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AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/
30•jefurii•36m ago

Comments

rohan_•13m ago
you do realize "rare books" in this context most likely means random technical manuals nobody cares about and not collectors items, right?
wahnfrieden•12m ago
If most but not all, what number are ones that people and collectors do care about?
ButlerianJihad•4m ago
Any bookseller worth their salt will ensure that a truly valuable book will not languish on their shelf for 1 minute longer than it takes to find a buyer willing to pay a fair price.

If AI-scanners are somehow bid-sniping bona fide collectors and wealthy aficionados, there may be cause for concern. But that is most certainly not happening here.

anygivnthursday•10m ago
Another discussion on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335216

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1•bcaulfield•24s ago•0 comments

Solar Cooking

https://100r.co/site/solar_cooking_experiment.html#jul2026
1•Gecko4072•48s ago•0 comments

Magic Grants Monero FCMP++ Crypto Security Assessment [pdf]

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1•Cider9986•58s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Yet Another OpenCode Plugin

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2•smokeeaasd•2m ago•0 comments

Japan Aims for the Moons of Mars

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/japan-aims-moons-mars-021058808.html
1•Stratoscope•3m ago•0 comments

Dyna explains how they trained Dyna-2 on over 1M hours of ego video

https://www.dyna.co/research/dyna-2-infrastructure
1•ceith•4m ago•0 comments

A tabbed desktop workspace for Claude Code

https://github.com/inkshell/inkshell/
1•rodorgas•6m ago•0 comments

Wiki for Pet Projects with Clojure and Polylith

https://snyssfx.com/blog/wiki_for_pet_projects.html
1•snyssfx•8m ago•0 comments

Are Microsoft's AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/are-microsofts-ai-plans-being-held-back-by-a-s...
3•billybuckwheat•8m ago•0 comments

The Real Animals of the World

https://decodingvibes.com/blog/the-real-animals-of-the-world/
1•altmanaltman•9m ago•0 comments

AutoDesign: Meta-Harness Optimization for Long-Horizon Agentic Design

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13560
1•matt_d•9m ago•0 comments

Trump sends the US Navy back to the steam age

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/08/14/trump-sends-the-us-navy-back-to-the-steam-age/5287936
6•joebuckwilliams•9m ago•1 comments

Stract Search Engine: Deactivated in Early June

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/17/stract-search-engine-deactivated-in-early-june/
1•rdmuser•11m ago•0 comments

The People Building a Way to Slow Down the AI Race

https://time.com/article/2026/08/16/ai-race-slowdown-data-center-verification/
1•reasonableklout•11m ago•0 comments

How I Under-Engineered My Book

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1•goostavos•11m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek V4 J-Space Capability Realization-Report

https://github.com/Tiger3807861189/DeepSeek-V4-J-Space-Capability-Realization-Report
1•Herrera•12m ago•0 comments

Eigendrum: A Study of the Vibrating Plane

https://eigendrum.com/
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Version Control for Everything

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1•evakhoury•13m ago•0 comments

The World Builds with Bazel

https://webazel.dev/
1•sluongng•15m ago•0 comments

Instruction Scheduling in LLVM

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1•matt_d•15m ago•0 comments

Why Human Giants Defy the Laws of Physics

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1•Petiver•16m ago•0 comments

A Barrier-Free Synchronization Algorithm for Multi-Engine AI Accelerators

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13757
1•matt_d•17m ago•0 comments

Private Credit Salt Fight Shows 'Anything but Software' Push

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1•petethomas•17m ago•0 comments

India built the biggest digital payments miracle: Now comes the bill

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2•monkey_monkey•17m ago•0 comments

Starmind

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1•simonebrunozzi•20m ago•0 comments

The AI Reset

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1•encinas88•20m ago•0 comments

Nuking an Asteroid on Short Notice Could Save Us

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2•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

AI is transforming politics–-and how we understand it

https://freesystems.substack.com/p/ai-is-transforming-politics-and-how
1•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Love

https://01001100011011110111011001100101.ai/
1•arionhardison•21m ago•1 comments

Nanomaterial cools surfaces by up to 12.9C without electricity

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/08/17/new-spanish-nanomaterial-cools-surfaces-by-up-to-129c-wi...
7•lejeanvaljean•22m ago•1 comments