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AI agent suggested installing a malware package. Engineer almost took its advice

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/20/ai-agent-suggested-installing-a-malware-package-e...

1•sbulaev•1m ago•0 comments

Hammerhead Worms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipalium

1•tosh•1m ago•0 comments

Google's AI photoscanner can determine body fat through selfies

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27017

2•Phreaker00•1m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/

1•simedw•3m ago•0 comments

Open-source, Accessible, and Customizable 3D-printed Humanoid Robot

https://lite.berkeley-humanoid.org/

1•bilsbie•4m ago•0 comments

Dark energy and quantum gravity may be deeply intertwined

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-dark-energy-quantum-gravity-deeply.html

1•samizdis•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What AI automations have you kept running in production?

1•Harish_0089•4m ago•0 comments

138M children are in child labor. What does this mean?

https://ourworldindata.org/138-million-children-are-in-child-labor-what-does-this-actually-mean

1•surprisetalk•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: FillBook – A trade journal for Kalshi with fee-adjusted P&L

https://fillbook.io

1•fillbookio•7m ago•0 comments

U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China

https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/20/us-preparing-force-netherlands-ban-asml-selling-china

3•giuliomagnifico•7m ago•0 comments

Echo of Einstein: An unexpected link between whale calls and special relativity

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-echo-einstein-unexpected-link-whale.html

1•pseudolus•9m ago•0 comments

Retro multiplayer world is also an IRC client

https://freeq.at/blog/this-retro-multiplayer-world-is-also-an-irc-client/

1•chadfowler•10m ago•0 comments

Associations of habitual coffee intake w/ testosterone & cardiometabolic markers

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00394-026-04038-z.pdf

1•bushwart•10m ago•0 comments

British Groups Push Age Verification Bills in 21 US States

https://reclaimthenet.org/report-british-groups-push-age-verification-bills-in-21-us-states

2•ironyman•11m ago•0 comments

Coin-Op and Console Game Promo Tapes

https://brianpeek.com/coin-op-and-console-game-promo-tapes/

1•cainxinth•13m ago•0 comments

Kingmakers: Crypto, AI, betting firms fuel record spending on the 2026 midterms

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/new-kingmakers-crypto-ai-betting-firms-fuel-record-sp...

1•pseudolus•15m ago•0 comments

FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/fcc-abolishes-gigabit-speed-goal-suggesting-it-is-unf...

2•jonbaer•16m ago•0 comments

Deadvlei, Nambia – The Dark, the Dead, and the Desert

https://www.maloriesadventures.com/blog/deadvlei-nambia-the-dark-the-dead-and-the-desert/

1•thunderbong•16m ago•0 comments

Why Haven't the Voyager Spacecraft Ever Been Hacked?

https://lowendbox.com/blog/why-havent-the-voyager-spacecraft-ever-been-hacked/

1•shaunpud•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A directory of the best tweets available on twitter. hand-picked. no AI

https://billiondollartweets.com/

1•apsinghdev•19m ago•1 comments

We Stopped Counting Tokens

https://medium.com/super/we-stopped-counting-tokens-9278fbccadbc

1•herbertl•22m ago•0 comments

Hopf Spherical Compression and Quantization in C++23

https://github.com/meridionalissoftware/hscq

2•rfgplk•24m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Sutra – iOS e-books and comic reader with Calibre, OPDS and WebDAV sync

https://sutra-reader.com/index.html

1•darkusnitus•25m ago•0 comments

AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it

https://franciscotrindade.me/blog/the-kids-are-really-alright/

12•franciscomt•26m ago•3 comments

A better way to view diffs

https://charwise.vercel.app/

2•rpst•31m ago•2 comments

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/08/nasa-calls-off-mission-to-rescue-swift-gamma-ray-observatory/

2•pavel_lishin•32m ago•0 comments

Decennial Air Cruise of 1933

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decennial_Air_Cruise

1•simonebrunozzi•38m ago•0 comments

Survey of 106 European design engineers on what would make them change jobs

https://hymera.co/research-what-makes-a-design-engineer-leave-their-job

2•ablazevics•38m ago•0 comments

Eron on X: "LLMs do one thing: predict the next word

https://twitter.com/0xEronn/status/2089079333885198384

2•bilsbie•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built my 15-year-old game idea

3•ashitlerferad•40m ago•0 comments