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Jellyfish force shutdown of three reactors at French nuclear plant

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/11/jellyfish-force-shutdown-of-three-reactors-at-french-nuclear-plant_6756372_7.html
4•gadcam•54m ago

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gadcam•54m ago
An unexpected effect of climate change : warming seas have created conditions allowing jellyfish to thrive and block pumps used to cool nuclear powerplants
ColdStream•48m ago
Yet again the universe has a dark sense of humor.

4Chan Chuds Used AI to Clothe Her. She Fought Back (2024)

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dignifai-4chan-shame-women-1234961851/
1•TMWNN•50s ago•0 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09867
1•vismit2000•1m ago•0 comments

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-ra...
2•andsoitis•12m ago•0 comments

New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner

https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-an...
2•newsomix9xl•15m ago•2 comments

The traits that make engineers stand out, according to Coinbase's CTO

https://www.businessinsider.com/coinbase-cto-shares-traits-standout-engineers-have-ai-era-2026-8
2•doctaj•17m ago•0 comments

Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/11/gen-z-has-rediscovered-the-joy-of-going-to-the-movies
4•andsoitis•18m ago•2 comments

Nvidia's Great Silicon Showdown

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/11/nvidias-great-silicon-showdown
1•andsoitis•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AirStats – the lightest Mac menu bar system monitor

https://airstats.app/
2•byrencodes•19m ago•0 comments

Advanced AI Sycophancy

https://www.seangoedecke.com/advanced-ai-sycophancy/
2•chaychoong•20m ago•0 comments

Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out

https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2026/am-i-the-problem/
1•abelanger•22m ago•0 comments

I built a failover daemon for Vast.ai spot GPUs, found 5 real bugs testing it

https://github.com/enplabs/spotwarp
1•choi5844•23m ago•0 comments

A least-privilege linter for Claude Code agent policies

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cognitive-fab/polycheck
1•jdubray•28m ago•0 comments

Skills from a Smart Bear

https://skills.asmartbear.com/
2•mooreds•28m ago•0 comments

Malicious Chrome VPN Extensions Discovered That Do Traffic Redirection

https://socket.dev/blog/chrome-vpn-extension-impersonation
1•feross•28m ago•0 comments

Replantio

https://replantio.com/
1•gdss•36m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kernelspace- interactive course on systems programming for LLM Serving

https://kernelspace.naigap.com/
1•praveer13•38m ago•0 comments

Why Tokenmaxxing Is for Fools. A Rant on Fake Productivity

https://joereis.substack.com/p/why-tokenmaxxing-is-for-fools-a-rant
3•doppp•39m ago•0 comments

Text Watermarking for Non-Academics

https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-08-12-Text-Watermarking-for-Non-Academics/
1•nikolay•40m ago•0 comments

Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/google-says-gemini-has-reached-1b-users-faster-than-any-other-...
3•Gaishan•41m ago•1 comments

Fastest Inference Meta Muse Glimmer 30B on Apple

https://www.basecompute.co/getbasert
2•lukasonedge•44m ago•0 comments

Almost nowhere in California is building enough, according to the state

https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/08/california-rhna-housing-affordable-progress/
2•littlexsparkee•46m ago•1 comments

We're in the Most Dangerous Period – With Doomberg [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP6PCZTPQ2U
2•Bender•46m ago•1 comments

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview

https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027
1•tmp10423288442•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Spend.Report – See what you're spending money on each month

https://spend.report/
1•nadermx•50m ago•0 comments

A podcast trying to complete Campaign for North Africa

https://www.wargamer.com/board-games/the-campaign-for-north-africa-two-years
1•pavel_lishin•52m ago•0 comments

GPU Management: Why Idle GPUs Are the New Grounded Aircraft

https://huggingface.co/blog/Dharma-AI/gpu-management
2•gmays•53m ago•0 comments

Jellyfish force shutdown of three reactors at French nuclear plant

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/11/jellyfish-force-shutdown-of-three-reactors-at...
4•gadcam•54m ago•2 comments

The Art of Not Buying Disk

https://sonirico.dev/posts/the-art-of-not-buying-disk/
1•sonirico•55m ago•0 comments

DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/08/def-con-crowd-suspected-in-fake-hotspot-at...
17•dangle1•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Askance, a human-in-the-loop GUI for agentic coding

https://github.com/tobico/askance
1•tobicoh•1h ago•0 comments