Stories first seen Thursday, 13 August 2026, UTC
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Process as a Proxy for Motivation (bengodfrey.dev)
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Show HN: A marketplace where AI agents buy services from AI agents (run.app)
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Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? (funcall.blogspot.com)
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I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers (bipluk.com)
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Anything Could Become a Battleground (lareviewofbooks.org)
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'The Cheese and the Worms' by Carlo Ginzburg Review (historytoday.com)
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Show HN: Programmable timer web app (for gym workouts or stretching sessions) (jotaen.net)
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ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks (bbc.com)
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Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf (corneroffifth.studio)
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Debugging Information for Inlined Functions (lwn.net)
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Breaking the WAL (antithesis.com)
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A Tale of Dynamic Programming (2022) (iagoleal.com)
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Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary (cynative.com)
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Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability (bloomberg.com)
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SpaceXAI: Grok 4.6 (openrouter.ai)
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People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more (julienreszka.com)
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The Essential Question: “What should I read next?” (thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com)
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Delta (zed.dev)
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Agentic Engineering Is Just Everything We Haven't Been Doing (matthewbrunelle.com)
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Aaron Rodgers secretly funded his town's Flock-style cameras (foiaball.com)
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Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
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The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou (theparisreview.org)
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Pixel Watch 5 (blog.google)
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Lovable raises $400M Series C (lovable.dev)
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Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles (ycombinator.com)
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Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (artificialanalysis.ai)
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HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript (andros.dev)
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Bike Bureau: Report Bike Lane Obstructions (loudbicycle.com)
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Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard (metoffice.cloud)
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 quietly released (deepseek.com)
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Wednesday, August 12: GitHub, Incident with Pull Requests and Issues (githubstatus.com)
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (openrouter.ai)
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Pixel 11 Pro Fold (blog.google)
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Grok 4.6 (x.ai)
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Solving the Shortest Vector Problem in $2^{0.6039n}$ Time via Mid-Point Hessian (arxiv.org)
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Qwen3.8-2.4T (huggingface.co)
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Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C (usehax.dev)
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Commodore 8-Bit 5¼" Disk Images (masswerk.at)
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Qwen3.8 Weights Released (modelscope.cn)
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GiveCampus (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers (greenhouse.io)
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License plate reader searches should require a warrant (andrewpwheeler.com)
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Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug (tailscale.com)
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uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook (digitalescapetools.com)
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German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses (reuters.com)
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5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe (severe-weather.eu)
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Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI (power2026.ai)
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ArenaAllocators don't play nicely with ArrayLists (openmymind.net)
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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot (knownagents.com)
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Qwen 3.8-27B goes openweight in 2 days (huggingface.co)
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Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died (amiga-news.de)
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YC startups are abandoning .com (orangecrumbs.com)
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Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome (guillaumetech.github.io)
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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering? (florianherrengt.com)
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European scientists developed a tactile sensor capable of 100 μm resolution (ieee.org)
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Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML (validatehtml.com)
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Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5 (therad.ninja)
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Show HN: Meteor shower, planet alignment, eclipse kit (lifesprites.com)
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Bb: The IDE that builds itself (getbb.app)
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Shade Map (shademap.app)
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My Agent Setup (chad.cm)
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The Ultimate Horse (worksinprogress.co)
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Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents (kidscreen.app)
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Bigos (Polish Hunter's Stew) Recipe Builder (chefsbinge.com)
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You can't buy 20 pieces of aluminum tube online (vestalmetals.com)
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I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] (youtube.com)
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Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them (neowin.net)
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Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available (embarcadero.com)
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2026 Eclipse Webcams (jonty.github.io)
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I hate packaging my software for Linux (getfresh.dev)
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My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit (bookdna.com)
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Music Generation by a Composer, for Musicians (monictheory.com)
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High-Res Photo Shows Sand-Capped Butte Rising from Mars Plain of Polygons (petapixel.com)
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Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation (ad-si.com)
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at? (gowers.wordpress.com)
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Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland (ox.ac.uk)
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Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta (abc.net.au)
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Dutch Train Map Simulator (zaza.dev)
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Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it? (cbc.ca)
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Worms: The Future of Yesterday's Worms Today (worm.net)
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Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration (phys.org)
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Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials (discoveredmaterials.com)
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ICE to spend up to $20M on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks (theguardian.com)
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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 (cringebot3000.com)
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AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class (bbc.com)
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How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04 (jamesoclaire.com)
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DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio (dronexl.co)
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CVE-2026-53361 AF_Unix GC vs. MSG_PEEK use-after-free container escape (github.com/sgkdev)
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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy (refp.se)
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llama.cpp (llama.app)
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Flatworms, Ion Channels, and Burning Mouths (science.org)
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Dropbox is an obvious PE Target? (s-1.vercel.app)
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Show HN: Find stale, orphaned, deleted-but-retrievable RAG vectors (github.com/rimironenko)
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The Human Is the Loop (brentfitzgerald.com)
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'Every millimetre counts': Inside the beast tunnelling under Sydney Harbour (smh.com.au)
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Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI (404media.co)
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The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood (whdh.com)
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The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025) (aresluna.org)
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New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner (newbedfordlight.org)
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Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle (quantamagazine.org)
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Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies (economist.com)
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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight (arstechnica.com)
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Retire the Abstractions (stanford.edu)
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CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York (cftc.gov)
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Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout (line9.ai)