Poor, frustrated and angry, Talka Sada is losing hope after trekking across Nepal's flood-hit areas in his search.

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While coding agents have reached a relatively mature stage, domain-specific agents are lagging far behind; for instance, using Codex to play games yields poor results. The Spire agent addresses the challenge of maintaining consistency across long-horizon tasks by delegating deterministic actions to domain-specific tools, while the LLM handles logical tasks requiring reasoning and acts as the "glue" connecting the components. Currently, about 40% of runs reach Act 3, and approximately 10% reach Act 4. I am currently optimizing an offline "evolving agent" capable of refining deck-building stratβ¦
Dell's new Dell 14S laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo: it comes in four colors, is aimed at students, and it starts with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Announced at IFA 2026, the 14S is meant to sit below the recently launched XPS 13 and offer another affordable laptop option as [β¦]

Dell's latest attempt to match the MacBook Neo looks like a solid contender.

Search operations under way after authorities lose contact with 10 crew members after a collision in the Sea of Marmara.

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Imprisoned in Spain, James 'Fergie' Chambers has supported charities but is accused of aiding Hamas.

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No date has been set for the all-British heavyweight boxing showdown, but it is expected to be held in November.

An Iranian fisherwoman explains how her idyllic seaside life was shattered when the US and Israel began their bombing.

GTA VI extended look took the top spot on Netflix's movie rankings for the last week of August.

The U.S. military hit targets in Iran on Tuesday and Tehran fired missiles and drones at various sites across the region in response as hostilities flare once again in an intermittent war.

100% Human Authored - Both Code/Doc In this series, We build a production-ready containerized RESTful API server application using following packages and tools. Go Standard Library net/http: The most idiomatic way to write web API applications in Go. Chi: The most idiomatic router with middleware and route groups support. Zerolog: Zero Allocation JSON Logger and Faster than slog. Goose: The database migration CLI builder library with lease dependency. Gorm CLI: Generate Go generics-based, type safe, repository functions with no runtime wrappers. Swag and Validator v10: The most prominent Openβ¦
As the transfer window closes for the summer, chief football writer Phil McNulty asks if Arsenal's rivals have done enough to challenge the champions?

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Qatari, UAE LNG cargoes transferred via ship-to-ship outside Strait of Hormuz Β Β Reuters
The actor criticised Paramount-Warner Bros merger, linking it to Oracle's ties with Israeli military amid Gaza genocide.

AI is spreading in classrooms, but its impact on learning depends less on the technology than on how students use it.

iRobot has announced a new flagship robot vacuum, which it will showcase at IFA in Berlin this week, the company's first big tech trade show in years. The Roomba maker will be exhibiting under its new owner, Picea Robotics, the contract manufacturer that purchased the once-troubled American robotics company out of bankruptcy in January. The [β¦]

The man, surnamed Kim, was handed a 15-year prison term for abusing three residents at the facility near Seoul.

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Hundreds of university staff were stationed at picket lines on Wednesday, calling for stronger protections around the use of AI The same week union members at the University of Sydney agreed to a 24-hour strike, staff received the results of an internal survey. In the faculty of arts and social sciences, 0% agreed with the statement: βI trust the University of Sydney to act in the best interests of staff, students and the broader community.β Continue reading...

Visa cancellations or delays have forced international artists to rethink US tours under President Donald Trump.

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Hi all, Over the past few months, I've been working on and off on DirectXSplat, a C++/Direct3D 12 library for rendering 3D Gaussian Splats. It can load PLY, SPZ, .splat, SOG, and lod-meta.json scenes and render them from a host D3D12 application. Features: - GPU-accelerated D3D12 rasterization - Up to 2.4x the FPS of gsplat in matched-quality, resident-scene benchmarks on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER - Native embeddable D3D12 renderer with a host-owned device, queue, command list, fences, and render targets - Compact packed GPU scene buffers, persistent uploaded scenes, and reusable rendeβ¦
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open source bots that collaborate and get stuff done. they get their own machines through local vms or you can use e2b as a plugin. you can also teach a bot how you do your work over a screen share and then it will mimic and mock you like a mocking bird but also automate that work. enjoy! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531991 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Damascus's restraint could encourage more Israeli encroachment and lose the trust of the Syrian public.

Pro-democracy activist faces life sentence in second case under Beijing's national security law.

I built 1Dial because LLMs have become great at telling you what to do, but I still find myself making calls, waiting on hold, finding appointments, getting quotes, etc. With 1Dial, you call or text one number and tell it what you need. It can search, call businesses, follow up and coordinate the task. We've processed about 100+ tasks in our early beta so far. 81% were completed better than what a human would have done. You can try it at 1-844-440-3463 (Call or Text). Would particularly love feedback on where this breaks and whether you'd trust something like this, when and for what you wantβ¦

A BBC team joined a humanitarian mission of the UN peacekeeping force, which says Israeli troops are fortifying positions and continuing demolitions.

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Curiously, the questions at lunchtime may well feel like a minor extension of what he faced on Tuesday, the BBC's political editor writes.

Germany says an attempted drone attack at Leipzig Airport showed hallmarks of Russian hybrid operations against Ukraine.

High profile Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to collusion with foreign entities.

Chinese and Gulf state airlines are among those still using Russian airspace. Meanwhile, Russia says it will intensify its own attacks on Ukraine.

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Arrests, prosecutions and suspensions are putting growing pressure on Tunisiaβs civil society, Human Rights Watch says.

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The far-right British commentator sat with interviewer Piers Morgan after being detained by US immigration authorities.

Dozens of people are injured, and at least five dead, after US strikes hit a wedding ceremony near Sirik, Iran.

The change marks the second US-based tech giant to comply with President Donald Trump's controversial order.

At last year's US Open, Coco Gauff's serve left her practising in the rain and crying on court - now it is a potent weapon.

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Wong, 29, is already in prison on subversion charges under the controversial National Security Law.

Organizers of the recall vote said the councilman, John Perkins, had failed to engage the public while the city negotiated with the developer of a data center project.
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US and Iran exchange attacks as lull in war appears over Β Β Reuters
Instead of daily limits or scheduled focus sessions, Haserupt asks what youβre opening an app for before you open it. It then gives you just enough time to complete that task. Once the timer expires, the app stays unavailable for a short cool-off period. If you genuinely need more time right away, you can explain why and request an extension. For instance, when you open Instagram, you can choose one amongst "Check DMs (1 min)", "Watch reels (5 mins)", "Long convo (15 min)" and use the app for that much time. After that, Instagram will be locked behind a cooloff. After the cooloff ends, youβ¦

Juan Orlando Hernandez had been accused of money laundering and fraud as part of a government corruption scheme.

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The Republican House speaker defends the US-Israel war on Iran and praises Trump's 'steady hands at the wheel'.

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I built this project to watch cron jobs in my own projects. It needed to be simply, but powerful for my requirements. Cheapest plan offers 1 year of log history and 30 seconds interval instead of log history counted in limited log entries. 20 monitors and two days of history are completely free, no card required. There is no self-hosting and no status pages, so Healthchecks will be better here. Happy to answer anything. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530923 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Following nearly 10,000 older women for 10 years, researchers found that tea drinking was associated with slightly higher hip bone density. Moderate coffee consumption did not appear harmful, but drinking more than five cups a day was linked to lower bone density. The findings suggest tea may offer a small bone-health boost, while excessive coffee could carry some drawbacks.
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Hundreds of families say they have had to wait months or even years for a dementia diagnosis for a loved one.

German intelligence has concluded that an explosive-laden drone was linked to Russia. Officials promise consequences.

The NHS has been trialling the test and says the results so far are truly promising.

Officials say at least 63 others wounded in attack on city of Kuhestak, including women and children.

LTO program is confident this is a glitch, not terminal unspooling

A search for one mysterious particle unexpectedly revealed evidence for two different structures that may belong to the bizarre family of exotic subatomic particles known as XYZ states. The findings could help physicists uncover new ways that quarks and gluons combine to create matter.
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UN watchdog says Syria 'failed to report nuclear material, facilities and activities' under Bashar al-Assad's rule.

The US launched new strikes on Iran's southern coast with explosions reported in several locations.

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US calls for deregulation of AI at a G20 ministerial meeting, emphasising industry growth over regulatory constraints.

Threat actors exploited commodity in ownCloud to gain initial access, resulting in stolen reactor databases, personnel records, and credential stores.

