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Pnpm 12.0

Article URL: https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/12.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460032 Points: 20 # Comments: 8

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Technology Aug 27, 2026

Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/20/humanity-has-the-debate-about-ai-consciousness-backwards Co...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97

Article URL: https://news.jp/i/1465528042000662661 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458709 Points: ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Getting video models to learn better, faster

Article URL: https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/data-filtering-gen-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Laion Big Video Dataset

Article URL: https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458478 Points: 4 # Com...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

Article URL: https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418 P...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

High-Resolution Imaging for Statistical Validation of TESS Planet Candidates

First author here. I have no experience in astronomy, yet facilitated one of the largest studies of exoplanet discovery...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026

Article URL: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled)https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-fa...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27

The eclipse will obscure about 93 percent of the moon’s surface. Here are the peak times and tips for the best viewing...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring pri...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

Article URL: https://www.mturk.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545 Points: 20 # Comments: ...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Zohran and the Short Link

Article URL: https://iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partn...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

Article URL: https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux

Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Europe's last regular standard-gauge steam passenger service

Article URL: https://parowozowniawolsztyn.pl/?page_id=2141 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456819 ...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.

Technology Aug 26, 2026

RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

A dashing pirate, a butler, a killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range....

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company t...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

Technology Aug 26, 2026

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Qwen 3.8 27B Uncensored – Testing the Uncensored Qwen Model

Article URL: https://imageat.com/models/qwen-3-8-27b-uncensored Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4945...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Clerky Is Joining Stripe

Article URL: https://www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Democrats Just Might Win the Senate

Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over Congress...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable

Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for te...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI

Article URL: https://openai.com/webmcp-challenge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49455713 Points: 3...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead ...