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The teenagers who wired Romania [audio]

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0p2vc20

1•alibarber•2m ago•0 comments

Magnus Carlsen Retains Chess Esports World Cup Title

https://www.chess.com/news/view/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-esports-world-cup

2•speckx•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stay connected across Africa, from landing to Safari

https://safariesim.com/

1•not_wowinter13•6m ago•0 comments

Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz97ljy91zxo

2•tcp_handshaker•11m ago•0 comments

Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2026/08/14/israeli-pr-wants-to-answer-you...

5•computerliker•15m ago•0 comments

Short Memory

https://www.deer.psu.edu/short-memory/

1•lumpa•18m ago•0 comments

Deadly forgotten tornado was worst in state history

https://www.offbeatoregon.com/2412e.long-creek-bomb-cyclone_682.511.html

1•joebig•18m ago•0 comments

Tiny glitches appear over South America due to a weak spot in Earth's field

https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleEarthFinds/comments/1ke63zw/psa_there_are_lot_of_tiny_colorful_gli...

1•thunderbong•19m ago•0 comments

Depleted strategic oil reserve nears level that raises concerns about damage

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/15/strategic-petroleum-reserve-spr-oil-iran-war-caverns.html

2•anigbrowl•19m ago•1 comments

Guide your development, documentation are code

https://github.com/snowballons/docs-as-code-primer

1•snowballons•20m ago•0 comments

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-f...

1•dgellow•21m ago•0 comments

Why standing at your desk may be little better than sitting

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/14/why-standing-at-your-desk-may-be-litt...

2•vinni2•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone solved reproducible deployment of native mobile platforms?

1•rezvovmobile•23m ago•0 comments

A Few Foundations Shape American Higher Education

https://www.aei.org/commentary/how-a-few-foundations-shape-american-higher-education/

1•paulpauper•27m ago•0 comments

Austin Scholar #222: The three things that make a kid love learning

https://austinscholar.substack.com/p/austin-scholar-222-the-three-things

1•paulpauper•28m ago•0 comments

Job Recession in Higher Education

https://gadlevanon.substack.com/p/job-recession-in-higher-education

3•paulpauper•28m ago•0 comments

So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really

12•AnodicElegy•29m ago•5 comments

Understanding reinforcement learning for model training from scratch

https://medium.com/data-science-collective/understanding-reinforcement-learning-for-model-trainin...

1•teleforce•30m ago•0 comments

IBM Simon (1994): the original smartphone, explained in its own ad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoTFywZpPcc

4•kls0e•30m ago•0 comments

Reflections on Airbnb

https://medium.com/@rchang/reflections-on-airbnb-6c213b027c69

2•philipfweiss•31m ago•0 comments

The world's largest App Clip deployment

https://larrysalibra.com/the-worlds-largest-app-clip-deployment/

1•larrysalibra•32m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Ive quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?

1•Abh1Works•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map

https://github.com/UtpalJayNadiger/wheres-my-muni

2•iacguy•33m ago•0 comments

If I download a 100GB file, does my computer get physically heavier?

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1voz7kz/if_i_download_a_massive_100gb_file_do...

6•nomilk•42m ago•3 comments

Show HN: Premiss – Coding agents for building trading strategies

https://www.premissai.com

2•MahtiasAhlgren•42m ago•0 comments

Ontfly – test your idea before building

https://ontfly.ai

1•kulaxyz•43m ago•0 comments

Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/browsers/firefox-stunts-on-edge-as-microsoft-gears-up-to-neuter-...

3•latein•43m ago•2 comments

JAMA journal won't retract oxycodone paper despite author request

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/08/13/jama-archives-internal-medicine-oxycodone-osteoarthritis-p...

3•leephillips•44m ago•0 comments

Awesome CAD – Curated List of Open-Source CAD Projects

https://github.com/mlightcad/awesome-cad

1•peter_d_sherman•44m ago•0 comments

Cars communicating badly is an already-solved problem

https://spectrum.ieee.org/v2x-technology-5g-open-ran

1•teleforce•45m ago•0 comments

Open in hackernews

If I download a 100GB file, does my computer get physically heavier?

https://old.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/1voz7kz/if_i_download_a_massive_100gb_file_does_my/

6•nomilk•42m ago

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thataccount•35m ago

Measurement scale matters.

WalterGR•18m ago

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ButlerianJihad•7m ago

How Much Does the Internet Weigh? https://youtu.be/WaUzu-iksi8?si=T4x1M45i-p4y4A_r

Check the dooblydoo for a bibliography of links!