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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

Article URL: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-main-way-ive-seen-people-turn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235349 Points: 68 # Comments: 46

mef 2 weeks ago

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Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

I've been working on a simple multiplayer word game called Alphabet Soup.It's a bit like NYT Spelling Bee, except it's multiplayer and only your best (longest) word counts toward your score. So, instead of trying to find as many words as possible, the game is more about finding one unusually good w...

johnchinjew 2 weeks ago

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Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/08/09/poland-now-sixth-largest-eu-economy-ahead-of-switzerland-and-belgium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235323 Points: 57 # Comments: 45

andrewstetsenko 2 weeks ago

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Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

Article URL: https://github.com/yegors/deGDID Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235242 Points: 24 # Comments: 11

campuscodi 2 weeks ago

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The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235011 Points: 15 # Comments: 2

simonpure 2 weeks ago

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Two wheels, a few tradeoffs, and gas prices

Article URL: https://blog.raed.dev/posts/motocycle/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234980 Points: 15 # Comments: 14

Raed667 2 weeks ago

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Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/09/ransomware-gangs-skip-the-ceo-head-straight-for-the-40-something-it-manager/5284499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234724 Points: 12 # Comments: 0

joebuckwilliams 2 weeks ago

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

Article URL: https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/blog/articles/how-i-use-llms-to-learn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234675 Points: 67 # Comments: 27

laurentiurad 2 weeks ago

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A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite

Article URL: https://github.com/nsrht/time-travel-sqlite-debugger Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234506 Points: 13 # Comments: 2

thunderbong 2 weeks ago

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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: 6 # Comments: 1

bookofjoe 2 weeks ago

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Saying No

Article URL: https://rozumem.xyz/posts/19 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234379 Points: 55 # Comments: 43

rozumem 2 weeks ago

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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.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234279 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

jger15 2 weeks ago

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I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]

Article URL: https://mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=20260803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49234271 Points: 37 # Comments: 14

gregsadetsky 2 weeks ago

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OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

Article URL: https://openchamber.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233448 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

hexomancer 2 weeks ago

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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=49233423 Points: 21 # Comments: 47

david927 2 weeks ago

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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 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

Bender 2 weeks ago

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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=49233394 Points: 11 # Comments: 3

TeaVMFan 2 weeks ago

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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.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233306 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

nmaroulis21 2 weeks ago

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Banksy works cost public almost £150k

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vnny7j5zo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232942 Points: 18 # Comments: 35

alvis 2 weeks ago

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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-classifies-the-technology-as-military-grade-in-a-proposal-that-could-also-hit-thermal-models-and-the-swarms-used-drone-light-shows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

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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: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232778 Points: 4 # Comments: 2

ashurandi 2 weeks ago

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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

hosolmaz 2 weeks ago

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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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232410 Points: 12 # Comments: 1

shayonj 2 weeks ago

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Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Article URL: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232318 Points: 40 # Comments: 2

iamnothere 2 weeks ago

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