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YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

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Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

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Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission

"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."

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Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/01/neil-hopper-surgeon-amputated-legs-fetish-extreme-mutilation-patients-questions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137808 Points: 15 # Comments: 2

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But can your calculator run Linux?

Article URL: https://raymii.org/s/articles/But_can_your_calculator_run_Linux.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137713 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now

Article URL: https://elgan.com/google-news-is-just-forrest-gumps-shrimp-boat-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137681 Points: 33 # Comments: 12

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Fermi Paradox

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137419 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf]

Article URL: https://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/starlink_structure.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137320 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Chess Engine Dev Community Openly Hostile to AI Assisted Development

Article URL: https://github.com/adamtwiss/coda/issues/15 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137303 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

Article URL: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137060 Points: 58 # Comments: 24

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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

Article URL: https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136821 Points: 12 # Comments: 1

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NetBSD 11.0

Article URL: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736 Points: 117 # Comments: 23

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Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken

Article URL: https://franken.domains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135975 Points: 28 # Comments: 38

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Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135426 Points: 29 # Comments: 18

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Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.