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=...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

Article URL: https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/ Comments URL: htt...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)

Article URL: https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314884 Points: 6 ...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Oracle – a photorealistic browser for every Magic card ever printed

Article URL: https://magic-oracle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314869 Points: 3 # Comments...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Triple Product Rule of Partial Derivatives

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_product_rule Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise

Article URL: https://bribes.fyi/compare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314765 Points: 10 # Commen...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history

Article URL: https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/ Comments URL: https://news...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback

At D23, when asked about the potential for a sequel to the cult classic The Simpsons: Hit & Run game, Matt Groening ...

The Verge Terrence O’Brien

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Modeling and Verification of Keeta's Consensus [pdf]

Article URL: https://xescu.re/keeta-consensus.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314642 Points: 3...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, has died

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/digital-signal-processing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314596 Poin...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Show HN: Live Claude Usage HUD for a $38 Thermalright Trofeo Vision LCD

Article URL: https://github.com/christensen143/claude-trofeo-hud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

Article URL: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

No-New-Physics Consciousness

Article URL: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/no-new-physics-consciousness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

TechCrunch Anthony Ha

Technology Aug 15, 2026

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event

Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter ...

Ars Technica Jennifer Ouellette

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI

Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-be...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Cornell: Pro Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to US or Lose Funding

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/14/cornell-pro-palestine-student-targeting-ice/ Comments URL: https://new...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 Po...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter...

The Verge Terrence O’Brien

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Humazon

Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/humazon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313941 Points: 4 # Com...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313920 Po...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports

I reverse engineered the latest Kimi Work desktop app just for fun, I know I'm a nerd.Anyway, I found something a bit c...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz97ljy91zxo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313519...

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