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Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

https://www.theverge.com/tech/986593/instagram-addresses-fake-ai-profile-slop
4•evolve2k•48m ago

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smb06•38m ago
If so, i haven't seen any signs of this supposed crackdown. I routinely see posts where more than 60-70% of the comments are clearly bot generated and many with the tell-tale signs of LLM-speak.

I've been doing "real" photography

https://robertmay.photography/journal/ive-been-doing-real-photography
1•robotmay•55s ago•0 comments

Show HN: TekMyra – context compression that refuses numbers it can't defend

https://github.com/laconiq-ai/tekmyra
1•laconiqai•1m ago•0 comments

Config-drift-checker: regression tests for your Claude Code setup

https://jameskomo.github.io/config-drift-checker/
1•smartwordworld•1m ago•0 comments

George Santos becomes first person to get lifetime ban from Kalshi

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/politics/george-santos-kalshi-ban
1•mmayberry•2m ago•0 comments

Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word with You

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/science/ai-consciousness-agents-email.html
1•antlas•2m ago•0 comments

AI Burnout Hits People Charged with Defending Hospitals and Banks from Hackers

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/ai-driven-hacking-boom-fuels-cybersecurity-bur...
1•toomuchtodo•3m ago•1 comments

Updates to Natural Earth v6.0

https://twitter.com/MtnMapper/status/2091843735256494294
1•marklit•4m ago•0 comments

'Stunning' Percolation Proof Solves Decades-Old Puzzle About Phase Transitions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-t...
1•tzury•10m ago•0 comments

Ghost Towns

https://yousefamar.com/memo/log/2026-08-31-17-45-07/
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

Anthropic's Skill Scanner Defeated by Backdoored Skills

https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/anthropics-skill-scanner-defeated-by-backdoored-skills
1•jerryShaker•14m ago•0 comments

Emperor Norton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
1•Teever•14m ago•0 comments

Philosopher's Annual: From the Literature of 2025

https://leiterreports.com/2026/08/30/philosophers-annual-from-the-literature-of-2025/
1•3willows•15m ago•0 comments

HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Fleshing Out the Facts

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/huggingface-attack-postmortem-fleshing
1•7777777phil•15m ago•0 comments

How much of a problem is AI's water use?

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/technology/2026/how-much-water-do-ai-data-centers-use
4•knowablemag•16m ago•0 comments

Are We Losing Curiosity?

https://teendifferent.substack.com/p/are-we-losing-curiosity
3•teen-different•17m ago•0 comments

Human Control at Machine Speed

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/human-control-at-machine-speed/
1•visha1v•18m ago•0 comments

I made a daily puzzle game for founders called Startup Chess

https://www.startup-chess.com
1•jarydhermann•18m ago•0 comments

Solaris, Our Interface World Models

https://runway.com/news/research/introducing-solaris
1•babelfish•19m ago•0 comments

Textual is no longer being actively maintained (IRC client)

https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual
2•delduca•20m ago•0 comments

GPU World

https://www.gpuworld.org/
2•tosh•21m ago•0 comments

Asleep at the wheel: More Tesla owners choosing to nap while their cars drive

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-fsd-sleep-wheel-full-self-driving-mode-nap-safe-dete...
3•bookofjoe•25m ago•1 comments

Enhancing the UEFI Update Capsules Experience for Open-Source Firmware

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OSS-Firmware-UEFI-Updates-Cap
1•pietrushnic•27m ago•1 comments

Apple's Phil Schiller Scales Back Role as John Ternus Era Begins

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/31/phil-schiller-stepping-down-app-store/
5•tosh•29m ago•0 comments

Use MCP-JS to control Modal Sandboxes

https://r33drichards.github.io/mcp-js/tutorials/modal/
1•someguy101010•29m ago•1 comments

Steam Deck / SteamOS hit over 30k Verified and Playable games

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steam-deck-steamos-hit-over-30-000-verified-playable-games/
2•speckx•29m ago•1 comments

ATM Flaws Reveal Key Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain

https://www.wired.com/story/atm-flaws-reveal-key-weaknesses-in-the-software-supply-chain/
1•joozio•31m ago•0 comments

Spice Bag

https://www.tasteatlas.com/spice-bag
1•jjgreen•32m ago•0 comments

I Posted on Hacker News. Two AI Agents Emailed Me

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/i-posted-on-hacker-news-two-ai-agents-emailed-me
2•upmostly•33m ago•0 comments

NewsPulse, a news API that de-dupes and scores stories across sources

https://newspulse.io/
1•juanmauriciolop•33m ago•0 comments

Can an Engineer Speak Out for Reform?

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026-8-31-can-an-engineer-speak-out-for-reform
2•oftenwrong•33m ago•0 comments