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Harvesting rainwater from rooftops could cut the number of heatwave days

https://www.euronews.com/2026/08/09/harvesting-rainwater-from-rooftops-could-cut-the-number-of-heatwave-days-and-reduce-air-co
3•devonnull•52m ago

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downrightmike•49m ago
We used to use cisterns, but then we invented the modern world. And now the infrastructure costs are decades past due and we can't afford it because it isn't a priority

The Hacker's Renaissance

https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article
1•yu3zhou4•3m ago•0 comments

The Argument Against AI Writing Is at Least 2,400 Years Old

https://feld.com/archives/2026/08/ai-writing-2400-years-old/
1•rmason•4m ago•0 comments

IRC technology news from the first half of 2026

https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_first_half_of_2026/
2•birdculture•4m ago•0 comments

How not to turn ideologically crazy

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turn
1•mef•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

https://alphabetsoup.club
2•johnchinjew•6m ago•0 comments

Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/09/poland-now-sixth-largest-eu-economy-ahead-of-switzer...
7•andrewstetsenko•8m ago•0 comments

Therapy Needs to Get Help

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/opinion/therapy-neuroscience-perception.html
1•yonibot•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Whetstone – 20 Claude Code skills, each distilled from one real failure

https://whetstone.akbarsha.dev/
1•iamakbarsha1•14m ago•0 comments

Greenland issues 'strong warning' as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/08/greenland-iwarning-trump-linked-oil-firm-prepares-d...
3•rbanffy•14m ago•0 comments

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

https://github.com/yegors/deGDID
2•campuscodi•15m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?

1•ryanmerket•18m ago•0 comments

Multistack Concatenative Programming Languages

https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/multistack-catlangs.html
2•birdculture•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Run your GitHub Actions locally or self-hosted in isolated microvms

https://preloop.dev
1•Bnjoroge•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: See how long it takes ChatGPT Sol 5.6 to send a byte across the LAN

https://robss2020.github.io/sol-vnc-elapsed/
1•logicallee•27m ago•0 comments

Virus reactivation in acute and long Covid-19

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10740-z
3•thenerdhead•34m ago•0 comments

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug – Michael Stapelberg

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/
2•tambourine_man•36m ago•0 comments

Employees Do Not Want Your AI

https://substack.com/sign-in
2•Airealist•36m ago•2 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
4•simonpure•38m ago•0 comments

Beacon: A self-hosted error tracking and LLM observability in one place

https://github.com/Tboworst/beacon
2•Tboworst•39m ago•0 comments

Code Review Assumes an Author

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/ai-code-review/
2•Raed667•39m ago•0 comments

Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

https://blog.raed.dev/posts/motocycle/
4•Raed667•40m ago•0 comments

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/the-ai-safety-test-is-becoming-a-safety-risk/
3•ashurandi•41m ago•0 comments

Greenfield and the Cost of Amnesia

https://thechris.in/articles/greenfield-and-the-cost-of-amnesia/
2•theanonymousone•42m ago•0 comments

CRT-TV-Emulator

https://github.com/AARomanov1985/CRT-TV-Emulator/tree/main
2•xterminal•42m ago•1 comments

Something Is Wrong on the Internet

https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
2•aloknnikhil•43m ago•1 comments

TPU: Tensor-Processing-Unit – Open-Source Verilog TPU

https://github.com/leo47007/TPU-Tensor-Processing-Unit
2•peter_d_sherman•43m ago•0 comments

US banning Chinese networking tech in data centers

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/us-mulling-ban-on-key-chinese-networking-...
1•Lucasoato•43m ago•0 comments

The Four Core Areas of Responsibility for an Engineering Manager

https://softwareleads.substack.com/p/the-four-pillars-of-engineering-management
1•abiodunjames•44m ago•1 comments

Tiny-GPU – A minimal open-source GPU design in Verilog to learn how GPUs work

https://github.com/adam-maj/tiny-gpu
1•peter_d_sherman•46m ago•0 comments

Anthropic is turning Claude Code's auto mode on by default

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/anthropic-is-turning-claude-codes-auto-mode-on-by-default/
5•ashurandi•48m ago•3 comments