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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google's Chrome team

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/ai-automation-startup-relay-shuts-down-staff-joins-googles-chro...
1•toomuchtodo•1m ago•1 comments

AI Watermarking, Nazi Enigmas, and Sherlock Holmes

https://kolja.wawrowsky.com/posts/invisible-fingerprints/
1•ApocryphX•1m ago•0 comments

Return of the Spec: Why AI agents are reviving the software specification

https://caines.ca/posts/2026-08-15-return-of-the-spec/
1•Ramone•2m ago•0 comments

No Cloud Required: Talking Directly to My SunPower Hardware

https://blog.harrison.page/sunpower/
1•harrisonpage•3m ago•1 comments

A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul [Using AI]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/texas-tech-artificial-intelligence-ideology-brandon-creight...
1•ceejayoz•3m ago•0 comments

Inference Costs per Agentic Workflow to Increase More Than Fivefold Through 2028

https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2026-08-17-gartner-predicts-ai-inference-costs...
1•layer8•5m ago•0 comments

Contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/your-contributors-are-ai-
1•acolombiadev_hn•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A Replacement for Shortcutfoo

https://github.com/ijidak/shortcut-practice
1•ijidak•6m ago•0 comments

Webhooks Suck: Fixing the Problems with Consuming Webhooks

https://www.svix.com/blog/webhooks-suck/
1•tasn•7m ago•0 comments

Has vacuum birefringence been seen at long last?

https://physicsworld.com/a/has-vacuum-birefringence-been-seen-at-long-last/
1•xqcgrek2•8m ago•0 comments

The market for used EVs 'is so hot'

https://grist.org/transportation/the-market-for-used-evs-is-so-hot-right-now/
3•speckx•8m ago•0 comments

My Extension Got Viral

https://open-vsx.org/extension/WeKraft/wekraft
2•bhanu786•10m ago•0 comments

The SEC is no longer independent

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-08-06/sec-politicization-will-erode-trust-in-us-c...
5•highfrequency•11m ago•0 comments

Maximilian Schwarzmüller – "Don't ignore the new stuff" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTAmbl7e6Ow
1•mindcrime•11m ago•0 comments

New Nightmare Eclipse zero day gives system privileges on patched Windows

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/08/12/microsoft-vendetta-hacker-has-a-new-zero-day-t...
2•lschueller•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Echidra – open-source deception platform for attacker behavior

https://github.com/Qyleron/EchidraOSS
1•Shreyasl2515•12m ago•0 comments

IP can't save you from AI

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/enron-corpus/
1•hn_acker•15m ago•0 comments

Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs

https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-cases-vaccines
1•hn_acker•15m ago•0 comments

Garmin watch app as a pure Bluetooth Tesla car key

https://www.reddit.com/r/Garmin/comments/1vruemz
1•ck2•16m ago•0 comments

Scientific applications of quantum computing: challenges and opportunities

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16568
1•latentframe•17m ago•0 comments

The MATRIX – 1950's Super Panavision 70 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APZ6ycET5WY&list=PL3chMvVbsupSzQrk-lJBS8cpdIfGDbJfc&index=9
1•Bluestein•18m ago•1 comments

Columbia House, Mail-Order Media Company, Is Shuttering

https://consequence.net/2026/08/columbia-house-closing-down/
3•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Looking for Cofounder in Legaltech

https://santol.finance
1•bgajjela•19m ago•1 comments

Star Wars: A New Hope – A Visual Guide to Changes in the Disney+ 4K Version

https://thedigitalbits.com/features/articles/item/2144-sw-new-hope-disneyplus-4k-2019
1•dabber•21m ago•1 comments

Why the IBM PCjr Failed: The "Peanut" Disaster Stan Veit Ch. 24 [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBem-H6ZLtY
1•oldnetguy•21m ago•0 comments

Cursor: Chat is all you need

https://twitter.com/mattyp/status/2089758434921160877
1•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

Ideating Tragit

https://figbert.com/posts/ideating-tragit/
2•Bluestein•23m ago•0 comments

macOS Data Protection Keychain for Electron Apps

https://github.com/biw/keychain-store
1•biwills•26m ago•1 comments

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix

https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/7/2/024501/1233035/Data-Cente...
13•cwwc•26m ago•1 comments

AI chip startup Etched doubles valuation to $21B in under a month

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-chip-startup-etched-valued-21-billion-latest-funding-round-...
1•porridgeraisin•28m ago•1 comments