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Screwworm Infections Get Worse, Government Unleashing Drone Army to Surveil Them

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/17/screwworm-infections-get-worse-government-unleashing-drone-ar...
1•hn_acker•1m ago•1 comments

You Trust 1000 Strangers Every Time You Deploy

https://daylight.ai/blog/you-trust-1000-strangers-every-time-you-deploy
1•aviramha•1m ago•0 comments

Fyrox Game Engine now supports wgpu

https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox/pull/927
1•linggen•5m ago•0 comments

NoWreck v0.4.0

https://github.com/AstralXVoid/NoWreck/
1•AstralXVoid•5m ago•0 comments

Can Haskell Become a Great Language for Data Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpDVrUdbT2o
1•linggen•5m ago•0 comments

Reducing target directory size on nightly

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/18/reducing-target-dir-size-on-nightly/
2•linggen•6m ago•0 comments

One Person State – portable personal AI system

https://embassy.svit.la/p/one-person-state
1•promen_svitla•7m ago•0 comments

Every software company will become a dev tools company

https://thenewstack.io/platform-engineering-ai-harness/
1•tonkkatonka•7m ago•0 comments

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
2•_djo_•8m ago•0 comments

Copia Institute Again Asks Court to Fix Contradictory Media Advertising Ruling

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/17/another-california-court-has-now-broken-media-advertising-so-...
1•hn_acker•8m ago•1 comments

Gmail Verified Sender Program eligibility and policies

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12467704?hl=en
3•ChrisArchitect•8m ago•2 comments

A 24-Year-Old Blew Up a $45B AI Fund

https://rubbishtalk.com/finance/how-a-24-year-old-blew-up-a-45-billion-ai-fund/
1•Mr_Kobayashi•8m ago•0 comments

Poetry Lovers' Page

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/
1•pablode•10m ago•0 comments

Paperless Cloud Backups

https://samsm.ch/paperless-cloud-backups/
1•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods See Them in Action

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/17/camera-equipped-airpods-macos-26-7/
1•_djo_•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How did Openrouter appreciate from –$1.3B to $7B+ in just 82 days?

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/17/stripe-openrouter-paypal
1•gulmothrowaway•11m ago•1 comments

If You Have Users, You Have to Market Your Programming Language

https://c3-lang.org/blog/you_have_to_market_your_programming_language/
1•kugurerdem•13m ago•0 comments

The origin story of Infinite Campus

https://www.infinitecampus.com/about/our-story
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Columbia House Is Shutting Down

https://pitchfork.com/story/columbia-house-is-shutting-down/
2•jaredwiener•15m ago•0 comments

Relative income and global inequality: Evidence from the United Kingdom

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292126001911#b6
2•alphabetatango•16m ago•0 comments

Court Says Blocking, But Not Recommending, Speech Is Protected By 1st Amendment

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/17/federal-court-rules-that-blocking-speech-is-protected-by-the-...
2•hn_acker•16m ago•1 comments

Make US INDs Great Again

https://lifescivc.com/2026/08/make-us-inds-great-again/
1•geneticdrifts•17m ago•0 comments

Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15910845-claude-code-may-august-2026-weekly-limits-promotion
1•tyre•17m ago•0 comments

The Download: how people use AI, and Flock's design choices

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142229/the-download-how-people-use-ai-flock-cameras-...
1•joozio•17m ago•0 comments

GOG Preservation Program Adds Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gog-preservation-program-adds-prince-of-persia-the-sands-of...
1•speckx•20m ago•0 comments

The Sweeter Lesson

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-sweeter-lesson/
1•visha1v•24m ago•0 comments

Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977733/amazon-order-emails-google-gmail-ai-ag...
6•Macha•24m ago•0 comments

Intercity Bus Atlas

https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/IntercityBusAtlas/
1•jaredwiener•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why are we still building web UI's just for human consumption?

1•ud0•25m ago•0 comments

If LLMs can't write, I doubt it can lead us to AGI

https://www.thetrueengineer.com/p/i-tested-every-ai-model-the-same
2•adletbalzhanov•25m ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: Why are we still building web UI's just for human consumption?

1•ud0•25m ago
It is becoming increasingly clear that AI agents will do more on the internet and operate many websites, so why are web UIs still built only for how humans use them? Why isn't it being extended so AI agents can talk to websites? Right now, the ridiculous amount of complexity it takes for AI agents to operate a website and perform simple operations is crazy; look at the Claude Chrome extension, it has to take multiple screenshots and is so slow.

I built a React-like plugin that allows React-based apps to talk to AI agents easily using events. It can fill forms, react to alerts and stuff. This was very easy to do (full disclosure, I did a lot of front-end engineering at FAANG for a long time), and my AI agent was able to do stuff in seconds, way faster than most AI agents that operate the browser. This was easy to do, so why isn't everyone doing it?