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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
tosynch.com
Show HN: Tosynch – reconnect with your friends and meet oftenhttps://tosynch.comI built this app to solve problem I had, and perhaps others too. I have been finding tough stay in touch with friends. Other than occasional hi/hellos, there is lack of meaningful interactions ongoing basis. Tosynch helps with connecting with existing friends, without calendar setup. It does one thing only and focuses on that. There is no hidden agenda of selling personal data for ads, nor any scheme around increasing likes. There is no discovery mechanism, and no public profiles. If we want to reduce our usage of phones and devices, we don't need another app to helps us constrained. We want to create more opportunities to meet people we already know. Tosynch helps increase those opportunities. It nudges after a chosen period, to reconnect and meet. Feedback appreciated.
Aug 21, 2026 3:10 PM
bing.com
California high school flag football scoreshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8974cb07774e08ab0cc9b3dfb1aee2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fhigh-school%2Fflag-football%2F2026%2F08%2F21%2Fcalifornia-high-school-flag-football-scores%2F91408961007%2F&c=7970627007783632330&mkt=en-usCalifornia boasts a number of the best high school flag teams in the country, from perennial powerhouses like JSerra to fresh newcomers like Sierra Canyon. As flag football continues to grow, this ...
Aug 21, 2026 2:53 PM
github.com
Show HN: A coding-agent workbench built around Matt Pocock's coding workflowhttps://github.com/ticketry-hq/ticketry-downloads/releases/download/0.2.0/Ticketry_0.2.0_aarch64.dmgRepo URL: https://github.com/ticketry-hq/ticketryTicketry helps you execute a coding workflow using terminal agents. We run coding agents on tmux-based durable terminals. Each idea you have can be written down, and we take it through grilling, speccing, splitting it into tickets, implementation, and review. The workflow is based on Matt Pocock's workflow.Please have tmux installed for the terminal to work. Also go into your privacy settings and say "open anyway". I haven't signed it yet.Note: This is not a collaboration effort with Matt; it is just uses the skills.
Aug 21, 2026 2:31 PM
abcnews.com
US Treasury sanctions Ecuador-to-US cocaine trafficking networkhttps://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/us-treasury-sanctions-ecuador-us-cocaine-trafficking-network-135825298The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned 15 people involved in a network allegedly shipping cocaine from Ecuador through Mexico to the U.S. The operation uses Ecuador-based fishing vessels to transfer cocaine to power boats heading north
Aug 21, 2026 11:28 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386514Enterprises can self-host, sure. Open source projects uses it for the the network effects of GitHub. But why does a small software team need to use GitHub?I understand the ecosystem argument. Once you've got your repos, CI/CD, PRs, code reviews, packages, integrations, etc. all wired into GitHub, moving everything is a pain. But Git itself is distributed, and GitHub has a pretty open plugin/integration system. There are also perfectly capable alternatives like GitLab, Bitbucket, Forgejo, Gitea, SourceHut, etc.So what is the actual thing that makes a 10–20 person software company stick with GitHub? Is it mostly switching costs? The ecosystem? Developer familiarity? Something else? And if you were to start a project today, would you still go with GitHub?And a slightly more personal question.I've had a rough idea for what a new GitHub could look like if it were built specifically for software that is increasingly being written by AI agents, and specifically for companies rather than open-
Aug 21, 2026 11:26 AM
voxoria.ai
Show HN: Can you tell Wodehouse from a model imitating Wodehouse?https://voxoria.ai/ai-or-not-text/Every spot-the-AI game I've seen uses modern text as its control, so it's hard to prove it wasn't entirely written by AI.The human paragraphs here are verbatim from public domain works published between 1660 and 1922 (Pepys, Gilbert White, Twain, Jerome, the Grossmiths, Wodehouse), so they predate the clankers by a century; the other half is Opus 5 continuing in the same voice. There are 10 rounds, I managed to get a ~60% win rate.
Aug 21, 2026 9:00 AM
github.com
Show HN: Icebug-format: immutable, interoperable graph standardhttps://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/icebug-formatMost graph analytics packages have a mutable graph implementation that uses a heap allocated vector to store the graph. It works for toy graphs. But if you're loading a billion edge graph using G.add_edge() it's going to take a while.We don't need to invent new standards. Such interoperable, immutable memory standards already exist: Apache Arrow and Compressed Sparse Rows (CSR). CSR is widely used in scipy, cugraph and columnar graph databases among others. Both on CPUs and GPUs.icebug-format combines both into a on-disk standard based on Apache Parquet and an in-memory format based on Apache Arrow.Bindings available in many popular languages including python, typescript and rust.The package ships with convenience scripts to convert flat tables such as vertex.parquet and edges.parquet to this format in RAM/disk constrained environments.Sample graphs: https://huggingface.co/datasets/ladybugdb/ldbc-csr/tree/mainConverted from: https://ldbcouncil.org/benchmarks/graphalytics/datasets/Large
Aug 20, 2026 11:57 PM
markdownbuddy.inawa.app
Show HN: Markdown Buddy – Native macOS Markdown Editor with Quick Look and Xcodehttps://markdownbuddy.inawa.app/I write a lot of project documentation in Markdown, and two things kept annoying me on macOS: Quick Look shows .md files as raw text, and Xcode shows a README as plain source. So I built the app I wanted. Swift and AppKit, 4.8 MB, sandboxed. The editor is a plain NSTextView. The rendered view is WKWebView, so it uses the system engine rather than a bundled browser, which is where the size difference comes from. Quick Look and Finder thumbnails are separate app extensions sharing the same renderer.Beyond preview: open a folder as a workspace and browse every .md in a tree, search across all of them, and see a graph of the links between documents with broken ones flagged. An Xcode Source Editor extension opens the file you are looking at, rendered, from the Editor menu.One implementation detail I found non-obvious. The live preview restyles the NSTextStorage as you type. The hard rule is that it must never touch attributes while an input method is composing, or Japanese, Chinese and Kore
Aug 20, 2026 1:08 PM
protobuf.com
Show HN: Protobuf.com, a visual, interactive guide to Protocol Buffershttps://protobuf.com/Protobuf is a fairly simple format, but the way people are first introduced to it often doesn't speak to them. That is how it was for me at first. I tried to address that in two ways: simple visual diagrams where a picture does the work better than prose, and interaction so you can get a feel for the language and how it behaves without installing anything.Some parts of the guide run a real Protobuf compiler, bufbuild/protocompile, in the browser through WASM. It's the same compiler the buf CLI uses.Feedback welcome.Disclosure: I work at Buf, and Buf owns the domain. The guide started as a side project before I joined.
Aug 20, 2026 10:53 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Offline RAG on iOS with Spatial Integrationhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371913I'm the developer behind CartoType. I’ve been working on bridging local language models with offline mapping, and I have just put together a demo of a completely offline Spatial RAG pipeline running natively on an iPhone. The new system is named the CartoType Field Assistant. You can find the website at https://cartotype.comDemo (1m 19s): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a8yQPn7_jyIUse cases: Any organisation with field technicians or emergency first responders needs complex procedural knowledge tied to physical locations ('assets') where they don't have guaranteed network connectivity. Examples include offshore wind farms, power distribution networks, railway infrastructure, mountain rescue, and military uses.For this demo I query the iPhone app in Airplane mode: "A hiker near Tuolumne Meadows has a dislocated shoulder. What is the reduction protocol, and where is the Tuolumne Meadows Ranger Station?"HOW IT WORKSThe core is a portable C++ engine running vector search across an encrypted
Aug 20, 2026 8:28 AM
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
news.ycombinator.com
AWS new AZ in eu-west-2 - beware of unexpected resultshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49363466It seems as though AWS have brought a new AZ online in eu-west-2 (London) today with very little fanfare or indeed without telling their support staff. It appears as eu-west-2d. No AWS docs yet reflect this change.Wanted to give anyone who uses this region a heads up just in case - at a client site it has caused a widespread bunch of issues as a result of Terraform failures etc. Depending on your codebase resources might be torn down and recreated unexpectedly. You can argue the case for whether this should cause you issues or not given this is the cloud etc but I just wanted to try and save someone else some hours of head scratching.aws ec2 describe-availability-zones --region eu-west-2 --all-availability-zones --query 'AvailabilityZones[].[ZoneName,ZoneID,ZoneTYpe,State,OptInStatus,Messages]' [ [ "eu-west-2a", null, null, "available", "opt-in-not-required", [] ], [ "eu-west-2b", null, null, "available", "opt-in-not-required", [] ], [ "eu-west-2c", null, null, "available", "opt-in-not
Aug 19, 2026 4:09 PM
github.com
Show HN: Flow – Claude Code CLI for feature planning → review/testing → mergehttps://github.com/gavingolden/flow/Flow is my claude code supervisor for designing epics and shipping features really quickly. It was bootstrapped with itself so you can look at recent PRs to see what it produces.Usage:> flow feature create 'implement csv exports' --model opus --effort high• triage → plan → git worktree → code → verify → CI → review → merge• pauses only for plan approval and subjective pre-merge validation (if any)> flow epic create 'design app for making money' --model haiku --effort low• (same flow as `feature` but it only produces an epic PRD with phase dependency mappings)> flow epic run design-app-for-making-money• resolves current state of the epic and launches feature pipelines for unblocked phases> claude -p "Triage this list of bugs and launch a flow pipeline for each bundle with opus high: "• a flow pipeline can create new flow pipelines so fan-out is really powerful (eg if one pipeline discovers a bug that should be handled separately)> flow feature ls # show all active pipelines> flow epic l
Aug 19, 2026 3:47 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Five Premier League wonderkids ready to explode in 2026/27https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/five-premier-league-wonderkids-ready-152500758.htmlFive young players to watch in the Premier League this season, from record-breaking teenagers to precocious powerhouses. Max Dowman - ArsenalMax Dowman became a household name last season after his re...
Aug 19, 2026 3:25 PM
github.com
Show HN: Minna – On-device semantic search across your own documents (macOS)https://github.com/impel-intelligence/MinnaHi HN! Minna is a new tool geared towards people who have a knowledge base so big they forget where things are.- Chat answers are constrained to retrieved results. The model has to search your knowledge base first and cite the document it pulled from. It won't answer from outside your knowledge base which means you can trust the LLM instead of having to be weary about what it outputs. - Hybrid retrieval — BM25 over an inverted index for exact and keyword matches, plus a vector index for semantic matches, results are fused using Reciprocal Ranked Fusion. - Embeddings and inference both run on-device. Search uses bge-small-en and run on the neural engine. Chat uses Qwen3 4B running on MLX. - Search latency is ~12 ms across 250 documents split into 30,000 chunks on Apple Silicon.What’s not done; OCR scanning on PDFs is limited, the app is currently Apple Silicon only, and there are some rough edges in the UI.It’s a TestFlight beta (apologies, but it is the cleanest distribution path right
Aug 19, 2026 3:09 PM
theguardian.com
Germany’s firewall was meant to hold the far right at bay. It may have done the reversehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/19/germanys-firewall-was-meant-to-hold-the-far-right-at-bay-it-may-have-done-the-reverseAn AfD win in ​next month’s state election in Saxony-Anhalt would shatter a decades-long political consensus and reverberate throughout the EU• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIn just over two weeks’ time, Saxony-Anhalt – home to historic timber-framed houses, the dramatic Harz mountains and the birthplace of Martin Luther – will hold what could prove one of the most ...
Aug 19, 2026 2:30 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Show HN: Yado – Claude Code and Codex on Your iPhonehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361945I built Yado, an iOS app to use Claude Code & Codex on your phone.- No laptop needed, you get a Linux box for your AI to work in - uses your own ChatGPT/Claude sub (no additional AI cost) - chat and terminal interface - Live previews - easy connection of MCP/CLI - $19/mo with 7-day free trialEach user gets their own Fly.io machine. The app speaks Claude Code's stream-json over a WebSocket relay, so the box keeps running when your phone locks and pushes you a notification when the turn ends.
Aug 19, 2026 2:16 PM
aljazeera.com
Why aid entering Gaza may not reach those who need ithttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/19/why-aid-entering-gaza-may-not-reach-those-who-need-it?traffic_source=rssIt is extremely difficult for trucks to get through the Israeli blockade, let alone for drivers to reach aid warehouses.
Aug 19, 2026 1:01 PM