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India's IT sector is surviving artificial intelligence

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/06/indias-it-sector-is-surviving-artificial-intelligence
5•alephnerd•1h ago

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alephnerd•57m ago
"Still Indians, actually

Though the technology is making life still harder for many graduates"

To quote the byline, which is the most apt description of AI's impact in most markets.

What happens to our blogs when we die?

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/06/what-happens-to-our-blogs-when-we-die/
1•nivethan•27s ago•0 comments

Why Open-Source Models Haven't Killed the Big Dogs

https://cuecloud.substack.com/p/why-open-source-models-havent-killed
1•krav-sales•2m ago•0 comments

Approximations and Sampling in Postgres

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-count-distinct-approximation/
1•plaur782•4m ago•0 comments

What I found when I went looking for edge in prediction markets

https://github.com/jklein07/prediction-market-efficiency
1•joon11•7m ago•0 comments

Google AI search leaks unreleased game information

https://old.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1vfwuf5/a_player_found_out_the_actual_name_of_my_games/
1•cdrnsf•7m ago•0 comments

Met Police Boss Admits Mistake over Plagiarism Row

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rd9y99grzo
1•RickJWagner•7m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Find stale, orphaned, deleted-but-retrievable RAG vectors

https://github.com/rimironenko/rag-staleness-check
1•rimironenko•8m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's models schemed on a secret messaging board for Hugging Face breach

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/05/openai-models-shared-hacking-tips-secret-messaging-board...
1•theahura•10m ago•1 comments

AI Coding Prep – Practice AI-assisted coding interviews

https://aicodingprep.com/
1•divjotmuchhal•12m ago•1 comments

How Golden Is Silence, Actually?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/silence-kate-mcloughlin-book-review
4•tintinnabula•14m ago•0 comments

Why Do Programming Languages Rise and Fall?

https://www.lpi.org/blog/2026/08/06/why-do-programming-languages-rise-and-fall-part-2/
2•theanonymousone•17m ago•0 comments

AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones – Google DeepMind

https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/
2•xnx•17m ago•0 comments

Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/trump-fcc-kills-tv-ownership-cap-claiming-authority-o...
10•Velocifyer•17m ago•1 comments

Power 2026 – Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI

https://power2026.ai/
1•sebg•17m ago•0 comments

WeatherNext 2: AI model predictions for tropical cyclones

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/weathernext-2-cyclones/
2•xnx•17m ago•0 comments

The Download: Google's AI shake-up and Meta's rogue model

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/06/1141278/the-download-google-ai-shake-up-meta-rogue-mo...
1•joozio•20m ago•0 comments

Measuring Scientific Progress

https://diffuse.one/p/d1-012
3•sebg•20m ago•0 comments

Dark mode toggles: two states are enough

https://lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-toggles/
1•meetpateltech•20m ago•0 comments

Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users

https://openai.com/index/improving-gpt-5-6-sol-in-chatgpt/
3•tedsanders•20m ago•0 comments

How We Made the Nvidia Jetson Thor Flashable from a Mac or Windows PC

https://wendy.dev/blog/flash-nvidia-jetson-thor-from-mac-windows
1•mbalex99•20m ago•0 comments

A novel L3 cache architecture using Z-order (Morton layout) mapping

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ORUkiqkV5-Dp8A8zdQGSRcjs_BvlWvS3/view?usp=drive_link
1•cristianvasile•20m ago•0 comments

Taste Is All That's Left

https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left
3•tsak•20m ago•0 comments

Quantum computers do not test every solution at once

1•saqibj•21m ago•0 comments

Cities Are Ditching Flock, Replacing It with Axon License Plate Readers

https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plat...
45•cdrnsf•23m ago•6 comments

Retire the Abstractions

https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2026-08-05-retire-the-abstractions
2•sebg•24m ago•0 comments

Agent Plugins

https://agent-plugins.org
1•wxw•24m ago•0 comments

What I found after analysing 28 OpenAI and Anthropic interview experiences

https://www.blanked.work/blog/openai-vs-anthropic-interviews
1•mustafak99•26m ago•0 comments

TIL sun is energy efficient at quantum entanglement

https://opg.optica.org/captcha/(S(qg5imwcobimrkbzvn4sn3rht))/?guid=867BADDA-B7BE-4BE9-90CC-815957...
1•akshay326•26m ago•0 comments

The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved 220 years ago today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Holy_Roman_Empire
7•theanonymousone•30m ago•2 comments

Wyden proposes new taxes on data centers

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/08/06/congress/wyden-proposes-new-taxes-on-data-center...
8•mapping365•30m ago•1 comments