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news.ycombinator.com• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
Wayland, Pipewire, Open Source Slowly Closing?I am kinda depressed over these factors. I have used linux since 2015 and really never ran into problems until the past five years.I am a composer with a prolithic output; and had a steady workflow for most of the years until musegroup bought out audacity and musescore. (which i have been able to get musescore 2 in a few distros; as i prefer this over any of the post-musegroup alterations.)the same goes for audacity; prior to their changes it worked... everything flowed beautifully; and boom so many issues occured. (they still do...) since then i started using Tenacity's appimage and have some similar workflow issues due to it being a copy of post changes instead of pre-changes... (2.4.2)I went from debian to mint; due to the fact that debian wouldn't install on a new nvidia laptop. (and couldn't figure out why due to search being enshitified. or i just don't know how to search)After this; i learned about pipewire and wayland... which are implimented poorly in Mint (XFCE)Wayland has be
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chemistryai.chat• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Chemistry AI – A step-by-step chemistry solver for studentsHi HN,I’m an indie developer building Chemistry AI – a web-based chemistry solver for high-school and college students.Motivation: I saw many students searching for “chemistry AI” and mostly getting generic chatbots or math tools. I wanted something focused on chemistry that actually explains the steps, not just the final answer.What it does: - You can type a question or upload a photo of a worksheet. - The AI reads the problem and shows transparent, step-by-step reasoning. - It covers topics like equations, stoichiometry, acids/bases, equilibrium, thermodynamics, and basic organic mechanisms. - There are two modes: “Just Answer” for quick checks and “Thinking” for detailed solutions.Tech: It’s a browser-based app using modern JS/React on top of hosted LLM + vision models via APIs.I’d love feedback on: - Whether the explanations feel clear/useful for real homework. - What features you’d want as a student or tutor (e.g., practice mode, export to PDF, etc.). - Any concerns around misuse
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news.ycombinator.com• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include adsI got this email:Hi _____,We’re rolling out ads in ChatGPT and we’re updating our Privacy Policy to include information about how ads work and how you can control your experience.What’s changingAds may appear on Free and Go plans beginning later this month. Plus, Pro, Enterprise, Business and Education plans do not have ads. Ad-free options remain available.To begin, ads will not be personalised. We select them using the current topic of your ChatGPT conversation and limited contextual information, such as your general location and device type. We do not use your past chats or memories to select these ads.Before we begin to personalise ads, we will first ask you to choose whether you would like to see more relevant and personalised ads. If you choose to participate, you’ll get relevant and personalised ads using information that stays only on ChatGPT, such as ads you've interacted with, or context from your chats. You will be able to manage ad personalisation in settings.For ads shown
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npmjs.com• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Sandbox the install step of any NPM packageIt fetches the exact tarball npm install would, runs the declared install scripts in a sandbox (no network, all capabilities dropped, read-only filesystem), and returns a verdict signed under a published Ed25519 key, bound to the sha256 of the bytes. No account, it mints an anonymous rate-limit key on first call. Node and Python, 20 checks/hour.I built it to put a denominator under "npm install runs arbitrary code." Of 658 MCP-related packages, 20 declare an install script (3.0%). Running the twenty is where reading the manifest misled me: four were preinstall: npx only-allow pnpm, which I had filed as a benign guard, and all four make a network call at install because npx fetches only-allow from the registry. A manifest tells you what a script is; only running it tells you what it needs.Honest scope: dependencies are not installed, so this is a package's own declared install surface, not its transitive closure; and install-time is not the whole attack surface, a package can act at fir
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news.ycombinator.com• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
Ask HN: Could Anthropic's watermark be much simpler than we think?Anthropic recently said they're working on watermarking Claude output, while also saying it won't interfere with generation quality.I'm wondering if is just hash-fingerprinting.For example, take the generated text and split it into overlapping chunks: "The company reported strong growth..." "reported strong growth in revenue..." "strong growth in revenue during Q2..." ... Hash each chunk and store the hashes. When text is submitted for detection, do the same thing and count how many chunk hashes are already in the database.Even if someone edits a few words, many overlapping chunks could still match.The search itself isn't really a problem. With 256-bit hashes you're dealing with a 2^256 space, but you only search the hashes you've actually stored. Binary search would search any hash in 256 iterations.This also satisfies the Anthropic requirements: *nothing needs to be changed during token generation*, so there's no quality tradeoff: https://x.com/i/status/2088343978873966687The obvious
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news.google.com• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
From Gaza condoms to 'Your mom': Outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's most divisive momentsFrom Gaza condoms to 'Your mom': Outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's most divisive moments  Euronews.comOpinion | Karoline Leavitt knew exactly how Trump defined her role. That’s the problem.  MS NOWDAVID MARCUS: Karoline Leavitt’s lasting legacy is opening the White House to indie press  Fox NewsKaroline Leavitt, the Press Secretary Who Perfected the Art of Defending Trump  WS...
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riffn.io• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Riffn. An instant voice link with your AI agents and local modelsI get my best ideas when I'm out walking or driving. I built Riffn to make sure I can capitalize on those ideas when and where they happen - while I'm away from my desk, usually outside. I used to use voice recording a lot. So I built Riffn to replace that with a direct voice link to any model or agent I wanted to talk to when my hands and eyes were busy. This lets me develop ideas and keep pushing forward on my apps and other projects when I'm out and about.Riffn is an iOS app that gives you a voice link to your coding agents or locally-installed LLMs. I built a small, open-source bridge that links Riffn to agents and models running on your own machine over Tailscale. Installing the bridge is just one npx command and QR pairing. Give each agent a name, then switch freely between agents with a 3-word command. Click 'Start Riffn', pop in an earbud, lock the phone, put it in your pocket, and start talking. I like to use it for slow thinking - you can leave it active in the background, re
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news.google.com• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
There’s a reason why Israel has done little to rein in settler violence. It’s not just NetanyahuThere’s a reason why Israel has done little to rein in settler violence. It’s not just Netanyahu  AP NewsOpinion | Israeli Settlers Are Out of Control. Could an Election Change That?  The New York TimesAnalysis: Israel’s government can’t disown West Bank settler violence  aljazeera.comU.S. ambassador calls settler siege of Palestinian homes a 'horrific act of terror'  NPRUS wants Netanyahu to cond...
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github.com• Aug 15, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: I spent 3 months making desktop automation stop lying to AI agentsThat's a bold claim. But I genuinely feel like I might have actually solved computer use (demo: https://x.com/mdlahfir/status/2088109763783700827?s=20)For context, I've been building agent-desktop (Inspired by agent-browser by Vercel Labs), an automation CLI for desktop apps. It's like Playwright but for desktops, not just native, but for Chromium apps as well. Trust me, yes, Chromium apps whose accessibility tree is dense.MacOS is GA; I'm almost close to launching for Windows and Linux!So, how did I solve it?Basically interoperability.The biggest issue with computer use is that we have reliable frameworks for browser use, like Playwright, agent-browser, and many more, but not the same with desktops.We have really good solutions emerging, like tryCua, which I'm a big fan of. My vision with agent-desktop is to build the most reliable framework that agents can use for long-horizon tasks.agent-desktop is lightweight, built on Rust, fast, and not token-hungry (It can go for hours without e