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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
3•sonabinu•39m ago

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baxtr•24m ago
https://archive.is/KXIYN

King Tut was buried with more than a hundred pairs of underwear

https://www.popsci.com/science/king-tut-buried-with-underwear-weirdest-thing-podcast/
1•speckx•37s ago•0 comments

Coord/ACC

https://phillybulletin.com/index.html
1•gastown_zealot•1m ago•0 comments

A leaderboard of trading losses, including Situational Awareness

https://www.ft.com/content/340bf9e7-0e67-4d19-b671-3dc8186efb99
2•merksittich•3m ago•0 comments

The Neoclouds Build Cash Hoards Faster Than Revenues

https://www.nextplatform.com/cloud/2026/08/14/the-neoclouds-build-cash-hoards-faster-than-revenue...
2•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

Leading economies' borrowing costs highest since 2008

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/17/government-borrowing-costs-highs-inflation-franc...
3•rf15•5m ago•0 comments

Buy Your Friends Batteries

https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/17/buy-your-friends-batteries/
2•domenkozar•7m ago•1 comments

A Vacuum of the Imagination

https://angadh.com/rockets-1
2•paulpauper•8m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Will Back OpenAI Project with as Much as $105B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-17/nvidia-to-invest-up-to-105-billion-for-openai-...
2•newusertoday•8m ago•1 comments

We don't search databases–we calculate reality. EXXOGEN is now live

https://sites.google.com/view/exxogen
3•kisnorbert•10m ago•0 comments

Benchmark Driven Development

https://charlesazam.com/blog/benchmark-driven-development/
2•couAUIA•10m ago•0 comments

Tetrachromacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
3•Isamu•10m ago•0 comments

Plastic Nightmare

https://cinemasojourns.com/2026/08/17/plastic-nightmare/
2•jjgreen•13m ago•0 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
2•Gecko4072•14m ago•0 comments

Germ Lisp (2024)

https://ngyro.com/blog/introducing-germ-lisp.html
2•Tomte•14m ago•0 comments

Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement to Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-SMP
3•rbanffy•15m ago•0 comments

A Decongestant Debate That Won't Clear Up

https://undark.org/2026/04/15/sudafed-phenylephrine-debate/
2•onychomys•15m ago•0 comments

AI Text Watermarking Playground

https://watermark.keito.me/
2•keito•16m ago•0 comments

DagFlo: Turn code/diagrams/docs into visual stories

https://www.dagflo.com/
2•aargh_aargh•16m ago•0 comments

Trusting-Trust Attack Against a Linux Distribution Through Binary Manipulation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888
2•Tomte•17m 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...
2•trilogic•17m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the Best Agent Harness?

2•cakbeslik•20m ago•0 comments

Friction Is the Feature

https://huntergatherer21c.com/2026/08/12/two-friction-is-the-feature.html
2•nate•21m 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/
8•dhruv3006•21m ago•0 comments

Beeswax

https://spellbeeswax.com/
1•bookofjoe•22m 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•24m 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•24m ago•0 comments

Polar Signals Is Joining Dash0

https://www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2026/08/17/polar-signals-is-joining-dash0
3•nvais•25m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/2089352886182363269
2•tosh•25m 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...
3•Jimmc414•26m ago•0 comments

Gemini in Waymo

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/07/gemini-in-waymo/
2•kaycebasques•27m ago•0 comments