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https://www.elseif.net/stories/the-first-at-home-test-for-infected-ticks-could-improve-lyme-disease-d-0e379fe elseif en 2026-08-15T14:04:49+00:00 First at-home test for infected ticks may aid Lyme disease diagnosis https://www.elseif.net/stories/sources-mercor-and-other-firms-gathering-data-for-ai-labs-are-driving-90596ca elseif en 2026-08-15T14:00:40+00:00 Reportedly firms buying or licensing internal datasets from shutting down or acquired startups for AI training https://www.elseif.net/stories/per-developer-environments-were-the-goal-agents-moved-the-goalposts-3737d7d elseif en 2026-08-15T14:00:00+00:00 AI agents shift focus from per-developer environments to shared multi-tenant workflows https://www.elseif.net/stories/writergate-zig-io-interface-overhaul-1c341c6 elseif en 2026-08-15T13:59:47+00:00 Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul https://www.elseif.net/stories/show-hn-quasicrystals-animation-playground-with-webxr-1920a20 elseif en 2026-08-15T13:48:43+00:00 Show HN: 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https://www.elseif.net/stories/could-a-computer-scientist-build-a-brain-da58005 elseif en 2026-08-15T13:26:28+00:00 Computer science approach to brain development reveals genome-sized algorithmic constraints https://www.elseif.net/stories/amd-ryzen-7-7700x3d-vs-ryzen-7-7800x3d-faceoff-seeing-double-with-ze-a7ec977 elseif en 2026-08-15T13:25:00+00:00 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D undercuts 7800X3D by $120 with 500 MHz lower boost clock https://www.elseif.net/stories/brazilian-election-filter-in-x-for-you-timeline-d1a7113 elseif en 2026-08-15T13:18:27+00:00 X adds Brazil 2026 election filter to For You timeline algorithm https://www.elseif.net/stories/388-years-ago-galileo-worked-out-why-human-giants-cant-exist-7fa0012 elseif en 2026-08-15T13:15:48+00:00 388 years ago, Galileo worked out why human giants can't exist https://www.elseif.net/stories/every-fusion-startup-that-has-raised-over-100m-69a74aa elseif en 2026-08-15T13:15:20+00:00 Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion in private capital, 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2026-08-15T13:00:00+00:00 U.S. government reportedly authorizes vetted private firms to conduct destructive cyberattacks on foreign cybercrime groups https://www.elseif.net/stories/dont-overlook-elektrons-budget-electronic-music-instruments-6360d27 elseif en 2026-08-15T13:00:00+00:00 Elektron's Model:Samples and Model:Cycles pack six-track sequencing and per-step sound locks into budget grooveboxes https://www.elseif.net/stories/genrec-towards-llm-native-recommendation-at-netflix-c813539 elseif en 2026-08-15T12:56:56+00:00 GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix https://www.elseif.net/stories/spacex-has-officially-acquired-ai-coding-startup-cursor-28693c0 elseif en 2026-08-15T12:51:33+00:00 SpaceX finalizes $60 billion Cursor acquisition, giving the coding startup access to its GPU fleet https://www.elseif.net/stories/xorshift-generators-789b05f elseif en 2026-08-15T12:47:52+00:00 Xorshift generators attract comments in discussion forum thread 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https://www.elseif.net/stories/engadget-review-recap-samsung-galaxy-z-fold-8-ultra-dell-xps-13-and-1880931 elseif en 2026-08-15T12:00:00+00:00 Engadget review recap: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Dell XPS 13 and more https://www.elseif.net/stories/a-kingdom-hearts-anime-is-coming-to-disney-4d42289 elseif en 2026-08-15T11:52:46+00:00 Disney announces Kingdom Hearts anime series for Disney+ and Disney Channel https://www.elseif.net/stories/sk-hynix-runs-out-of-replacement-ssds-and-defaults-to-original-purchas-3c7c05d elseif en 2026-08-15T11:50:00+00:00 SK hynix reportedly defaults to original purchase price refunds for malfunctioning SSDs when replacements are unavailable https://www.elseif.net/stories/intel-says-pc-market-is-a-tale-of-two-kingdoms-with-mainstream-taki-95d4114 elseif en 2026-08-15T11:30:00+00:00 Intel VP sees industry splitting into premium and mainstream sockets as mainstream PC demand weakens https://www.elseif.net/stories/are-latent-reasoning-models-easily-interpretable-b16db3c elseif en 2026-08-15T11:17:13+00:00 Latent reasoning models rarely need hidden reasoning tokens, and those tokens are largely interpretable https://www.elseif.net/stories/anthropic-details-claudes-text-watermark-it-only-shows-claude-was-li-4aa64b9 elseif en 2026-08-15T11:05:04+00:00 Anthropic details Claude text watermark as probabilistic, sparse in code and factual text, and removed by rewrite https://www.elseif.net/stories/auto-research-with-codex-how-i-achieved-a-232x-faster-kernel-aa20b6f elseif en 2026-08-15T11:00:02+00:00 Participant attains 232× speedup on QR kernel using Codex in GPU Mode contest https://www.elseif.net/stories/engineer-used-360-degree-cam-hidden-in-bag-of-snacks-in-attempt-to-ste-335515f elseif en 2026-08-15T11:00:00+00:00 Nanya engineer caught stealing DRAM trade secrets via hidden camera detected by its wireless signals 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2026-08-14T22:56:16+00:00 GLM-5.3 reportedly identifies serious vulnerability in Cursor code-assistance tool https://www.elseif.net/stories/waymo-receives-permission-to-offer-rides-in-sacramento-and-san-diego-fa1c36d elseif en 2026-08-14T22:50:04+00:00 Waymo gains approval to operate robotaxis in Sacramento and San Diego and expand in Bay Area and LA https://www.elseif.net/stories/stop-sending-me-huge-prs-a-rant-7946e62 elseif en 2026-08-14T22:48:15+00:00 Maintainer rants against AI-generated thousand-line pull requests overwhelming reviewers https://www.elseif.net/stories/source-and-letter-the-us-plans-to-tell-35-partner-countries-theyll-b-3b96477 elseif en 2026-08-14T22:45:01+00:00 US reportedly plans to exclude 35 partner countries from Pax Silica AI initiative if they join China's rival framework https://www.elseif.net/stories/sources-paypal-is-in-talks-to-sell-itself-to-a-group-including-stripe-3cb2603 elseif en 2026-08-14T22:43:24+00:00 PayPal reportedly in sale talks with Stripe 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elseif en 2026-08-14T21:55:16+00:00 How dual-valuation deals became pervasive in the current frenzied AI funding cycle, with prestige VC firms monetizing their brand names by getting better prices (M. 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elseif en 2026-08-14T21:00:51+00:00 Anthropic reportedly projects ~$190B-$200B 2028 revenue ahead of IPO https://www.elseif.net/stories/frances-top-court-blocks-a-bill-banning-social-media-for-under-15s-c-9f2a58e elseif en 2026-08-14T21:00:00+00:00 France's top court blocks under-15 social media ban on freedom of expression grounds; Macron orders bill rework https://www.elseif.net/stories/study-links-coffee-consumption-to-metabolic-health-and-sex-hormones-cf048f4 elseif en 2026-08-14T20:46:04+00:00 Finnish study links habitual coffee intake to lower visceral fat and sex-specific hormone changes in 2,264 adults https://www.elseif.net/stories/kias-ev3-will-start-under-31000-in-the-us-0391403 elseif en 2026-08-14T20:39:20+00:00 Kia's EV3 starts below $31,000, becoming its cheapest EV https://www.elseif.net/stories/self-driving-trucks-are-officially-testing-on-california-highways-27a585e elseif en 2026-08-14T20:37:49+00:00 Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI receive California DMV permits to test autonomous trucks with safety operators https://www.elseif.net/stories/waymo-receives-approval-from-the-california-public-utilities-commissio-fd5b355 elseif en 2026-08-14T20:30:01+00:00 California approves Waymo robotaxi expansion to 18 counties including Sacramento and San Diego https://www.elseif.net/stories/apt-333-introduces-initial-interactive-command-line-help-4db26fc elseif en 2026-08-14T20:19:11+00:00 APT 3.3.3 adds interactive CLI help and scales mirror fan-out by square root of file count https://www.elseif.net/stories/every-exterior-shot-in-the-taking-of-pelham-123-8cb13b1 elseif en 2026-08-14T20:10:49+00:00 Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123 https://www.elseif.net/stories/pbs-station-fears-losing-50tb-of-data-after-being-ghosted-by-cloud-sto-87cd3c5 elseif en 2026-08-14T20:00:00+00:00 Judge orders Iron Mountain to hand over devices holding PBS station's 50TB of data https://www.elseif.net/stories/jason-arday-former-cambridge-university-professor-found-dead-3671828 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:51:49+00:00 Former Cambridge professor at centre of plagiarism allegations found dead at 41 https://www.elseif.net/stories/sources-nvidia-has-reworked-a-deal-to-finance-an-openai-ohio-data-cen-b6d4797 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:50:01+00:00 Nvidia reportedly halves its initial guarantee on a $250B OpenAI Ohio data center backstop https://www.elseif.net/stories/rva23-vs-armv9-a-small-experiment-c1f9f02 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:42:34+00:00 RISC-V RVA23 shows 24% smaller dynamic instruction fetch than ARMv9 in compiler workload test https://www.elseif.net/stories/ceo-who-fired-900-people-on-zoom-just-before-christmas-wants-his-job-b-b46e6e4 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:36:18+00:00 Ousted Better.com CEO who fired 900 employees on Zoom seeks reinstatement after stock drop https://www.elseif.net/stories/16m-ringcentral-accounts-data-dumped-after-shinyhunters-extortion-at-68e9d49 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:34:57+00:00 ShinyHunters dumps 1.6M RingCentral accounts' data after extortion demand goes unpaid https://www.elseif.net/stories/anthropic-risk-august-2026-pdf-026a83d elseif en 2026-08-14T19:32:15+00:00 Anthropic reportedly publishes internal AI risk assessment for August 2026 https://www.elseif.net/stories/show-hn-aletheionagi-grounding-enforcement-for-ai-agents-73350be elseif en 2026-08-14T19:28:17+00:00 AletheionAGI posted as Show HN project for grounding enforcement in AI agents https://www.elseif.net/stories/zai-security-disclosure-df41d65 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:22:00+00:00 Z.ai discloses 2,436 vulnerabilities spanning 45 years with average 26.6-year latency https://www.elseif.net/stories/apples-new-ai-split-means-your-ios-app-could-behave-differently-in-ch-e3cc9b9 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:21:28+00:00 Apple reportedly splits AI stack to comply with China regulations causing iOS app behavior differences https://www.elseif.net/stories/what-you-gain-by-building-your-own-game-engine-1e0de7f elseif en 2026-08-14T19:20:20+00:00 Developers discuss trade-offs of custom game engine development https://www.elseif.net/stories/high-performance-array-backed-lru-hash-table-092d64a elseif en 2026-08-14T19:11:19+00:00 Array-backed LRU hash table eliminates runtime allocations and global lock contention https://www.elseif.net/stories/open-wireguard-endpoints-105e5bf elseif en 2026-08-14T19:05:46+00:00 WireGuard endpoints now accept unregistered clients with optional pre-shared key gate https://www.elseif.net/stories/google-will-now-allow-users-to-remove-visible-watermark-from-its-ai-ge-db35a37 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:04:42+00:00 Google lets users turn off visible watermark on AI images, videos, and songs while retaining SynthID https://www.elseif.net/stories/what-we-know-about-the-alleged-iranian-hacks-on-us-water-utilities-f05baa8 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:04:32+00:00 Reported Iranian state hackers allegedly disrupt US water utilities in multiple states https://www.elseif.net/stories/russian-missile-uses-nvidia-ai-chip-to-help-target-ukraine-8569ad9 elseif en 2026-08-14T19:00:00+00:00 Russian cruise missile reportedly uses Nvidia Jetson Orin chip for AI-assisted targeting https://www.elseif.net/stories/my-comment-section-is-static-html-df9dfe3 elseif en 2026-08-14T18:58:27+00:00 Hugo blog compiles comments into static HTML at build time, no JavaScript required https://www.elseif.net/stories/read-it-later-app-pocket-shut-down-down-here-are-the-best-alternativ-6af407b elseif en 2026-08-14T18:58:15+00:00 Mozilla shuts down read-it-later app Pocket with data export deadline for users https://www.elseif.net/stories/show-hn-mole-deep-research-agent-for-your-terminal-5a94dd1 elseif en 2026-08-14T18:52:48+00:00 Mole ships a terminal deep-research agent that enforces spend budgets and source-verifies every claim https://www.elseif.net/stories/show-hn-embed-a-real-linux-terminal-on-your-website-6d6da14 elseif en 2026-08-14T18:51:27+00:00 sandbox.bio script embeds a Linux terminal on websites and adds Run buttons to bash blocks https://www.elseif.net/stories/google-makes-visible-ai-watermarks-optional-but-keeps-hidden-provenanc-eb2513b elseif en 2026-08-14T18:47:56+00:00 Google makes visible AI watermarks optional in generated media while retaining hidden SynthID and C2PA metadata https://www.elseif.net/stories/tim-oreilly-says-open-ai-needs-more-than-downloadable-model-weights-90a08f9 elseif en 2026-08-14T18:47:39+00:00 Tim O’Reilly argues open AI requires portable memory and interchangeable models beyond downloadable weights https://www.elseif.net/stories/kog-wants-software-not-new-chips-to-unlock-faster-ai-inference-260cfe5 elseif en 2026-08-14T18:47:20+00:00 French startup Kog claims software optimisation of existing GPUs can cut single-request AI inference latency https://www.elseif.net/stories/samsungs-wearable-ai-models-aim-to-read-health-signals-on-the-wrist-0e6a32d elseif en 2026-08-14T18:46:47+00:00 Samsung Research presents xMAE and HiMAE wearable biosignal models with sub-millisecond on-device inference claim https://www.elseif.net/stories/the-american-sports-plutocracy-is-bullshit-e6760dd elseif en 2026-08-14T18:43:49+00:00 Lakers sold to Kushner and Iger at record $12.5 billion valuation while seller faced federal fraud investigation https://www.elseif.net/stories/that-is-not-acceptable-judge-orders-google-to-make-rival-app-store-430eaff elseif en 2026-08-14T18:38:40+00:00 Google must cut extra steps for rival app store installs, judge rules https://www.elseif.net/stories/trump-sends-the-us-navy-back-to-the-steam-age-82f4b68 elseif en 2026-08-14T18:22:28+00:00 US Navy reportedly reverts future carrier CVN-81 to steam catapults and hydraulic elevators 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Google lets users disable visible watermarks on Gemini AI-generated media https://www.elseif.net/stories/crypto-wallet-maker-trezor-confirms-13000-customers-details-exposed-14980b1 elseif en 2026-08-14T12:29:00+00:00 Trezor logistics partner breach exposes 13,000 customers' personal data including addresses https://www.elseif.net/stories/plaintiff-busted-trying-to-use-ai-prompt-injection-to-win-court-case-3b317cf elseif en 2026-08-14T12:23:35+00:00 Plaintiff barred from e-filing after hiding AI prompt injection in court documents https://www.elseif.net/stories/dear-people-who-work-at-the-airport-74775bb elseif en 2026-08-14T12:23:22+00:00 Free consultation offered to airport designers after detailing confusing terminal experience https://www.elseif.net/stories/the-download-flocks-new-rules-clonings-future-and-childrens-cell-1d63993 elseif en 2026-08-14T12:17:21+00:00 Flock to require criminal case numbers for license-plate searches, expand automated auditing 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