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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: curious, curious lately, lately

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No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives (theverge.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: episode, episodes, hours

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Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: drone, drones, group

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Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: arrange, audio, automation

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Noctua finds more than half of tested PC cases misstate CPU cooler clearances — hands-on checks reveal errors ranging from -3.5mm to +10mm, internal compatibility team conducted measurements of more than a hundred cases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: case, cooler, larger

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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: change, document, file

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This scrapped Apple Upgrade feature would’ve made setup much more seamless (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, backup, feature

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A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Terence Tao | tags: argument, conjecture, function

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This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-09 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: camera, cameras, detection

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x64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrives — you can now run this seminal 1990 word processor natively in Windows 11 (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: code, github, microsoft

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If You’re Hoping to Collect on Apple’s $250M AI iPhone Settlement, You’ll Have to Wait a Year (cnet.com)

2026-08-09 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: apple, features, intelligence

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Everything you do is being recorded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-09 | by Ross Andersen | tags: algorithms, noise, recorded

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Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-09 | tags: eruption, mount, park

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Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Justin Pot | tags: meetily, meeting, open

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The Real Victims of the AI Surveillance Panopticon? Crime Fiction Writers (futurism.com)

2026-08-09 | by Frank Landymore | tags: cameras, crime, flock

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iOS 27: The easiest beta to forget about (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: beta, course, phone

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: effectiveness, effectiveness mathematics, mathematics

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Google is making it easier to add new sources to Gemini Notebook (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: add source, change, gemini

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Google Photos users report handy drag-to-select feature has disappeared (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: drag, feature, google

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The 4 Seasons of an Entrepreneur’s Journey — and How Each One Changes Your Priorities (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mike Feazel | tags: career, future, maxx

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The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: century, light, light possible

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Before ‘Lanterns,’ Check Out the ‘Green Lantern’ Cartoon (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: animated, green, green lantern

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Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Manuviraj Godara | tags: added, answer, anthropic

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Here’s why Apple is skipping its M6 Pro and M6 Max chips to accelerate M7 launch (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-08 | by Michael Burkhardt | tags: apple, chip, neural

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Here’s how we played the massive rebound in AI stocks this week (cnbc.com)

2026-08-08 | by Alexa Lomonaco | tags: ai infrastructure, infrastructure, nvidia

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Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta (engadget.com)

2026-08-08 | by Devindra Hardawar | tags: community, fitness, members

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Hugging Face hack marks start of dangerous AI cyber era and many firms 'don't even know it' (cnbc.com)

2026-08-08 | by Samantha Subin | tags: agents, cybersecurity, face

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The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: curiosity, distance, mars

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DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-08 | tags: hurricane, jamaica, model

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Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Dell Cameron | tags: nexar, openai, security