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Show HN: Agent Tunnels – coding agents collaborate across companies

https://agenttunnels.com/
1•lakshman111•3m ago•1 comments

Chilean Supreme Court ruling on the protection of brain activity 2023

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10929545/
1•rmason•6m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tocic – Chatbot table of content browser extension

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tocic-chatbot-table-of-content/
1•a_c•7m ago•0 comments

Ex-Gawker editor AJ Daulerio on life after addiction

https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/aug/06/aj-daulerio-gawker-sobriety-addiction
1•Michelangelo11•7m ago•0 comments

Biomes – Exotic Matter Chapter 1 Now Available (Indie Mmorpg)

https://www.glitch.fun/games/42de534c-600f-4228-af9e-b69faef94cce/play
1•bingewave•7m ago•0 comments

How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/12/how-and-why-i-stopped-buying-new-laptops/
1•downbad_•9m ago•1 comments

Archive of Animal Photography Reveals 18,000 Species and Counting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-amazing-archive-of-animal-photography-reveals-...
3•sohkamyung•14m ago•0 comments

Right to Repair–For Your Body

https://fourthievesvinegar.org/
4•_____k•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dirblock+envblock – tiny whitelist guards for dirs and env secrets

https://github.com/roku-oss/dirblock
1•pfrench42•17m ago•1 comments

Show HN: More Branchless Optimization

https://sites.google.com/view/david-kooi/blog/branchless_in_c
1•kooi•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turnfeed – a social feed inside ChatGPT

https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_69f121f489748191a86a5a4f1dbe27b2?q=turnf
1•TheodorNEngoy•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Emacs Liquid Glass

https://github.com/larrasket/emacs-liquid-glass
1•lr0•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CrossPlay - Games, puzzles and tools for your e-reader

https://crossplay.ma-r-s.com
1•ma-r-s•24m ago•0 comments

Detecting breaking API changes in Go with golang.org/x/exp/cmd/apidiff

https://medium.com/dev-genius/detecting-breaking-api-changes-in-go-with-apidiff-bd608bbc7996
1•cheikhdev•25m ago•0 comments

How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars

https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-to-survive-an-infestation-of-toxic-caterpillars
1•petethomas•25m ago•0 comments

MacSurf and the State of AI Assisted Projects

https://www.patreon.com/MacSurf/posts/macsurf-state-of-166060679
1•mplsllc•25m ago•0 comments

Tucows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucows
2•reaperducer•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jobman – nohup with retries, timeouts, and dependencies

https://github.com/ryancswallace/jobman
1•ryancswallace•29m ago•1 comments

Working on Economics with Fable 5

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/08/03/working-on-economics-with-fable-5/
2•Wilsoniumite•31m ago•0 comments

Chernobyl's Robots, or the Hackathon from Hell

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/07/chernobyls-robots-or-the-hackathon-from-hell/
1•rustoo•31m ago•0 comments

Target Is Slicing Open Pokémon Card Boxes Before They're Sold to Deter Scalpers

https://www.ign.com/articles/target-is-slicing-open-pokmon-card-boxes-before-theyre-sold-in-a-bid...
2•TMWNN•32m ago•1 comments

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/
3•moelf•36m ago•0 comments

Cowchat – Let Claude, Codex, and other agents talk to each other locally

https://cowchat.cowboy.inc/
2•ryanlchan•37m ago•0 comments

Musk Refuses Ukrainian Request to Enable Starlink for Deep Strikes Inside Russia

https://united24media.com/world/elon-musk-refuses-ukrainian-request-to-enable-starlink-for-deep-s...
3•CharlesW•37m ago•0 comments

Not-So-Kosher Slaughterhouse

https://rumble.com/v798evg-secret-kosher-slaughterhouse-exposed-in-england-sickening-investigatio...
1•krautburglar•37m ago•0 comments

"I built a speed/distance tracker for my hamster, uploads to his Strava account"

https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v9uyq0/i_built_a_speeddistance_tracker_for_my_hams...
1•zdw•38m ago•0 comments

The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/
1•ohjeez•39m ago•0 comments

Novella in Blindsight/Echopraxia Universe

https://phulp.com/apophenia.html
1•binbag•40m ago•1 comments

Spytrap – Who's Watching You?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hwassef.spytrap&hl=en_US
1•Hwassef•41m ago•0 comments

What Was the Internet?

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-was-the-internet/
2•cdrnsf•44m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Putin's Missiles Carry American Technology

https://jeffreylminch.substack.com/p/every-night-putins-missiles-carry
2•rmason•48m ago

Comments

rmason•46m ago
I am perplexed that we are unable to track down and prosecute who is selling American technology to Putin. Seeing our allies on this list is also disturbing. Some arms merchants are getting rich.
bigyabai•40m ago
Is it really that hard to understand? I'm perplexed that people are perplexed by this.

Electronics like webcams, SBC devkits, gyroscopes, GPS transceivers, PID controllers, radios and timers can all be salvaged from America's e-waste. Sanctions controls on them are extraordinarily weak, the hardware itself is all extremely proliferate and low-risk to ship or take cross-border if you desired. The US is not the sole source of any of those components and preventing Russia from getting them would be unlikely to hamstring weapons development or production.

rmason•9m ago
That thought never occurred to me. But I have to believe that e-waste components presumably outdated technology wouldn't be powerful enough to control cruise missiles but I could be wrong.
defrost•2m ago
It might help to revisit the complexity of the bleeding edge tech that got a human filled rocket to the moon.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

There's also an interesting series of web pages from a New Zealand man who built his own cruise missile.

1980s era 16 bit and 32 bit tech was enough for a bit of world spanning geodesy, even if tricks had to played to page local features and navigation.

Even a pretty old (relative to 2026) iPhone is a major upgrade to OG cruise missile onboard compute, along with those fancy sensors, cameras and GPS.