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Wednesday, 19 August 2026 · Global Edition · Updated 11:25 CST
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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

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Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent communications.

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Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

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The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/billable-usage-api/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158714 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158581 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

Article URL: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years-and-working-with-a-decades-old-c-codebase Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158474 Points: 33

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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

Article URL: https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158287 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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SearXNG in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158141 Points: 15 # Comments: 5

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Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite ( https://hoplite.sh ). Hoplite lets you deploy coding agents in the cloud, with a suite of tools that makes it incredibly easy to QA features. During onboarding, we port over your local setup - sessio

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Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

Hi HN! We’re Theodore and Louis, founders of Armature (YC P26). We reconstruct the entire session behind the MCP tool calls you receive, including what the user asked their agent to do and what the agent thought. You wrap your MCP in 3 lines of code

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Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed)

Article URL: https://note.com/hirorohi03/n/n047a8c5f7f8b?hl=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157645 Points: 10 # Comments: 4

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Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

Article URL: https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/ Comments U

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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011 Points: 146 # Comments: 28

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SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

Article URL: https://research.jfrog.com/post/sqlite-critical-cves-or-llm-slops/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154332 Points: 644 # Comments: 276

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SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.

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