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Sun Clock
Article URL: https://sunclock.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333824 Points: 11 # Comments: 5
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Aug 17, 2026
GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
Article URL: https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/ Comments U...
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Aug 17, 2026
Trump’s dumb border wall
About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes ...
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Aug 17, 2026
Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expand...
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Aug 17, 2026
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
Article URL: https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/ Comments URL: htt...
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Aug 17, 2026
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study
Article URL: https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-li...
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Aug 17, 2026
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
Hi HN! I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-spee...
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Aug 17, 2026
Ahmad on X: "Anthropic's War on open source AI" / X
Article URL: https://twitter.com/TheAhmadOsman/status/2065307070044234186 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
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Aug 17, 2026
Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
Pretty self explanatory. Could you folks shed some light on why these issues keep happening?I’ve noticed most posts a...
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Aug 17, 2026
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
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Aug 17, 2026
Apple ordered to stop scaring iPhone and iPad users away from third-party apps
Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of gi...
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Aug 17, 2026
Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to...
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Aug 17, 2026
This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs
The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too. ...
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Aug 17, 2026
WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan
WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional website-buildin...
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Aug 17, 2026
WiiM’s capable HomePod-esque smart speaker is almost $50 off
The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiMâ€...
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Aug 17, 2026
Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules
Article URL: https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/17/judges-allegedly-relying-wholly-on-ai-in-order-is-covered-by-judicial...
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Aug 17, 2026
Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-think-theres-a-lot-of-value-in-these/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...
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Aug 17, 2026
Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
Article URL: https://piszczek.pl/blog/qwen38-27b-256k-50-tps-24gb-gpu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...
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Aug 17, 2026
Show HN: Eve Software Factory
Build a software factory in minutes with this free OSS template Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493...
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Aug 17, 2026
The only known trebuchet casualty in history
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/meet-the-only-known-trebuchet-casualty-in-history/ Comments URL: h...
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Aug 17, 2026
Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized
Hi HN, like many of you talented folk, I’ve been building more, faster than ever. I built Saggar after my terminal st...
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Aug 17, 2026
Uber partners with Zipline on Eats drone deliveries
Uber is teaming up with drone company Zipline to start airborne takeout deliveries later this year, with the goal of rea...
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Aug 17, 2026
Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX
Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers. ...
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Aug 17, 2026
How to put 170 atoms in an atom
Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/08/02/how-to-put-170-atoms-in-an-atom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...
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Aug 17, 2026
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
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Aug 17, 2026
Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz
Article URL: https://flagquizzes.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331288 Points: 5 # Comments:...
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Aug 17, 2026
Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals
Article URL: https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Meldung/EN/Pressemitteilungen/2026/08_17_2026_Apple_ATTF.html C...
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Aug 17, 2026
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
Article URL: https://www.librarian.net/notoai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331220 Points: 12 #...
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Aug 17, 2026
It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith
Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the m...
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Aug 17, 2026
Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives? Comments UR...