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Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-influence/2026/08/14/israeli-pr-wants-to-answer-your-chatgpt-questions-01038138 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313477 ...

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Technology Aug 15, 2026

Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter

Article URL: https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/super-el-nino-growth-accelerating-to-record-strength-fall-winte...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Job Recession in Higher Education

Article URL: https://gadlevanon.substack.com/p/job-recession-in-higher-education Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/so-how-ai-drug-discovery-doing-really Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Technology Aug 15, 2026

First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists

Article URL: https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/biotechnology/human-trial-chemogenetic-brain-therapy/104/web/2026...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

Article URL: https://github.com/wmww/tawc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313068 Points: 8 # Comme...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

Article URL: https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

BriskDB

Article URL: https://github.com/schapman1974/briskdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312707 Points...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

Article URL: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/idme-one-month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxy0wqqd9o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312413...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Don’t overlook Elektron’s budget electronic music instruments

When I'm asked what to buy if you want to get into making electronic music, I often recommend Elektron's budget-minded M...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake

Article URL: https://www.core77.com/posts/144869 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312165 Points: 20...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

I Remain a Skeptic

Article URL: https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/i-remain-a-skeptic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

Technology Aug 15, 2026

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.

Technology Aug 15, 2026

The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up

Article URL: https://sina.bio/posts/costco-hotdog.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311685 Poin...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk

Article URL: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles

"Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."

Technology Aug 15, 2026

AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-designed-virus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311445 Po...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedals

As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Star Wars: Ahsoka season 2 and Starfighter get teased at D23

Season two of Star Wars: Ahsoka is still months away, but Lucasfilm still took the opportunity to tease it a bit at D23....

Technology Aug 15, 2026

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode

Article URL: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493109...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Printytron – Type it. 3D Print it

Article URL: https://printytron.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310829 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Disney D23 2026: Everything announced for Star Wars, Marvel, and more

The annual Disney fan event showed off the cast of Marvel’s X-Men movie, plus a new trailer for Avengers: Doomsday...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

The AI Situation in Software Development

Article URL: https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310755 Po...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

I finally found a magnetic phone grip I never want to remove

I told myself I wouldn't buy an OhSnap accessory for my phone. Every one I'd tested was nice, but felt overpriced and sl...