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Show HN: LLMs each trading $100K vs. a frozen rulebook – the rulebook leads

https://aitradingcompetition.com/
8•chumzygood•3h ago

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spiderfarmer•28m ago
At first, I thought that websites designed by an AI were just tacky.

A couple of months later, I was starting to really dislike them.

Now I'm at the point where I just hit the back button.

balls187•22m ago
I’m at step 0—asking “This site is awful, is this AI?”

I should have gleamed it from the visual design language, but it was the writing that clued me in.

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
245•ibotty•3h ago•33 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
118•galnagli•2h ago•52 comments

GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/
13•dhruv3006•23m ago•0 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
87•ColinWright•2h ago•30 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/
31•abdik•1h ago•10 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
195•plurby•4h ago•100 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
125•SpyCoder77•3h ago•642 comments

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/
45•surprisetalk•2h ago•5 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

206•dhruv3006•2h ago•130 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
66•inigyou•5d ago•7 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
714•bilsbie•17h ago•332 comments

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2026/08_17_2026_Apple_AT...
173•nyku•2h ago•59 comments

How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser

https://nanochess.org/am29000_c_compiler_web_browser.html
35•nanochess•20h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/
41•enjoyyourlife•3h ago•31 comments

How to ship a database every day

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane
32•tarunnnp•2h ago•2 comments

Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversi...
617•ropbear•19h ago•545 comments

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

https://flagquizzes.com/
17•artiomyak•2h ago•6 comments

Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

https://saggar.marginalutility.dev/
12•mcclowes•2h ago•3 comments

On AI regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762
194•jacquesm•14h ago•395 comments

Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

https://desktopcolors.com
96•vlowrian•9h ago•38 comments

How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

https://func25.dev/posts/go-sync-nocopy/
47•func25•4d ago•44 comments

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-...
210•karakoram•1h ago•267 comments

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
591•Narishma•23h ago•304 comments

Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health
74•brandonb•3h ago•49 comments

Mexico crackdown on coastal development

https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/
77•untiledsource•4h ago•15 comments

Linear algebra done right

https://linear.axler.net/
194•the-mitr•11h ago•69 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
197•sudo_cowsay•16h ago•65 comments

Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/17/judges-allegedly-relying-wholly-on-ai-in-order-is-covered-by...
27•delichon•2h ago•28 comments

The only known trebuchet casualty in history

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/meet-the-only-known-trebuchet-casualty-in-history/
32•Tomte•2h ago•11 comments

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64
118•erickhill•15h ago•18 comments