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America's immigration policy is driving away future AI leaders
Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/us-immigration-rules-ai-talent-china/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453108
Points: 16
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Hacker News, Sans AI
Article URL: https://elijahpotter.dev/hnsansai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453133
Points: 4
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This week in AI-native companies #5: Stripe buys the meter
Article URL: https://www.insideainative.com/p/this-week-in-ai-native-companies-b77
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453182
Points: 2
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AI Watermark Mandates Could Unmask Journalists Who Never Touched AI
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/how-ai-watermark-mandates-could-unmask-journalists-who-never-touched-ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453460
Points: 2
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Show HN: AI scientist builds an open-source Codex Micro from scratch for $40
A few weeks ago, we open-sourced our design for a cost-effective but full featured alternative to OpenAI x Work Louder's sold out Codex Micro macropad. And now, we're pleased to share that we've actually built them and they work! Quick recap of the I/O:
- 13 assignable keys with individual LEDs
- rotary encoder
- joystick
- touch disc
- optional edge-lit LED band The cool part for us was just HOW our agent was able to do it when every other agentic skills, tools, and even commercial platforms fa...
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Aperture GA: Building a home(lab) for agentic AI
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/aperture-ga
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49453932
Points: 1
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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ai-data-startup-micro1-reaches-500m-gross-run-rate-amid-ai-training-boom/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454094
Points: 1
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Disenchantment with the Post-AI Internet
Article URL: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/disenchantment-with-the-post-ai-internet/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454175
Points: 3
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Primus – AI Research Scientist
Article URL: https://lab.cloud/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454244
Points: 4
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Can Agentic Engineers Estimate Software Delivery in the Age of AI?
Article URL: https://serendb.com/blog/can-agentic-engineers-estimate-software-delivery-in-the-age-of-ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454339
Points: 2
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Toward Measuring AI's Effects on Skill Formation: The Stock-Formation Gap
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16283
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454516
Points: 1
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The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical
Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make?WT.mc_id=20260826_ai-overture-2026-med-med
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454606
Points: 2
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A new center aims to make St. Louis a hub of global AI innovation
Article URL: https://www.stlmag.com/business/spirit-of-st-louis-ai-innovation-center-launches/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454618
Points: 1
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Hacker Lens – in-browser reader for HN and GitHub, with on-device AI
Article URL: https://hackerlens.cc/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454644
Points: 1
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1-800-APL-Care Now Connects You with AI Assistant Instead of Human
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/1-800-apl-care-ai-assistant/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454671
Points: 3
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The risks of AI are real but manageable
Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/the-risks-of-ai-are-real-but-manageable
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454742
Points: 1
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The AI writing taboo begins to fade following WSJ op-ed
Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/08/26/2026/the-ai-writing-taboo-begins-to-fade-after-wsj-op-ed
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454754
Points: 2
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An analog-AI chip for energy-efficient speech recognition and transcription
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06337-5
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454761
Points: 2
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Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers
Article URL: https://acceptmarkdown.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454764
Points: 1
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Why AI Agents Need Persistent Browser Identities
Article URL: https://github.com/Radek-B3/browser3/blob/main/WHY_AI_AGENTS_NEED_PERSISTENT_BROWSER_IDENTITIES.md
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454780
Points: 1
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PeopleFinders’ New Website Runs Background Checks on Your Dates
The site, called Stud or Dud, helps daters dig up dirt on potential paramours. It’s fueled by the same public data as PeopleFinders.com—and comes with many of the same concerns.

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Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.
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VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450188
Points: 108
# Comments: 79
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Tim Curry has died
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451448
Points: 395
# Comments: 142
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Launch HN: Risklytics (YC S26) – Insurance brokerage for frontier tech companies
Hi HN, we're Sam and Alex, founders of Risklytics ( https://risklytics.ai ). We're both on leave from Harvard, and we run an insurance brokerage for companies building robots, drones, autonomous systems and satellites. You describe your machine, we find the insurance companies willing to cover it, and we read everything before you sign. Buying insurance for any frontier tech goes like this: - your first customer or pilot requires coverage before your machine can work on their site - a broker han...
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FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451675
Points: 59
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CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela
Article URL: https://hotosm.org/en/news/comaps-the-offline-app-that-guided-rescuers-without-a-signal-in-the-venezuela-response/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452671
Points: 71
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