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techcrunch.com
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alivehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/michael-polansky-is-training-an-ai-model-on-skin-thats-still-alive/Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.
Aug 22, 2026 1:31 AM
ozbrain.com
Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your teamhttps://ozbrain.comI think agent-first chat interfaces will be a primary software modality and busy dashboard/UI will go away. I’m not sure who exactly wins it, but I want my knowledge to grow/go with me.A lot of the “knowledge” ie research, analysis, reasoning will be done by agents as the primary user. Our current notes tools & tasks management systems were built for humans… I don’t care what the 17th thing on my bug backlog is. I want to conduct agents that can execute for me and do great work.What I built OzBrain to do: + Create a central place for agent reasoned knowledge to live + Be agnostic about what apps/agents connect to it + Capture everything and track it so I can audit it + Enable teams, collaborators or partners to share brains + Handle conflicts so many agents in the same article doesn’t blow up + Refactor knowledge into more token friendly chunks and map the index well + Close the knowledge loop so new thinking supersedes old thinking across the corpus. Don’t erase, depreciate and link +
Aug 21, 2026 11:09 PM
github.com
Show HN: Lore – build and monetize personal contexthttps://github.com/dipakkrishnan/lore-mcpPersonal context will have its own market. Large-scale market research and simulation (and more) require context that isn't available on the Internet. Lore allows you to take what your agent knows about you, augment it with your files / dictations and sell it at a price you set. You control what memories stay private and what becomes available to buyers. This is the first step towards a personal context market, focused on the seller experience today, and powered by personal agent human interactions!Would love feedback on the core premise / shape!
Aug 21, 2026 6:25 PM
france24.com
Turkey seeks Interpol arrest warrant for Netanyahu over Gaza flotilla detentionhttps://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260821-turkey-seeks-international-arrest-warrant-against-israel-s-netanyahu-over-gaza-flotilla-detentionTurkey said Friday it is seeking an international arrest warrant from Interpol for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case over Israel's interception and detention of dozens of activists attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip in May. In response, Netanyahu's office called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an "anti-Semitic dictator" and vowed to "act forcefully against Turkey's attempts to destabilise the region".
Aug 21, 2026 6:04 PM
nytimes.com
Rare South American Diseases Offer Clues on the Next Pandemichttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/world/americas/rare-south-american-diseases-climate-change-pandemics.htmlEbola virus, hantavirus and the pathogen that causes Covid-19 likely jumped from animals to humans. So do these viruses — and scientists say climate change is speeding their spread.
Aug 21, 2026 4:06 PM
france24.com
What a record-breaking El Nino could mean for the worldhttps://www.france24.com/en/video/20260821-what-a-record-breaking-el-nino-could-mean-for-the-worldThis year's El Nino is on track to be the strongest on record, threatening to unleash extreme weather across the globe and make 2027 the hottest recorded year by far. It is expected to be the most "intense" El Nino in more than a century, the head of long-range forecasting at the UK's Met Office warned on Friday. Stacked on top of long-term human-caused climate change, the temporary jolt will offer a glimpse of the heat the world can expect by the late 2030s, experts say.
Aug 21, 2026 2:28 PM
github.com
Show HN: Voro – An attention manager for agentic codinghttps://github.com/ClachDev/VoroA few months ago I was getting frustrated trying to use Claude Code effectively. I was finding that for small tasks I would spend a lot of time waiting for it to finish "thinking" and I would end up browsing here...To make a better use of my time, and ideally make better use of the limits, I developed Voro to help me know what I should be focusing on.Fundamentally it's a task tracker tailored for local agentic coding. Each task is a plan that gets a priority and works its way through a set of states that are either for "humans" or "agents". The main "cockpit" view lists a few different options of what I should be looking at. The bottom has a list of what your agents are working on.Agents are given a small description and generate a task. That can then be reviewed and accepted if it's good, or iterated on by refining. Once accepted it can be dispatched to an agent for implementation. Once finished it comes back for review which can again then be iterated on. The crucial thing is that ma
Aug 21, 2026 10:07 AM
squidpay.dev
Show HN: Squid Pay – Financial infrastructure for autonomous AI agentshttps://www.squidpay.dev/We’re building Squid Pay, financial infrastructure that lets AI agents interact with money while keeping humans in control.AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of taking real-world actions, but giving an agent access to a wallet creates a new problem: how much financial autonomy should it actually have?
Aug 21, 2026 9:22 AM
npr.org
Federal government thins the herds of wild horses in Coloradohttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/21/nx-s1-5920407/colorado-wild-horses-federal-government-roundupU.S. officials say the ever-growing population of wild horses that roam federal lands in Colorado is depleting natural resources. But some activists say efforts to remove the horses are inhumane.
Aug 21, 2026 9:00 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Thoughts on Friend Making Apps?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49383929I've been seeing an influx of friend making apps like 222, Timeleft, Real Roots, BE.IRL, and so many more. I do think that with the increasing use of social media, endless doomscrolling, and AI, human connection has been impacted adversely in the last decade.Has anyone used these apps? What're your thoughts on them? Do you think the "loneliness epidemic" is really solvable by these types of apps or is there something larger at scale that needs to be done?
Aug 21, 2026 4:52 AM
youtilitics.com
Show HN: Youtilitics, energy usage analytics from utility data, no hardwarehttps://youtilitics.com/I posted an early version of this 2 years ago. Rebuilt most of it since then, so posting again with what's actually different.Youtilitics still pulls interval data your utility already collects (Green Button/ESPI — 15-60 min whole-house kWh) and turns it into usage analytics. The analytics stack is different: baseline anomaly detection (median/MAD by time-of-day bucket, not a flat threshold), overnight step-change alerts, usage heatmaps, cycle-over-cycle comparisons, etc. It is still based on a model trained on human-labelled data: used to differentiate baseline (eg vampire load) vs EV vs HVAC vs the rest. Inference runs with a python script when new data is received from the utility.I also changed the mobile app. It is still mainly used to store the user credentials without us having them (they never leave the device), for security/privacy reasons. This is used to scrape usage data from the utility dashboard, when they don't support Green Button. However now it also runs an embedded P
Aug 20, 2026 10:13 PM
bing.com
12 Employee Engagement Strategies That Are Working Nowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f54dd95447029fe5fc2c7ac49bd4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fcouncils%2Fforbeshumanresourcescouncil%2F2026%2F08%2F20%2F12-employee-engagement-strategies-that-are-working-now%2F&c=14262794635926667307&mkt=en-usHere, members of Forbes Human Resources Council share the employee engagement strategies that are delivering meaningful results right now and how you can use them to keep your team connected, ...
Aug 20, 2026 12:15 PM
bing.com
12 Employee Engagement Strategies That Are Working Nowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89091202dd4200859b6ff99cadb039&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fcouncils%2Fforbeshumanresourcescouncil%2F2026%2F08%2F20%2F12-employee-engagement-strategies-that-are-working-now%2F&c=14262794635926667307&mkt=en-usHere, members of Forbes Human Resources Council share the employee engagement strategies that are delivering meaningful results right now and how you can use them to keep your team connected, ...
Aug 20, 2026 12:15 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Does anyone find AI code review useful?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369710I’m genuinely trying to understand the point of AI code review.Once an LLM generated change gets into a few hundreds or thousands of lines, a human reviewer can barely read the whole thing in any meaningful way. And even if they can, why should they spend their time reviewing thousands of lines generated by someone else’s AI?If the code is going to be reviewed by another AI anyway, why doesn’t the developer opening the PR just run one more iteration before submitting it?Is the assumption that after a thorough implementation pass, having a different AI review the code “some time later” will catch things the original AI somehow missed?Or is the assumption that my precious "Code Review AI" has some superior prompt and sacred collection of skills that makes it meaningfully different from the AI the developer used to write the code?If that’s the case, why not just give developers that reviewer AI locally and have them iterate against it before opening the PR?What’s the point? Why not just b
Aug 20, 2026 2:24 AM
github.com
Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teamshttps://github.com/onecli/onecliHi HN, Jonathan & Guy here from OneCLI, an agent harness built for teams, giving every employee a secured, sandboxed personal agent.Here’s what you can do with it:1. get a sandboxed agent, with all the OneCLI capabilities in place like connect your GitHub account, Gmail, Notion, or Dropbox simply from the chat.2. deterministic human in the loop approval in the chat itself for things that you need 100% control like sending an email or deleting the Linear ticket.3. manage team policy in one place, enforced across every agent in the workspace4. enjoy global connections at the team level, like shared LLM keys or service accountsHere’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlW-44ntpbEWe started working on this by accident, even though our careers were in the security space. We were working on a devtool called ChartDB, an open-source DB tool. When OpenClaw took off back in January, we started using it to orchestrate agents on top of ChartDB. We quickly understood there is a big issue aroun
Aug 19, 2026 4:29 PM
github.com
Show HN: nanoAlphaZero – Train a grandmaster-level chess model in 24h with TPUshttps://github.com/wtedw/nanoAlphaZeroHello HN,I built a complete, game-agnostic implementation of AlphaZero in JAX.repo: https://github.com/wtedw/nanoAlphaZerodemo (NN + MCTS run locally in your browser): https://nanoalphazero.wtedw.comIt uses no human data, can train grandmaster-level chess models, and supports a variety of games: Chess, Go 3x3 - 9x9, Hex 4x4 - 9x9, Connect FourYou can also use this repo to train AlphaZero on any custom 2-player, perfect-information game.How does it work?At a high level, the entire AlphaZero algorithm gets compiled into a single jitted run_fn that repeatedly performs self-play and model updates: state = make_alphazero() def run_fn(state): games = selfplay(state) # using Gumbel MuZero # Move active games into the self-play buffer # Move completed games into the replay buffer state = train(state, replay_buffer.sample()) return state while True: state = run_fn(state) There are no threads, queues, or distributed workers to manage. It is just one large JAX function.The repo is primarily focus
Aug 19, 2026 4:26 PM