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Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260811052857.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321783 Points: 11 # Comments: 5

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A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

Article URL: https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Points: 5 # Comments: 2

Narishma 1 week ago

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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321353 Points: 29 # Comments: 3

brandonb 1 week ago

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The weekend is 100 years old

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/aug/16/the-weekend-is-100-years-old-skiveday-fridays-and-hybrid-working-ruined-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320984 Points: 44 # Comments: 10

lentil_soup 1 week ago

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St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

Article URL: https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control-rods-drop-into-reactor-core Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320856 Points: 44 # Comments: 16

toomuchtodo 1 week ago

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GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/gps-and-the-lost-art-of-getting-lost Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320673 Points: 13 # Comments: 8

karakoram 1 week ago

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The AI Credit Resale Economy

Article URL: https://vectoral.com/blog/who-are-the-token-brokers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320611 Points: 45 # Comments: 11

mlenhard 1 week ago

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Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/15/anthropic-revenue-jumps-to-over-11point5-billion-in-q2-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320144 Points: 7 # Comments: 4

AnodicElegy 1 week ago

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Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

Article URL: https://tasklet.ai/careers/head-of-design-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319892 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

mayop100 1 week ago

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Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

Article URL: https://wildstatic.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319814 Points: 15 # Comments: 4

adjohu 1 week ago

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A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life

Article URL: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA4335-1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319727 Points: 29 # Comments: 16

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Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

Article URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633 Points: 9 # Comments: 5

pentagrama 1 week ago

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Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?

Article URL: https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/what-to-do-when-tokens-run-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319582 Points: 16 # Comments: 13

fullautomation 1 week ago

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Banned Words List

Article URL: https://pen.org/banned-words-list/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319573 Points: 47 # Comments: 17

structuredPizza 1 week ago

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Claude: System Prompts

Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319556 Points: 39 # Comments: 15

tosh 1 week ago

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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

Article URL: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319389 Points: 41 # Comments: 20

Alifatisk 1 week ago

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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

Article URL: https://ei3lh.eu/2026/08/16/a-true-telnet-bbs-on-a-casio-calculator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319349 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

austinallegro 1 week ago

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Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/UJ4vH2F-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319215 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

shivsak 1 week ago

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Access to telemetry data: Automotive industry criticizes intelligence reform

Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Access-to-telemetry-data-Automotive-industry-criticizes-intelligence-reform-11414994.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319170 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

_____k 1 week ago

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AI Coding Without the Vibes

Article URL: https://peterbloem.nl/blog/craft-coding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318735 Points: 24 # Comments: 7

riskone 1 week ago

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Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent

Article URL: https://github.com/alexander-akhmetov/grafana-agento11y-hermes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318128 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

eventuallyacat 1 week ago

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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: 62 # Comments: 40

porridgeraisin 1 week ago

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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: 21 # Comments: 13

bukershok 1 week ago

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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-ideas-on-iran-01033217 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317234 Points: 26 # Comments: 4

hebelehubele 1 week ago

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