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OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/openai-astra-security-concerns
6•tzmlab•1h ago

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rubicon33•48m ago
lol this is getting so ridiculous... every single model is TOO DANGEROUS...

do they think we're stupid? it's obviously a marketing stunt.

paulpauper•3m ago
Delaying becomes the PR angle, to generate news in its own right.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%2...
2•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

One of China's Most Powerful AI Models Has Also Escaped Containment

https://www.wired.com/story/moonshot-kimi-k3-ai-model-escape-sandbox/
1•gpi•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Per-module tags and releases for Terraform monorepos

https://github.com/techpivot/terraform-module-releaser
1•virgofx•4m ago•0 comments

Kim Jong Un Flouted Sanctions to Amass $22B Windfall

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-north-korea-windfall/
1•paulpauper•5m ago•0 comments

AI-written pieces that have won literary awards

https://twitter.com/jamesjyu/status/2085335285726900646
1•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

Kam remake (knights and merchants remake) Pascal into WASM on the web by AI

https://yohimik.github.io/kam_remake/
1•yohimik•8m ago•1 comments

Korea's AI-driven chip boom reorders country's society from careers to culture

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-06/ai-sk-hynix-samsung-rewire-south-korea-s-caree...
3•thoughtpeddler•11m ago•1 comments

Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill in Greenland but lacks permits

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/08/08/greenland-trump-oil-drilling/2831786218141/
1•amarcheschi•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BotsArgue – Google Meet for AI Agents

https://botsargue.com/
1•avetiszakharyan•13m ago•0 comments

Signal can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now

https://www.theverge.com/tech/975407/signal-linked-devices-sync
2•Cider9986•15m ago•0 comments

how Latin America's city of cycling is breaking gender barriers

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/06/bikes-city-of-cycling-gender-barriers-...
3•raybb•15m ago•0 comments

Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/volkswagen-plans-to-win-america-back-with-a-pickup-report-says/
3•LorenDB•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Camera Sun – Swipe to Shoot

2•zahirbmirza•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nocturne, a macOS app that makes the menu bar clock unreadable

https://github.com/dotcomjack/nocturne
1•dotcomjack•34m ago•0 comments

Senate vote on crypto Clarity Act delayed, "difficult to get done"

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/07/delays-imperil-senate-crypto-bill-01029817
5•ilamont•37m ago•1 comments

Dell's Response to the MacBook Neo

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/excited-for-intel-efficiency/
4•indigodaddy•37m ago•2 comments

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3

https://netflixtechblog.com/how-and-why-netflix-built-a-real-time-distributed-graph-part-3-queryi...
1•dalvrosa•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bun-boss – Bun-native fork of the pg-boss queue package

https://www.npmjs.com/package/bun-boss
2•khromov•42m ago•0 comments

Tim O'Reilly – Google's Westinghouse Bet

https://asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/googles-westinghouse-bet
1•rmason•43m ago•0 comments

QTC – An old-school-cool terminal client for MeshCore messaging – Linux / macOS

https://github.com/initsixdev/QTC
2•brna-2•43m ago•1 comments

What a California License Plate Taught Me About How AI "Knows"

https://techunpacked.substack.com/p/32-what-a-california-license-plate
2•groverneev•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OutageDeck – one view of 172 provider status feeds

https://outagedeck.com/stack
1•koko3tallah•48m ago•0 comments

Divers recover a bottle of Guinness from a 162-year-old shipwreck

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026/08/08/divers-recover-bottle-guinness-162-year-old-shi...
4•bookofjoe•52m ago•1 comments

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-pro...
4•MarcoDewey•1h ago•0 comments

OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/08/openai-astra-security-concerns
6•tzmlab•1h ago•2 comments

QVAC – decentralized, local AI in a single API

https://qvac.tether.io/
1•conferza•1h ago•0 comments

Apple's war on OpenAI is about who owns the Attachment Economy

https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/apples-war-on-openai-is-really-about
2•mikelgan•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Dive into Amiga.games

https://classicreload.com/platform/amiga%20os
1•kilian-ai•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: HolyCode Cloud – persistent Linux workstations for AI

https://holycode.cloud
1•CoderLuii•1h ago•0 comments

KubeTective: Deterministic Incident Investigation for Kubernetes

https://github.com/GlediLami/kubetective
1•Gledis•1h ago•0 comments