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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.

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Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change

Article URL: https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/08/tech-sucks-you-have-to-vote-with-your-wallet-or-nothing-will-change/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232570 Points: 23 # Comments: 8

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Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Article URL: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232410 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Article URL: https://alexanderwanyoike.github.io/vibez/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232369 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232253 Points: 15 # Comments: 7

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Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/historian-jill-lepore-says-the-tech-industry-is-led-by-bad-readers-who-are-undermining-democracy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232221 Points: 47 # Comments: 17

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Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138 Points: 13 # Comments: 1

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Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone

Article URL: https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232110 Points: 26 # Comments: 4

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John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

Article URL: https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231397 Points: 30 # Comments: 10

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This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

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This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs

More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.

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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Article URL: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231154 Points: 61 # Comments: 21

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Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

Article URL: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230891 Points: 12 # Comments: 1

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Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NufJ7g63KSY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230630 Points: 29 # Comments: 4

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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

Article URL: https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230514 Points: 55 # Comments: 41