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Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stoolhttps://www.theverge.com/games/984869/ikea-xbox-yxstaby-collection-thumbstick-stool

Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby collection (good luck pronouncing that) includes a TV stand, laptop stand, side table, lounge chair, and multi-functional toolbox, with standout products like a stool, cushion, […]

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Man City to make offer for Β£120m-rated Fernandezhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgewvygeq8vo

Manchester City are set to make an opening offer for priority midfield target Enzo Fernandez.

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What will the energy cap changes mean for my bills?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd29v8mp9jo

The regulator Ofgem says the price cap will increase by 4% in October for millions of households.

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Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: datahttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260826-social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-australian-under-16s-after-ban-data

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260826-social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-australian-under-16s-after-ban-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446221 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Show HN: WFY24 weather widget with hyper-local forecastinghttps://wordpress.org/plugins/wfy24-weather-widget

Article URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wfy24-weather-widget/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445943 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

COMIC: 7 lifestyle habits that may boost your chances of getting pregnanthttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5843276/lifestyle-habits-that-boost-fertility-pregnancy

This illustrated guide has evidence-backed advice on how to support fertility for both men and women, including which foods to eat and which activities to avoid.

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Show HN: Banking Access Index – 19 US banking providers, 8 countries, CC-BYhttps://www.globalsolo.global/data/banking-access-index

Article URL: https://www.globalsolo.global/data/banking-access-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445908 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Banking Access Index – 19 US banking providers, 8 countries, CC-BYhttps://www.globalsolo.global/data/banking-access-index

Article URL: https://www.globalsolo.global/data/banking-access-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445908 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Soaring summer power bills spark protests -- and even disconnectionshttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5943289/electric-bills-summer-heat-oklahoma-power

The price of electricity is soaring in the summer heat, when fans and air conditioners are working nonstop. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, people are having their power cut when they can't pay their bills.

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Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival – a game so grotesque it scares its own directorhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/26/clive-barkers-hellraiser-revival

With oversight from Clive Barker himself, and a role reprisal as Pinhead from actor Doug Bradley, Revival aims to introduce new audiences to the discomfort of Hellraiser If a horror game gives its own director a physical reaction, it’s probably doing something right. While researching the images people find hardest to look at, game director Emil Esov discovered he has trypophobia – a fear of clusters of small holes. Rather than tone the scary images down, he fed them straight into Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival. The forthcoming first-person action-horror game drops players into a ne…

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A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spreadhttps://www.wired.com/story/genetic-mutation-drug-resistant-malaria-spread

New findings shed light on what’s making the parasite less treatable using the drug that’s considered a first line of defense.

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Hollywood's summer box office is glowing, but the numbers come with startling caveatshttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5923629/movie-summer-box-office

Theaters have had something for everyone this summer, and fans are paying top dollar for premium formats like IMAX. There are also fewer moviegoers, fewer movies, and fewer screens than there were pre-COVID.

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AI models flub these intelligence tests. Can you fare any better?https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1141952/puzzles-ai-models-flub-these-tests

Puzzles and games have been central to AI development since the very beginning. Just as we humans like to test our smarts with crosswords or logic puzzles, developers can test how far models have advanced with a gaming gauntlet. The term β€œmachine learning” was popularized in a 1959 article by the IBM computer scientist Arthur…

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Raised on AIhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1141949/editors-letter-september-2026

When my oldest child was born, I immediately set up Gmail and Twitter accounts in her name. I broadly announced her birth online and proceeded to plaster her photo across all sorts of platforms. In short, I began creating her digital footprint long before she could stand on her own two feet.Β  Fast-forward a couple…

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Show HN: The Great Mountains and the Weather That Defines Themhttps://www.wfy24.com/en/article/the-worlds-great-mountains-and-the-weather-that-defines-them

Article URL: https://www.wfy24.com/en/article/the-worlds-great-mountains-and-the-weather-that-defines-them Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445889 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathyhttps://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy

Article URL: https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympathy/compiler-sympathy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445884 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Projecthttps://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project

Article URL: https://openstreetmap.us/news/2026/08/oim-charter-project/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445873 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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London rollout of robotaxis delayed amid lack of guidance for firms to followhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/26/london-rollout-robotaxis-delayed-uber-wayve

Uber and Wayve had said they would start trips β€˜later this summer’ but launch now looks unlikely this year The rollout of robotaxis on the streets of London is unlikely to happen this year, as regulatory and technical hurdles push back the ambitious schedule set out by the UK government. Only weeks ago Uber and London-based Wayve were granted the first minicab licences in the capital to allow them to offer self-driving taxi rides to paying customers – but with a human safety driver in place, for now – and said they would start trips β€œlater this summer” before a full public launch…

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My Anti-AI Manifestohttp://alessandrorosa.altervista.org/pages/my.anti.ai.manifesto.html

Article URL: http://alessandrorosa.altervista.org/pages/my.anti.ai.manifesto.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445787 Points: 4 # Comments: 2

Canada's retaliation tests the limit of American power under Trumphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8xd5k1krpo

The president is using US dominance to challenge allies and enemies alike - but both Canada and Iran have found ways to fight back.

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RAG Is Simpler Than You Thinkhttps://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think

Article URL: https://www.lighthousenewsletter.com/p/rag-is-simpler-than-you-think Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445727 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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The End of Programminghttps://pauldix.com/the-end-of-programming

Article URL: https://pauldix.com/the-end-of-programming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445717 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Interpol's Jackal IV Disrupts West African Crime Infrastructurehttps://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/interpols-jackal-iv-west-african-crime-infrastructure

The international law enforcement operation focused on disrupting crime-as-a-service networks and supporting infrastructure behind groups like Black Axe.

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Heavy casualties feared as flash flood sweeps across parts of northern Nepalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zyerv2lmo

The flood in Rasuwa - an area north of Kathmandu bordering Tibet - is feared to have swept away villages.

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Tottenham agree loan for Man City's Marmoushhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2z5ewlrwko

Tottenham agree a loan deal to sign Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush, with an obligation to make the deal permanent for Β£60m next summer.

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Dolly Parton was the one thing most Americans could agree onhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c790n1vj27no

The cultural icon was one of the rare celebrities adored by Americans of all ages, races and political persuasions.

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Nigeria Looks to Sovereign Cloud for Cyber, National Securityhttps://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/nigeria-sovereign-cloud-cyber-national-security

The West African nation launched financing, procurement, and infrastructure policies to boost its sovereign cloud initiative and increase domestic technical knowledge.

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Newcastle agree Β£52m deal for Man City's Gonzalezhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2zlnpnk4zo

Newcastle United agree a deal worth up to Β£52m for Manchester City midfielder Nico Gonzalez.

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INTERPOL Operation Jackal IV Arrests 58, Identifies 263 in Global Cyber Fraud Crackdownhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/interpol-operation-jackal-iv-arrests-58.html

An eight-month INTERPOL operation targeting West African organized crime groups has led to arrests of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects. "The operation, which brought together 22 countries from six continents, is a response to the escalating global threat posed by West African criminal networks – such as the Black Axe and other similar groups," INTERPOL said. "These groups are

US removes Syria from terrorism sponsor list, lifting major investment obstaclehttps://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-removes-syrias-designation-state-sponsor-terrorism-2026-08-24

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-removes-syrias-designation-state-sponsor-terrorism-2026-08-24/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445362 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

Sterling charged with dangerous driving after crashhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c23xkk1vkkpo

Raheem Sterling will appear in court next month to face charges of dangerous driving after crashing his car into motorway barriers in May.

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Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)https://rupertlinacre.com/buslens

Article URL: https://rupertlinacre.com/buslens/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445286 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)https://rupertlinacre.com/buslens

Article URL: https://rupertlinacre.com/buslens/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445286 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

Hospital nursery fire kills 14 newborns in Pakistan's capital, officials order immediate inquiryhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5944808/hospital-nursery-fire-kills-14-newborns-pakistan

A fire erupted early Wednesday in a nursery for newborns at a major government hospital in Pakistan's capital, killing 14 babies, according to hospital officials and the government.

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Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russiahttps://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-influence-campaign-russia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445252 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

Test your global economic knowledge with this quick Planet Money quiz!https://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/g-s1-138847/planet-money-summer-school-quiz-2026

Every country tells a different economic story. It's time to test your knowledge of the big ideas we've collected on our World Tour. Eight questions stand between you and your Summer School diploma.

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Show HN: Octomind Routines – scheduled agents on persistent cloud machineshttps://octomind.run/blog/routines-scheduled-agents

Article URL: https://octomind.run/blog/routines-scheduled-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49445150 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Newly SLEEPWALKER Backdoor Waits for One Crafted Packet, Then Runs Its Own Bytecodehttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/newly-sleepwalker-backdoor-waits-for.html

An independent malware researcher has documented a previously unreported Windows backdoor, dubbed SLEEPWALKER, that stays inert in memory until a specifically crafted network packet reaches the machine and then runs commands written in a 23-instruction language of its own design. The sample is an unsigned 64-bit Windows dynamic-link library (DLL) of 59,904 bytes, built to be side-loaded into&

Bodies found on S Korean holiday island as missing persons scandal deepenshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyz9gjw9n9o

A police sergeant has been arrested following accusations that he lied to victims' families and prematurely closed missing persons cases.

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Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

Bill Gates is the latest in a string of tech luminaries to call out the risks of artificial intelligence.

Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1142946/bill-gates-ai-danger-threshold

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…

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Celtic deficiencies laid bare on another night of Champions League painhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cjdv5xvgv9lo

When Callum McGregor eviscerated his own team-mates in the wake of Celtic's stupefying Champions League collapse against LASK, he delivered their one coherent moment of a spineless night, writes Tom English.

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Show HN: Hostflip – a macOS /etc/hosts switcher that detects external editshttps://github.com/heronapp/hostflip

Hi HN β€” I built hostflip, a native macOS menu bar app for switching /etc/hosts profiles. It is free and open source under the MIT license. The problem I wanted to solve was not just editing hosts entries. It was sharing /etc/hosts with Docker Desktop, VPN clients, scripts, and manual edits without one writer silently erasing another's changes. On first run, hostflip captures a read-only baseline (called Base Hosts) from the existing file and keeps the untouched original as hosts.orig. Active profiles are appended after the baseline in a clearly marked block. Writes are still atomic whole-fi…

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Watch Nashville fans lay flowers in tributehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cx2zm89zd99o

The BBC's Helena Humphrey is outside the Country Music Hall of Fame where fans gathered to mourn Dolly Parton.

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I miss the old Claude Codehttps://alexkras.com/focus-is-the-main-feature-why-i-miss-the-old-claude-code

Article URL: https://alexkras.com/focus-is-the-main-feature-why-i-miss-the-old-claude-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444863 Points: 13 # Comments: 0

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From influencers to queens of women's boxing - five years of MVPhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/articles/c9w0z9ydre2o

On Saturday, Most Valuable Promotions celebrates its fifth anniversary. One of the feistiest upstarts in modern boxing has given a new platform to the world's best female fighters.

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Critical Gitea RCE Actively Exploited as Reported Attack Drops Miner-Like Payloadhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/critical-gitea-rce-actively-exploited.html

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation efforts targeting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Gitea. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of remote code execution that allows an attacker with ordinary write access to a repository to execute arbitrary shell commands as the

Show HN: PostRank – Paid Leaderboard with Comments, Boosts, and Earned Credithttps://postrank.lol

Article URL: https://postrank.lol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444796 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Spinifex – run EC2/S3/IAM/EKS on your own hardware, AWS CLI unchangedhttps://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex

Article URL: https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444782 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablethttps://expressed.effective-flow.com

Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet - I'd like your feedback. Expressed is a way to make it easy to draw directly on your desktop using any phone or tablet - think along the lines of "I want to draw (on my screen) to help aid my discussion". The desktop is projected onto the phone/tablet, so you can actually see what you're about to scribble over - pinch/zoom and various tools provide the typical/expected drawing tools - and whatever you scribble is seen on the desktop. If you wanted to try (link to m/soft store): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N694D0PN6GB?cid=hn01 I've…

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Libyan cleared after Lockerbie bombing trial dies aged 70https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0zgx6wlz3o

A Facebook post by Libyan Airlines announced the death of Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah and expressed the company's condolences to his family.

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Apple Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 1.2TB/S Memory Bandwidthhttps://www.apple.com/mac-studio

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444661 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Liverpool's midfield is fragile - will they act in the window?https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cx2zgzydd16o

Liverpool's draw at Newcastle emphasised once again their midfield fragility but will they act in the market and bring in a defensive-minded player?

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Show HN: Launched free browser agent (the catch: ads)https://rtrvr.ai

No one’s got money for another AI subscription. So we made our browser agent totally FREE. What's the catch? Just ads while Retriever AI fetches you leads, does your exams, applied to jobs, and sends connection requests. Think like a Claude Code or Clay level tool in your browser, but free for everyone! After 35K+ users and 7M+ workflows, we spent the last few months attacking the cost of every agent step: - switching to DeepSeek Flash - Code Mode to one shot complex workflows - optimizing for 80%+ token cache hits So that now just an ad impression covers the entire cost of the agent (LLM i…

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Would you pay for an algorithm to pick your friends? New social apps spread across citieshttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/26/algorithm-pick-your-friends-paid-free-meetup-apps-cliq-ply

With many adults admitting they feel lonely, meetup platforms offer the chance to make new connections Would you pay Β£20 a month for the chance of making a friend, on the understanding that an algorithm – not you – gets to decide who you’ll meet? Driven by the decline of β€œthird spaces” such as youth centres and pubs, an increase in remote working and rising loneliness – 40% of adults aged 16 to 29 feel lonely β€œalways, often or some of the time”, according to the Office for National Statistics – paid social events are now in vogue. Continue reading...

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Show HN: Multiplayer Laser Simulatorhttps://prismaduel.com

Article URL: https://prismaduel.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444579 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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