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Aug 28 13:48 UTC

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200 items from Hacker News
  1. Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022 (nhess.copernicus.org)

  2. We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer (code.ffmpeg.org)

  3. GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? (isgithubcooked.com)

  4. Kusama Yayoi has died (nytimes.com)

  5. Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved (githubstatus.com)

  6. Judge Rules Trump Administration’s Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Illegal (nytimes.com)

  7. Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card (tokyodev.com)

  8. Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days (blog.chrislewis.au)

  9. It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI (ssp.sh)

  10. Stripe acquires Clerky (clerky.com)

  11. US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist" (crimethinc.com)

  12. The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada (thetariffcost.com)

  13. US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati (home.treasury.gov)

  14. Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak (modal.cx)

  15. The Harness Is the Thing (scott-fryxell.github.io)

  16. Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal (newscientist.com)

  17. Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model (github.com)

  18. Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance (github.com)

  19. Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV (neilalexander.dev)

  20. Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode (rahuljuliato.com)

  21. Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane' (bbc.com)

  22. Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker (arxiv.org)

  23. VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents (blog.trailofbits.com)

  24. Study reveals UnitedHealth's profit margins four times what it claimed [pdf] (insurancewatchdogcoalition.com)

  25. Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS (morphing.cloud)

  26. Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers (acceptmarkdown.com)

  27. Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) (actinideinc.com)

  28. Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal (bloomberg.com)

  29. IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE (newsroom.ibm.com)

  30. Aphantasia Beginner's Guide (aphantasia.com)