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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-creighton.html
3•ceejayoz•21m ago

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mikgp•9m ago
I’m curious if something akin to the Streisand effect is going to take place here. It’s not like you can stop them from knowing about the rest of the world and it sounds like current efforts are heavy handed.

Traditional CVS Are Dead

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1•ajonline•58s ago•0 comments

Kakoune Code Editor

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1•olexsmir•2m ago•0 comments

The Shapes of Agent Memory – Files, Stores, and Experience

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1•sebg•2m ago•0 comments

A 'Texas Hedge' Amplified the Losses at Situational Awareness

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1•paulpauper•2m ago•0 comments

Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust

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1•fittingopposite•2m ago•0 comments

Flock CEO Admits Flock Is Used to Stalk People

https://ipvm.com/reports/flock-ceo-stalk
5•jhonovich•4m ago•0 comments

David Chalmers asks: When we talk to AI, what are we talking to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjJOMcNU9w
1•tcp_handshaker•7m ago•0 comments

Miles v0.1: Production-level Post-training

https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2026-08-18-miles-v0-1/
1•nblintao•7m ago•0 comments

Moving to a Lonely Forge

https://jackson.dev/post/moving-to-a-lonely-forge/
2•Arcuru•8m ago•0 comments

3D Model Markets Are Being Flooded with AI Sellers, but No One's Buying

https://kotaku.com/3d-model-markets-are-being-flooded-with-ai-sellers-but-no-ones-buying-2000724790
2•donohoe•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Craton Bolt – A Pure Rust, JIT-Compiled GPU SQL Engine

https://github.com/craton-co/craton-bolt
2•victor-craton•9m ago•0 comments

Enhanced Spell Checking on the Web

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1•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

Renewable Energy Is Shaping Up to End Decades of Energy Colonialism

https://ryanhansson.substack.com/p/renewable-energy-could-end-decades
1•xbmcuser•10m ago•0 comments

All Change for North Korean Phone Numbers

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1•robin_reala•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unigram: encode bytes as words that cost one LLM token

https://github.com/bleugreen/unigram
2•bleugreenlab•11m ago•0 comments

Apertura A from-scratch Objective-C++ / MLX rebuild of Gemma-4 for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/apocryphx/Apertura
1•Bluestein•12m ago•1 comments

Show HN: What if two devices could chat using only sound?

https://github.com/Nellix/sonic-chat
2•n3ll1x93•13m ago•1 comments

My Personal AGI

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1•ChadNauseam•14m ago•0 comments

Computing Machinery and Intelligence – A. M. Turing (1950) [pdf]

https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf
1•tcp_handshaker•15m ago•0 comments

Flock Cameras Come to Norman, Despite Council Rejection

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2•bilsbie•15m ago•0 comments

Protein Ate Our Grocery Stores

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/protein-ate-our-grocery-stores/
2•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Juan Tamariz dies at 83, magician who turned card magic into popular phenomenon

https://www.democrata.es/en/current-events/juan-tamariz-dies-at-83-the-magician-who-turned-card-m...
1•angelaguilera•17m ago•0 comments

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

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/ai-automation-startup-relay-shuts-down-staff-joins-googles-chro...
2•toomuchtodo•19m ago•1 comments

AI Watermarking, Nazi Enigmas, and Sherlock Holmes

https://kolja.wawrowsky.com/posts/invisible-fingerprints/
1•ApocryphX•19m 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•20m ago•0 comments

No Cloud Required: Talking Directly to My SunPower Hardware

https://blog.harrison.page/sunpower/
1•harrisonpage•21m 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...
3•ceejayoz•21m ago•1 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•24m ago•0 comments

Contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?

https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/your-contributors-are-ai-
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Show HN: A Replacement for Shortcutfoo

https://github.com/ijidak/shortcut-practice
1•ijidak•24m ago•0 comments