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1kB Website as Status Symbol
Article URL: https://async.cat/blog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501932 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Aug 30, 2026
Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets
Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We ...
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Aug 30, 2026
The world may have less time than it thinks on climate change
Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/30/the-world-may-have-less-time-than-it-thinks-on-climate-chan...
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Aug 30, 2026
Why open source rocks – a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver
Article URL: https://github.com/KodeMunkie/sm750hdmifb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501611 Poin...
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Aug 30, 2026
Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals
The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car...
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Aug 30, 2026
Running SQLite Apps on Docker and Kubernetes with Litestream
Article URL: https://openrun.dev/blog/litestream/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501147 Points: 3...
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Aug 30, 2026
Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference
With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost. ...
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Aug 30, 2026
Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones
https://archive.is/zUA3D Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500504 Points: 13 # Comments: 6
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Aug 30, 2026
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES
Article URL: https://www.artie.com/careers?ashby_jid=e87b84d2-78b3-41a3-937a-47e83643cdf1 Comments URL: https://news.yc...
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Aug 30, 2026
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 month...
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Aug 30, 2026
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy
After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will...
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Aug 30, 2026
Google Maps Now Shows ‘Lake America’ Instead of Lake Ontario
After Donald Trump’s executive order demanding the name change, Google is the first major online maps provider to flip...
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Aug 30, 2026
Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Article URL: https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499891 Points: 5 # ...
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Aug 30, 2026
TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is p...
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Aug 30, 2026
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
Article URL: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Aug 30, 2026
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
Article URL: https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499854 Poin...
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Aug 30, 2026
Startup Anti-Patterns
Article URL: https://www.itamarnovick.com/intro-to-startup-anti-pattern-series/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....
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Aug 30, 2026
Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras
As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. Th...
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Aug 30, 2026
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-backdoor-law-enforcement Comments URL: https://...
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Aug 30, 2026
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experie...
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Aug 30, 2026
Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-08-27 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499095 Po...
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Aug 30, 2026
Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/08/29/europe-summer-drought-desertification-threat-rivers-fish/ Comments URL: htt...
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Aug 30, 2026
METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Article URL: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-offer-holy-postmortem-of-the-huggingface-hack/ Co...
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Aug 30, 2026
Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games
Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. T...
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Aug 30, 2026
Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/66504 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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Aug 30, 2026
No AI Fridays
Article URL: https://noaifridays.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498095 Points: 27 # Comments...
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Aug 30, 2026
Leak of Internal Valve Data
Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/a-massive-cache-of-valve-data-has-reportedly-leaked-online-appearing-to-...
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Aug 30, 2026
monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter
Article URL: https://github.com/fugue-labs/monty-go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497928 Points:...
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Aug 30, 2026
Two new small, powerful Macs
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here...
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Aug 30, 2026
China’s robots race ahead
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling rob...