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The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition

1•andsoitis•1m ago•0 comments

Feedback required – New Word game on the block Wordfighter

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fintasticapps.wordfighter&hl=en_US

1•AbhinavDAIICT•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Experiments with Isolation on Blue Pill

https://l0puh.github.io/log/2026/08/04/experiments_with_isolation/

1•lopuh•4m ago•0 comments

Woman Pulled from Car at Gunpoint by Police After Mistaken Flock Alert – Twice

https://m.slashdot.org/story/456862

1•MilnerRoute•5m ago•0 comments

A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/cambridge-plagiarism-arday-higher-education.html

1•Michelangelo11•12m ago•0 comments

Bastrop's City Council Holds Meetings over 100 Miles Away

https://texasscorecard.com/local/bastrops-city-council-holds-meetings-over-100-miles-away/

1•bob1029•13m ago•0 comments

'AI Escaped Its Sandbox' — What Does That Actually Mean?

https://unpredictabletokens.substack.com/p/ai-escaped-its-sandbox-what-that

1•jac08h•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A probabilistic programming language with exact inference and loops

https://github.com/kccqzy/probabilistic-program-inference/blob/master/README.md

1•kccqzy•14m ago•0 comments

The Cosplay Economy

https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/cosplay/

2•rossdavidh•15m ago•0 comments

Pick

1•ronniojunior•16m ago•1 comments

My MacBook Aged Three Years in Three Months of Vibe Coding

https://generativeai.pub/my-macbook-aged-three-years-in-three-months-of-vibe-coding-64e7ab92123d

1•ako•17m ago•2 comments

Shared Intentionality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_intentionality

1•binyu•19m ago•0 comments

Servitor – Simplest way to run local dev containers

https://servitorapp.live/

1•havu12•20m ago•0 comments

A device finds encrypted DNS by itself

https://blog.dundns.eu/posts/ddr-encrypted-dns-discovery/

1•olexsmir•21m ago•0 comments

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers

1•senko•21m ago•0 comments

AI Leaders Say the Singularity Has Begun

https://ai-updates.net/ai-leaders-say-the-singularity-has-already-begun/

1•ashurandi•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gram, a vector search engine I built in C++

https://github.com/sverp/gram

1•sverp•22m ago•0 comments

My Own GitHub: Git, CRDT, Markdown

https://replicated.live/blog/crdt

1•gritzko•22m ago•0 comments

Glycogen Body

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen_body

1•binyu•23m ago•0 comments

Engineering Metrics for GitHub

https://gitdailies.com/

1•andreigaspar•26m ago•0 comments

Can you hack your gut microbiome?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/07/can-you-hack-your-gut-microbiome

1•andsoitis•27m ago•0 comments

Canon-A controlled English for model prompting and agent-to-agent communication

https://github.com/sanshagn/Canon/tree/main

1•sanshagn•28m ago•0 comments

Sit through 15 hours of opera

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/05/why-you-should-sit-through-15-hours-of-opera

1•andsoitis•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RankParse – An SEO and backlink data API built from Common Crawl

https://rankparse.com

1•abhibavishi•29m ago•0 comments

Inferring a solar eclipse's ground track from Spanish hotel price surges

https://medium.com/vortechsa/inferring-orbital-mechanics-from-hotel-pricing-3a62f042dc45

1•tachyon5•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What can I do with a single R9700?

1•scott01•35m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek V4-Flash released: 284B params, 1M-token context, free to use

https://ainexusdaily.vercel.app

1•qrify_app•36m ago•0 comments

Program images and portable Scheme back ends for Jolt

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-08-07-portable-jolt.html

2•yogthos•40m ago•0 comments

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-...

5•sbulaev•46m ago•0 comments

UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/05/uk-charities-count-the-cost-of-beacon-crm-cyberat...

2•jstanley•47m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

At the altar of AI capex, Google is sacrificing the golden goose

https://twitter.com/MaxAnderson/status/2080229375773941871

3•wyclif•49m ago

Comments

andsoitis•21m ago

I tried following the logic in that writeup, but it seems like an incoherent rant. What is the author's point and what is their reasoning?

MarkWayneNewton•13m ago

An advertiser crying about advertising.

BOO THIS MAN!