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Demand for Canadian citizenship certificates soaring, fuelled by Americans

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-citizenship-certificates-americans-9.7307536
12•geox•52m ago

Comments

Bender•49m ago
Bill C-3 allows citizenship for those who can prove they're descended from a Canadian ancestor, even if that ancestor left the country several generations back. It was adopted after the courts ruled that limiting citizenship to the first generation born outside of Canada was too restrictive.
ossicones•42m ago
My partner is one of these applicants from the US. For us, it's not something we're intending to take advantage of any time in the foreseeable future. Maybe we'll retire in Victoria some day, but ultimately it's just a cheap thing we can do to keep our options open. I don't think this should be read as saying that there'll be hundreds of thousands of Americans moving to Canada.
opengrass•6m ago
This country is basically an international airport bathroom, and bad news, the toilets are all backed up.

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b
125•anana_•1h ago•57 comments

The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world
32•bookofjoe•38m ago•5 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
374•ibotty•5h ago•58 comments

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

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
211•galnagli•4h ago•97 comments

Incident with Github.com

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx
319•SpyCoder77•5h ago•757 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
165•ColinWright•5h ago•73 comments

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

https://speko.ai/
64•abdik•3h ago•35 comments

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

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
236•plurby•7h ago•126 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
45•qingcharles•3h ago•11 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
48•Gecko4072•2h ago•21 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
12•linggen•1h ago•0 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
163•inigyou•5d ago•40 comments

Llama.cpp v0.1.0

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/tag/v0.1.0
18•satvikpendem•1h ago•4 comments

We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng

https://secretspec.dev/blog/we-are-forking-dotenvy-into-dotenv-ng/
12•linggen•1h ago•4 comments

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

364•dhruv3006•5h ago•235 comments

How I Over-Engineered My Book

https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/
10•benbalter•56m ago•8 comments

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/
73•surprisetalk•4h ago•10 comments

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

https://blog.roboflow.com/roboflow-playground/
4•Bluestein•44m ago•0 comments

Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attorneys-general-california-federal-trial-astronomical-cons...
37•root-parent•1h ago•28 comments

Marketers are Addicted to Bad Data (2020)

https://www.jacquescorbytuech.com/writing/marketers-addicted-bad-data
5•zbentley•4d ago•6 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...
711•ropbear•21h ago•617 comments

How I developed an Am29000 C compiler and web browser

https://nanochess.org/am29000_c_compiler_web_browser.html
60•nanochess•22h ago•9 comments

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

https://mkornreich.me/projects/sokoban/
53•enjoyyourlife•6h ago•32 comments

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

https://saggar.marginalutility.dev/
33•mcclowes•4h ago•28 comments

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-tr...
21•rzk•1h ago•4 comments

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1
34•Brajeshwar•5d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

https://flagquizzes.com/
31•artiomyak•5h ago•15 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...
212•nyku•5h ago•79 comments

On AI regulation and messaging

https://twitter.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762
215•jacquesm•17h ago•446 comments

How to ship a database every day

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane
50•tarunnnp•5h ago•7 comments