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Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/blueskys-active-user-base-is-shrinking-as-its-focus-expands-beyond-the-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263461 Points: 52 # Comments: 94

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Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people — and the grid — will actually want

Reservoir has built an ultra-efficient water heater that can predict hot water demand, store energy, and detect plumbing leaks throughout a home.

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Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

Woxi is an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust. It comes with Woxi Studio, a Mathematica-like GUI built with iced, but you can also use Woxi through a CLI, Jupyter kernel, Python package, npm package, or WASM module. Compared with wo

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Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

Article URL: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270022 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

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Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269818 Points: 37 # Comments: 15

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Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

Article URL: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/beef-and-dairy-drive-41-of-biodiversity-damage-linked-to-global-farmland Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269789 Points: 47 # Comments: 17

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Dutch Train Map Simulator

Article URL: https://spoorkaart.zaza.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269641 Points: 22 # Comments: 4

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Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

Hey HN, we're Advaith and Akash from Discovered Materials ( https://discoveredmaterials.com/ ). We build AI agents that discover new materials for the semiconductor industry. GPUs today have a heat problem. Nvidia & AMD are almost doubling the TDP (

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Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-large-scale-link-crime-unauthorized.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268824 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

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LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

Article URL: https://www.cringebot3000.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268564 Points: 18 # Comments: 4

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Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?

Article URL: https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-dropbox-is-a-obvious-pe-target/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267818 Points: 50 # Comments: 73

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DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/08/10/darpa-lift-challenge-results-avidrone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267527 Points: 29 # Comments: 7

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India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand

Yulu aims to have a fleet of 200,000 bikes in the next two years and faster electric two-wheelers, aiming at new logistics use cases.

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llama.cpp

Article URL: https://llama.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267928 Points: 45 # Comments: 8

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The Human Is the Loop

Article URL: https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267108 Points: 15 # Comments: 0