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Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks

https://brusselssignal.eu/2026/08/germany-plans-sugar-tax-that-includes-sugar-free-drinks/
4•sva_•52m ago

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4d4m•42m ago
Smart move. While artificial sweeteners may be a sweet deal for manufacturer's margins, consumers are increasingly realizing they have similar effects as too much sugar on their health. These costs are realized across social medicine, so this seems like the right call.

SQLite in Production with Built-In Litestream Replication

https://openrun.dev/blog/litestream/
1•ajayvk•1m ago•1 comments

Self-Determination Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination_theory
1•klaussilveira•1m ago•0 comments

Amazon Acquires Duck Labs (DuckDB)

https://motherduck.com/blog/duckdb-amazon/
1•wenc•1m ago•0 comments

Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/ads-and-tracking-infiltrated-tvs-now-theyre-coming-for-mo...
1•SubiculumCode•1m ago•0 comments

Meta, states agree to $17B settlement in child safety trial

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5944781
2•hvb2•4m ago•1 comments

Gambling Sweeps Across Another Industry. Welcome to the Future of Trading Cards

https://www.barrons.com/articles/gambling-baseball-cards-digital-repacks-bf0c4232
1•petethomas•4m ago•0 comments

View Transitions: Careful Not to Make Stuff Unclickable

https://blog.master.dev/view-transitions-careful-not-to-make-stuff-unclickable/
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

Automating repetitive work at OpenAI with Codex

https://developers.openai.com/blog/automating-repetitive-work-at-openai-with-codex
1•sourishkrout•5m ago•0 comments

Reminder that `system-UI` is well supported

https://blog.master.dev/system-ui-san-francisco-fun/
1•ibobev•5m ago•0 comments

On-Call Is Now Theatre

https://boristane.com/blog/on-call-is-now-theatre/
1•adletbalzhanov•6m ago•0 comments

In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-space-all-things-are-quantumly-possible-20260826/
1•ibobev•6m ago•0 comments

Statistical mechanics in just one equation

https://condensedconcepts.blogspot.com/2026/08/statistical-mechanics-in-just-one.html
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Big Ticks and Small Ticks in Equity Microstructure

https://dm13450.github.io/2026/08/23/big-ticks-and-small-ticks-in-equity-microstruture.md.html
1•dm13450•14m ago•0 comments

Ultrafast Frontier Inference – Cerebras Hot Chips 2026

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/ultrafast-frontier-inference-cerebras-deep-dive-at-hot-chips-2026
1•rbanffy•15m ago•0 comments

Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys [pdf]

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec08/tech/full_papers/halderman/halderman.pdf
1•gurjeet•15m ago•0 comments

Against Modesty's Bailey

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/against-modestys-bailey
2•7777777phil•16m ago•0 comments

Building Tyr in Rust, part 3: Managing GPU memory

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2026/08/26/building-tyr-in-rust-part-3-managing-gpu-...
1•losgehts•17m ago•0 comments

Loading from Tape

https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/loading-from-tape/
2•speckx•17m ago•0 comments

Credentials Are Leaked by LLM Agent Skills: An Empirical Study

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03070
2•geox•17m ago•0 comments

Adversaries may leverage information repositories to mine valuable information.

https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1213/
1•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Study Reveals UnitedHealth's Profit Margins Four Times What It Claimed [pdf]

https://insurancewatchdogcoalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/UHG-Profits-Study_August-2026.pdf
9•CGMthrowaway•18m ago•1 comments

A conference for Ruby engineers in SF

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/why-engineers-should-come-to-the-sf-ruby-startup-conference-i...
2•camimirabal•19m ago•0 comments

Private intelligence brought the Treasury Secy into contact with Epstein's web

https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/ehud-barak-scott-bessent-cogito-ergo-sum
1•CGMthrowaway•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI scientist builds an open-source Codex Micro from scratch for $40

https://iluvatarlabs.com/blog/2026/08/how-we-cloned-openai-codex-micro/
1•ben_iluvatar•21m ago•0 comments

Ilya Sutskever's SSI and Nvidia Announce Long-Term Strategic Partnership

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/ilya-sutskevers-safe-superintelligence-inc-and-nvidia-announce...
3•porridgeraisin•21m ago•0 comments

AI Watermark Mandates Could Unmask Journalists Who Never Touched AI

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/how-ai-watermark-mandates-could-unmask-journalists-who-never-...
2•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

Enabling independent research on how people use Claude

https://www.anthropic.com/research/enabling-independent-research
2•tosh•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How about delayed MIT/GPL?

1•afiori•26m ago•0 comments

Announcing The 2026 Hackaday Retrocomputing Challenge

https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/announcing-the-2026-hackaday-retrocomputing-challenge/
1•oldnetguy•27m ago•0 comments

Demaking Claude's Designs in Beekeeper Studio

https://www.rathboma.com/2026/08/25/reverting-ai-designs-in-beekeeper-studio
1•rathboma•29m ago•0 comments