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It’s Never Too Early to Start Planning for the Next Two Solar Eclipses

In 2027 and 2028, there will be two spectacular, long-duration solar eclipses. Here’s what you need to know about them.

Wired • Aug 16, 2026 • Jorge Garay
Technology Aug 16, 2026

Wildfire smoke now bigger prenatal threat than human sources of air pollution

Regulations reduced prenatal exposure to harmful emissions, but wildfire smoke is erasing gains...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Inside the Experimental Traps Scientists Set for Ghostly Neutrinos

Observatories have been built in mines, deep under the Antarctic ice sheet, and elsewhere in an effort to detect the fle...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent

Article URL: https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/grafana-agento11y-hermes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

Article URL: https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317760 Points: 12...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext

Article URL: https://github.com/jitpass/jit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317546 Points: 10 # Co...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Health benefits of Tai Chi

Article URL: https://www.health.harvard.edu/exercise-and-fitness/the-health-benefits-of-tai-chi Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/12/the-us-forgot-the-lessons-of-iraq-now-its-desperate-for-...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators

Article URL: https://breck.lol/plMakers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316888 Points: 9 # Co...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Falstad Math and Physics Simulations

Article URL: https://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316872 Point...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

21,000 MCP servers exposed: the protocol reaches a security inflection point

Article URL: https://forkast.news/the-model-context-protocol-reaches-a-security-inflection-point/ Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

I checked 30 frontier model cards. Here are the benchmarks labs report

Article URL: https://koutian.is-a.dev/benchmark-radar/?view=leaderboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Targeted marine cloud brightening weakens subsequent El Niño

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx3012 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny: Nassim Taleb

Article URL: https://nntaleb.substack.com/p/have-another-drink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

ProofRun – a local verification receipt for AI coding agents

Article URL: https://github.com/yebiguo/ProofRun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316605 Points: 4 ...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Polaroid’s tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of film

Smartphone cameras are convenient, but they lack the charm of analog instant cameras. If you’re trying to relive the n...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/stimulated-geologic-hydrogen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

It's How You Ask: Gender-Associated Linguistic Bias in LLMs

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13328 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316242 Points: 9 # C...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Guiding Ships with Moire Patterns

Article URL: https://tinkerings.org/2018/03/28/guiding-ships-with-moire-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Show HN: Mic Drop, a real-time multiplayer karaoke game

Article URL: https://www.micdrop.gg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315742 Points: 9 # Comments: ...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI

Article URL: https://waku.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315709 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

Technology Aug 16, 2026

ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year

Article URL: https://aicharts.grok.me/c/market-share Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315630 Points...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

The complete AI SEO playbook: from zero to 4.6M impressions in 3 months

Article URL: https://github.com/TraceCohenTech/ai-seo-playbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315...

Technology Aug 16, 2026

Big Pickle on SWE Atlas – Codebase QnA

Article URL: https://github.com/PhillipChaffee/big-pickle-swe-atlas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Tea5767-Radio-Tuner

Article URL: https://github.com/turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record

Article URL: https://abc7.com/story/credit-card-debt-rises-126-trillion-nearing-time-record/19667289/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind

Article URL: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/10/decoding-smell-study-reveals-how-odor-signals-shapeshift-wind Co...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13122 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314967 Points: 8 # C...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/ Comments UR...