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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
Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
Article URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633 Points: 19 # Comments: 8
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering
Article URL: https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319892 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
2:05 pm, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA
Article URL: https://github.com/PhillipChaffee/big-pickle-swe-atlas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315563 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game
Article URL: https://www.micdrop.gg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315742 Points: 51 # Comments: 19
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns
Article URL: https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315995 Points: 37 # Comments: 9
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316271 Points: 60 # Comments: 20
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stimulated-geologic-hydrogen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316395 Points: 15 # Comments: 5
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316611 Points: 38 # Comments: 24
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Falstad Math and Physics Simulations
Article URL: https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316872 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Health benefits of Tai Chi
Article URL: https://www.health.harvard.edu/exercise-and-fitness/the-health-benefits-of-tai-chi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317279 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext
Article URL: https://github.com/jitpass/jit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317546 Points: 31 # Comments: 22
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
Article URL: https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317760 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
8:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Article URL: https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winter-2026-2027-forecast-impact-united-states-canada-europe-fa/ Comments URL: https:/..
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)
Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 Points: 80 # Comments: 23
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403 Points:..
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
Article URL: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314579 Points: 34 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314596 Points: 65 # Comments: 16
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314615 Points: 57 # Comments: 2
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf]
Article URL: https://xescu.re/keeta-consensus.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314642 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)
Article URL: https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314884 Points: 21 # Comments: 6
2:05 am, August 16, 2026 Hacker News
AI Testing
