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Ok, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?

Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.

TechCrunch • Aug 20, 2026 • Amanda Silberling
Technology Aug 20, 2026

Ameliorate

Article URL: https://ameliorate.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49380128 Points: 6 # Comments: ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Article URL: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” Andy Greenberg discusses sitting in on a war game simulating a cyberattack from the C...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure

A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Riot is ending development on its League of Legends fighting game

Riot Games is already winding down work on 2XKO, the free-to-play League of Legends fighting game, less than a year afte...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Mark buys a castle

Mark Zuckerberg just bought a cozy abode somewhat close to Meta’s international headquarters in Ireland.

Technology Aug 20, 2026

The Genesis GV90 blows the bloody doors off what’s possible in EV design

Genesis, Hyundai's luxury brand, just revealed its first full-size, three-row electric SUV for the US market, the GV90. ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Stop Eating Lady Gaga's Oreos

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/ Comme...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

Article URL: https://tidalcycles.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378950 Points: 11 # Comments...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

Article URL: https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378933 Points: 12 #...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Goo...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.

Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing produ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah.I've been working almost exclusively with c...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles

The $1 billion Series C was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carlyle, and JP Morgan Chase.

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Seeking God in Science Part 10.5: The Mind-Body Problem (Take 2)

Article URL: http://blog.rongarret.info/2026/08/seeking-god-in-science-part-105-mind.html Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions

Article URL: https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg bought an Irish castle

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns an actual castle. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan bought Strancally Castle and ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

Technology leaders don’t seem to understand society’s gripes about AI, but boy, are they posting through it.

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Why Aren't Smart People Happier?

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser

Kandelo is an open-source, Wasm-based multi-process kernel that runs POSIX programs in browsers and Node.js.Kandelo is ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule

Linkdaze's smart digital calendar stands out for not putting its features behind a paywall, including an AI meal planner...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Consumer Rights Wiki

Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378243 Points...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)

Article URL: https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

I should have loved biology

Article URL: https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493778...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Australia says Roblox hasn’t fixed its child predator problem

Roblox is promising more changes to its child safety features following testing from Australia's online safety regulator...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Project Cybersyn

Article URL: https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377739 Poi...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

FCC officially decides gigabit speeds are too good for you

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr ...