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Overshoot: The World Is Hitting Point of No Return on Climate

https://e360.yale.edu/features/1.5-degrees-tipping-points
1•alephnerd•1m ago•0 comments

Simplifications Applied to the Chicken Infrastructure

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2026-08/msg00006.html
1•DASD•1m ago•0 comments

Crafting Abstracts That Get You Selected [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JExGVqvERE4
1•mooreds•2m ago•0 comments

A quarter of YC Fall 2025 startups are blank pages to AI crawlers

https://readablebyai.com/index-report
1•abouchard11•2m ago•0 comments

Coffee Grams: Brew Calculator

https://apps.apple.com/pl/app/coffeegrams-brew-calculator/id6792577508
1•rmason•2m ago•0 comments

Fugl.jl – A Functional GUI Library Written in Julia Using OpenGL

https://github.com/ErikBuer/Fugl.jl
1•MrJulia•3m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Retreats in China

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/microsoft-retreats-china-ai-boom-helps-it-keep-window-open-20...
1•TechTechTech•3m ago•0 comments

Bringing butterflies back from the brink of extinction

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2026/08/bringing-butterflies-back-from-extinction
1•rmason•4m ago•0 comments

Roblox OA: What the Online Assessment Tests and How to Pass It (2026)

https://prachub.com/resources/roblox-oa
1•nian2326076•7m ago•0 comments

California bans paraquat, highly toxic herbicide outlawed in 70 countries

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/california-paraquat-ban-pesticide
1•Dwoup•7m ago•0 comments

Eigendrum

https://eigendrum.com/#p=square
1•evanb•7m ago•0 comments

Vyldor is the first smart leather belt

https://vyldor.com
1•holesvojtis•10m ago•2 comments

It May Be Time to Panic About AI

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/openai-hacks-panic/688264/
2•pabo•17m ago•1 comments

Agents on Rails: The LLM Benchmark Project

https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/12/llm-benchmarking-project
1•hahahacorn•18m ago•0 comments

Lululemon's AI Chief Departs Retailer After Less Than a Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13/lululemon-s-ai-chief-departs-retailer-after-le...
1•toomuchtodo•18m ago•1 comments

The AI slop doctors, and the prompts instructing them to lie

https://codysumter.substack.com/p/this-is-medical-advice
3•Camth•22m ago•0 comments

Automate your home to keep your indoor air safe

https://highlyprobable.io/posts/air-quality-automations
2•darkpicnic•22m ago•0 comments

File Recovery in Process

https://gwolf.org/2026/08/file-recovery-in-process.html
1•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

HQ Trivia Copycat

https://app.rebase.tv/
1•ryanvogel•23m ago•0 comments

AI's $1.65T Hidden Debt Problem

https://rubbishtalk.com/finance/ais-1-65-trillion-hidden-debt-problem/
4•Mr_Kobayashi•23m ago•1 comments

Arca Sophia Open-Core–Edge AI and Scada Telemetry Filter in Docker (AGPLv3)

https://github.com/Nodo9/arca-sophia-open-core
1•Nodo9•24m ago•0 comments

Heart Aerospace – X1 First Flight – Largest Electric Aircraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEudbAjschs
2•nickmcc•26m ago•0 comments

The Dirac Medal

https://www.ictp.it/prize/dirac-medal
2•Eridanus2•26m ago•0 comments

Xiaohongshu dots3-note Preview

https://huggingface.co/dots-studio/dots3-note-prev
1•Philpax•28m ago•0 comments

Trump signs executive order calling for fewer vaccines, linking shots to autism

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/trump-vaccine-executive-order-autism.html
2•Drellz•28m ago•0 comments

EuroZig

http://eurozig.eu/
1•birdculture•28m ago•0 comments

The simple way to add Bitcoin payments to your app

https://second.tech/
1•janandonly•29m ago•0 comments

The Lewis Chessmen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen
2•dtj1123•29m ago•0 comments

NP-Overrated

https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-13/
9•theanonymousone•36m ago•0 comments

'Good riddance' – The death of Britain's universities [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c21W9rBX5ik
3•nomilk•38m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Why not a utility to save your Mac from a software bug killing your SSD?

1•amichail•52m ago
As you may know, MacBooks are expensive and an SSD killed by excessive writes due to software bug(s) requires a complete motherboard replacement.

So why not have a utility that would warn you when an app is writing too much? Maybe you could specify a threshold for the warning.

Would you use a utility like this to give you peace of mind, especially with MacBooks?

Comments

FrankWilhoit•43m ago
Evidently their SSDs are nonstandard, if they are soldered to the motherboard. Do they also not answer to SMART?