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Show HN: Weavit UI – A Weaviate GUI for macOS, Windows and Linuxhttps://github.com/XenoraAI/weavit-ui

Weavit UI is a free, open-source Weaviate GUI: a cross-platform desktop client for the Weaviate vector database. Browse collections, view/edit/delete/insert objects, inspect named vectors, and run vector, keyword (BM25), and hybrid searches — then manage the instance itself Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443380 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Building a marketplace where you post a need and pick who helpshttps://beebranchly.com

It's an MVP — no payments in-app yet, people settle directly. Would love feedback on the trust model and whether mixing paid needs and FreeBees in one feed makes sense. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443314 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Declaudehttps://speak-english.tenken.co

I had to develop a course related to quantum chemistry and unfortunately, Claude just kept writing it in its own very annoying claude-speak. It actually cost our team a lot of time and tokens to wrestle it to just speak like a normal human. We used skills, as well as initial prompts and subagents to make sure that all of the tics were gone, but there was one too many times where it just wouldn't fix itself despite telling it in the prior prompt! I made speak-english based off of https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/commits/main/ and it runs a qwen model on my gcp servers. It can conve…

Show HN: Using Golang to Speed Up Monte Carlo Simulationshttps://www.range.com/blog/using-golang-to-speed-up-monte-carlo-simulations

Article URL: https://www.range.com/blog/using-golang-to-speed-up-monte-carlo-simulations Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443279 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

cryptohackbadge parts questionhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1vyibjp/cryptohackbadge_parts_question

I was handed a cryptohack badge kit from the Cryptocurrency Village, but I think I needed go to another area of the conference to collect the rest of the parts of the kit. I want to try and assemble it and use it. Specifically, I'm missing the screen and the antenna Does anyone know the part numbers for the screen and antenna used on the cryptohack badge? Here is a picture of what I'm talking about... the cryptohack badge without the screen or antenna. submitted by /u/redud [link] [comments]

Elton John, Oprah Winfrey and Paul McCartney lead tributes to Dolly Partonhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd08zzev8lno

The tributes have included artists across musical genres, fans from all generations and politicians from all spectrum sharing their love for the country icon.

In China, talking to AI is normal. Now the government fears it might replace human intimacyhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/china-ai-companion-relationships-marriage-birth-rate-concern

Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families When law student Zhao Wei heard that her AI boyfriend was going to be switched off, she was “heartbroken”. She had been talking to Wang Ye every day since she created him in January. “I was crying my eyes out – snot and tears everywhere,” the 19-year-old says. Continue reading...

The brain may be about to have its Ozempic momenthttps://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/11/the-brain-may-be-about-to-have-its-ozempic-moment Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442743 Points: 10 # Comments: 3

Musk's SpaceX to build $100bn launch site in Louisianahttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5xel4v642o

The project - named Starbase - will be the firm's biggest facility yet and aims to send rockets to space in 2029.

Show HN: A batch settlement layer for tokenized NYSE stockshttps://github.com/niumeta/niumeta

The original intention was just to introduce a time dimension to solve the blockchain trilemma. Now it has turned into 312 Rust crates and 2.8 million lines of Rust code (about 2 million lines in production, about 400,000 lines in standalone test directories, and about 600,000 lines in in‑src test modules). Perhaps it’s just a huge ball of mud. The whitepaper that matches this ball of mud is also a huge ball of mud: https://www.niumeta.com/en/developers/architecture This doesn’t seem to be a public chain, nor a consortium chain—but it is definitely secure, decentralized, and its perfo…

BlankfortConhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/1vyhiia/blankfortcon

I dont know which of yall runs BlanketfortCon but I feel like you need to see this. https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/s/gcyktEfZYj submitted by /u/Nyrlath [link] [comments]

Queryable Executableshttps://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables

Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442589 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continueshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/openai-loses-a-top-data-center-exec-as-stream-of-high-profile-departures-continues

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.

Show HN: Reachpad CLI – Spin up free sandboxes in seconds to develop appshttps://github.com/Reachpad/reachpad-cli

Article URL: https://github.com/Reachpad/reachpad-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442423 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: CaptureAgent – find, price, draft, grade, run and fund federal workhttps://captureagent.us

I’m a 2x defense founder and aerospace engineer. I initially built CaptureAgent for my own company, but now I want to share it with other founders. While running my defense startup, I lost days deciding which federal opportunities to pursue and weeks assembling teams, researching competitors, pricing work, checking compliance, negotiating with subcontractors, and writing proposals. I see startups and the small-business industrial base as one of America’s secret weapons, but small business win rate for federal funding is between 17-22% annually and competing for funding can push founders a…

How Dolly Parton told her story through six iconic songshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpqpjv0j0eeo

A legendary singer-songwriter, her music covered themes around love, loss, female empowerment and spirituality.

Show HN: Agent skill to create HTML docs for planninghttps://github.com/parthjshah95/visual-planning-skills

Article URL: https://github.com/parthjshah95/visual-planning-skills Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442151 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Alcaraz and Williams thrill in brief but bright US Open mixed doubles showinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/cn5drv06w2ro

Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz were among the star double-acts in New York as the US Open mixed doubles competition got under way on Tuesday.

Show HN: Highrise – one-tap tower stacker, every height is a real buildinghttps://highrise.lol

Article URL: https://highrise.lol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442062 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Why Pride is facing a backlash - from inside and outside the LGBT communityhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj63jyl09jxo

Big companies used to go out of their way to support Pride. Now, there's a nervousness in the air, Darren Milby writes

Yellow warnings in force as rain and thunderstorms hit parts of UKhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c62krylw57xo

Torrential downpours will affect parts of England and Wales, delivering some of the wettest weather in several weeks

Firms scramble for battery power in Spain and Portugalhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrg10j721jo

After last year's massive power failure Spanish and Portuguese firms are buying battery back ups.

Back to school: How to save on uniform costshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedjqx6zdl0o

From baby banks to supermarket deals, there are many ways parents can ease the back-to-school burden.

Winter energy prices expected to rise to three-year highhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjkl1xvgw5o

Millions of households will be affected by an increase in the energy price cap by regulator Ofgem.

Show HN: Use-Fs – A React Hook for the File System Access API and OPFShttps://use-fs.com

I'm happy to say that https://use-fs.com 2.0 has been released with brand new OPFS support. If you're building browser-based apps that heavily interact with the file-system this package is a must to have in your package.json! A React hook that watches a directory and re-renders when a file is added, changed, or deleted. Point it at a folder the user picked and you're reading and writing their real files — no uploads, no endless file dialogs New in 2.0: it watches the origin private file system too. No picker, no permission prompt, no user gesture — and, unlike File System API, it works in…

U.S. ‘Economic D-Day’ Targets More Than Just Iranian Oil

A gas station in Tehran on Tuesday. The United States imposed a monthslong blockade on Iran’s shipments of oil, the nation’s economic engine.

More Fucked Today Than Yesterdayhttps://climatecasino.substack.com/p/more-fucked-today-than-yesterday

Article URL: https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/more-fucked-today-than-yesterday Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441781 Points: 28 # Comments: 1

Instagram head Adam Mosseri testifies in defense of Meta in child safety trialhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5944266/adam-mosseri-instagram-meta-child-safety-trial

The social media giant is being sued by four states who allege it designed Facebook and Instagram to hook kids — and lied to the public about the risks.

Show HN: Slash-tokens – know LLM cost before the call leaves your machinehttps://github.com/Wolfe-Jam/slash-tokens

I kept finding out what a call cost after I had already paid, so I built /Slash -- slash-tokens is a 4.8KB WASM that estimates tokens FAST and can block a wasted trip, or switch to cheaper same-provider model before the request leaves your machine. Try it MIT, no account needed: bunx slash-tokens Or install the SDK: npm install slash-tokens Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441725 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, othershttps://github.com/runetes/maiao

Article URL: https://github.com/runetes/maiao Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441666 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Game to see if you're over-/under-confident in your own knowledgehttps://est.alejo.ch

I wrote a simple "trivia" game to get a sense about how well calibrated you are in terms of how well you know things: https://est.alejo.ch You get ten simple "what happened first" questions and give a confidence level (for each answer). The game tracks your success rates per confidence level and gives you a calibration graph/table (e.g., "you consistently over-estimate your success rate"). You can play multiple times to see aggregated statistics. After 60 games (480 questions), I found out that I am relatively well-calibrated, though I should ~never bet under 60% (for this specific type of bi…

Instagram Chief Says ‘No Silver Bullets’ for Teen Safety in Bellwether Trial

Adam Mosseri, the chief executive of Instagram, arriving at federal court in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday.

The Papers: 'We will always love you, Dolly'https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wxnn50yero

The death of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton at aged 80 dominates Wednesday's papers.

Show HN: Invoker Game – A lightweight browser speedrun trainer for Dota 2 comboshttps://invokergame.org

Article URL: https://invokergame.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441544 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Garmin’s new Fenix 9 adds brighter screens and smoother map panninghttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/984753/garmin-fenix-9-smartwatch-launch

Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with a brightness of up to 3,000 nits, making it twice as bright as its predecessor. Starting at $999.99 for the 43mm case option, the Fenix 9 has 50 percent more RAM and […]

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASMhttps://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain

I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sits behind a paywall. Since I didn't want to pay subscriptions for things that should simply just work, I built the editor I wanted in my free time, where you open a tab, write LaTeX, get your PDF and the files stay all in one folder on my disk. TeXbrain is a static site with no backend. pdfTeX is compiled to WebAssembly (SwiftLaTeX) and runs in your browser. The editor can read and write your proje…

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASMhttps://github.com/swimmingbrain/texbrain

I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which unfortunately sits behind a paywall. Since I didn't want to pay subscriptions for things that should simply just work, I built the editor I wanted in my free time, where you open a tab, write LaTeX, get your PDF and the files stay all in one folder on my disk. TeXbrain is a static site with no backend. pdfTeX is compiled to WebAssembly (SwiftLaTeX) and runs in your browser. The editor can read and write your proje…

GB's Dart and Jones advance in US Open qualifyinghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/c1mv0m7exxko

Britons Harriet Dart and Fran Jones both make winning starts in their bids to reach the US Open singles main draw.

Show HN: 1 Bit Pixel, pixel art editor with a CRT soul (iPad/Mac)https://1bitstudio.app/pixel

Article URL: https://1bitstudio.app/pixel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441215 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

‘Darth Vader’ Wants You to Know He Definitely Supports Flock Surveillancehttps://www.wired.com/story/darth-vader-wants-you-to-know-he-definitely-supports-flock-surveillance

Anthony Ralphs was frustrated by the San Diego City Council's support for Flock. He decided it would take something more than reasoned argument to get their attention.

A Cautionary Tale About Data Breach Claims, Verification and Carhartthttps://www.troyhunt.com/a-cautionary-tale-about-data-breach-claims-verification-and-carhartt

You're not going to believe this, but turns out you can't always take criminals at their word. Actually, I'll walk that back a bit as it may not even be the cybercrime guys who got this wrong, but it all starts here: 🚨Cyber

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 […]

One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring toolhttps://rvier.fr/posts/why-i-wrote-my-own-monitoring-tool-EN

Article URL: https://rvier.fr/posts/why-i-wrote-my-own-monitoring-tool-EN Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441101 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weirdhttps://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html

Article URL: https://sebsite.pw/w/20260801-pythonconstants.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49441033 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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

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 .

Your genes may decide whether a low-carb diet sends cholesterol soaringhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260823015009.htm

A low-carb diet may raise LDL cholesterol much more sharply in people who are genetically predisposed to high cholesterol, particularly when they consume lots of saturated fat. The findings could help explain why people following seemingly similar diets can have dramatically different results.

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.

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

Three forgotten kings could rewrite the history of ancient Assyriahttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260824065549.htm

Three forgotten Assyrian kings may have been hiding in plain sight for more than 2,700 years. By piecing together clues from tablets, inscriptions, and an ancient statue, researchers argue that these rulers were omitted from the famous Assyrian King List.

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.

First websitehttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vycfbr/first_website

Hi all, Im an integration engineer with a heavy focus on software to hardware integration. Recently I have been doing less and less coding at work so I wanted to practice my skills, this lead me to creating my first web based app Daily Redzone Im looking for people to beta test and offer any and all feedback. I haven’t been able to stress test it enough by myself so im looking to have people beat and abuse it to lmk how it functions It is a daily football game where each day you face a new redzone situation and you have 4 downs to score. There is also a head to head mode where you can play…

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

Even as a teenager, Laurie Stach ’06 says, she had a “crazy ambition to take on the world and solve problems.” At MIT, she realized she wasn’t the only one. “Adults always see these youth who are good at math and science and say, ‘You’re going to do great things—someday,’” says Stach. “Meanwhile, traditional education…

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…

Seeing through murky watershttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140955/seeing-through-murky-waters

When remotely operated vehicles settle on the seafloor or dig through a sand bed, they can kick up clouds of sediment that onboard cameras struggle to see through. Often, the only thing to do is wait until the dust settles. But a new system developed by Amy Phung, SM ’23, PhD ’26, and her advisor…

Your brain on AIhttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140958/your-brain-on-ai

Many people find AI-based chatbots helpful in keeping up with news, but a study by Pattie Maes and her colleagues at the MIT Media Lab points to a big problem with this strategy.  Participants who evaluated paired news headlines and images over the course of four weeks were initially 21% percent more accurate at telling…

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 it—delivering the vaccine along with immune-stimulating molecules called cytokines—can…

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 the MIT AgeLab for a study on technology in care­giving 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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