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Cursor launches background agent for Linear

https://linear.app/changelog/2025-08-21-cursor-agent
1•cristinacordova•20s ago•0 comments

Cheap Mac or Clamshell iPad? Features a $599 Apple MacBook Needs to Succeed

https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/599-apple-macbook-rumors
1•walterbell•52s ago•0 comments

Commit hash pinning in GitHub Actions: secure, but at a cost

https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202508/github-actions-commit-hash-pinning-tradeoffs/
1•mmarian•1m ago•0 comments

We Became Captives of Social Media

https://www.noemamag.com/how-we-became-captives-of-social-media/
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

GSA, Google Announce Transformative 'Gemini for Government' OneGov Agreement

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/newsroom/news-releases/gsa-google-announce-gemini-onegov-agreement-08212025
3•ep_jhu•4m ago•0 comments

Did Ronald Reagan Have Aphantasia

https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/vision-without-seeing-part-ii
1•HR01•4m ago•0 comments

Why Can't the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/climate/us-electric-vehicle-chargers-china.html
2•bookofjoe•5m ago•2 comments

A Small Town in Alabama Became a Textile Haven

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-florence-alabama-became-a-textile-haven
1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

Peer reviewers more likely to approve articles that cite their own work

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02547-1
4•rntn•7m ago•0 comments

Alano Fishing Game – A Relaxing Adventure on the Water

1•thediversemark•7m ago•0 comments

Singles Are Sick of Dating Apps. But There Are 2.5M on Raya's Waitlist

https://www.wsj.com/style/raya-waitlist-founder-daniel-gendelman-3c64be91
1•uptown•8m ago•1 comments

Solar panels in space 'could provide 80% of Europe's renewable energy by 2050'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/solar-panels-in-space-could-provide-80-of-europes-renewable-energy-by-2050
1•jjp•8m ago•0 comments

Ukrainian held in Italy over blast mystery of Nord Stream gas pipelines

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkz1jl5j06o
2•colinprince•8m ago•0 comments

Apple Fitness Chief Accused of Toxic Workplace Culture and Harassment

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/technology/apple-fitness-jay-blahnik.html
3•donohoe•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you let others try your LLM agents

2•fsilavong•10m ago•0 comments

Discrete optimization for on-call scheduling (2021)

https://www.rainforestqa.com/blog/discrete-optimization-for-on-call-scheduling
2•todsacerdoti•11m ago•0 comments

There might be a 'Planet Y' hiding in the outer solar system

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2493480-there-might-be-a-planet-y-hiding-in-the-outer-solar-system/
1•kPwn•11m ago•0 comments

Why Wall Street thinks the metaverse will be worth trillions (2022)

https://fortune.com/longform/wall-street-metaverse-web3-investors-roblox-meta-platforms-microsoft/
4•pera•13m ago•1 comments

Measuring the Mean Plane of the Distant Kuiper Belt

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14156
3•bikenaga•14m ago•1 comments

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bank-forced-to-rehire-workers-after-lying-about-chatbot-productivity-union-says/
7•ndsipa_pomu•18m ago•1 comments

Paul Graham Hacker News Archive

https://pghn.rhett.info/
1•basketbla•20m ago•1 comments

EPC23102: V, 35 A EPower Stage IC

https://epc-co.com/epc/products/gan-fets-and-ics/epc23102
1•addaon•21m ago•1 comments

Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat

https://aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2025/08/21/adding-my-home-electricity-uptime-to-status-href-cat/
4•todsacerdoti•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I Help Startups Go from Idea to Revenue in 30-60 Days

https://www.syket.io/
1•syketdas•23m ago•0 comments

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYyfrTIPQY
2•pona-a•23m ago•0 comments

Qoder: Agentic Coding Platform for Real Software

https://qoder.com/blog/qoder-introduction
2•meetpateltech•26m ago•0 comments

Bank backtracks on AI job cuts, apologises for 'error' as call volumes rise

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/cba-backtracks-on-ai-job-cuts-as-chatbot-lifts-call-volumes/105679492
3•speckx•28m ago•0 comments

What happened before the Big Bang? Computational method may provide answers

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-big-method.html
2•bikenaga•28m ago•1 comments

A summary of recent AI research (2016)

https://blog.plan99.net/the-science-of-westworld-ec624585e47
2•mike_hearn•29m ago•0 comments

Continental drying, shrinking freshwater, and land contributions to sea level

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0298
1•PaulHoule•29m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Do blogs need to be so lonely?

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/do-blogs-need-to-be-so-lonely/
1•speckx•2h ago

Comments

luplex•1h ago
Good tools can enable community blogging.

I think the effective altruism forum (1) is one of the main reasons why the community is able to have produce so much output.

(1) https://forum.effectivealtruism.org