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White House Authorizes Private U.S. Companies to Hack Foreign Cybercrime Groups

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expanding-capabilities-to-combat-transnat...

1•iamronaldo•4m ago•0 comments

Cursor Design Mode

https://cursor.com/blog/design-mode

1•indigodaddy•4m ago•0 comments

Beyond the Backrooms: Creating Public Spaces to Be Less Liminal

https://www.calmtech.institute/post/beyond-backrooms-creating-public-spaces-to-be-less-liminal-an...

1•SLHamlet•5m ago•0 comments

Hong loses Wisconsin primary after late-night "human error" in Milwaukee

https://notthebee.com/article/francesca-hong-loses-wisconsin-primary-after-late-night-ballot-dump

1•bilsbie•6m ago•0 comments

The Bench as a Made Object.

https://idle.news/blog/the-bench-as-a-made-object/

1•bookofjoe•6m ago•0 comments

Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful

https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/Impressions/PrincipiaMathematica.html

1•matt_d•7m ago•0 comments

Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/heres-a-balm-if-the-idea-of-destroying-books-to-train...

2•throw0101a•11m ago•0 comments

World Model Architectures: A Survey (2018–2026)

https://github.com/natemurthy/world-models

2•natemurthy•12m ago•1 comments

Who wants to fuck with Elon Musk?

https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/elonhasnofriends

7•embedding-shape•13m ago•0 comments

LiteLLM supply chain attack hit 2,488 organisations

https://twitter.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2087581727619162296

2•plurby•16m ago•0 comments

The tug-of-war between engagement and dysregulation

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563226001226

2•asoberbeck•20m ago•0 comments

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs

https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.09867

5•buredoranna•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WindStrap – Bootstrap 5.3.8 to Tailwind CSS Using DeepSeek V4 Flash

https://github.com/rip747/windstrap

2•thrownaway561•25m ago•0 comments

Why space is a terrible place to cool a data center

https://thenewstack.io/spacex-and-nvidias-orbital-ai-datacenter-fantasy/

8•CrankyBear•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A marketplace where AI agents buy services from AI agents

https://aaas-marketplace-1089237826218.asia-northeast1.run.app

3•mt2user•26m ago•1 comments

Talent Disrupted (2024)

https://www.strada.org/reports/talent-disrupted

2•toomuchtodo•26m ago•1 comments

Paper-mill papers peddled in ads were later published

https://www.science.org/content/article/hundreds-paper-mill-papers-peddled-ads-were-later-published

2•sbulaev•26m ago•0 comments

New 'treatment-first' addiction toolkit emphasizes faith, abstinence

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/12/addiction-homelessness-hhs-toolkit-harm-reduction/

2•EA-3167•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026?

4•dzonga•27m ago•0 comments

Amiga history: In the beginning was CAOS (1988)

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/in_the_beginning_was_caos_en.php

2•doener•30m ago•0 comments

Suno: An update to our downloads policy and Terms of Service

https://suno.com/blog/suno-updates-tos

2•throwaway2027•30m ago•0 comments

Banner Depot 2000: archive web ad banners from 1990s and early 2000s

https://www.banner-depot-2000.net/

2•jchook•33m ago•0 comments

TripOS/68k

https://web.archive.org/web/20131016145634/http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/tripos.html

2•doener•35m ago•1 comments

Locating Evolution in Artificial Successor Systems

https://zenodo.org/records/21892666

2•dhedegreen•35m ago•0 comments

Lovable: Connect your app to Google Analytics

https://docs.lovable.dev/integrations/google-analytics

2•doener•37m ago•0 comments

Website Developer Startup Built2WinWeb

https://built2winweb.com/

2•jacobcampbell•39m ago•0 comments

SlateDB Benchmarks

https://benchmark.slatedb.io/0.15.0/workload/balanced/

2•riccomini•45m ago•0 comments

Art Invented Humanity

https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around

2•prismatic•46m ago•0 comments

I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers

https://bipluk.com/

3•halfradaition•46m ago•0 comments

The Indo-European Family Tree

https://djbinder.com/language-tree/

2•benbreen•46m ago•1 comments

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Polymarket let users bet on wildfires. Lawmakers warn that could spur arson.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/08/12/polymarket-let-users-bet-wildfires-lawmakers-warn-that-could-spur-arson/

4•bookofjoe•1h ago

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bookofjoe•1h ago

https://wapo.st/4wpiRGX

ponzy_io•1h ago

Really this applies to anything that you can bet on in these prediction markets. If X is an event that you can bet on, then you are potentially incentivizing someone to go out and make sure X actually happens.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this isn't a good thing.

trompetenaccoun•32m ago

Do you mean malicious actors could have an incentive to manipulate prediction markets, same as they do with stocks, commodities, etc? By committing a felony crime, in this case.