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This AI startup is using self-driving car technology to bring 3D video to live sports (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: peripheral labs, self-driving car, 3d video

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Traffic Deaths Rise 15% on Days Major Albums Are Released, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: traffic deaths, album releases, smartphones

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OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: openai, chatgpt, codex

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WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Sarah Perez | tags: wordpress.com, automattic, wordpress software

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Judge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV data — court rules station owns 50TB of data in Iron Mountain servers after host went under (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nine pbs, iron mountain, open source storage

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Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Eugene Volokh | tags: judicial immunity, artificial intelligence, gloria navarro

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How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: mongodb, heidi, scribe

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Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Michał Piszczek | tags: qwen3.8, nvidia rtx pro 4000, llama.cpp

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The only known trebuchet casualty in history (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: trebuchet, stirling castle, paleopathology

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How to put 170 atoms in an atom (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by .Wp-Block-Post-Author Box-Sizing Border-Box Display Flex Flex-Wrap Wrap .Wp-Block-Post-Author__Byline Font-Size Margin-Bottom Margin-Top Width | tags: rydberg atoms, electron excitation, atomic nucleus

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This Orca Hunt Left Behind a Brutal Scene—and the Photo Just Won an Award (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: orca, ocean photographer, 2026

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Does whispering to agents in docs help? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti | tags: ai agents, documentation, markdown

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Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: apple tracking transparency, bundeskartellamt, app store

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How to disable or avoid intrusive AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: adobe acrobat, generative ai, gemini app

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This iPad keyboard case is the perfect addition to our Back to School tech roundup (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Sponsored Post | tags: apple, inateck, ipad

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Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma” (futurism.com)

2026-08-17 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: farnsley middle school, george washington university, hallucinations

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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: flat chair, sara paculdo, fiberglass

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Bridging Math, Standards, and AI in Education: An Interview with Dr. Robby Robson, 2026 Hans Karlsson Standards Award Recipient (computer.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: ieee computer society, eduworks corporation, hans karlsson standards award

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From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-08-17 | by Andrej Zdravkovic | tags: amd, large language models, ai agents

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How to ship a database every day (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: turbopuffer, aws, gcp

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Papa Johns’ CEO Just Named His Company’s ‘Achilles Heel’ — Here’s What He’s Doing About It (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-17 | by Jon Small | tags: papa johns, todd penegor, restaurant evaluations

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Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: trebuchet, stirling castle, paleopathology

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GitHub down again? no PR access (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: github, githubstatus, pull requests

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Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: github, githubstatus, server outage

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AI-generated text should be detectable, but Apple needs to avoid Anthropic’s huge error (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-17 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: anthropic, apple, claude

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Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: uber, zipline, drones

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America's largest grid wants to cut power to new data centers first during shortages — 50MW-plus data centers must bring their own electricity generation to avoid shutoffs (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-17 | by Luke James | tags: pjm interconnection, data centers, federal energy regulatory commission

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Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-17 | by Ivan Mehta | tags: wispr, menlo ventures, ai dictation

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OpenAI's Brockman brushes off concerns about leadership changes in CNBC exclusive (cnbc.com)

2026-08-17 | by Ashley Capoot | tags: openai, chatgpt, anthropic

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OpenAI Locks In Lease for Huge Data Center in Ohio With Backing From Nvidia (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-17 | tags: openai, nvidia, softbank