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The Primitive Puppet Show

https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/the-primitive-puppet-show
1•danfunk•39m ago

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danfunk•39m ago
Can we use LLMs to improve human to human communication rather than thwart it?
MotoriX•18m ago
AI has already made its way into a lot of areas, like hiring. People use AI to pass all the tests for IT positions, while HR uses AI to go through those resumes and pick the right candidate. So basically, one AI ends up getting hired by another AI. Do I even need to point out that in this situation, people are just gradually stopping to think for themselves?

Trusting-Trust Attack Against a Linux Distribution Through Binary Manipulation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888
1•Tomte•44s ago•0 comments

Pentagon order US universities to Cut Chinese or else

https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3364337/pentagon-orders-30-us-universities-scrutinise-ties-c...
1•trilogic•55s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?

1•cakbeslik•3m ago•0 comments

Friction Is the Feature

https://huntergatherer21c.com/2026/08/12/two-friction-is-the-feature.html
1•nate•4m ago•0 comments

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/
3•dhruv3006•4m ago•0 comments

Beeswax

https://spellbeeswax.com/
1•bookofjoe•5m ago•0 comments

What's an Orchestrator–and Why Does Software Need One? – O'Reilly

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/whats-an-orchestrator-and-why-does-software-need-one/
1•rbanffy•7m ago•0 comments

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Messaged White House Chief of Staff Impersonator

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/08/17/british-prime-minister-andy-burnham-messaged-whi...
1•pudgywalsh•7m ago•0 comments

Polar Signals Is Joining Dash0

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2026/08/17/polar-signals-is-joining-dash0
2•nvais•8m ago•0 comments

"smart" forms (for onboarding, wizards, etc.)

https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/2089352886182363269
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

EFF Joins Calling on Governor to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-18-civil-rights-organizations-calling-governor-ho...
1•Jimmc414•9m ago•0 comments

Gemini in Waymo

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/07/gemini-in-waymo/
1•kaycebasques•10m ago•0 comments

Trust Without Boundaries: An Architectural Analysis of Satellite Flight Software

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14532
1•Jimmc414•11m ago•0 comments

System-Level Performance Impact of Read Disturbance in Modern SSDs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14073
2•Jimmc414•11m ago•0 comments

The Size of the World Wide Web

https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
1•1970-01-01•13m ago•0 comments

AI Native, Without the Badge

https://x.com/compose/articles/edit/2089227511054155776
1•arkwor•13m ago•0 comments

AI text watermarking is not a big deal

https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-text-watermarking-is-not-a-big-deal/
1•baxtr•14m ago•0 comments

A Millennial Furniture Designer Is Behind the Drones Battering Russia

https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-fire-point-ceo-iryna-terekh-drones-d93ec97b
2•doener•16m ago•0 comments

Has AI started improving itself? RSI depeneds on what "itself" means

https://viborc.com/what-recursive-self-improvement-actually-means/
1•viborcip•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.theindianalawyer.com/articles/amazons-new-user-agreement-seeks-to-curb-class-action-s...
3•smurda•18m ago•0 comments

Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/think-flock-is-bad-this-new-tech-is-coming-to-link-license...
2•ck2•18m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How can we care more about fewer things?

2•robalni•21m ago•1 comments

I Let My Students Watch Me Struggle with a Masterpiece. It Changed Everything

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/higher-ed-dostoevsky-attention.html
2•sonabinu•22m ago•1 comments

On The Origin of Continents

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/on-the-origin-of-continents/
1•karakoram•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If you're burning tokens at scale, what are you using them for?

2•simonw•22m ago•2 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
3•qingcharles•24m ago•0 comments

Session Visualization with Obsidian

https://jimmyislive.dev/posts/session-visualization/
2•jimmyislive•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Making every company programmable like a computer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCXmYEV9OIQ&list=PLdf47QnV4_58
2•Marten42•25m ago•0 comments

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/17/1140622/weather-data-sabotage/
3•jonbaer•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN comments

https://classify.stylometry.net/
4•costco•31m ago•0 comments