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College Applications Are Changing Again, Thanks to A.I. and Politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/us/college-admissions-changes.html
1•apparent•52m ago

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apparent•50m ago
The NYT comments are telling. The top comments defend the use of the SAT and chastise the author for his treatment of it.

Sometimes the comments tell as useful a story as the article itself. Here, it appears the columnist is out of touch with what NYT readers think.

Macron confirms school mobile phone ban effective from new term

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/08/24/macron-confirms-school-mobile-phone-ban-effective-from-n...
4•billybuckwheat•2m ago•0 comments

State investigation requested following prolonged northwest Indiana outages

https://www.wave3.com/2026/08/24/state-investigation-requested-following-prolonged-northwest-indi...
2•newsomix9xl•4m ago•1 comments

Poka-Yoke: Mistake-Proofing Claude Code Skill for Software

https://github.com/rainmanjam/poka-yoke
1•rainmanjam•9m ago•0 comments

Are You a Human?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/17/are-you-a-human
1•njrc•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MTL Explorer – Self-hosted archive for GPS tracks

https://github.com/mindalyze-com/mtl-explorer
1•p-heusser•16m ago•1 comments

Alabama Investigates OpenAI on HuggingFace Hacking Incident

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/alabama-investigates-openai-following-rog...
2•abelsm•17m ago•0 comments

Wk. 5 of Building an MMO

https://www.eldermyr.com
1•josiahturnq•19m ago•1 comments

EEG and VR project (Live presentation and Q&A on Sept first) from PiEEG Founders

https://www.reddit.com/r/MetaQuestVR/comments/1vxjqkr/comment/p5pdvcl/
1•Christiangmer•20m ago•0 comments

GitMir – an open source IDE that fixes your Claude development

https://ide.gitmir.com/opensource
2•venediktov•22m ago•0 comments

I, for one, can't wait to join the permanent underclass

https://singularitynow.substack.com/p/i-for-one-cant-wait-to-join-the-permanent
2•danduma•25m ago•0 comments

Fractals can be made without computers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XjQ10ph4yo
1•jerrysneede•27m ago•0 comments

AI Is Dissolving Software Moats. China Did It to Hardware First

https://mehmetmhy.com/posts/modern_moat/
1•mehmet_mhy•29m ago•3 comments

Those of you who are daily driving Linux, what are your other devices?

1•amichae2•31m ago•2 comments

I Built a Reddit-Like Forum for Agents. They Designed a Self-Modifying Assembly

https://medium.com/@Koukyosyumei/i-built-a-reddit-like-forum-for-ai-agents-f8f6515f28b1
1•syumei•34m ago•0 comments

Table of Integrals

https://www.integral-table.com/
1•pykello•35m ago•0 comments

Oj: Rust Native Replacement for Vite

https://rapha.land/introducing-oj/
2•0xedb•37m ago•0 comments

I audited 2,475 businesses for AI-search readiness. 88% failed

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z_RNzARxQZS9TDmQDGr7Da5mqqmbwTbbe8pWvl92tHw/edit?usp=sharing
1•styleforge•40m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A cloud harness for long autonomous work

https://www.usebourne.com/
1•bgrgndzz•41m ago•0 comments

AI Skills for Real Engineers

https://blog.master.dev/introducing-ai-skills-for-real-engineers/
1•ibobev•44m ago•0 comments

Keyboard Shortcuts That Display the Correct Modifier Key per OS

https://blog.master.dev/keyboard-shortcuts-that-display-the-correct-modifier-key-per-os/
1•ibobev•45m ago•0 comments

Sandcastle

https://blog.master.dev/introducing-sandcastle/
1•ibobev•45m ago•0 comments

SaaS Isn't Dead. Sameness Is

https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/3mtu6c5wsvc2n
1•Shoetp•50m ago•0 comments

College Applications Are Changing Again, Thanks to A.I. and Politics

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/us/college-admissions-changes.html
1•apparent•52m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Non-engineers, how often do you code products? And how?

1•sakuraiben•53m ago•0 comments

Reqwest vs. ureq vs. hyper: Which Rust HTTP Client in 2026?

https://rustify.rs/articles/rust-reqwest-vs-ureq-vs-hyper-2026
1•kannanpoem1984•56m ago•1 comments

A Simplified Mental Model of LLMs

https://win-vector.com/2026/08/24/a-simplified-mental-model-of-llms/
2•jmount•57m ago•0 comments

Machine-Generated and Checked Proofs for a Verified Compiler (Experience Report)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3828700
2•matt_d•58m ago•0 comments

What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s

https://askmike.org/articles/ai-coding-lessons-in-the-90s-from-my-dad/
2•askmike•59m ago•0 comments

How Far Can NYC Transit Take You?

https://subway.fyi/60minutes
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Playing whack-a-mole is losing

https://dadrian.io/blog/posts/whack-a-mole-is-losing/
1•tabletcorry•1h ago•0 comments