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SpaceX Attempted to Acquire AI Coding Startup Cognition

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/spacex-attempted-to-acquire-ai-coding-startup-cognition
3•forthwall•52m ago

UI Pipeline Internals on iOS

https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/ui-pipeline-internals
1•jakey_bakey•1m ago•0 comments

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unf...
1•toomuchtodo•3m ago•0 comments

Pressed Penny Machine Map

https://pennypresses.net/home/map.php
2•willmeyers•3m ago•0 comments

Comptroller Gould Discusses Digital Asset Innovation, Genius Next Steps

https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2026/nr-occ-2026-69.html
1•petethomas•3m ago•0 comments

How to avoid frustration for Open-Source contributors?

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/190918
1•lostbanana4•3m ago•1 comments

JupyterLite

https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
1•andrewstetsenko•8m ago•0 comments

We Can't Agree on What Counts as "AI-Written"

https://bookriot.com/what-counts-as-ai-survey-results/
4•theanonymousone•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: HyperSAE – Sparse Autoencoders, reimagined in hyperbolic space

https://github.com/vishal-dehurdle/hypersae
2•visha1v•9m ago•0 comments

Human brain organoids record the passage of time over multiple years

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10877-x
3•sbulaev•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made myself a library manager for the Kobo Clara

https://jcurcioconsulting.com/posts/building-a-ebook-management-application-for-the-kobo-clara
1•Jeremy1026•11m ago•0 comments

EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/ea-staff-fear-new-saudi-arabia-owners-will-police-their-games-pr...
2•jamarna•11m ago•1 comments

Thinking about tests: assertions and matchers

https://zverok.substack.com/p/thinking-about-tests-assertions-and
1•petalmind•11m ago•0 comments

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-00/?p=112617
1•ibobev•11m ago•0 comments

How to enter advanced BIOS options on many Lenovo thinkpads

https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1vj1udn/how_to_enter_advanced_bios_options_on_gen_1_t1...
1•purpleidea•12m ago•1 comments

Building a Quantum Computer, One Fragile Qubit at a Time

https://www.quantamagazine.org/building-a-quantum-computer-one-fragile-qubit-at-a-time-20260819/
1•ibobev•12m ago•0 comments

DuplicateHandle Works on Sockets, Mostly

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/duplicatehandle-works-on-sockets-mostly/
1•ibobev•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Servercoin- The first decentralized cloud marketplace with reviews

1•FILLMOBILE•13m ago•0 comments

XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2026-August/062280.html
3•ErenayDev•14m ago•0 comments

Bricks and Minifigs and Mansell family reach resolution

https://bricksandminifigs.com/blog/blog/2026/08/19/resolution-reached-bricks-minifigs-and-mansell...
1•dadjoker•15m ago•0 comments

Unforgetful

https://marco.org/2026/08/14/unforgetful
1•colinprince•16m ago•0 comments

Nielsen is leaning more on wearables to hear what people are watching

https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/982358/nielsen-ratings-ppm-smart-watch-cowatching-big-data
2•mikelgan•16m ago•1 comments

Trump to host crypto executives as SEC considers regulations

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-host-crypto-executives-sec-weighs-regulations-2026...
1•tartoran•18m ago•0 comments

AI was supposed to win people over by now – it hasn't

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/ai-was-supposed-to-win-people-over-by-now-it-hasnt/
3•speckx•19m ago•0 comments

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperature-zero-for-culture-why
2•_____k•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CT RailTime, a better way to travel on CTrail

https://ctrailtime.com/
1•willmeyers•21m ago•0 comments

Sabrix-bench: Fast MCP inspector and agent loop latency profiler in Rust

https://github.com/Pro-Kla/sabrix-bench
1•sabrix•21m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Offering Zero Data Retention for Frontier Models

https://openai.com/index/offering-zero-data-retention-for-frontier-models/
1•7777777phil•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I let an AI agent brick my $2.51 ESP32 on purpose

https://github.com/GLechevalier/nff-core
1•akiraysh09•22m ago•0 comments

Waymo Ojai available for all riders in SF, LA, PHX

https://twitter.com/waymo/status/2090142263099773046
3•sdhillon•24m ago•0 comments

Tactical Computer System (1988) [pdf]

https://www.librascopememories.net/Product_Literature_files/Tactical%20Computer%20System.pdf
1•ForHackernews•27m ago•0 comments