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Sunday, 09 August 2026
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Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/alibabas-new-open-source-qwen3-5-medium-models-offer-sonnet-4-5-performance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199781 Points: 53 # Comments: 16
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Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts
Article URL: https://robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198977 Points: 43 # Comments: 11
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747s and Coding Agents
Article URL: https://carlkolon.com/2026/02/27/engineering-747-coding-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182986 Points: 104 # Comments: 42
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In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT
An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.
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Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space
Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.
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Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme leader, Is Dead
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/iran-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-israel-announces-strike-2026-02-28/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199484 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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Khamenei Dead
Article URL: https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/2027830773328302396 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199389 Points: 35 # Comments: 10
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Techno‑Feudal Elite Are Attempting to Build a Twenty‑First‑Century Fascist State
Article URL: https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2026/02/16/americas-oligarchic-techno-feudal-elite-are-attempting-to-build-a-twenty-first-century-fascist-state/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198912 Points: 202 # Comme
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Show HN: Tomoshibi – A writing app where your words fade by firelight
I spent ten years trying to write a novel. Every time I sat down, I'd write a sentence, decide it wasn't good enough, and rewrite it. The problem wasn't discipline — it was that I could always see what I'd written and go back to change it. I tried ot
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CSP for Pentesters: Understanding the Fundamentals
Article URL: https://www.kayssel.com/newsletter/issue-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47198099 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/dollspace-gay/d8d3bc3ecf4188df049d7a4726bb2a00 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197595 Points: 25 # Comments: 10
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The whole thing was a scam
Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197505 Points: 42 # Comments: 7
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Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
Article URL: https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197267 Points: 112 # Comments: 39
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Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document
Hey HN! We posted Rivet Actors here previously [1] as an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Durable Objects. Today we've released SQLite storage for actors (Apache 2.0). Every actor gets its own SQLite database. This means you can have millions of
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OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarket-kalshi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195317 Points: 158 # Comments: 97