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UK soldiers could get paragliders to drop behind enemy lineshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgxvj7m41no

The Ministry of Defence is set to trial a UK-made system to allow troops to mount covert operations without aircraft.

Sunderland and Bournemouth draw AC Milan in Europa Leaguehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5ymr4dxz9mo

Sunderland will mark their first European campaign since 1973 with a trip to the San Siro after drawing AC Milan in the Europa League league phase.

AI Agent Has Roothttps://infernalcode.com/posts/your-ai-agent-has-root

Article URL: https://infernalcode.com/posts/your-ai-agent-has-root/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477311 Points: 15 # Comments: 14

Apple TV’s sci-fi thriller Dark Matter gets even trippier in season 2https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/983263/dark-matter-season-2-review-apple-tv

Confusion is a generally accepted side effect of mystery box shows. They slather on secrets with the promise of a satisfying payoff in the end, and sometimes the cast and crew even have a hard time following what's going on. But even by the standards of the genre, Dark Matter is extreme. Its multiversal premise, […]

The 31 Best Deals From the REI Labor Day Salehttps://www.wired.com/story/rei-labor-day-sale-2026

Labor Day already? Say it ain’t so. You can still chase summer a while longer with these great deals on outdoor gear at the REI Labor Day Sale.

OpenAI: Migrating to HTTPX2https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/blob/main/httpx2.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477212 Points: 9 # Comments: 6

England get early breakthrough as Archer removes Masoodhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/videos/c4gjp4800lvo

England get an early breakthrough at the start of Pakistan's first innings as Jofra Archer and Jamie Smith combine to remove Shan Masood for just one, with Pakistan 5-1, in response to England's first innings score of 290 on the second day of the second Test at Lord's.

Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundredshttps://www.wired.com/story/best-laptops

I’ve been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and here's my advice on how to find the right laptop for you.

Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unlawful, US judge ruleshttps://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-2026-08-28

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-anthropic-blacklisting-2026-08-28/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477055 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

Celtic & Rangers to play Scottish Cup ties behind closed doors after fan disorderhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4gk206k95xo

Celtic and Rangers are both ordered to play their next home Scottish Cup matches behind closed doors after last season's quarter-final was marred by fan disorder.

Show HN: Pay-to-rank leaderboards for creators and productshttps://www.cuntent.lol

Hi guys. I just built two way ranking boards, one for creators and one for products. The mechanic isn't mine, outbid.lol did it for products first. I added a creators board and per-country rankings. Both boards just opened, so #1 is still up for grabs. Happy to support the mission? join the bid with as little as possible. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477031 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Show HN: HTML5 port of Civilization 2: MGEhttps://wan0.net/civ2

One of the first projects I worked on using Claude and Opus 4.6 was a port of Civ 2 (which to me is the definitive Civ game) to HTML, as I didn't want to keep installing a Windows XP VM to play it, or patching it. It's been a long road, but the first beta is now out on Github and available on the web at the link above. Includes original graphics, units, the same UI, and even the videos from Heralds. Noting the assets are still copyrighted you are mandated to have a licenced copy of the game to play before you go forward. Source code here using BSD 3.0 https://github.com/wan0net/civ2 Comments…

Three CVSS 10.0 ServiceNow Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and SQLhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/three-cvss-100-servicenow-flaws-could.html

ServiceNow has released patches for four security flaws impacting the ServiceNow AI Platform, three of them rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system and exploitable, in certain circumstances, by an unauthenticated attacker. The company said it deployed a security update to hosted instances and provided the update to its partners and self-hosted customers, which leaves organizations that run their

Show HN: PitchBin – a vendor database built from the cold emails you gethttps://pitchbin.com

Article URL: https://pitchbin.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476991 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

World's youngest reigning monarch dies aged 34https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0j38d9v40po

King Oyo ascended to the throne of Uganda's Tooro kingdom when he was just three years old.

Show HN: I made a manga critique site with professional Japanese manga editorshttps://m2w.ai/en

Hey guys, I’m Sean founder & CEO of M2W. We made an AI editor for manga creators worldwide. Manga creators work solo or duo and can’t get critical feedback from public, but editors are too busy and expensive to hire. So we made this AI editor with manga editors who used to work at major Japanese manga publishing firms. As a result, creators can get reliable feedback in minutes to reiterate and make their works better at the earliest stage of creation. This will lead into us becoming publishers ourselves and be able to pay the creators a larger share of revenue than it is now. Currently th…

South Korea's 'AI for All' Push Gives Free Access to Every Citizenhttps://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/south-koreas-ai-for-all-push-gives-free-access-to-every-citizen-451f6b2c

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/south-koreas-ai-for-all-push-gives-free-access-to-every-citizen-451f6b2c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476929 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

AI Doesn’t Mean the End of Mathematics—at Least Not Yethttps://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-doesnt-mean-the-end-of-mathematics-at-least-not-yet.html

This essay was written with Kasra Rafi, and originally appeared in The Guardian. Earlier this month, about 40 top mathematicians gathered at OpenAI’s offices to discuss the future of their profession. The meeting was off-the-record, but if recent articles by mathematicians are any guide, it was mostly pretty glum. People fear for their jobs, their careers and the work they love. We think the contrary view is more likely, at least in the short-term. AI models are nowhere near as capable as experienced academic mathematicians. This isn’t to say that AIs aren’t producing stunning mathemati…

Experts warn more flooding might hit Nepal. And, Fed chairman to give key addresshttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/g-s1-140866/up-first-newsletter-nepal-tibet-floods-kevin-warsh-kennedy-center

As the death toll rises from flash floods that hit the Nepal-Tibet border, experts are warning more flooding could be on the way. And, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh is expected to give a key address today.

Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT

Meta negotiated an unusual provision in their landmark settlement: If TikTok and YouTube also agree to penalties and changes to their products, Meta will pay more.

So long to shorts? In Silicon Valley, tech workers are showing less leghttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5943596/shorts-work-office-silicon-valley-bloomberg

Men in the tech industry are covering up their legs, even as their counterparts in finance are increasingly open to showing them off.

He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Themhttps://www.wired.com/story/he-scraped-art-from-cara-for-ai-now-he-is-collaborating-on-a-tool-to-help-them

The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.

Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning materialhttps://subsmith.app

I've been learning Japanese for a few years and kept running into a similar problem. I'd find a video I wanted to learn from, hear a useful sentence, and then realise that turning that sentence into something I could study later was both time consuming and draining at times. I would end up jumping between a video player, subtitles/transcription, a dictionary, screenshots, audio clips and Anki. So I built SubSmith to bring that workflow together. You can drop a video or audio file into it, generate a transcript locally and then use the transcript alongside the media to: * look up words and sen…

Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning materialhttps://subsmith.app

I've been learning Japanese for a few years and kept running into a similar problem. I'd find a video I wanted to learn from, hear a useful sentence, and then realise that turning that sentence into something I could study later was both time consuming and draining at times. I would end up jumping between a video player, subtitles/transcription, a dictionary, screenshots, audio clips and Anki. So I built SubSmith to bring that workflow together. You can drop a video or audio file into it, generate a transcript locally and then use the transcript alongside the media to: * look up words and sen…

China-Made ZBT Routers Ship With Two Implants Giving Unauthenticated Attackers Root Accesshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/china-made-zbt-routers-ship-with-two.html

VulnCheck has disclosed two previously undocumented factory implants in firmware for routers built by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics (ZBT), each of which gives an unauthenticated remote attacker the ability to run commands as root on affected devices. The implants, named SPEAKINGSTONE and DARKLANTERN by the company's zero-day research team, are tracked as CVE-2026-74232 and CVE-2026-74233.

Inside Meta’s Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centershttps://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-experiments-with-data-center-robots

The company is testing robots that can swap cables, reset servers, and take on other tasks performed by technicians, fueling concerns among some workers that their jobs could be at risk.

Show HN: Jack the Snipper – Paste HTML or rich text, get clean plain text backhttps://snipper.kreisvier.ch

Article URL: https://snipper.kreisvier.ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476872 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Tavi – A pet health tracker that works offline, with no accounthttps://tavi.pet

Article URL: https://tavi.pet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476813 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Live football data. Clear patterns. Smart betshttps://valuestats.com

Article URL: https://valuestats.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476803 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause new Nepal-Tibet floodhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj06j16vpr5o

Laura Bicker explains how a lake which formed after the recent landslide near the Nepal-Tibet border is raising fears of a second flood.

Show HN: MCP server that drives the browser you are signed intohttps://github.com/t3ratech/mcp-session-bridge

Article URL: https://github.com/t3ratech/mcp-session-bridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476743 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Public MCP for Greek price comparison (no API key)https://www.bestprice.gr/mcp

Article URL: https://www.bestprice.gr/mcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476672 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Insteadhttps://www.wired.com/story/i-demanded-my-data-from-over-100-companies-deletion-notices-started-arriving-instead

California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.

Show HN: Less Paper – native iOS/iPadOS client for Paperless-ngxhttps://github.com/plu/less-paper

Article URL: https://github.com/plu/less-paper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476630 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Baby died after hospital monitor volume was too lowhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4glz75d57vo

The coroner urged the manufacturer of alarms used at the Royal London Hospital to change the volume options.

Critical cPanel Flaw Could Let One Hosting Customer Take Root Control of a Whole Serverhttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/critical-cpanel-flaw-could-let-one.html

cPanel has released patches for a security flaw affecting domain parking and addon domain functionality in cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM), which could allow code execution as the root user. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-65643, impacts all supported versions of cPanel & WHM. cPanel described the issue as a critical security vulnerability and said that an

Blocked roads and devastation as BBC drives to site of Nepal floodshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cn0j19wn4deo

South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri reports as she travels from Kathmandu to Trishuli, passing ambulances and hearses on the way.

As electric two-wheelers gain a foothold, Belgian startup Any bets on cargo spacehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/28/as-electric-two-wheelers-gain-a-foothold-belgian-startup-any-bets-on-cargo-space

Launched by Belgian startup Any, LUV1 is a modular electric motorcycle with 120 liters of cargo space that can be used to carry bags, work equipment, or even pets.

'Not far enough' - US parents and teens on Meta's new limits for young usershttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2zn9zj361o

As part of an $18bn settlement in a child-safety lawsuit, Meta announced new restrictions on its apps. We asked families what they thought.

There Are So Many Conspiracy Theories About Dolly Parton and Vaccineshttps://www.wired.com/story/there-are-so-many-conspiracy-theories-about-dolly-parton-and-vaccines

Influential right-wing conspiracy theorists and MAGA-aligned pundits are falsely claiming that the Covid vaccine killed Dolly Parton, the vaccination advocate and philanthropist.

I Cut 80%+ of Context Overhead in My Coding Agenthttps://m-reschreiter.at/en/blog/how-i-cut-80-percent-context-overhead-dynamic-tools

Article URL: https://m-reschreiter.at/en/blog/how-i-cut-80-percent-context-overhead-dynamic-tools Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476278 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

Show HN: Puppetflow a free browser automation platformhttps://github.com/puppetflow/puppetflow

Hi HN, I'm Jess, dev based in France. Been building software for ~15 years, and for almost a year now I've been working on Puppetflow, a source-available browser automation platform built around Puppeteer, with a big focus on observability and debugging. Source is here: https://github.com/puppetflow/puppetflow If you want the long story, I wrote some blog posts along the development process: https://b.puppetflow.com It all started when I was using Puppeteer more and more on real projects and kept hitting the same wall: writing the automation was the easy part but running it and figuring out w…

Can't stop fixating on the way you look? These 4 mental exercises may helphttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5946751/cant-stop-fixating-on-the-way-you-look-these-4-mental-exercises-may-help

Obsessing over your looks should not take up all your energy, says psychologist Diana Hill. If you're struggling with uncomfortable thoughts about your body, ground yourself with these techniques.

Help! I have disappeared down a rabbithole of horrible mobile gaming adverts | Dominik Diamondhttps://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/28/horrible-mobile-gaming-adverts

Led by the nose from game to terrible game by increasingly disturbing and terrible adverts, I feel like I’m in the cinema scene from A Clockwork Orange We’re all escaping something when we play video games. Mostly it’s the drabness of real life, where we don’t get to command kingdoms using armies of dragons, win Champions League trophies with our local team, or inhabit the body of an improbably speedy hedgehog. Sometimes I play them because I want to escape from the version of me that gets paralysed by depression, and boy has the black dog been sniffing at my bits recently, because th…

Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theoremhttps://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem.html

Article URL: https://alyssarosenzweig.ca/blog/hilariously-fast-volume-computation-with-the-divergence-theorem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476143 Points: 16 # Comments: 1

U.S. says pipelines will make Strait of Hormuz be irrelevant. Energy experts disagreehttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/g-s1-140309/us-iran-middle-east-oil-pipelines-hormuz

Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent said oil pipelines will make Strait of Hormuz irrelevant in two years. Energy experts say that is unlikely to happen.

How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizationshttps://www.wired.com/story/how-an-atlanta-suburb-ended-up-sharing-flock-data-with-more-than-2000-organizations

Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.

This house trumpets its history in the face of gentrification. Now it's a landmarkhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5921391/san-francisco-latin-rock-house-gentrification

A house in San Francisco covered in the painted faces of Latin rock artists was formally landmarked by the city. Its neighborhood has seen skyrocketing home prices and decades of redevelopment.

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