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Twitter Is Back at Twitter.now

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-launches-says-musks-x-gave-up-the-name/
9•rathboma•54m ago

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MBCook•51m ago
X as a name fails yet again.
toomuchtodo•49m ago
> A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

All my kingdom for this in an HN extension.

tencentshill•36m ago
What about then the AI itself is trained on manipulated information?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank...

Anything that trains on public, unvetted data is a liability for accuracy

toomuchtodo•33m ago
My apologies, please allow me to clarify. I would want the ability to send the HN comment contents and the prompt to any public LLM model; enough requests and models and you’ll converge somewhere near Truth. One model biased? Certainly possible. All models biased? Unlikely.

This would be a public HN comment evaluation and verification engine in the browser. One could go so far as to build a website based on the concept, consuming the HN firehose and scoring comments as they’re created, an append only transaction log of sorts. Comments are permanent after two hours, so you only have to run each comment through each model once.

“Computah, validate truthiness of all comments in this thread.”

(Bonus points for scoring HN users by how factually accurate they are over time from their comment history)

ben_w•35m ago
I suspect that would backfire immediately, as it would mean all stories are indirectly (via many people using this) filtered by what Gemini finds plausible.

Purely as an example, when Trump was making the threats against Greenland, I tried asking ChatGPT what the economic implications would be and how to hedge against them, and it had a great deal of difficulty with even the rhetoric being "current events" rather than "a fictional scenario that will never happen".

How AI Is Being Used to Dilute Hip Hop

https://nettricegaskins.medium.com/shifting-priorities-how-ai-is-being-used-to-dilute-hip-hop-92a...
1•SLHamlet•2m ago•0 comments

Sumitomo Electric – 6912-fiber count Ribbon Slotted-Core Fiber Optic cables

https://sumitomoelectric.com/products/optical-cables/highfibercount
1•peter_d_sherman•3m ago•0 comments

In Craft We Trust

https://yaoyue.org/talks/craft/1
1•lwhsiao•4m ago•0 comments

METR's independent investigation of the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#~1200-agents-sent-%3...
1•lukaspetersson•5m ago•0 comments

The Generative AI Learning Penalty: Evidence from Chinese Secondary Education

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
3•b-man•8m ago•0 comments

The next CMS might be a coding agent and a Git repository

https://64labs.ca/articles/ai-isnt-just-writing-blog-posts-its-making-the-blog-platform-optional
1•63labs•8m ago•0 comments

BBC destined to shrink at 'accelerating rate'

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/26/amol-rajan-warns-bbc-destined-to-shrink-at-accelera...
2•fallinditch•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fab Friends a crowdfunding site for Rwandan college students

https://www.joinfabfriends.org
2•muramira•10m ago•0 comments

Inside UTF-8

https://pechko.dev/utf8.html
2•manglemire•18m ago•0 comments

EasySwitch – One Keyboard. One Clipboard. and Now, One More Monitor

https://easyswitch.realbrain.cc/
1•pliiight•18m ago•0 comments

The Cost of Cognitive Debt

https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/blog/cost-of-cognitive-debt.html
3•samuell•19m ago•1 comments

How to Create WebRTC Publisher Clients with Adaptive Live Encoding

https://www.red5.net/blog/how-to-create-webrtc-publisher-clients-with-adaptive-live-encoding/
1•mondainx•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which LLMs have the best sense of humor?

https://laugh.so/research/judge-leaderboard/
3•killiandunne1•20m ago•4 comments

Homo Ingredientus

https://medium.com/freedomofthought/homo-ingredientus-11b58eb1d7b9
1•raynchad•23m ago•0 comments

Maia 200: A Software Defined Dataflow System for Large-Scale AI Acceleration

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24664
1•matt_d•25m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes cleans house, bins legacy kube-DNS, IPVS, and cgroup v1

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/08/26/kubernetes-cleans-house-bins-legacy-kube-dns-ipvs-a...
2•joebuckwilliams•27m ago•0 comments

Meta's new MTIA 400 chip has a split personality: Training AI and serving ads

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/08/26/metas-new-mtia-400-chip-has-a-split-personality-tr...
2•joebuckwilliams•27m ago•0 comments

A Practical Guide to Accelerating Compliance and Security CI with SBOMs

https://www.buoyant.io/blog/a-practical-guide-to-accelerating-compliance-and-security-ci-with-sboms
1•PagCatOli•28m ago•0 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B Uncensored – Testing the Uncensored Qwen Model

https://imageat.com/models/qwen-3-8-27b-uncensored
13•infinitephase•28m ago•2 comments

Show HN: EDN – macOS workspaces that remember where you left your windows

https://github.com/jacobalarcon/edn
1•jakedarby•30m ago•0 comments

He Gave the Knicks Their Name. Why Was He Forgotten?

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/he-gave-the-knicks-their-name-why-was-he-forgotten
1•petethomas•30m ago•0 comments

How do I learn robotics in 2026/2027?

1•ishaangupta1201•31m ago•0 comments

Silico, a tool for researchers to understand their AI models better

https://spectrum.ieee.org/silico-ai-interpretability
1•samizdis•32m ago•0 comments

The benefits of data lakehouses are overstated: open data != open platform

https://www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2026/08/the-benefits-of-data-lakehouses-are-overstated/
2•tomwphillips•33m ago•0 comments

Stripe acquires Clerky

https://twitter.com/darbyw/status/2092718828405096955
2•ray__•34m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Mdpreview – Markdown in the terminal (images, diagrams, big headings)

https://github.com/mgranados/mdpreview
1•mgranados•34m ago•0 comments

Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02676-1
3•geneticdrifts•39m ago•0 comments

Clerky Is Joining Stripe

https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe
8•zakshay•41m ago•1 comments

Bypassing Copilot Cowork's Sandbox

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/microsoft-copilot-cowork-sandbox-bypass
1•BatuhanU•42m ago•0 comments

Waymo says there's no AI shortcut to self-driving

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/26/waymo-ai-shortcut-self-driving
3•samizdis•43m ago•1 comments