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One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/style/china-tang-dynasty-never-existed-hoax-intl-hnk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425819 Points: 14 # Comments: 0

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Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/16/vintage-artificial-intelligence-before-it-got-awkward/ Comments URL: h...

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Can You Kill Salmonella in Eggs Without Cooking Them? I Tried It

With advice from infectious disease experts, I tested a low-effort way to pasteurize eggs at home.

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Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case

Zillow and Redfin reached a settlement with the FTC, which requires Redfin to reenter the rental advertising business.

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The Best Kitchen Gadget to Prevent Salmonella Is a Good Meat Probe

Salmonella outbreaks are seemingly everywhere right now. A good temperature probe is the last and best line of defense.

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Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.

Monitor vendors are playing with fire.

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Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging F...

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Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60 percent, blaming memory shortage

As the memory shortage continues to cause trouble for hardware makers, Amazon says it is now being forced to pass on the...

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Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, joins the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Replit CEO Amjad Masad will share his perspective on the future of programming and Replit's ...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

The cat-and-mouse game over 3D-printed guns has begun

The creator of the world's first 3D-printed gun claims he's developed a way to thwart government-mandated software meant...

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GM vehicles under federal scrutiny after hundreds of reports

The eBoost brake-by-wire system is responsible for at least 22 crashes now. ...

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A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights

Article URL: https://github.com/l3a0/claude-plugins Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424758 Points:...

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Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed

Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.

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Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424606...

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LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

Article URL: https://boydkane.com/essays/llms-could-control-their-host-machines-by-exploiting-inference-engines Comment...

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Removed all counters, replies, following/ers, timestamps, from textlog

Article URL: https://textlog.cc/post/2059 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424167 Points: 6 # Comme...

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Anger, Anxiety and Agency

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/24/anger-anxiety-agency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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Show HN: Kern – container and resource runtime in a 1.5 MB binary, no daemon

Article URL: https://github.com/getkern/kern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423927 Points: 9 # Co...

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Your "File" Menu Isn't About Files

Article URL: https://adam.farkas.pro/your-file-menu-isnt-about-files/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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What Is a Syslog Server?

Article URL: https://blog.greencloudvps.com/what-is-a-syslog-server.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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Instinct’s powerful AI assistant is raising privacy and security concerns

Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ...

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Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-are-some-octopuses-so-smart-the-answer-might-lie-in-a-never-...

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Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

Article URL: https://app.dover.com/Autostep/careers/e9510e3b-a854-4e48-9e5d-c89796acaed4 Comments URL: https://news.yco...

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My Daily Driver Gaming Headset Is Super Cheap Right Now

I love this multi-device headset, and right now it’s cheaper than what I paid for it in March.

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Fences, Not Sandboxes

Article URL: https://yegge.ai/essays/fences-not-sandboxes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423146 ...

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Agent Lightning v1.0

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/agent-lightning/releases/tag/v1.0.1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

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Where did all the public bathrooms go?

Article URL: https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-bathrooms-go/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

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The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139, https://xcancel.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139 Comment...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Zillow and Redfin settle FTC antitrust case over their rental listings partnership

The FTC and Zillow have announced a settlement that ends the case alleging that a 2025 "partnership" between Zillow and ...

Technology Aug 24, 2026

Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores

"Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety...