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Wednesday, 19 August 2026
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Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267057 Points: 56 # Comments: 11
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The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood
Article URL: https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-race-to-protect-the-species/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266921 Points: 25 # Comments: 3
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New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner
Article URL: https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-and-follow-ex-romantic-partner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266899 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
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CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York
Article URL: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/9281-26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49266277 Points: 117 # Comments: 93
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Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet
Article URL: https://github.com/TheRealYT/git-knife Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259611 Points: 132 # Comments: 86
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Neutrinos from Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/neutrinos-from-deep-inside-earth-provide-a-new-picture-of-the-mantle-20260807/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257853 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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DEF CON crowd suspected in fake-hotspot attack on Delta flight
FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
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Trump wants Big Pharma to split MMR vaccine; Big Pharma thinks it's idiotic
It took just hours for the leading pharma group to reject the recommendations.
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US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-gamer-air-traffic-controllers-faa-recruitment-sean-duffy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265879 Points: 29 # Comments: 12
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WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
Article URL: https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265051 Points: 82 # Comments: 29
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pg_clickhouse v0.10: Subquery pushdown and 1000x faster TPC-H queries
Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/pg_clickhouse-whats-new-july-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265031 Points: 30 # Comments: 1
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Ethical Cold Outreach
Article URL: https://blog.val.town/ethical-cold-outreach Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262172 Points: 29 # Comments: 22
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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni reportedly knew Phia was ‘cookie stuffing’ for months
Phia, the shopping startup co-founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, is once again under fire for its alleged business practices.
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Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last
The U.S. VC firm still has more than 55% of its previous $650 million India fund available for deployment.
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Google’s Gemini app surges to 1 billion users
Google also shared numbers of how people are actually using the chatbot, with 63% of Gemini users talking directly to the assistant using the voice feature. Plus, Gemini now generates more than 150 million images every day, according to Google.