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15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.
"We're living in this world of scarcity with the Moon."
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Aug 26, 2026
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Article URL: https://twitterwebviewer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449576 Points: 24 # Com...
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Aug 26, 2026
SSH Sshfighter.com
Article URL: https://sshfighter.com?hn2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449510 Points: 7 # Comment...
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Aug 26, 2026
GLM-5.3-Flash
Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507 Points: 41 # C...
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Aug 26, 2026
Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a l...
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Aug 26, 2026
Seneca: On Anger, Book I
Article URL: https://stoacentral.com/library/on-anger-book-i Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4944948...
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Aug 26, 2026
A Citation to Asimov
Article URL: https://www.bookandsword.com/2026/08/25/a-citation-to-asimov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Aug 26, 2026
Microsoft’s 25th anniversary Xbox will cost $899
The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at...
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Aug 26, 2026
How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk
Article URL: https://github.com/qisutu/qisutu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449440 Points: 6 # C...
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Aug 26, 2026
Your Oura Ring can’t measure what’s going on in your skull
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the lat...
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Aug 26, 2026
You can now buy music on SoundCloud
SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly fr...
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Aug 26, 2026
Elden Ring on the Switch 2 isn’t tarnished
FromSoftware is hoping to make a splash on the Switch 2 later this year when it launches The Duskbloods, a gothic compet...
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Aug 26, 2026
Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade
Biology is coming to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, even as reliable biomarkers remain rare....
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Aug 26, 2026
Access to Urban Woodlands Linked with Lower Use of Antidepressants
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/scotland-woodlands-antidepressants Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...
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Aug 26, 2026
AI Is a Harsh Mistress
Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/ai-is-a-harsh-mistress-on-anima-machina-herd-acceptance-and-the-politics-of-c...
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Aug 26, 2026
Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowi...
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Aug 26, 2026
A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away
Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/ Comments URL: htt...
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Aug 26, 2026
France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
Article URL: https://cartefibre.arcep.fr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448872 Points: 32 # Comme...
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Aug 26, 2026
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remaind...
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Aug 26, 2026
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
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Aug 26, 2026
Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-settles-with-us-states-over-social-media-harms-2026-08-26/ Comments ...
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Aug 26, 2026
11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey
Article URL: https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/76809 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448665 ...
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Aug 26, 2026
Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/26/paper-product-toilet-paper-tariffs-us-canada Comments URL:...
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Aug 26, 2026
Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.
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Aug 26, 2026
PeopleFinders’ New Website Runs Background Checks on Your Dates
The site, called Stud or Dud, helps daters dig up dirt on potential paramours. It’s fueled by the same public data as ...
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Aug 26, 2026
QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to mak...
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Aug 26, 2026
AWS Acquires DuckDB
Article URL: https://ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...
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Aug 26, 2026
Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police
Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key...
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Aug 26, 2026
Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group,...
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Aug 26, 2026
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448210 Poi...