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14 Aug 2026 edition

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Source: Google Cloud Tech Google Cloud
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What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks allegedly carried out by the…

Source: TechCrunch Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
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Why Your Wearable Needs Weeks of Data Before It Becomes Useful

I can recall the time when I first put on the Oura Ring and checked my readiness score the next morning as if I were checking an exam score. I saw something like 62 and I really started to panic. Was

Source: freeCodeCamp News Shradha Puri
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Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release…

Source: TechCrunch Theresa Loconsolo
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How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on…

Source: Cloudflare Blog Kenny Johnson
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IDE Nostalgia (2022)

Hacker News discussion (29 points, 0 comments)

Source: Hacker News dmaynard
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eigendrum

Hacker News discussion (188 points, 53 comments)

Source: Hacker News bookofjoe
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Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

Doing research with agents is fun until they blow way past budget, jumble the sources, and don't even give you the best possible answer, just sound confident. And if you want to run some research task on local data -…

Source: Hacker News lajosdeme
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Racket v9.3

Hacker News discussion (112 points, 7 comments)

Source: Hacker News privong
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Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

LuaCAD models solids in Lua rather than the OpenSCAD language, with operator overloading for CSG (`a + b`, `a - b`, `a * b`). It ships with a CLI and a desktop app, including a preview area and a text editor. I've…

Source: Hacker News adius
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AI by Hand

Hacker News discussion (331 points, 24 comments)

Source: Hacker News sans_souse
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Introducing Toast 1

Hacker News discussion (210 points, 64 comments)

Source: Hacker News mplappert
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Qwen 3.8 27B

Hacker News discussion (1309 points, 755 comments)

Source: Hacker News erdaltoprak
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Earth.nullschool.net

Hacker News discussion (30 points, 13 comments)

Source: Hacker News TremendousJudge