16
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Points: 117 # Comments: 53
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337630 Points: 30 # Comments: 5
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup
Article URL: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-08-18-returning-to-AI/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338139 Points: 26 # Comments: 77
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Article URL: https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285 Points: 80 # Comments: 20
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338328 Points: 142 # Comments: 66
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
scScript for Linux
Article URL: https://scapplications.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338428 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Article URL: https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338459 Points: 225 # Comments: 156
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Puppy PPE
Article URL: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338953 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
Article URL: https://www.repaircafe.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339097 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
2:05 am, August 18, 2026 Hacker News
Sun Clock
Article URL: https://sunclock.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333824 Points: 77 # Comments: 30
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334544 Points: 178 # Comments: 90
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334991 Points: 40 # Comments: 7
8:05 pm, August 17, 2026 Hacker News
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
AI Testing
