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Trump is upping the price of Big Tech’s favorite visahttps://www.theverge.com/policy/984723/trump-h1b-fee-asylum-legal-immigration

In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, according to The Associated Press, would be […]

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Show HN: Flinch – a Dutch auction for one ad slot that never endshttps://flinch.auction

Article URL: https://flinch.auction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440998 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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How to evaluate LLMs before productionhttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/llms/how-to-evaluate-llms-before-production

These are the lessons we learned evaluating LLMs for real-world secret scanning. The post How to evaluate LLMs before production appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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The Best Early Labor Day Kitchen Deals to Ease You Back Into Fall (2026)https://www.wired.com/story/early-labor-day-kitchen-appliance-deals-2026

With school and sports starting again, these discounts on Instant Pots, cookware, and coffee gear arrive right on time.

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Show HN: Codex / Claude Code harness for Java high performance improvementshttps://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers/io.github.JAIPilot%2Fjaipilot/versions/6.4.2

Article URL: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers/io.github.JAIPilot%2Fjaipilot/versions/6.4.2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440860 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Ecdeos – P2P Web/Native Distributed OS on Entity Core Protocolhttps://ecdeos.org

Hello, I wanted to share an update of the current progress of the Entity System. https://ecdeos.org is one domain in a constellation of peers/sites that is the main project of the Entity System, a Tauri Rust/WASM browser engine and Rust backend built on the Entity Core Protocol. It's primarily a research prototype of a P2P distributed cross-platform userspace operating system. The long-term goal is functional P2P management of devices and applications, scaling from individual use (managing personal devices, apps and servers) to multi-user organizations with internal services/application stack…

Hidden Prompts Trick AI Into False Email Summarieshttps://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/hidden-prompts-trick-ai-false-email-summaries

With some simple HTML that's invisible to users, attackers can manipulate AI-powered email summarizers into producing malicious information.

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A new stamp on cyberfraud preventionhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140914/a-new-stamp-on-cyberfraud-prevention

For Rupert Young ’95, SM ’95, his career in data science and cybersecurity began when his grandfather gifted him thousands of stamps: He built intricate databases to catalogue them, displaying the β€œprecise eye” for detail and nuance that his MIT application essay said would make him a good engineer. Young is now chief product officer…

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Launching youth entrepreneurshiphttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140911/launching-youth-entrepreneurship

Even as a teenager, Laurie Stach ’06 says, she had a β€œcrazy ambition to take on the world and solve problems.” At MIT, she realized she wasn’t the only one. β€œAdults always see these youth who are good at math and science and say, β€˜You’re going to do great thingsβ€”someday,’” says Stach. β€œMeanwhile, traditional education…

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YouTuber finds niche as college admissions mentorhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140905/youtuber-finds-niche-as-college-admissions-mentor

As a first-generation student from a small town, Gohar Khan ’21 had to navigate the college admissions process largely on his own. He founded his YouTube channel, Gohar’s Guide, to make things easier for other young people. Today, more than 10 million people follow Khan on social media for college application advice, study tips, and…

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Addressing a sticking point in sustainable adhesiveshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140902/addressing-a-sticking-point-in-sustainable-adhesives

Petroleum-based adhesives are everywhere: bonding the wood and drywall in a construction project, holding together the joints of furniture, and even sticking labels to otherwise recyclable containers.Β  β€œThe labels on a container are held up with petroleum-based glue. And because of that, even though you’re putting the container in the recycle bin, it will not…

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Check out this cool Cyberpunk 2077-edition Commodore 64https://www.engadget.com/2243450/commodore-64-cyberpunk-2077-commodore-77-edition

The revived Commodore has teamed up with CD Projekt Red to create this 2K77-themed Commodore 77.

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Amping up T cells to target cancerhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140949/amping-up-t-cells-to-target-cancer

Vaccines that turn the body’s immune system against tumors have shown promise in clinical trials, and a handful have been FDA approved for certain cancers. In many patients, however, these vaccines don’t stimulate enough of a response, and the approach some researchers have taken to strengthening itβ€”delivering the vaccine along with immune-stimulating molecules called cytokinesβ€”can…

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AgeLab research inspires an A I startuphttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140917/agelab-research-inspires-an-a-i-startup

When Don Yansen ’63 arrived at theΒ MIT AgeLab for a study on technology in careΒ­giving for older adults, he didn’t plan to launch another company. But when he heard participants talk about how hard modern devices can be to use, he decided to develop an alternative. Yansen, a serial entrepreneur who retired to care for…

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When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larsonhttps://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability

Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440410 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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South Carolina U.S. senate runoff election will test Trump's endorsementhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5943041/south-carolina-u-s-senate-runoff-election-will-test-trumps-endorsement

The primary runoff in South Carolina between Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman is another test of President Trump's influence. He's backing Darline, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham.

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X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scrapinghttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping.

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At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryptionhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/984677/inscryption-humble-daniel-mullins-pony-island-deal-sale

If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Island 2: Panda Circus, a game from Daniel Mullins. In case you haven’t heard of him, get a crash course with a fantastic discount on Inscryption. Humble is currently selling Steam versions of the secret-packed deckbuilder for […]

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'We used flour for powder' - Dolly reflects on early life in 1979 BBC interviewhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c20ljj1e9z5o

The singer spoke candidly about her childhood in rural Tennessee, her family's poverty, and the determination that helped her rise to international stardom.

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The Witcher 3 is getting a remasterhttps://www.theverge.com/games/984680/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-remastered-launch-date-trailer

CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered will bring improvements to visuals and combat, a "reimagined" skill tree, and more, and it also includes the first two […]

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Show HN: I built a spatial graph alternative to the algorithmic feedhttps://aphant.dev

Article URL: https://aphant.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439997 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Feral – one local brain with memory for your devices and appshttps://github.com/FERAL-AI/FERAL-AI

Article URL: https://github.com/FERAL-AI/FERAL-AI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439940 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Tech Lifehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct8jyb

The government agency that's encouraging high-risk and high-reward research.

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Finding Nemo(Claw): Networking Issue Allows for LLM Poisoning in OpenClawhttps://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/nemo-claw-networking-llm-poisoning-openclaw

Attackers can exploit a security bug in NVIDIA's tool to gain unauthenticated access to the local model server through the Ollama API, paving the way for persistent AI agent corruption.

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Show HN: Sillage a 4 MB memory that lets a frozen language>model rememberhttps://github.com/riscoss63/sillage

Article URL: https://github.com/riscoss63/sillage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439609 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Fernandes and Shaw win PFA player of the year awardshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckgwj62e5yno

Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes and Manchester City forward Khadija Shaw win the Professional Footballers' Associations men's and women's player of the year awards.

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PGA Tour play-off shake-up a 'big swing' - McIlroyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/articles/cm2q4n5r98mo

Back-to-back Masters champion Rory McIlroy believes the PGA Tour are giving fans what they want by changing their end-of-season play-offs to matchplay.

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Show HN: MiniMax H3 – Turn text and images into AI video clipshttps://minimax3.com

Article URL: https://minimax3.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439577 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Perplexity Portable Computerhttps://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-portable-computer-for-local-first-ai

Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-portable-computer-for-local-first-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439535 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Realityhttps://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html

Article URL: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/android-c2pa.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439499 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

Show HN: Oynix – Make your coding agent aware of your whole codebase, locallyhttps://oynix.dev

Article URL: https://oynix.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439439 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: AI SEO Blog driven by deep competitor intelligencehttps://www.rankspot.ai

Article URL: https://www.rankspot.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439372 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Unauthenticated remote uninstall in my own EDR agent, and the four other auth bugs that turned out to be the same bughttps://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1vy9rkb/unauthenticated_remote_uninstall_in_my_own_edr

Sentora is my own project, so this is a postmortem on my own code, not someone else's. The agent shipped this: @/app.post("/self_destruct") async def self_destruct(request: Request): threading.Thread(target=perform_destruction, daemon=True).start() return sanic_json({"status": "Destruction initiated"}) No auth. Listening on 0.0.0.0:9099 . perform_destruction() ran rm -rf "$(pwd)" . One unauthenticated POST from anywhere on the subnet uninstalled the EDR. The four others: Permissive auth on by default. A _is_permissive_auth() helper accepted any non-empty X-Agent-Key when a specific env var wa…

Instagram’s β€˜First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedioushttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/instagrams-first-draft-feature-aims-to-make-editing-reels-less-tedious

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out β€œFirst Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut.Β  Instagram says the process can produce […]

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Show HN: MulmoTerminal – Run many Claude Code sessions, see which needs youhttps://github.com/receptron/mulmoterminal

Article URL: https://github.com/receptron/mulmoterminal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439218 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Spanish government says sorry to people of Ceuta for migrant crisishttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dl7dykrnvo

Several thousand migrants remain in the enclave after a mass crossing from Morocco in late July.

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Show HN: CuMetal – Run CUDA Programs on Apple Silicon via Metalhttps://github.com/Lulzx/cuda-metal

An experimental CUDA compatibility layer that runs a useful subset of CUDA programs on Apple Silicon GPUs through Metal. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439078 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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FDA Authorizes First Wearable Device That Monitors Ketone and Glucose Levelshttps://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar

Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439017 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: GateProof: offline-first event check-in, no backend, no guest list leakhttps://gateproof.app

Article URL: https://gateproof.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439006 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling β€˜high-end’ AI servers to Chinahttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/25/taiwan-china-ai-smugglers

Among those charged are two Super Micro employees and one from Nvidia, marking another flashpoint in US-China AI rivalry Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for illegally exporting β€œhigh-end AI servers” to mainland China, adding another wave of turbulence in the AI ​​rivalry between China and the United States. Prosecutors said the servers involved were graphics processing units known as β€œB300,” which have been banned from sale to China. Continue reading...

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Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenterhttps://github.com/gbin/defragger

Article URL: https://github.com/gbin/defragger Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438865 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is deadhttps://www.theverge.com/transportation/984485/dreame-rocket-car-shut-down

Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina, the company's automotive division called "Project Starry Sky" once employed over 1,000 people, but now only a handful legal and HR staffers remain, charged with […]

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Show HN: Ifso – a personal finance simulator for major life decisionshttps://ifso.io

Hello all! Ifso is a personal finance simulator that takes all of your various accounts (like taxable brokerages, retirement accounts, loans, etc) and various life events (like income changes, retirement, purchasing a home, increasing principal contributions to your home mortgage, etc.) and plays it out year by year for you. The simulation engine underneath the hood handles all of the tax math, capital gains math, investment growth rates, home appreciation, vehicle depreciation, loan amortization, and more. You can then create multiple scenarios by duplicating an existing one or creating a fr…

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Show HN: FetchMark – An Offline-first read-later app with AI summarieshttps://fetchmarkapp.com

Article URL: https://fetchmarkapp.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438682 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold Review: Better, Not Besthttps://www.wired.com/review/google-pixel-11-pro-fold

A polished update to Google’s foldable brings real improvements, but the price bump and rampant competition make it a tough sell.

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Show HN: Acurite 433MHz Sensor to Weather Underground via RTL-SDRhttps://github.com/lowerpower/wu-upload

Article URL: https://github.com/lowerpower/wu-upload Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438674 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Dolly Parton Has Diedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438661 Points: 14 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: Limitless Library – AI agents check first before starting from scratchhttps://github.com/Univeracity/limitlesslibrary

Article URL: https://github.com/Univeracity/limitlesslibrary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438658 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Dolly Parton: A life in pictureshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx2k07g6ldo

The singer rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world.

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Littler's Players Championship hopes dentedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/articles/c36ln69p1ldo

Luke Littler loses to Jermaine Wattimena in the quarter-finals of the 27th Players Championship contest of the year.

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Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agentshttps://pgbot.dev

Article URL: https://pgbot.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438492 Points: 3 # Comments: 3

How to turn off Find My iPhone (and when you definitely should)https://www.engadget.com/2242751/how-to-turn-off-find-my-iphone-when-should

Find My is a vital iPhone security feature that you should keep on almost all the time. Turning it off makes your device much harder to recover.

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Show HN: Wireshark in a TUIhttps://github.com/yeet-src/pktscope

Article URL: https://github.com/yeet-src/pktscope Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438446 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

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Dolly Parton: The life of a legendary country singerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c7831ld8e73o

Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her family announced on her social media.

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A Message from the Family of Dolly Partonhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DceNXgPJyZ9

Article URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DceNXgPJyZ9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438407 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Dribbling the AI Watermark Directly In-Prompthttps://www.explore-exploit.com/p/dribbling-the-ai-watermark-directly

Article URL: https://www.explore-exploit.com/p/dribbling-the-ai-watermark-directly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438392 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: I Designed a Quantum Computerhttps://github.com/50shadesofgwei/pathfinder-pic-ion-chip

I am posting a design for a quantum computer because I would like to speak with experts and people interested in hacking together physical quantum computers. This is an exploratory design and is an attempt to reason through quantum computation from first principles. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438366 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: InferIt – a word puzzle where the guesses have been madehttps://brej.org/inferit

Article URL: https://brej.org/inferit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438355 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Dolly Parton, one of country music's most singular performers, has died at age 80https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-3650175/dolly-parton-obituary

The artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.

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U.S. Sanctions Iran-Linked Hackers Behind Critical Infrastructure Breacheshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/us-sanctions-iran-linked-hackers-behind.html

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced fresh sanctions on Iranian cyber actors as part of what it called an "unprecedented, whole-of-government, economic campaign" against the nation and its enablers. "We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime

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