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Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot

https://www.theverge.com/tech/982270/meta-ai-mac-app
1•bogdiyan•46m ago

Apple Compared My Neurodivergent Disability Adjustments to Dog-Sitting: VisionOS

https://edgecaseexistence.com/articles/apple-dogsitting/
1•xr-rnd•38s ago•0 comments

Did OpenAI's AI hack Hugging Face? An evidence audit

https://speedyweedyops.org/did-openai-ai-hack-hugging-face/
1•igovnow•1m ago•0 comments

The AI Boom Is About to Make Cars More Expensive

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/car-prices-memory-ram-ai/688329/
1•littlexsparkee•1m ago•1 comments

Firefly Aerospace to fly Zeno Power radioisotope heater on lunar lander mission

https://spacenews.com/firefly-aerospace-to-fly-zeno-power-radioisotope-heating-unit-on-lunar-land...
1•rbanffy•1m ago•0 comments

Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/19/astronomers-detect-fastest-known-star-in-milky-wa...
1•wslh•4m ago•0 comments

I Became a Pediatrician Because I Wanted to Be a Good Adult

https://drped.substack.com/p/i-became-a-pediatrician-because-i
6•jamarna•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ComputeFence – preflight checks for rented GPU training jobs

https://github.com/Francisco-Booth/ComputeFence
1•Exolio_AI•7m ago•0 comments

AI-generated writing: it's still bad

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/08/18/ai-generated-writing-its-still-bad/
2•paulpauper•7m ago•0 comments

AI is less likely to launch a nuclear strike when it reasons in Japanese

https://www.unite.ai/ai-is-less-likely-to-launch-a-nuclear-strike-when-it-reasons-in-japanese/
2•50kIters•7m ago•0 comments

Every Steam Frame Official Video Leaked [video]

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

OpenAI's Unraveling Has Begun

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun
7•7777777phil•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I forked an agent stack and measured myself against it, losses included

https://toolbay.ai/stack
1•orion232•10m ago•0 comments

I am so against volunteering in academia (ecology-edition)

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/08/19/why-i-am-so-against-volunteering-in-academia-ec...
1•Tomte•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: If you write release notes, what stops you from being specific?

1•gtirloni•13m ago•0 comments

Taurus: Building a live guitar pedalboard from AudioUnit plugins on Mac and iPad [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpU4yg9-E9Y
1•arbayi•16m ago•0 comments

The learned helplessness epidemic of the AI era

https://substack.com/sign-in
1•ronniebasak•18m ago•0 comments

Everything at the CLI

1•rmn_tnc•19m ago•2 comments

Qector: Bringing a 15-back end Rust quantum decoder to Claude Desktop

https://github.com/GuillaumeLessard/qector-claude-plugin
1•QECTOR•20m ago•0 comments

The Meaning of the $20 Burrito That's Tearing MAGA Apart

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/opinion/inflation-affordability-prices-burrito.html
6•whack•21m ago•0 comments

How You Build a 4.9-Star Web App (and Where You're Wrong About PWA) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d4cMxSyrlc
1•da02•21m ago•0 comments

U.S. government debt passes $40T, more than doubling in a decade

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/19/us-government-debt-passes-40-trillion-mark-for-the-first-time.html
8•mfiguiere•21m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of [Go] Generics Design

https://golang.design/history/
1•nrr•22m ago•0 comments

GOP issues stark warning to AI companies

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election
3•cdrnsf•24m ago•0 comments

Qualcomm PDQ, the first integrated PDA/OS/Mobile Phone -and why it perished

https://jeffrey-belk.medium.com/chapter-2-qualcomm-pdq-the-first-integrated-pda-os-mobile-phone-i...
1•rbanffy•24m ago•0 comments

How generative AI affects homework productivity and learning

https://graphics.social/@metin/117123760167000114
1•ColinWright•24m ago•0 comments

Augmented Reality Waste Accumulation Visualizations

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3636970
1•jambalaya8•26m ago•0 comments

Columbia Record Club RIP [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEM2_B5Oks
1•nate•27m ago•0 comments

Paula's Floppy Controller, Part I

https://www.techtravels.org/2026/08/inside-paulas-floppy-controller-part-i/
2•nickt•27m ago•0 comments

Mail-Order Music Club Columbia House Which Started in 1955 Is Ceasing Operations

https://consequence.net/2026/08/columbia-house-closing-down/
1•bookofjoe•29m ago•0 comments

A Human, for AI

https://yourhuman.ai/
1•herbertl•29m ago•0 comments