Hacker News Daily — August 26, 2026
30 stories · August 26, 2026
In this issue
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs
ducklabs.com · 882 points · Discussion
Today, we’re announcing that DuckLabs will join Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is expected to be effective in early September. Our team will remain together in Amsterdam, continuing our work on…
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
qwen.ai · 555 points · Discussion
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Tim Curry has died
theguardian.com · 464 points · Discussion
Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Reports say Curry died at his home in Los…
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RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
lighthousenewsletter.com · 402 points · Discussion
Hello, Rafael here - every week I cover interesting challenges and developments that I’ve come across recently through the lens of an engineer building AI systems. Subscribe and get my weekly takes 👇…
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Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
github.com · 323 points · Discussion
"Tailscale without Tailscale, by Tailscale" Tailcat is a remix of Tailscale open source pieces to act like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane. Tailscale's data…
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Nebula Sans
nebulasans.com · 279 points · Discussion
Introducing Nebula Sans A versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif with a neutral aesthetic, designed for legibility in both digital and print applications. Based on Source Sans by Paul D. Hunt for…
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Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]
youtube.com · 266 points · Discussion
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Disruption with Some GitHub Services
githubstatus.com · 227 points · Discussion
Incident Report for GitHub Resolved This incident has been resolved. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we addressed this issue. A detailed root cause analysis will be shared as soon as…
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Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
twitterwebviewer.com · 224 points · Discussion
Twitter Viewer Browse public Twitter profiles and tweets without login. Anonymous, fast, and easy. Product Twitter Viewer Search Tweets Video Downloader Blog & Guides Legal About Privacy Policy Terms…
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An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
lwn.net · 192 points · Discussion
At FOSSY 2026, several people from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing violation of the Affero General Public License version 3…
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Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
farmaction.us · 187 points · Discussion
A Farm Action report August 2026 Research and analysis by Sarah Carden, Colleen Fulton, Angela Huffman, and Caroline Nodus Written by Jessica Cusworth The 2026 Cyclospora outbreak has…
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It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
ssp.sh · 128 points · Discussion
Last updated Updated: Aug 26, 2026 · Created Created: Apr 24, 2026 · 8 min read recently updated Recent changes Aug 26 today +160 / −84 words Aug 6 2 weeks ago +4 / −0 words Jul 30 3 weeks ago +32 /…
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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
hotosm.org · 126 points · Discussion
How an offline app, built by volunteers, became a key tool for first respondents during the earthquake response in Venezuela. On the second day after the earthquake, Anton went down to what everyone…
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The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada
thetariffcost.com · 110 points · Discussion
Know someone who should see this? And Canada is taxing you back What Canada is taxing What Canada taxes are American exports, the things American workers grow and build. Today the list is steel and…
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PageRank explained
praveshkoirala.com · 102 points · Discussion
Picture this, the year is 1996. You find yourself frustrated with the incumbent search engines like AltaVista, which primarily does a content-based search (it’ll give you an article on “Hotels for…
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FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
fda.gov · 100 points · Discussion
For Immediate Release: August 26, 2026 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a RAS inhibitor for the most common form of pancreatic cancer—delivering a new…
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Dallas startup enriches Uranium
actinideinc.com · 88 points · Discussion
Dallas, TX, August 26 — Actinide, an advanced materials company that designs, builds, and operates its own isotope separation machines, has become the first startup in history to produce high-assay…
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YouTube Format IDs
gist.github.com · 66 points · Discussion
Note: This is all almost full YouTube ID informations. Original owner goes to AgentOak, modified version by Martin Eesmaa. See the credits and also special thanks in below. Before this gist has been…
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GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?
isgithubcooked.com · 52 points · Discussion
I made this site because I wanted to filter GitHub's incident history for the services and severity levels that affect the products I build. Everybody's reliability narrative is a function of the…
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Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
acceptmarkdown.com · 30 points · Discussion
Serve Markdown to AI agents with content negotiation Your site already has the content. Serving a Markdown variant lets agent AI clients skip nav/scripts/layout markup and read the content directly.…
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The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023)
gatesnotes.com · 24 points · Discussion
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A Thread-Register Decoupled GPU Execution Model for Efficient Tensor Computation
arxiv.org · 12 points · Discussion
Authors: Zihan Liu, Jingwen Leng, Yangjie Zhou, Yitong Ding, Guanlin Zhu, Yilu Huang, Chiheng Jin, Chen Zhang, Shixuan Sun, Yu Feng, Anbang Wu, Minyi Guo, Jian Weng, Jiajin Tu, Junsong Wang View PDF…
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76% of 623 EU software vendors have no security.txt ahead of the CRA 24h rule
cradrill.com · 11 points · Discussion
August 2026. In four weeks, the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Article 14 starts a 24-hour reporting clock the moment a manufacturer becomes aware of an actively exploited vulnerability. The most common…
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Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker
pantsforbirds.com · 7 points · Discussion
We've been building open source embedded ADS-B receivers for a while, and spent the past 8 months smallifying our existing receiver tech with a new chip from Semtech. Ask me anything about ADSB or…
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WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI
openai.com · 6 points · Discussion
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IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor
newsroom.ibm.com · 5 points · Discussion
Revolutionary design will bring Arm-native applications to IBM's flagship mainframes and servers, broadening software choice for enterprise computing Aug 24, 2026 ARMONK, N.Y., Aug. 24, 2026 – At the…
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What will be left for us to work on
icml.cc · 4 points · Discussion
Given rapid advances in AI, how should researchers and developers shift how we allocate our time? What new skills should we build so that we’re not obsolete in the future? I argue that there will be…
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Product Development is being Rewritten
revyl.com · 4 points · Discussion
Coding agents are getting better at an exponential rate, this can be seen evidently, with benchmarks getting saturated, models being able to complete longer and longer tasks asynchronously. As…
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Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game
pushup.quest · 3 points · Discussion
Camera pushup counter · fitness RPG Your pushups are the weapon. Prop up your phone, drop down, and every real rep — counted live by the camera — strikes a blow against the dark. Pushup RPG is a free…