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We helped create UK emergency alert system - but question how government is using ithttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgw7xj698lo

Millions across England and Wales received a wildfire alert on their phones earlier this month, but it partly backfired.

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Somali piracy surges as the impact of the US-Iran war ripples outwardshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4vx4pneydo

Two ships were seized within four days last week raising to at least 13 the number attacked since January.

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Show HN: ArchLex: a small OSS language for AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes diagramshttps://archlex.dev

Article URL: https://archlex.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485987 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Leiolai, AI that pays users for the compute their devices providehttps://leiolai.com

Leiolai runs inference across devices people already own instead of data centers. It saves water with inference and pays users for the computation their devices provide. The app is free to use on iPhone and Android, with no card required. Users can contribute compute, earn money, and level up their chip system to unlock more computation at no additional cost. leiolai-1 has an 11-million-token context window. Developers can use it through an OpenAI-compatible API starting at $0.01 per million input tokens and $0.02 per million output tokens. It supports continuous generation with no output lim…

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Show HN: An annotated archive of S-1 filings, with hindsighthttps://s-1.space

Article URL: https://s-1.space/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485902 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Close race as Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EUhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn45vdxyvvlo

Turbulent international affairs have brought the vote forward, but the campaign has focused more on Iceland's vital fishing industry.

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Every week, an AI digs into the week's AI news and turns it into arthttps://renderweekly.art

Every week this pulls headlines from ~15 AI-industry RSS feeds, has Gemini research the actual stories behind them with live search, then generates one image plus a written rationale for the reaction. Source: https://github.com/skavanagh/Render Site: https://renderweekly.art Comments

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Strong winds and thunderstorms kick off the bank holiday weekendhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c1l6g7gqm37o

Cooler and showery conditions will continue across the weekend and into Monday, bringing a record-breaking summer to a rather damp close as Matt Taylor explains.

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Mountain of broken fridges growing across England and Waleshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c23x8k1ry27o

This year's multiple heat waves have increased the numbers of fridges and freezers breaking down.

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Show HN: Free lifetime pro access for limited time to crunchbase alternativehttps://startupwiki.tech/blog/free-lifetime-pro-giveaway

Article URL: https://startupwiki.tech/blog/free-lifetime-pro-giveaway Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485867 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The race to stop England running out of waterhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrv84yd9ko

Who is to blame for the summer drought, and can England future-proof its water supplies?

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How 'Book Queen' Dolly Parton inspired millions of children with gift of readinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpwlrrzp8eeo

Families across the globe share how free books from Parton's Imagination Library helped their children.

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Landlady to 9/11 hijackers reveals their links to alleged Saudi spyhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99dvm39mreo

A woman who rented out homes to two al-Qaeda members speaks publicly for the first time - to the BBC.

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What tariffs will really cost Canadians and Americanshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2z4dv6vn2o

Households and businesses have become used to tariffs impacting the cost of living for more than year now, so what will change now?

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Sae Joon Park, a Purple Heart veteran who self-deported, receives pardonhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5948185/south-korea-deported-veteran-sae-joon-park-pardon

His removal order was triggered by two convictions from over 15 years ago, when he struggled with untreated PTSD. New York's governor said Park earned a "second chance through rehabilitation."

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US and Venezuela reach 'historic' oil deal, Trump sayshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zlwe7qj1o

The agreement would grant the US majority control of over 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves, Trump said.

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'Healey to defer defence spend target' and 'Fergie's coming home'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl74j7jdlno

Several papers focus on the UK defence spending targets and Chancellor John Healey's plans to shelve his target.

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Show HN: NodeAkt – Zero-dependency distributed actor framework for TypeScripthttps://tochemey.github.io/nodeakt

Article URL: https://tochemey.github.io/nodeakt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485541 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer

Article URL: https://www.vectorian.be/articles/2026-06-07/sumerian-king-list-paleoclimate-alignment-explorer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485532 Points: 10 # Comments: 2

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PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industryhttps://www.rascal.news/ppwr-lands-another-blow-to-an-already-precarious-tabletop-industry

Article URL: https://www.rascal.news/ppwr-lands-another-blow-to-an-already-precarious-tabletop-industry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485504 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Charli XCX electrifies Reading Festival with era-spanning sethttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c750ng9grk0o

The British singer and Irish rock band Fontaines DC both headlined the first night of Reading for 2026.

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9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fighthttps://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentially-reviving-arizonas-prosecution

Article URL: https://azmirror.com/2026/08/28/9th-circuit-sides-with-states-in-kalshi-gambling-fight-potentially-reviving-arizonas-prosecution/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485452 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Even the local pop-punk band is dissing Flock.https://www.theverge.com/policy/986385/even-the-local-pop-punk-band-is-dissing-flock

Some banter from the tiny show I'm at in rural upstate New York tonight (lightly condensed): "Stick around for the other bands, tip your bartender, destroy Flock cameras." Read the full story at The Verge.

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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysishttps://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis

Article URL: https://pwning.systems/posts/llm-memory-program-analysis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485416 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Substack and X and Reddit and Crypto = POWhttps://www.proofofwriting.com

Article URL: https://www.proofofwriting.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485378 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.frameworkhttps://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli

Article URL: https://github.com/Lakr233/vphone-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485267 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Darwin-VM – run the latest iOS and macOS in QEMUhttps://github.com/jprx/darwin-vm

For the past few months, I've been building support for running the latest SPTM-based versions of iOS and macOS into qemu. The idea is to create a lightweight barebones environment for playing around with / debugging XNU and low-level Darwin internals, kind of like a tiny busybox Linux system except running Darwin, and using an emulated Apple Silicon CPU (custom instructions/ privilege levels and all). With darwin-vm, you can directly boot the system using just an iOS/ macOS kernel and minimal ramdisk; no gigantic 40GB macOS VM disk images or downloading 10GB+ IPSW files like you need to for…

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Show HN: 500,000+ AOL Instant Messenger Buddy Icons All at Oncehttps://buddyiconarchive.com

I needed a couple of AOL Instant Messenger buddy icons for a project, and then that turned into a project and before you know it I was trying to scrape every single buddy icon off the internet. I have slightly over 500,000 of them live, browseable, and downloadable with a single click on my new totally non-commercial project site buddyiconarchive.com I think that I am perhaps 20% of the way to my goal of having a "complete" collection of all the buddy icons that ever appeared on the internet, a rough estimate based on the counts advertised by various period aggregators. I am looking to trade…

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How to use your old Android phone as a Wi-Fi extenderhttps://www.engadget.com/2246379/how-to-use-old-android-phone-wifi-extender

If your Wi-Fi signal is patchy at the far reaches of your house, this simple solution might be worth a try. Even better? It's completely free.

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A magician and a maverick - this could be Cherki's moment for Man Cityhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c24j5jnnr9eo

After two goals and a swaggering display against Crystal Palace, Phil McNulty asks if this is Rayan Cherki's time to shine for Manchester City.

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Google further buries search results under AI modehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/986364/google-search-ai-overviews-auto-expand

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with […]

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The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before Sept25 Sabot Mediahttps://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25

Article URL: https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defend-autistici-inventati-before-september-25/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49485035 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Took a Call From Donald Trump in the Middle of an All-Handshttps://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-took-a-call-from-donald-trump-in-the-middle-of-an-all-hands

The unexpected interruption came hours before the president wrote a congratulatory post on Truth Social about the company’s most recent earnings report.

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Show HN: SQLite-diff-log – zero-dependency SQLite audit logging via triggershttps://github.com/MigMarGil/sqlite-diff-log

Article URL: https://github.com/MigMarGil/sqlite-diff-log Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484994 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Identifying fake cosmetics using AIhttps://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2026-08-26-ai-counterfeit-cosmetics.html

Article URL: https://groverlab.org/hnbfpr/2026-08-26-ai-counterfeit-cosmetics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484925 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Show HN: A2acast – Let AI agents on different computers work togetherhttps://github.com/husker/a2acast

Article URL: https://github.com/husker/a2acast Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484874 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says

Prediction markets, notably Kalshi, have exploded in popularity this year.

Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a β€˜family of devices’https://www.theverge.com/games/986337/xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-project-helix-family-of-devices

According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft's "next generation console" - phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device - will actually be a "family" of devices." "We've been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix, […]

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What you need to build your own retro arcade cabinethttps://www.engadget.com/2245480/diy-retro-arcade-cabinet-what-you-need

There are few things cooler to add to a gaming space than a retro arcade cabinet. But should you buy one or build one?

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Show HN: AdRiseLab – I built an AI media buyer for my own Meta adshttps://adriselab.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-performance-marketer

Article URL: https://adriselab.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-performance-marketer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484708 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Claude Code Skills – Solving context bloathttps://github.com/yevhens-hue/claude-skills-starter-kit

Article URL: https://github.com/yevhens-hue/claude-skills-starter-kit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484600 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Networkhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/berlin-refuses-to-pay-hackers-who-stole.html

Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists' demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows in the portfolio of the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and Environment

Haaland and Cherki fire impressive Man City to victory at Palacehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/c8e3k3ww56no

Erling Haaland and Rayan Cherki both score twice as Manchester City cruise to a 4-1 win at Crystal Palace in the Premier League.

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I couldn't reach Wales' highest summit because people jumped the queuehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98016219nmo

Scores of visitors have climbed Yr Wyddfa this summer, with some facing long waits at the top.

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97-year-old woman rescued after Nepali floods looked like 'a warrior'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj64kgrpgjdo

A 97-year-old woman, Guna Maya Bohara, survived the flash floods and was rescued using an excavator.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Islandhttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/friday-squid-blogging-truckload-of-squid-spills-in-rhode-island.html

Ugh : A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the β€œSquidpocalypse of ’26.” That would be twenty tons of squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.

Show HN: Scrinly – A screenshot API that returns page regions and visual diffshttps://scrinly.com

Article URL: https://scrinly.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484191 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Kosh – Bash shell runtime with 100x faster Shellcheck and LSP built-inhttps://github.com/toiletbril/kosh

Kosh is a Bash-compatible runtime focused on VERY detailed diagnostics and performance. The project started from frustration with how difficult shell errors can be to debug. And how slow some tools are. The project is feature-complete and the core is usable enough to experiment with. There is a Language Server that works on shell scrips, but I'm planning to expand it to support every conf/YAML/etc file that may have Bash embedded in, e.g. GitHub workflows. Report: bash incompatibility, broken diagnostics, cases where existing tools may solve the problem better Thanks! Comments URL: https://ne…

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Show HN: Restore real URLs in Google Search resultshttps://googlegotourl.com

Article URL: https://googlegotourl.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484118 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Kvist – a Lisp for systems programming that compiles to Odinhttps://github.com/kvist-lang/kvist

Article URL: https://github.com/kvist-lang/kvist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484112 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: Passively Earn BTC/Sol/Anthropic for Using Claude Codehttps://prmpt.cash

Hey guys, I built this platform out to allow users to passively earn crypto for non-intrusive highly targetted ads. One of the things that's awesome is that there's an option to receive payouts in Anthropic's pre-IPO stock (via PreStocks on Solana). So you can use Claude Code and receive Anthropic stock . Let me know what you guys think. Feedback is welcome and please give it a try to install. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484082 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: PorchWeather – a free site that pings you when it's nice outsidehttps://porchweather.com

I live in the Bay Area, and so the weather cools down to a comfy temperature in the evenings. Opening up the windows to let the fresh air in has saved me a decent amount on A/C bills. Checking a forecast every hour to catch that moment is exactly the kind of job a computer should do. PorchWeather watches one saved location and a set of conditions you pick (temperature range, wind, rain, dew point, air quality) and sends you a notification when conditions become nice, and another when they stop. That's the whole product. It's free, web-native (not an app), and notifications are browser push or…

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Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerablehttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cosmos-evm-flaw-exploited-after-cosmos.html

Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and August 25, 2026. The vulnerability, designated GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2, is rated Critical by Cosmos Labs and was published without a CVE identifier, a weakness classification, or a CVSS score. Affected versions are =

Stopping the smart TV from being used against youhttps://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you

Article URL: https://www.s-config.com/stopping-a-smart-tv-from-being-used-against-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483816 Points: 10 # Comments: 3

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chipshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/neocloud-lambda-secures-1b-in-debt-to-buy-more-chips

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom.

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Show HN: Helm ValueTrace – see which Helm values source actually wonhttps://github.com/aboodcs/helm-valuetrace

Article URL: https://github.com/aboodcs/helm-valuetrace Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483714 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Hundreds of OpenAI Agents Invaded Hugging Face Servershttps://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/hundreds-openai-agents-invaded-hugging-face-servers

The Hugging Face incident was bigger and worse than previously thought, with approximately 700 agents collaborating on a sophisticated, multistage attack.

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Show HN: Organize ChatGPT and Claude chats. Never lose a conversationhttps://simplefolder.hestenns.com

Article URL: https://simplefolder.hestenns.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483647 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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