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Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)

https://rupertlinacre.com/buslens/

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unvei...

Magnetic core memory USB drive used for sneakernet file transfer

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/usb-fla...

My Friend Aaron

https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron

Flyway for freeloaders, rollback implemented in Python

https://aconcan.io/blog/flyway-for-freeloaders/

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26...

OpenAI and Anthropic are ruining San Francisco

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/open-ai-anthr...

Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

https://nhess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3765/2022...

Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled?

item?id=49496390

USDA recalls 30k pounds of Argentine beef sold in Texas and Florida

https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/usda-recalls-3000...

The new Go JSON API: twice as fast, or 1.5x slower?

https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/29/the-new-go-json-...

Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23228

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill

A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw...

Tim Curry has died

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-c...

Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)

https://www.actinideinc.com/press/actinide-becomes...

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

https://acceptmarkdown.com/

Terry Rozier and the Teleprompt Operator

https://iainschmitt.com/post/terry-rozier-and-the-...

If Consciousness Is Physical, Why Should It Stop at the Brain?

https://sidhsikka.substack.com/p/the-qualia-contin...

America's long march toward Chinese-style surveillance state

https://www.ocregister.com/2026/08/14/americas-lon...

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

https://johan-sjolen.github.io/post/compiler-sympa...

The mechanics of the Nepali flash flood

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2...

Racter (1984)

https://www.ubu.com/historical/racter/index.html

Marked Share – Markdown Publishing

https://brettterpstra.com/2026/08/29/marked-share-...

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

https://lectronz.com/u/lectronz/articles/how-europ...

Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York, started in 1989

http://panix.com/

Dolly Parton has died

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/doll...

CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API

https://wagtail.org/blog/cms-with-ai-not-ai-cms-wa...

PPWR lands another blow to an precarious tabletop industry

https://www.rascal.news/ppwr-lands-another-blow-to...

LLM Cliché Highlighter

https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-highlig...