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US loses one-fourth of drone fleet as Iran war drains its arsenal

https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/us-loses-one-fourth-mq-9-reaper-drones-near-strait-of-hormuz-in-iran-war-2970823-2026-08-14
24•NordStreamYacht•51m ago

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guywithahat•17m ago
Somehow I imagined they meant kamikaze drones, however they're talking about 30 million dollar reaper drones which are mostly used for surveillance being shot down around Iran.
josefritzishere•16m ago
The blazing executive incompetence is as obvious as a traffic flare.
sampton•12m ago
Another empire bankrupting itself fighting pointless wars.

Ed Zitron Was Wrong About AI

https://www.drjoshcsimmons.com/writing/ed-zitron-ai-predictions
1•joshcsimmons•53s ago•0 comments

Too Little, Too Late: Flock Admits Their Technology Needs Reforms

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/too-little-too-late-flock-admits-their-technology-needs-ref...
1•Brajeshwar•58s ago•0 comments

Agent Host Protocol

https://microsoft.github.io/agent-host-protocol/
1•eatmyshardz•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SVC16 = a specified virtual computer to build compilers for

https://janneuendorf.github.io/SVC16/
1•JanNeuendorf•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Remarc – contextual feedback for coding agents via MCP

https://github.com/metedata/Remarc
1•young_mete•3m ago•0 comments

Animica – a post-quantum Layer 1 blockchain built primarily in Python

https://animica.org/
1•animica•4m ago•0 comments

The Treasury market's toxic codependency

https://www.ft.com/content/e3cd352e-5202-4748-952f-ed623ccdc774
1•petethomas•4m ago•0 comments

Explain to Me in Simple Technical English

https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/explain-to-me-in-simple-technical-english/
1•speckx•4m ago•0 comments

Chery didn't exist in the UK last year but just outsold Honda and Mazda combined

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/08/chery-uk-market-share/
1•daau•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sloppy Fast Group Scroll Svelte

https://prathje.github.io/fast-group-scroll-shadcn-svelte/
1•prathje•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Realistic AI Image Generator for portraits and product shots

https://realisticaiimagegenerator.online/
1•realisticaigen•5m ago•0 comments

RIP Claude

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/rip-claude/
3•herbertl•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mininote: Instant, plain-text note taking without tracking or lock-in

https://mininote.ink/
1•helba-ai•8m ago•0 comments

A knowledge base that notices when it stops being true

https://github.com/pollockchris083-arch/counterentry/blob/main/ESSAY.md
1•chrispollock•10m ago•0 comments

Structure in Type Design

https://ilovetypography.com/2026/08/14/loopy-for-counters/
1•jjgreen•11m ago•0 comments

The own-your-infra answer to Vercel and Railway

https://github.com/otterdeploy/otterdeploy
1•nelsongrisham•12m ago•0 comments

Scientists improved toxin clearance in mice brain

https://twitter.com/bryan_johnson/status/2087979402831507514
1•Vasniktel•13m ago•0 comments

The yk meta-tracing system

https://github.com/ykjit/yk
1•gjvc•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Beeb, a daily Blokus-inspired block puzzle game

https://georgemike.com/beeb
1•haberdasher•13m ago•0 comments

The road to epsilon-zero: Productive programs and well-founded orders

https://blog.plover.com/math/ordinals/05-shortlex.html
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Status enum lives in five files

https://cannibalcode.com/blog/2026-08-your-status-enum-lives-in-five-files/
1•raifharik•15m ago•0 comments

Personal Software Is Getting Cheaper to Build, So I Killed My LinkedIn Feed

https://andrewpollack.dev/blog/fixing-linkedin-customizing-the-web/
3•andrewpollack•16m ago•0 comments

Prefill vs. Decode in LLM Inference

https://www.parasail.io/blog/prefill-vs-decode-llm-inference
1•eatonphil•16m ago•0 comments

'The Nerd Reich' tracks the 'unmasking of Silicon Valley's true politics'

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/10/nx-s1-5925350/the-nerd-reich-tracks-the-unmasking-of-silicon-valle...
5•vegetablepotpie•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%

https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft
2•shrishdwi•16m ago•0 comments

Nigel Farage beats slate of fringe candidates in election

https://apnews.com/article/britain-politics-farage-binface-clacton-election-reform-uk-16f5c7deff9...
2•anonymousiam•16m ago•1 comments

In South Korea, some savour last season of legal dog meat

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-some-savour-last-season-legal-dog-meat-202...
3•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

AV1 vs. AV2: Which Video Codec Should You Use in 2026?

https://www.red5.net/blog/av1-vs-av2/
2•mondainx•17m ago•0 comments

How fast is C++26's std:hive?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/02/how-fast-is-c26s-stdhive/
1•surprisetalk•18m ago•0 comments

European publishers are getting hit harder by AI bot scraping, report finds

https://digiday.com/media/european-publishers-are-getting-hit-harder-by-ai-bot-scraping-report-fi...
1•thm•21m ago•0 comments