Technology Aug 9, 2026

Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g64152v71o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228426...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age

Article URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/illinois-age-verification-bill/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction_app_store_rejection_of_the_week Comments URL: https://news.y...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents

Article URL: https://marketnow.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228086 Points: 3 # Comments: ...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/chatgpt-stops-cloning-famous-writers-voices-but-may-capture-a-similar-f...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyrzn8p94o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227686...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

"Coding is solved" misses the point

Article URL: https://blog.mastykarz.nl/coding-is-solved-misses-the-point/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

Incentives Are for Losers

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/incentives-are-for-losers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

The AI Apocalypse Is Here

Article URL: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-ai-apocalypse-is-already-here/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

TheoremDB · A public workspace for machine mathematics

Article URL: https://theoremdb.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49227505 Points: 6 # Comments: 0...

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Technology Aug 9, 2026

Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults

Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/46/Supplement_1/A34/7181621 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

Article URL: https://os8088.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923 Points: 16 # Comments: 3

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Title 7 Disparate Impact Liability Makes Almost Everything Presumptively Illegal

Article URL: https://www.nyujll.com/volume-14/title-vii-disparate-impact-liability-makes-almost-everything-presumptivel...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause

Article URL: https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/meaning-crisis-brooks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Dithered QR Codes

Article URL: https://www.andrewt.net/dithered-qr-codes/wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226742...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

My server is a phone now

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636 Points:...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260807-should-i-stop-cracking-my-knuckles Comments URL: https://news....

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

Article URL: https://shopify.engineering/scaling-inventory-reservations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"

Article URL: https://nordictimes.com/world/wikipedias-founder-on-his-lifes-work-a-propaganda-tool/ Comments URL: https:...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.

As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the l...

TechCrunch Anthony Ha

Technology Aug 8, 2026

X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’

X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon...

The Verge Terrence O’Brien

Technology Aug 8, 2026

Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack

Article URL: https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-park-follow...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]

Article URL: https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%20Wigner)....

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.

TechCrunch Anthony Ha

Technology Aug 8, 2026

Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

Article URL: https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country

To power its new West Texas data center, Amazon is investing in the construction of a new power plant that could be one ...

The Verge Terrence O’Brien

Technology Aug 8, 2026

TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS

Article URL: https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

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Technology Aug 8, 2026

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments UR...

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