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Wednesday, 12 August 2026
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Textbooks and Methods of Note-Taking in Early Modern Europe (2008)
Article URL: https://dash.harvard.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/7312037d-e342-6bd4-e053-0100007fdf3b/content Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741393 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
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X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts
X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier
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Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
Hi HN! I recently switched from a Fedora/GNOME laptop to a MacBook Air. My old setup served me well as a portable workstation, but I’ve started traveling more while working remotely and needed something with similar performance but better battery lif
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Reading Is Magic
Article URL: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742002 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
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EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.easypost.com/careers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741953 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure
Article URL: https://eualternative.eu/guides/building-saas-eu-stack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741634 Points: 121 # Comments: 33
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Exploiting the most prominent AI agent benchmarks
Article URL: https://rdi.berkeley.edu/blog/trustworthy-benchmarks-cont/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47733217 Points: 463 # Comments: 115
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TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
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From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
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At the HumanX conference, everyone was talking about Claude
Anthropic was the star of the show at San Francisco's AI-centric conference.
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Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)
Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256935390_Eternity_in_six_hours_Intergalactic_spreading_of_intelligent_life_and_sharpening_the_Fermi_paradox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740315 Points: 13 # Comments: 5
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Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45756 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260 Points: 408 # Comments: 352
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The Physics of GPS
Article URL: https://perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738343 Points: 36 # Comments: 4
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Slate Auto: Everything you need to know about the Bezos-backed EV startup
Slate auto burst onto the scene in April 2025. Here is a timeline that covers its origins, backers, product, and other new details.
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Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy
Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739313 Points: 32 # Comments: 6