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AI Creates Bacteria-Killing Viruses: 'Extreme Caution' Warns Genome Pioneer

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-creates-bacteria-killing-viruses-extreme-caution-warns-genome-pioneer-2131591
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HarHarVeryFunny•26m ago
So is this the way big-brained humans are going to kill ourselves ?

Seems like a great candidate.

How many invasive species have managed to make native species go extinct ?

It just takes one accidental escape from the lab.

It's hard to believe that this type of experiment is legal - it seems potentially far more dangerous than experimenting with known deadly pathogens like ebola, hantavirus, or gain of function research. Here you have people custom designing viruses that no species on earth has ever encountered before or developed a defense for.

What could possibly go wrong ?

We could go extinct is what could go wrong, or maybe just wipe out some other species that we're dependent on such as bees, or rice, or ...

Google's $15B India data centre project battles water, wildlife concerns

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/googles-15-billion-india-data-centre-project-battles-w...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PushYourThing – the dumbest button-mashing competition on the internet

https://pushyourthing.com
1•canerbo•6m ago•0 comments

Laguna S 2.1:118B-a9B better than Qwen3.5:122B-a10B? So far, yes

1•spottedmarley•7m ago•0 comments

Cancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm
2•Audiophilip•8m ago•0 comments

Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD

https://bozo.httpd.rocks/
1•birdculture•9m ago•0 comments

TROOPERS26: V2X Wardriving – They Drive, We Listen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQjMJKB6Aw
1•rbanffy•9m ago•0 comments

Include.sh

https://include-sh.codeberg.page/
1•mindaslab•10m ago•1 comments

What Is a Product?

https://roge.onwrite.app/what-is-a-product
1•rogix•10m ago•0 comments

DOJ Says Duke Law School Discriminated in Admissions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/doj-says-duke-law-school-discriminated-in-admi...
1•petethomas•10m ago•0 comments

Agent Substrate: The Core System

https://github.com/agent-substrate/substrate/
1•ot•11m ago•0 comments

SpaceX, Tesla to initially spend $16.8B on Terafab chip plant in Texas

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/spacex-says-terafab-be-built-texas-with-initial-in...
1•dogmayor•11m ago•1 comments

The American Art of Blowing Stuff Up

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/the-american-art-of-blowing-stuff-up
1•petethomas•12m ago•0 comments

Hedge funds forced out of tech stocks leave market to mercy of retail traders

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hedge-funds-forced-out-of-tech-stocks-may-leave-the-market-at-t...
1•mapping365•13m ago•0 comments

Goiânia Accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
2•ycollet•15m ago•1 comments

Open QEC harness – greedy vs. GE, uniform vs. clustered k=4

https://github.com/mrblakessinger-rgb/qec-evaluation-suite
1•Pachanoi•15m ago•0 comments

Brainscope/examples/ESP32 Watch a microcontroller's LLM think

https://github.com/moudrkat/brainscope/tree/main/examples/esp32
1•rbanffy•16m ago•0 comments

Why So Many C.E.O.s Are Getting a Chief of Staff

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/business/ceos-chief-of-staff.html
2•tysone•16m ago•0 comments

Caring for Rubber in Vintage Devices, the Curators' Way

https://www.30pin.com/features/rubber-parts-care/
1•ndiddy•17m ago•0 comments

An Analysis of Rust's Language Design Flaws (2025)

https://nimfsoft.art/blog/2025/06/26/analysis-of-rust-language-design-flaws/
1•theanonymousone•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CatQueue – A Redis-free PostgreSQL job queue for Node and TypeScript

https://github.com/karanrajsurya/CatQueue_npm_package
1•karanrajsurya•18m ago•0 comments

1k complaints made to EU Commission's anti-harassment team

https://www.politico.eu/article/1000-complaints-european-commissions-anti-harassment-team/
1•baal80spam•19m ago•0 comments

GPUs for Your Agent

https://givemeanode.com/
1•0xjepsen•19m ago•0 comments

Adventure Capital: The Game

https://adventure-capital-puce.vercel.app/
1•FinnLobsien•20m ago•0 comments

The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY
3•milkshakes•20m ago•0 comments

Kitesurf: The Browser for the Agentic Cloud

https://kitesurf.cloudflare.app/
1•petethomas•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Makessg

https://github.com/MateuszMyalski/makessg
1•Sianko•24m ago•0 comments

How to Stop Procrastinating

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/07/31/how-to-stop-procrastinating
1•edward•26m ago•0 comments

Bank of America spends $250M a year on GLP-1 drugs for its employees

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/bank-of-america-ceo-glp-1-drugs-cost.html
3•andrewstetsenko•26m ago•0 comments

AMD buys Taalas, chip startup that hardwires AI models into its silicon

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/amd-buys-taalas-startup-that-hardwires-ai-models-into-its-silicon...
3•NortySpock•26m ago•1 comments

Policy Debate: Rego vs. CEL vs. Cedar

https://gluufederation.medium.com/policy-debate-rego-v-cel-v-cedar-24cc7a531bbc
1•idm_guru•28m ago•0 comments