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July was driest month in southern England since records began

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/03/july-driest-month-southern-england-since-records-began
3•geox•54m ago

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mytailorisrich•48m ago
This follows a winter much wetter than average and overall the trend is that the UK is getting wetter. But rainfall seems to be becoming more seasonal.

Overall the issue is lack of investment in infrastructure. That's good news in a sense because it means we can solve it.

ASCII Today

https://ascii.today/
1•andsoitis•14s ago•0 comments

Satyress – Robots That Work

https://www.satyress.com/
1•petethomas•39s ago•0 comments

Amazon Reportedly Plans to Consolidate Nova AI Models

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-amazon-nova-ai-model-consolidation-aws/
1•gmays•43s ago•0 comments

Time-to-first-token: A 10-week, 30-minutes-a-day roadmap for LLM inference

https://github.com/patchy631/time-to-first-token
1•simonpure•2m ago•0 comments

The Great Chinese Oil Mystery

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/07/china-iran-usa-oil-prices/688086/
1•idontwantthis•2m ago•0 comments

The Race to Build an American Alternative to Cheap AI from China

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-race-to-build-an-american-alternative-to-cheap-ai-from-china-2e99...
1•fortran77•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Latex.to – LaTeX to PDF via Full Tex Live in the Browser

https://latex.to/
1•Wdorf•3m ago•0 comments

Why Are There Statues of Beavers on Top of This Oxford Street Shop?

https://londonist.com/london/history/oxford-street-beavers
1•bookofjoe•3m ago•0 comments

Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Starship Launch 13 Exposed Fatal Achilles Heel: potential mission-ending delays

https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-launch-13-exposed-its-fatal
1•ck2•4m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: ReAct vs. Planning Pattern

1•hairymouse•6m ago•0 comments

Aw, It's Baby's First A.I. Surveillance System

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/business/smart-baby-monitors-nanit-owlet.html
1•JumpCrisscross•6m ago•0 comments

FCC Restricts Imports of New Foreign Power Inverters and Robotic Devices

https://www.covingtonblogs.com/2026/07/31/fcc-restricts-imports-of-new-foreign-produced-power-inv...
2•atlasunshrugged•7m ago•0 comments

It is past time to upgrade to post-quantum encryption

https://economist.com/leaders/2026/07/29/it-is-past-time-to-upgrade-to-post-quantum-encryption
1•andsoitis•8m ago•0 comments

Intentic.dev – "VSCode" for Agents

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2•radarsu•9m ago•1 comments

Help Wanted

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4•whwhyb•9m ago•0 comments

Indirect Lessons from Human Alignment

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3•surprisetalk•10m ago•0 comments

Trump admin moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws

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4•hn_acker•10m ago•2 comments

KyberCrypt – Post-quantum encrypted file transfer (ML-KEM-768 and X25519)

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2•MrCoffin•10m ago•0 comments

Bundlephobia – Find the cost of adding an NPM package to your bundle

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3•pastelsky•11m ago•0 comments

When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary – brain study

https://theconversation.com/when-expressive-humanoid-robots-are-awkward-people-become-wary-new-br...
2•hn_acker•11m ago•1 comments

Mamdani's tax database doxed wealthy New Yorkers

https://reason.com/2026/08/03/mamdanis-tax-database-doxed-wealthy-new-yorkers/
5•leephillips•12m ago•3 comments

Show HN: ApeiroCraft – Proposals that track views, e-sign and invoice

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Show HN: Find the perfect name for your startup, app or domain

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2•wowinter15•14m ago•0 comments

US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/us-military-iran-war-troops-punish
4•Teever•14m ago•0 comments

SearXNG in Rust

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2•dluuuu•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Popkorn – A CSS based alternative for Lottie animations

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2•ayarseus•15m ago•0 comments

A Mole of Moles

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2•EndXA•15m ago•0 comments

Replaceable but Employed: Automation and Meaning of Work (NBER Working Paper)

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35559
2•imakwana•16m ago•0 comments

With a Series of Big Donations, State Department Restores Some Global Health Aid

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/health/trump-health-aid-state-department.html
2•whack•18m ago•0 comments