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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Article URL: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-something-meta-is-doing-with-little-consequence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550 Points: 123 # Comments: 14

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Stop Eating Lady Gaga's Oreos

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379253 Points: 47 # Comments: 6

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GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/08/19/github-autoscaling-and-the-component-substitution-fallacy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379026 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957 Points: 74 # Comments: 83

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Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

Article URL: https://tidalcycles.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378950 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

gjvc 3 days ago

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SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

Article URL: https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378933 Points: 12 # Comments: 2

hurrrr 3 days ago

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Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah.I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'm finding it more and more tedious to write fu...

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Seeking God in Science Part 10.5: The Mind-Body Problem (Take 2)

Article URL: http://blog.rongarret.info/2026/08/seeking-god-in-science-part-105-mind.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378724 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

lisper 3 days ago

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Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions

Article URL: https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378630 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

Akasci 3 days ago

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Why Aren't Smart People Happier?

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378446 Points: 14 # Comments: 21

rafaelc 3 days ago

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TrueForge – The open-source agent harness

Article URL: https://github.com/truefoundry/trueforge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378419 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Kandelo – a POSIX-compatible multi-process WASM kernel for the browser

Kandelo is an open-source, Wasm-based multi-process kernel that runs POSIX programs in browsers and Node.js.Kandelo is still experimental, but it already runs a substantial range of existing software.Do you have use cases for this?We are trying Kandelo as a new foundation for WordPress Playground w...

brandonpayton 3 days ago

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Consumer Rights Wiki

Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378243 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

gregsadetsky 3 days ago

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Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)

Article URL: https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377923 Points: 14 # Comments: 6

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I should have loved biology

Article URL: https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377853 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

tyre 3 days ago

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Project Cybersyn

Article URL: https://bactra.org/notebooks/cybersyn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377739 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

cassepipe 3 days ago

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Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it

Since April, I have been working with Sam Flynn (https://drook.dev) to make this balloon payload, UpLink. We did a similar launch last year with Hack Club but this was our first independent launch.UpLink was a 491 gram payload testing the insulation properties of 3D printing filaments, while also t...

radeeyate 3 days ago

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URL shortener links stored in your ATProto PDS

Article URL: https://atpr.to/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377535 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

jcbhmr 3 days ago

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The Defense-Tech Bubble Is Headed for Consolidation

Article URL: https://foxandlion.pub/analysis/the-defense-tech-bubble-is-headed-for-consolidation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377249 Points: 11 # Comments: 3

asdfwebdf 3 days ago

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Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377248 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

HPMOR 3 days ago

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How to compromise your system with a job interview

Article URL: https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376332 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Linux 7.2 Released

Article URL: https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376265 Points: 11 # Comments: 0

mariuz 3 days ago

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Generic Methods in Go 1.27

Article URL: https://dominik.info/blog/go-generic-methods Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49376211 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

EspressoGPT 3 days ago

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Launch HN: Vendo (YC S26) – Let users build features on top of your product

Hi HN, we’re Yousef & Nour, founders of Vendo (https://vendo.run). Vendo lets users create new features inside the software they already use. A user describes the dashboard, workflow, or small app they need, and Vendo builds it on top of the product’s existing data, API, and interface.Demo: https:/...

yousefh409 3 days ago

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