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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
12•mfiguiere•46m ago

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rbanffy•24m ago
I guess it’s time to elect a couple democrats to curb the deficit while solving the impending social collapse.

Unfortunately, I don’t think that will happen this time.

YouTube Offers Creators Millions to Not Work with Netflix

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/youtube-offers-creators-millions-to-not-work-w...
1•mfiguiere•2m ago•0 comments

Moral Disengagement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_disengagement
3•soupspaces•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turning websites into micro CLIs for Claude Code to save on tokens

https://github.com/only-cli/oc
3•hyes•8m ago•0 comments

Faster pull requests are faster horses

https://royalicing.com/2026/faster-pull-requests-faster-horses
2•burntcaramel•9m ago•0 comments

Nvidia Alpamayo 2 Super: The Frontier Open Model for Autonomous Vehicles

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/alpamayo-2-super-open-model-now-available/
2•gmays•11m ago•0 comments

Curta Calculator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
3•michaelleland•12m ago•0 comments

Great Event Planning Skill

https://github.com/arnons1/great-event-planning-skill
2•arnon•12m ago•0 comments

Sleeping at Scale

https://buildkite.engineering/sleeping-at-scale/
1•jhealy•14m ago•0 comments

Anthropic Refuses to Support Agents.md

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235
1•fg137•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How zero-server apps sync keys and chat history securely across devices?

1•Brandon-Coll•15m ago•0 comments

The existence of the square root of two

https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/roottwo.html
1•pykello•15m ago•0 comments

Kodak invented digital photography in 1975 and still couldn't survive it [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_N-ZI6aGhA
1•adhikaribipin•16m ago•0 comments

Does this website look vibe coded?

https://platform.stridee.fit
1•alvaromolina0•17m ago•1 comments

How much would value the domain 'cmdk.ai' and 'commandk.ai'

1•hpragdish•20m ago•0 comments

Checkout this coding harness that compiles codebase. 78% SWE-Bench (DS v4flash)

https://benzi.fly.dev/
2•sessionking•22m ago•2 comments

Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a

https://os8088.com/spotlight/
2•jggonz•23m ago•1 comments

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

https://edgecaseexistence.com/articles/apple-dogsitting/
3•xr-rnd•24m ago•0 comments

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

https://speedyweedyops.org/did-openai-ai-hack-hugging-face/
1•igovnow•25m 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•25m ago•2 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...
2•rbanffy•26m 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•29m 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
9•jamarna•30m ago•1 comments

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

https://github.com/Francisco-Booth/ComputeFence
1•Exolio_AI•31m ago•0 comments

AI-generated writing: it's still bad

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/08/18/ai-generated-writing-its-still-bad/
4•paulpauper•31m ago•1 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/
3•50kIters•32m ago•0 comments

Every Steam Frame Official Video Leaked [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpMgjtQhVsI
1•LelouBil•32m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Unraveling Has Begun

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-openais-unraveling-has-begun
13•7777777phil•33m ago•3 comments

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

https://toolbay.ai/stack
1•orion232•35m 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...
3•Tomte•36m ago•0 comments

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

1•gtirloni•37m ago•0 comments