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Secondhand booksellers in UK and Ireland suspect AI firms 'strange' bulk orders
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/15/uk-ireland-booksellers-suspect-ai-companies-bulk-orders-data-acquisition
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313772
Points: 2
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Meta will train its AI on Newsmax, a far-right media outlet
Article URL: https://popular.info/p/meta-will-train-its-ai-on-far-right
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313778
Points: 18
# Comments: 12
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Show HN: Glad-AI-Tor – AI tools ranked by user votes, not by who pays
Article URL: https://glad-ia-tor.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314034
Points: 2
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The unlikely opera star: How AI helped a nonspeaking performer find his voice
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/a-nonspeaking-person-is-the-star-of-this-opera-ai-made-that-possible/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314329
Points: 3
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AI makes foundational knowledge more important
Article URL: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-makes-foundational-knowledge-more-important-ever
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314435
Points: 6
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Show HN: TokenLab MCP, model discovery, pricing, and native AI endpoint tools
Article URL: https://tokenlab.sh/zh/mcp
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314483
Points: 2
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The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-slop-backlash-is-actually-having-an-impact/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314494
Points: 7
# Comments: 1
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Why AI agents need verified identity
Article URL: https://chrisbergeron.com/2026/08/11/why_ai_agents_need_verified_identity/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314608
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Sentinel Scan: an authorized LLM red-team audit, run by an AI agent
Article URL: https://fbirds5230.github.io/sentinel-scan/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314841
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13122
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314967
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Alibaba AI Models Hit 3B Downloads, Passing Meta, Google
Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/alibaba-ai-models-hit-3-091606840.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315160
Points: 1
# Comments: 0

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I built a niche web app, but user growth has stalled. How would you grow it?
I built a free browser-based chemical structure editor called MolSketch. The idea is pretty simple: chemists and students can draw chemical structures, convert image, SMILES and CAS numbers into structures, and export them without installing software or creating an account. The product itself is working and it has attracted users organically, but lately growth has started to stall. So I'm trying to figure out what I should focus on next rather than just adding more features. For a niche ...
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[Dev & Marketers] Has software become content? MEME?
The old path was: idea → MVP → App Store → paid acquisition → subscription. Now it’s: idea → a weird interactive website built overnight → a viral post → thousands of people testing the product. Maybe we’ve been thinking about the future of software all wrong.
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Question: If you were building an AI-native version of Clickup, with the speedy UI/X of Notion - what tech stack would you use?
Hey all, developer of 8+ years here. This post is completely handwritten, no AI garbage. I'm tired of my agency tools being disconnected, and being a Shopify dev agency in general, I feel like we're slowly getting run over by AI if we don't pivot how we fulfill development tasks. Nothing today works how I envision my team working in the AI era. Even scoping open source or new upcoming tools. I want to build a new Project Management tool - without making this post too long, though I'm ha...
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352 signups, 22 used the feature I'd spent months building. So I cut the feature, not the product
For the last few months I've been building an automated backlink exchange. The pitch was hands-off: connect your WordPress, Ghost or any other site through a webhook,, we write SEO articles in your brand voice, we place other members' backlinks inside them, everything runs on autopilot. The automation was the product as far as I was concerned. It's where nearly all my dev time went. Then I looked at what people were actually doing. Of 352 signups, 22 connected a CMS. The rest signed up, look...
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Be honest - how did you get your first 10 customers without anyone knowing who tf you were?
I’m more interested in what you actually did than the polished startup advice. Where did those first 10 customers come from? Did you cold DM them, find them on Reddit, message people on LinkedIn, ask friends, offer free access, or do something completely random? And what finally made someone say “yeah, I’ll pay for this” ? Curious about the scrappy stuff that actually worked.
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Does anyone else feel like 80% of the Y Combinator startups we see these days are just AI wrappers around API calls to frontier models?
Seriously, who are the investors that are seeing massive value in some of these startups? If anyone is talking about an AI bubble, this is it. Random startups are building thin layers around existing AI models, slapping “AI” onto the product, and somehow convincing investors that they’ve discovered the next big thing. I’m not saying every AI wrapper is useless. Some of them genuinely solve problems and can build great businesses. But when the core technology is basically “send a prompt...
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A spectre is haunting Unicode
Article URL: https://www.dampfkraft.com/ghost-characters.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310926
Points: 155
# Comments: 47
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Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
Article URL: https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dad2.70432
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311651
Points: 321
# Comments: 225
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A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312008
Points: 152
# Comments: 68
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I Remain a Skeptic
Article URL: https://blog.jsbarretto.com/post/i-remain-a-skeptic
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312053
Points: 31
# Comments: 13
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Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair/jobs/sSOD2Ox-flight-test-engineer
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313047
Points: 0
# Comments: 0
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Tess's Android Wayland Compositor
Article URL: https://github.com/wmww/tawc
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313068
Points: 33
# Comments: 3