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Kalshi and Polymarket have begun taking bets on Phase III drug trials

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/put-your-money-down-they-say
2•400thecat•37m ago

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400thecat•31m ago
The main problem with prediction markets as "truth machines" is, that they can only work efficiently if insider trading is allowed (even encouraged). If insider trading is illegal, than these are just casinos

Pivotal role of reinforcement learning in modern large language models

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/newsplus/pivotal-role-of-reinforcement-learning-in-modern-...
1•newsomix9xl•1m ago•0 comments

Framing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)
1•soupspaces•1m ago•0 comments

Meta ordered to pay $567M in New Mexico for teen mental health fund

https://www.reuters.com/world/new-mexico-court-orders-meta-pay-567-mln-teen-mental-health-fund-20...
1•JumpCrisscross•2m ago•0 comments

Executable Emoji

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/08/executable-emoji.html
2•MBCook•3m ago•0 comments

pfSense 2.9.0 – New Features and Changes

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/releases/2-9-0.html
1•mistyvales•4m ago•0 comments

"The Persian MâR-Nâmeh Or, the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes" (1892)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh/
1•Thevet•7m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware

https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-open-source-malware
2•bhavansig•8m ago•0 comments

Palmer Luckey donated $6M to GOP and bundled more while reaping billions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/exclusive-palmer-luckey-political-fundraising
1•SLHamlet•8m ago•0 comments

The Underground Economy Behind Children's Smartwatches in China

https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017854
2•thenthenthen•10m ago•0 comments

High-Quality Free Transparent PNG Images

https://pngdex.com/
2•kanlabs•15m ago•0 comments

User awareness in frontier models: Who's asking shifts what models say

https://transluce.org/user-awareness#how-robust-are-these-effects
1•nlpnerd•19m ago•0 comments

Pair Team (YC S19) Hit with Class Action Alleging Unpaid Wages

https://runtimewire.com/article/exclusive-pair-team-hit-with-class-action-alleging-unpaid-wages-a...
2•ryanmerket•25m ago•0 comments

How to fine-tune open weights models

https://fastino.ai/blog/how-to-fine-tune-open-weights-models-model-selection-data-curation-fine-t...
1•eigenBasis•25m ago•0 comments

Mt Cleese

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mt-cleese
1•beatthatflight•29m ago•0 comments

OpenEdit – Claude Code can now edit videos (Open Source)

https://github.com/veedstudio/open-edit
1•byamja•34m ago•0 comments

Kalshi and Polymarket have begun taking bets on Phase III drug trials

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/put-your-money-down-they-say
2•400thecat•37m ago•1 comments

NASA Engineers Help Prolong Voyager 2's Science Mission

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/08/04/nasa-engineers-help-prolong-voyager-2s-science-...
2•Tomte•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sidebar – a private ESP32 intercom for five kids, no accounts

https://www.sundaradnus.ca/writing/sidebar-building-a-ham-radio-for-my-son
3•nonstopnonsense•41m ago•0 comments

A Short Lesson in Perspective (2012)

https://lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective/
1•colinprince•46m ago•0 comments

Lines of code. 1,596 BTC gone

https://onekey.so/anzen/coldcard-entropy-failure/
4•Archie627•47m ago•1 comments

C64 Demo Effects Explained: Rodents in the Attic [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1atMUOUMU
2•guiambros•47m ago•0 comments

Bingebuster Video – your streaming services, restocked as a video store

https://bingebuster.net/
1•Slow_Hand•47m ago•0 comments

Organ donation group trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/us-to-shutter-organ-donation-group-accused-of-trying-to-ta...
4•Tomte•51m ago•4 comments

Looking for something to do while GitHub is down?

https://pelican.clutch.engineering/cheatsheets/self-hosted-gitlab/
1•featherless•56m ago•0 comments

Xcode's Clever Minimap

https://unsung.aresluna.org/xcodes-clever-minimap/
5•andsoitis•57m ago•1 comments

Framework Data Breach

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1vhjbok/framework_data_breach/
7•rkagerer•58m ago•1 comments

Why did the greatest juggler of all time stop and open a construction business?

https://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque-du-soleil-jason-fagone/
3•mhb•58m ago•2 comments

Muscle protein can now be grown in chloroplasts of lettuce and tobacco plants

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-powerhouses-fake-meat-muscle-protein.html
1•vinni2•1h ago•0 comments

Guillotine Brought to Oppose New Data Center Left Company Reps Feeling "Unsafe"

https://www.gadgetreview.com/salem-brought-a-guillotine-to-oppose-new-data-center-company-reps-le...
2•healsdata•1h ago•0 comments

"It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public."

https://unsung.aresluna.org/its-unclear-how-sopwith-escaped-to-the-general-public/
3•colinprince•1h ago•0 comments