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Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313047 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

Article URL: https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845 Points: 12 # Comments: 5

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Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

Article URL: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/08/desktop-calendar-a-design-journey/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312823 Points: 10 # Comments: 2

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BriskDB

Article URL: https://github.com/schapman1974/briskdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312707 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

Article URL: https://www.treasurydirect.gov/savings-bonds/idme-one-month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312465 Points: 16 # Comments: 13

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Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxy0wqqd9o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312413 Points: 31 # Comments: 11

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The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake

Article URL: https://www.core77.com/posts/144869 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312165 Points: 31 # Comments: 13

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A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312008 Points: 20 # Comments: 0

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Semaglutide linked to 26% lower 5-year predicted dementia risk

Article URL: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651 Points: 25 # Comments: 10

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AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-designed-virus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311445 Points: 15 # Comments: 4

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A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode

Article URL: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310926 Points: 24 # Comments: 1

sensanaty 5 hours ago

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Printytron – Type it. 3D Print it

Article URL: https://printytron.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310829 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

statenjason 5 hours ago

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The AI Situation in Software Development

Article URL: https://srikanth.ch/posts/the-ai-situation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310755 Points: 20 # Comments: 8

srikanthdotch 5 hours ago

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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310725 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-diagnosis-180989235/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310682 Points: 60 # Comments: 13

gmays 5 hours ago

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Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

Article URL: https://alexrios.me/blog/writergate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310623 Points: 20 # Comments: 6

signa11 5 hours ago

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Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

Hi! This is my little project introducing quasicrystals animations with some parameters. It uses a custom shader to allow higher resolution.Not all combinations look equally good. For example the "Spectrum" color palette IMO makes sense only for low values of "Tempo" and "Pattern Density".If you ha...

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Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

Article URL: http://www.stephen-cresswell.com/2026/08/15/Yadda-3.0.0-BDD-in-the-Age-of-AI-Agents.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310495 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

scresswell 5 hours ago

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Could a computer scientist build a brain?

Article URL: https://stankerstjens.github.io/could-a-computer-scientist-build-a-brain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310362 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

ogundipeore 6 hours ago

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Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline

Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/filters/brazil_2026_election_filter.rs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310291 Points: 25 # Comments: 19

LorenDB 6 hours ago

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388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/388-years-ago-galileo-worked-out-why-human-giants-cant-exist-and-explained-a-law-of-nature/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310277 Points: 13 # Comments: 9

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Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest

Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-brain-rem-eeg.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310248 Points: 15 # Comments: 3

gmays 6 hours ago

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GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

Article URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/genrec-towards-llm-native-recommendation-at-netflix-f20be6f643e3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310177 Points: 17 # Comments: 13

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Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking

Article URL: https://hormuz.now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310170 Points: 24 # Comments: 29

jonbaer 6 hours ago

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