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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

DarkContinent — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566

Points: 317

# Comments: 111

Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo

mapping365 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:15:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191624

Points: 265

# Comments: 322

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing

ExMachina73 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:29:23 +0000

Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287

Points: 311

# Comments: 150

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

speckx — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:50:13 +0000

Article URL: https://runarcn.no/android-to-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188022

Points: 366

# Comments: 371

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

malshe — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:47:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187977

Points: 301

# Comments: 231

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2

paulkrush — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187575

Points: 272

# Comments: 170

Zed DeltaDB

ahamez — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/deltadb

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256

Points: 460

# Comments: 245

Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage

lladnar — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:37:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.fogus.me/llm/born-against.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187061

Points: 298

# Comments: 316

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

moonikakiss — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:18:56 +0000

Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186762

Points: 344

# Comments: 84

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

hackerBanana — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:23:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185983

Points: 250

# Comments: 99

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

calvinfo — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:50:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/denoland/celld

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185430

Points: 237

# Comments: 39

Discovery Loop

xtreak29 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:19:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.discoveryloop.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960

Points: 787

# Comments: 490

Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind

ot — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757

Points: 369

# Comments: 1

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

colesantiago — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:05:31 +0000

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa...

https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders...

https://www.discoveryloop.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960

https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724, https://xcancel.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755

Points: 705

# Comments: 752

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

louiereederson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:04:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184746

Points: 297

# Comments: 9

The Valley of Webhooks

weli — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:22:06 +0000

Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184216

Points: 202

# Comments: 85

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

cdrnsf — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:20:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184190

Points: 318

# Comments: 188

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

speckx — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:58:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996

Points: 580

# Comments: 279

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

vincent_s — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182041

Points: 249

# Comments: 109

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

dzdt — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099

Points: 475

# Comments: 251