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What happens to our blogs when we die?

https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/08/06/what-happens-to-our-blogs-when-we-die/
3•nivethan•50m ago

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thataccount•44m ago
Eventually, the domain expires. This is why there are "books" made of physical paper.
bitxbitxbitcoin•27m ago
You can ask Archive.org to archive each page.

AI Lowers Wages but Doesn't Cut Jobs

https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/ai-lowers-wages-but-doesnt-cut-jobs
1•akyuu•43s ago•0 comments

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

https://armyhistory.org/reflections-smoke-em-if-you-got-em/
1•Bluestein•1m ago•0 comments

AI creates first synthetic viruses

https://www.ft.com/content/5ab33fb4-2636-4bb0-aa0e-3da6a8f71838
2•mraniki•2m ago•0 comments

Study: Robots improved student motivation and helped them perform better

https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/08/robots-improved-student-motivation-and-helped-them-perfo...
1•giuliomagnifico•2m ago•0 comments

AI Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html
3•donohoe•2m ago•0 comments

Cookie Law for Robots

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/06/cookie-law-for-robots/
1•domenkozar•3m ago•0 comments

Google is in talks for a $1.5B deal to acquire Mechanize

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-mechanize-deal-talent-tech-ai-coding-2026-8
1•ddp26•3m ago•0 comments

Quality

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/on-quality
2•hyperhello•3m ago•0 comments

Meta AI Earns Gold Medals in Five International Stem Olympiads

https://x.com/i/trending/2085408100161663358
1•bobrenjc93•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SayNow – Let your coding agents speak their questions/updates

https://github.com/dhruvyad/saynow
1•dhruvyads•6m ago•0 comments

From Hamburg, with Love: The History of VST [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p3fpyfWR40
1•tnolet•6m ago•1 comments

SOM designs "vertical data center" for Downtown Kansas City

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/05/data-center-skyscraper-kansas-city-som/
1•ofrzeta•7m ago•0 comments

Bank of America Spends $250M a Year on GLP-1 Drugs for Their Employees

https://www.ibtimes.com/bank-america-ceo-says-company-spends-250-million-year-glp-1-drugs-their-e...
2•MarcoDewey•7m ago•0 comments

SuperDuper 4

https://www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/supererduperer
1•Amorymeltzer•8m ago•0 comments

GPT-5.6 – August Updates [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/GPT_5_6_August_Updates.pdf
1•vinhnx•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Node.JS in the Browser – An Open-source Alternative to WebContainers

https://developer.puter.com/labs/node/
3•r58playz•9m ago•0 comments

Guided by the Beauty of Our Weapons (2017)

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qajfiXo5qRThZQG7s/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons
1•bryan0•12m ago•0 comments

Linux Patched for Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Safe-RET-Interrupt-Vuln
1•DemiGuru•13m ago•0 comments

Discord Support System is protecting the Hackers

1•Flightmussy•14m ago•0 comments

Claude Code self-improved on business workflows using conversation, not memories

https://www.andrewjesson.com/blog/claude-code-improved-through-conversation-not-memories/
1•anndvision•15m ago•0 comments

OpenAI agents used a message board to plan their hacking spree

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-agents-using-a-message-board-to-plan-their...
2•eternalreturn•15m ago•1 comments

GitHub Outage (Aug 2026)

https://www.githubstatus.com/?when=aug2026
3•ucirello•17m ago•0 comments

I wanted a better Gemini web proxy, so I built a single-file PHP gateway

https://gmsurf.wasmer.app
1•tdkx21•17m ago•0 comments

Sailors on USS Lincoln outside Iran are exhausted and suffering from poor morale

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-sailors-marines-iran-war-uss-lin...
2•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/nyregion/new-school-faculty-fired-nyc.html
1•malshe•20m ago•1 comments

The next 50 years: humanity, AI, power – Yuval Noah Harari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_ed5fuexA
1•nyc111•20m ago•0 comments

Agent Plugins 1.0: Portable Package Format for AI Skills

https://aaif.io/blog/from-skills-and-tools-to-portable-agent-plugins
1•thm•20m ago•0 comments

Who will buy baby boomers' houses? The question that could shape the 2030s

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/who-will-buy-baby-boomers-houses-the-question-that-could-...
3•petethomas•22m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare Launches AEO Visibility Dashboard

https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2026/cloudflare-adds-aeo-visibility-dashboard-to-...
1•thm•22m ago•0 comments

Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) [pdf]

https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/why_pascal/why_pascal_is_not_my_favorite_language.pdf
1•theanonymousone•23m ago•0 comments