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US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210589 Points: 64 # Comments: 21

cdrnsf 2 weeks ago

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U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/july-jobs-report-unemployment-0d7c08a7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210240 Points: 13 # Comments: 1

JumpCrisscross 2 weeks ago

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AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91576086/ai-psychosis-is-the-new-leadership-blind-spot-ai-leadership-blind-spots Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210077 Points: 54 # Comments: 18

rwmj 2 weeks ago

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The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

Article URL: https://w.on-t.work/web-deployment-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209921 Points: 31 # Comments: 17

meetpateltech 2 weeks ago

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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209572 Points: 18 # Comments: 20

jnord 2 weeks ago

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U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/july-2026-jobs-report-rcna591138 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209546 Points: 121 # Comments: 60

ceejayoz 2 weeks ago

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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209539 Points: 157 # Comments: 254

RickJWagner 2 weeks ago

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Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

So i've been working on this project since a few days (or months i should say), it's called wyzer (meaning wiser) it's a statically typed, compiled, resource-oriented programming language with integrated distributed safety via choreographic programming and perceus memory model, The reason why i beg...

v0id_isgood 2 weeks ago

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DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/doge-savings-overstated-watchdog-report-01027797 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209368 Points: 22 # Comments: 5

ceejayoz 2 weeks ago

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The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208686 Points: 70 # Comments: 26

Anon84 2 weeks ago

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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

Article URL: https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208535 Points: 18 # Comments: 4

poly2it 2 weeks ago

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Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

Article URL: https://textlog.cc/about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208458 Points: 20 # Comments: 0

stagas 2 weeks ago

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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208393 Points: 18 # Comments: 3

m3h 2 weeks ago

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Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-plow-through-big-bend-national-park-sparking-fury-in-texas-12295668 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208341 Points: 26 # Comments: 1

almog 2 weeks ago

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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314 Points: 83 # Comments: 40

defrost 2 weeks ago

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Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges

Certo is open-source infrastructure for issuing, managing, verifying, and exchanging digital credentials.It implements Open Badges 3.0[1] and W3C Verifiable Credentials[2] which are the open standards that make credentials portable, machine-verifiable, and vendor-independent.It is designed to be:-...

thejoin95 2 weeks ago

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Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity

Article URL: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/generative-ai-the-guitar-hero-of-creativity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207770 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

cheeaun 2 weeks ago

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2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236 Points: 28 # Comments: 9

inigyou 2 weeks ago

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I've succesfully compiled Netscape 3.0.2 on a 64 Debian

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/netscape/comments/1ve7wkm/ive_succesfully_compiled_netscape_302_on_a_64/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206262 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

zekrioca 2 weeks ago

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Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day

Article URL: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-data-breach-discussion/83939 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206130 Points: 15 # Comments: 0

RobinHirst11 2 weeks ago

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Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/anthropic-ceo-reportedly-worried-hires-160000647.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206115 Points: 29 # Comments: 28

frays 2 weeks ago

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Mythos Attempted to Social Engineer Open Source Maintainer to Merge Malware

Article URL: https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-open-source-malware Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205790 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

bhavansig 2 weeks ago

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New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software

Article URL: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204546 Points: 52 # Comments: 67

champagnepapi 2 weeks ago

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Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money

Article URL: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-doge-did-not-save-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204510 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

petethomas 2 weeks ago

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