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For no apparent reason Oral-B removed flossing from their app

https://blog.jgc.org/2026/08/for-no-apparent-reason-oral-b-removed.html
4•jgrahamc•36m ago

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ano-ther•23m ago
Arghh.

What’s the chance that they told an AI to refresh the design? Since flossing is a fourth choice it doesn’t fit into the three-is-good raster. But of course it remains tracked because the task was to redesign the front.

jgrahamc•17m ago
Who knows? It's really weird. They made is so much worse... they even removed the red/blue colour coding for the yes/no buttons which made so much sense.
Alien1Being•12m ago
The result of an incompetent software developer given access to a LLM

AI driven enshittification.

Show HN: My Mac slept through its cron jobs, so I made goguma, a menu bar app

https://github.com/junnam586/goguma
1•junnam586•47s ago•0 comments

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

https://twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan/status/2090050162441752787
1•heydenberk•1m ago•0 comments

Where the Tool Stops and I Begin

https://rivetrune.com/notes/where-the-tool-stops/
1•rivetrune•2m ago•1 comments

Source-Code Availability and How I Became Radicle-Ized

https://kristoff.it/blog/source-code-availability/
1•h1watt•5m ago•0 comments

AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry into Utter Chaos

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/generative-ai-book-publishing-be79a287
2•galsapir•6m ago•0 comments

Prevention of myopia in a near-primate by supplemental indigo light

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(26)00416-7
1•OutOfHere•7m ago•0 comments

Investing in automated C to Rust translation

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/investing-in-automated-c-to-rust-translation/86369
1•pbui•8m ago•0 comments

Tokens, Hours, Points, and Other Curious Proxies

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-437-tokens-hours-points-and-other
1•flail•8m ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-the-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-programming-jig/
2•geerlingguy•9m ago•1 comments

Train your own AI model, even on your laptop

1•metinh•9m ago•1 comments

AWS Powers PyPI and the PSF

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-aws-powers-pypi-and-psf.html
1•lumpa•10m ago•0 comments

State of Devs, a developer survey about career, health, hobbies, and politics

https://survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey/state-of-devs/2026
1•sgdesign•10m ago•0 comments

Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/mrna-cancer-vaccine-trial-melanoma-merck-moderna/
2•cwwc•10m ago•0 comments

I read the ingredient list of 35000 UK supermarket products so you don't have to

https://plainfood.co.uk/
1•camzbarber•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Marginal – See which customers and features drive your AI API costs

https://marginalhq.com/
2•jithinlalk25•11m ago•0 comments

Intent Containers

https://armoriq.substack.com/p/containers-isolated-processes-ai
1•ketanbj•12m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL for Everything

https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/
2•karlmush•13m ago•0 comments

OpenADMET: Response to Pat Walters

http://fbdd-lit.blogspot.com/2026/08/openadmet-response-to-pat-walters.html
1•surprisetalk•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SparkleChinese – Learn Chinese while you browse

https://sparklechinese.com
1•tommy_guo•14m ago•0 comments

Martin Fowler: Fragments from August 18

https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-08-18.html
1•jreynar•14m ago•0 comments

Big Little Hexagon

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/18/big-little-hexagon/
2•ibobev•15m ago•0 comments

ValleyRAT campaign targets Indian taxpayers with fake GSTR-3B overdue notice

https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/someone-is-filing-your-gst-return-and-it-is-not-your-ca/
1•unknownhad•16m ago•0 comments

What building a Reactigotchi can teach you about an applications "memory" (2025)

https://www.erinmikailstaples.com/what-building-a-reactigotchi-can-teach-you-about-an-application...
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Using Vue.js with Electron

https://xnacly.me/posts/2023/vue-electron/
1•ibobev•16m ago•0 comments

Race-free handle inheritance, maybe

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/race-free-handle-inheritance-maybe/
1•ibobev•17m ago•0 comments

Amazon set to expand drone delivery of lightweight packages to 500 US cities

https://apnews.com/article/amazon-drone-delivery-expansion-walmart-20db399ba65e8bc36a76b547f990b118
1•geox•18m ago•0 comments

I Built a Password Manager with No Back End. It Works Better Than I Expected

https://kryptprivacy.com/articles/password-manager-no-backend.html
2•clausemint•19m ago•0 comments

Web Authentication API (WebAuthn) Level 3

https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/webauthn-3/
2•mooreds•19m ago•0 comments

AI Software Development – What Does the Data Say?

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/ai-software-development-what-does-the-data-say/
3•rudenoise•20m ago•0 comments

Beraterslang

https://www.beraterslang.de/
1•nixass•20m ago•0 comments