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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114,000 Lives a Year, Yale Study

https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-...
114•karakoram•25m ago•80 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
195•ibotty•2h ago•25 comments

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

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
87•galnagli•1h ago•38 comments

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

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
170•plurby•4h ago•96 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
63•ColinWright•2h ago•16 comments

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

16•abdik•39m ago•5 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
656•kevcampb•2h ago•472 comments

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/
38•surprisetalk•1h ago•4 comments

GitHub down again? no PR access

260•yodon•2h ago•91 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...
157•nyku•2h ago•54 comments

Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP

https://piszczek.pl/blog/qwen38-27b-256k-50-tps-24gb-gpu
28•pich•1h ago•18 comments

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

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/
698•bilsbie•16h ago•331 comments

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/
35•enjoyyourlife•3h ago•26 comments

How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser

https://nanochess.org/am29000_c_compiler_web_browser.html
23•nanochess•19h ago•0 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
36•inigyou•5d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

https://flagquizzes.com/
12•artiomyak•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...
588•ropbear•18h ago•523 comments

How to ship a database every day

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane
24•tarunnnp•2h ago•1 comments

On A.I. regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762
187•jacquesm•14h ago•382 comments

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

https://desktopcolors.com
91•vlowrian•8h ago•37 comments

Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer?

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health
64•brandonb•2h ago•44 comments

How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

https://func25.dev/posts/go-sync-nocopy/
43•func25•4d ago•42 comments

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

https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/
587•Narishma•23h ago•296 comments

Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway

https://yucatanmagazine.com/mexico-crackdown-on-coastal-development/
72•untiledsource•4h ago•13 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

167•dhruv3006•2h ago•111 comments

Linear algebra done right

https://linear.axler.net/
184•the-mitr•10h ago•65 comments

Claude: System Prompts

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts
729•tosh•1d ago•276 comments

The only known trebuchet casualty in history

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/meet-the-only-known-trebuchet-casualty-in-history/
25•Tomte•1h ago•6 comments

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

https://reticulum.network/
187•sudo_cowsay•16h ago•64 comments

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

https://aitradingcompetition.com/
5•chumzygood•2h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The only known trebuchet casualty in history

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/meet-the-only-known-trebuchet-casualty-in-history/
25•Tomte•1h ago

Comments

simonebrunozzi•34m ago
So, is this because Trebuchet are not particularly lethal, or because they were not used much?
sco1•33m ago
They typically weren't trying to hit people with them.
clort•31m ago
Trebuchet were used primarily to hammer the walls of the castle to break them down. Not really possible to aim at a person; the soldiers clambering over the broken walls will do that.
gyomu•30m ago
People didn't really bother recording cause of death for every casualty on medieval battlefields
agos•5m ago
the key word is "known"
dullcrisp•3m ago
Trebuchets crushed their victims so hard that they were erased from history.