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Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/business/energy-environment/plug-in-balcony-solar.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234393 Points: 10 # Comments: 4

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

Saying No

Article URL: https://rozumem.xyz/posts/19 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234379 Points: 15 # Comm...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

If experience is the goal, then you always win

Article URL: https://www.startingfromnix.com/p/if-experience-is-the-goal-then-you Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared)

Article URL: https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234271 Point...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

Article URL: https://openchamber.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233448 Points: 13 # Comments...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Google Caught AI Faking Creativity in Every Office in America [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O6Lwj1yjQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233415 Po...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat

Earlier this week, the Alaskan cruise ship Wilderness Legacy rescued a small skiff stranded near Farragut Bay after runn...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

Article URL: https://frequal.com/aptera/ProductionImminent.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions

Article URL: https://github.com/nMaroulis/protolink/tree/main/examples/ai_courtroom Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Banksy works cost public almost £150k

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vnny7j5zo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492329...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/fcc-moves-to-ban-lidar-equipped-foreign-drones-from-us-c...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power

Article URL: https://ai-updates.net/an-openai-strategist-says-ai-labs-should-rival-government-power/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is p...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

49ers coach says his Tesla was on Autopilot when he crashed

Four weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in an accident near downtown Palo Alto. At the time...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change

Article URL: https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change/ Comme...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account

Article URL: https://unyolo.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232548 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Article URL: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/ Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Article URL: https://alexanderwanyoike.github.io/vibez/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232369 Poi...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Article URL: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

Article URL: https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232300 Po...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reas...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-a...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.htm...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

Article URL: https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad scien...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

Article URL: https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231809 Points: ...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future

Article URL: https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231777 Poin...

Technology Aug 9, 2026

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about wheth...