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Buyer beware: Those mummified remains might carry toxic spores
"Mummified remains sold online exhibit signs of biodeterioration, yet sellers provide no safety guidance."
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Aug 24, 2026
Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-cuda-targets-risc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Aug 24, 2026
EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding
Article URL: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/eurohpc-launches-6-quantum-calls-with-e119m-in-funding/ Comments URL:...
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Aug 24, 2026
Robotaxis are real now — so is the pushback
Robotaxis are expanding. So is the fight over the rules governing them. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul withdrew a propos...
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Aug 24, 2026
Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling. ...
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Aug 24, 2026
Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3
Article URL: https://github.com/ovenpasta/adi2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422243 Points: 30 #...
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Aug 24, 2026
Public services are increasingly strained by LLM-written appeals for benefits
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16603 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422227 Points: 51 # ...
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Aug 24, 2026
Ox-Alpha Is GLM?
Article URL: https://dejan.ai/blog/ox-alpha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49422226 Points: 30 # C...
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Aug 24, 2026
A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more
Article URL: https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2026/07/16/beam-living-graphql-data-exposure Comments URL:...
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Aug 24, 2026
Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are
Article URL: https://glassbox.codecanary.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421948 Points: 55 # C...
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Aug 24, 2026
Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage
PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/ap...
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Aug 24, 2026
F1 in the Netherlands: The driver you most want to beat is your teammate
Formula 1 returned from its summer break with this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix. ...
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Aug 24, 2026
Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
Article URL: https://larsfaye.com/articles/ai-coding-will-prevent-expertise Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...
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Aug 24, 2026
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Article URL: https://gultsch.de/posts/25-years-of-digital-independence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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Aug 24, 2026
The Witcher 4 developers target a 2028 release
CD Projekt Red is aiming to launch The Witcher 4 sometime in 2028, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski says in a new video....
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Aug 24, 2026
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
Article URL: https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
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Aug 24, 2026
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Article URL: https://xusheng.dev/posts/reversing/mspaint_invisible_watermark/main/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...
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Aug 24, 2026
Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space a...
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Aug 24, 2026
OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421074...
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Aug 24, 2026
Anna's Archive Owes $340 Million, Lost Several Domains, but It's Still Online
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-owes-340-million-lost-several-domains-but-its-still-online/ Comment...
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Aug 24, 2026
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
https://xcancel.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420873 Poin...
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Aug 24, 2026
Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels?
Article URL: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/08/could-we-dredge-the-netherlands-without-fossil-fuels Comments UR...
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Aug 24, 2026
ESPN streaming plans are getting more expensive
ESPN is hiking the price of its subscription on September 17th, a change that will also impact its bundles with Disney P...
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Aug 24, 2026
Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer
Article URL: https://www.adafruit.com/product/6323 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420832 Points: ...
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Aug 24, 2026
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
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Aug 24, 2026
Raspberry Pi shares its official tutorial for making a cyberdeck
Raspberry Pi's head of social, Ashley Whittaker, acknowledged the cyberdeck trend today, saying "we haven't been able to...
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Aug 24, 2026
Trump tried to curb clean energy. It’s booming anyway.
Capacity will rise by a record 45GW this year, according to S&P Global Energy. ...
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Aug 24, 2026
Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny
In one crash, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to s...
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Aug 24, 2026
Apple’s four-pack of second-gen AirTags is $20 off
Apple’s four-pack of second-generation AirTags is down to $79 (originally $99) at Amazon and at Target, which is the b...
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Aug 24, 2026
How GoFundMe became America’s backup plan
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Tim Cadogan, the CEO of GoFundMe. You know GoFundMe — it’s a major fundraising ...