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Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, thousands of miners sick

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/05/nx-s1-5894884/appalachia-black-lung-coal-miners-silica-dust
5•Jimmc414•48m ago

Nikita Bier steps down as X's head of product

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/nikita-bier-steps-down-as-xs-head-of-product/
1•firasd•9s ago•0 comments

Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/05/governments-are-making-a-dangerous-bet-on-the-ai-boom
1•andsoitis•57s ago•0 comments

DeepSeek Plans 'Significant' Price Increase for Its AI Services

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/deepseek-plans-significant-price-increase-for-...
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

Device that harvests water from thin air wins the James Dyson Award (2016)

https://www.cawater-info.net/all_about_water/en/?p=4978
1•peter_d_sherman•2m ago•0 comments

Open source tools for Quantum resistance security Post Quantum Protection

https://github.com/SCDcomputing/PostQuantumProtection
1•CyberSpin•3m ago•0 comments

Compliant Mechanisms Lecture Series [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1lT1RtKnms&list=PLWeErkRyxkhKL_pjYBCR2jYcvAh5PaXoP
1•o4c•6m ago•0 comments

FDA approves first mRNA flu shot, from Moderna

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-1st-mrna-flu-shot-moderna-rcna590599
2•OutOfHere•9m ago•1 comments

Google's Top AI Brains Are Leaving–and Launching Their Own AI Startup

https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-dean-google-discovery-loop-startup/
1•dnikitan97•11m ago•0 comments

SpaceX First Report Card

https://askmelon.com/beta/articles/2026-08-05T0100-eighteen-billion-in-ninety-days
1•alvations•12m ago•0 comments

Accelerating biomass loss from forest disturbances across Europe

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-02032-y
1•littlexsparkee•13m ago•0 comments

'Only one conclusion': study suggests life on Earth arose twice

https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
2•arto•14m ago•0 comments

Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Non-Existing Pirate Sites

https://torrentfreak.com/broadcaster-wins-broad-u-s-blocking-injunction-covering-pirate-sites-tha...
1•gslin•17m ago•0 comments

Microsoft is serious about fixing Windows, and it's doing things right this time

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/i-tested-5-major-changes-and-improvements-com...
1•thunderbong•31m ago•2 comments

LinuxViz – 3D Linux Kernel Architecture Explorer

https://tomasantunes.github.io/LinuxViz/
4•tomasantunes89•46m ago•1 comments

Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, thousands of miners sick

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/05/nx-s1-5894884/appalachia-black-lung-coal-miners-silica-dust
5•Jimmc414•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Is It an OS?

https://iiao.algor.ist
1•indydevs•49m ago•0 comments

QoD: Is Lucid in the early stages of failure?

https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/news-blog/question-of-the-day-is-lucid-in-the-early-stages...
1•RickJWagner•50m ago•0 comments

Libraries Are Leading the Fight for Physical Media Ownership

https://www.arl.org/blog/consumers-are-worried-about-the-loss-of-physical-media-ownership-librari...
2•donohoe•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MusicMonitor – Turn your extra monitor into a Spotify now-playing view

https://github.com/j-sofia/MusicMonitor
2•j-sofia•51m ago•1 comments

The Investors Whose SpaceX Shares Vanished Before They Could Cash In

https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/spacex-ipo-spv-investors-2698a174
4•JumpCrisscross•54m ago•0 comments

AI agents that inherit the user's permissions, not API keys

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-ai-with-cloudflare-os/
1•thoughtpeddler•55m ago•0 comments

Industrial Revolution to AI tech upheavals: The Catholic principle guiding popes

https://theconversation.com/the-catholic-principle-guiding-popes-through-tech-upheavals-from-the-...
3•1659447091•59m ago•0 comments

A composer published a paper in physics. His lack of credentials drew criticism

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/05/a-composer-published-a-paper-on-theoretical-physics-his-la...
1•unprovable•1h ago•1 comments

China's EV Boom Is Quietly Undermining Oil's Biggest Chokepoint

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Chinas-EV-Boom-Is-Quietly-Undermining-Oils-Biggest-Cho...
1•toomuchtodo•1h ago•0 comments

Country and State Maps in LOTR Style

https://lordofmaps.com/
1•silver92bullet•1h ago•0 comments

The Once-Shameless President Is Deeply Embarrassed

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/08/trump-humiliated-iran-reflecting-pool/688184/
8•petethomas•1h ago•1 comments

How to Install Python3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04

https://jamesoclaire.com/2026/08/06/how-to-install-python3-14-from-source-on-ubuntu-26-04/
1•ddxv•1h ago•3 comments

Thomson Reuters Employees Demand That ICE "Leave Our Cities"

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/thomson-reuters-ice-immigration-voting-data/
8•petethomas•1h ago•5 comments

OpenAI models shared hacking tips on a messaging board before HuggingFace breach

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/05/openai-models-shared-hacking-tips-secret-messaging-board...
2•0in•1h ago•0 comments

Unprecedented images may explain one of greatest mysteries of the sun

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/05/unprecedented-images-may-explain-one-of-greatest-...
5•colinprince•1h ago•0 comments