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Apple upgrades M4 Mac mini orders to M6, M5 Pro at no additional cost

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/apple-free-ma...

Years of Salt and Metal – The crash of Hop-a-Jet flight 823

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/years-of-salt-...

1,000 missing after catastrophic floods caused by a glacial collapse

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-nepal-ti...

Show HN: Devx – Autonomous AI coding agent built for Android Termux and desktop

https://github.com/apvcode/Termux-Dev

PEP 805 – Safe Parallel Python

https://peps.python.org/pep-0805/

Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon

Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16603

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/2...

Building textlog without JavaScript

https://gist.github.com/stagas/09ad937b493bf8cd328...

Fast drilldown dashboards from a single Parquet file

https://www.hamiltonulmer.com/customer-dashboards-...

President declares national emergency over foreign made parts in US power grid

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/20...

How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer

https://lalitm.com/post/find-problems-staff-engine...

Executable Is a SQLite Database

https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/23/your-executable-is...

Codegraff

https://github.com/justrach/codegraff

Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

https://picomq.com/

BSDnas – fork that continues TrueNAS CORE on current FreeBSD

https://bsdnas.com/

Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

https://www.theverge.com/tech/985155/flock-camera-...

Ox-Alpha Is GLM?

https://dejan.ai/blog/ox-alpha/

The Israeli Influence Machine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fpeCldf7iyE

In Hilbert Space, All Things Are Quantumly Possible

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-hilbert-space-al...

Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-cuda-t...

A philosopher's guide to thinking for yourself in an age built to think for you

https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/philoso...

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.13...

Ratko Mladić, the 'Butcher of Bosnia', dies aged 84

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/ratk...

Anthropic Announces Hardware Interface Standard (Model Hardware Standard, MHS)

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/20930384261...

I Built a Minimalist Agent Harness That Runs in WebAssembly

https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1vzyu7...

The choices we make about AI now are critical

https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/re...

Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game

https://pushup.quest/

Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

https://quesma.com/blog/qwen38-27b-quantizations-b...

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

https://daily.jstor.org/where-did-all-the-public-b...