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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

(www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-buy-hugging-face-13-billion-dollars-2026-8)

568 points by mfiguiere 4 hours ago | loading comments

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

(github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive)

228 points by GrumpySciGuy 3 hours ago | loading comments

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

(www.mturk.com/)

213 points by tmp10423288442 5 hours ago | loading comments

Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97

(news.jp/i/1465528042000662661)

87 points by phantomathkg 2 hours ago | loading comments

GLM-5.3-Flash

(z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash)

937 points by Philpax 15 hours ago | loading comments

Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2

(asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2/)

150 points by pizzaiolo 6 hours ago | loading comments

Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane

(github.com/tailscale/tailcat)

510 points by nderjung 11 hours ago | loading comments

Laion Big Video Dataset

(projects.laion.ai/bvd/)

28 points by ks2048 3 hours ago | loading comments

AWS Acquires DuckLabs

(ducklabs.com/news/2026/08/26/ducklabs-to-join-aws)

1008 points by onderkalaci 16 hours ago | loading comments

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Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

(nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022/nhess-22-3765-2022.html)

102 points by totetsu 6 hours ago | loading comments

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An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation

(lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/)

347 points by Velocifyer 11 hours ago | loading comments

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Zohran and the Short Link

(iamwillwang.com/notes/zohran-and-the-short-link/)

146 points by wxw 5 hours ago | loading comments

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U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

(www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23)

374 points by sss111 11 hours ago | loading comments

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Stripe acquires Clerky

(www.clerky.com/blog/clerky-is-joining-stripe)

113 points by zakshay 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

(qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next)

652 points by tosh 16 hours ago | loading comments

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Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

(twitterwebviewer.com/)

364 points by motownphilly 15 hours ago | loading comments

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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

(openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/)

214 points by amrrs 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

(www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes-first-startup-to-ever-enrich-natural-uranium-to-produce-haleu)

145 points by dsalzman 9 hours ago | loading comments

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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela

(hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/)

217 points by gedankenstuecke 11 hours ago | loading comments

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FDA approves first in class targeted therapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer

(www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer)

185 points by leopoldj 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

(acceptmarkdown.com/)

107 points by tilt 9 hours ago | loading comments

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IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE

(newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-24-ibm-unveils-next-generation-dual-architecture-processor-for-ibm-z-and-linuxone)

103 points by porridgeraisin 8 hours ago | loading comments

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GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?

(isgithubcooked.com/)

206 points by toomanyrichies 9 hours ago | loading comments

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Nebula Sans

(www.nebulasans.com)

368 points by GavinAnderegg 14 hours ago | loading comments

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The Harness Is the Thing

(scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/)

68 points by sfryxell 12 hours ago | loading comments

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Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

(arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228)

96 points by matt_d 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

(economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/20/humanity-has-the-debate-about-ai-consciousness-backwards)

14 points by semiquaver 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Getting video models to learn better, faster

(www.linum.ai/field-notes/data-filtering-gen-video)

15 points by schopra909 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

(farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/)

257 points by speckx 14 hours ago | loading comments

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Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies

(www.risklytics.ai/)

47 points by AlexRisio 13 hours ago | loading comments