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aljazeera.com
Seven decades of US regime change efforts: What have they achieved?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/19/seven-decades-of-us-regime-change-efforts-what-have-they-achieved?traffic_source=rssUS interventions in Iran and beyond reveal a recurring pattern of regime changes, with high human and financial costs.
Aug 19, 2026 3:46 PM
github.com
Show HN: BRep Geometric CAD Kernel and Parametric Code CADhttps://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/Aetheris/I'm pretty excited to show off something I've been working on for the past few months. A free, open-source geometric kernel that allows humans/LLMs to write code (in this case, a DSL called Firmament) and generate 3D models of CAD parts, to finally provide an alternative to OpenCascade.To get some questions out of the way. - Full STEP import/export support for AP242, AP203 and AP214 are still experimental at the time, but everything produced by Aetheris should open in any CAD app with STEP support. - Support for single edge/planar fillets/chamfers right now, should be more than sufficient for most CNC/3D printing use cases. - Fillets: https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/Aetheris/blob/master/testd... - Chamfers: https://github.com/yuechen-li-dev/Aetheris/blob/master/testd... - Supports dimensional/GD&T annotation via STEP 242's semantic PMI. - Kernel is written entirely in C#, with bindings for Go, Rust, Python, and TypeScript available.If you just want to vibe-CAD, clone the repo, run it
Aug 19, 2026 3:09 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362305A lot of submissions nowadays have a few LLM comments (whether directly written by an agent, or human with a LLM I don't know), often downvoted and sitting at the end of the comment section. No-one even bothers to call them out anymore, it's just part of the landscape. Just wondering why ? What's the point for these people ?
Aug 19, 2026 2:40 PM
github.com
Show HN: MCP app for Android, drive apps via AI (no root, PII redacted locally)https://github.com/danielealbano/android-remote-control-mcp/Hi HN, author here.Android Remote Control MCP is an MCP server that runs directly on your Android phone (no root, no ADB, no computer in the middle) and lets an AI agent drive real apps the way a human would: it reads the screen through the accessibility tree, taps, types, scrolls, optionally also screenshots.I spent a lot of time optimizing tool usage and token consumption, and making it work not only via local harnesses but also via Claude.ai / Claude Desktop and chatgpt.com (if you have the proper account, the app acts as its own OAuth server, you approve connections with a code on the phone).The newest part is Privacy Mode, and it exists because after an earlier release someone told me in plain terms they'd never use it because, rightfully, they didn't want the LLM provider to see everything on their screen! So now a combination of a small local model plus deterministic detectors identify personal information (emails, phone numbers, credit cards, IBANs, national IDs, English names,
Aug 19, 2026 2:23 PM
bing.com
MIT study finds some AI images can’t be traced to any single training sourcehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88fe13f64448d79b61c2c947fec710&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fmit-study-finds-some-ai-images-can-t-be-traced-to-any-single-training-source%2Far-AA2avoo3&c=1010137235842929595&mkt=en-usAI image generators learn from enormous datasets filled with photographs, illustrations, paintings, and other human-made images. Sometimes they can reproduce parts of those training examples ...
Aug 19, 2026 12:44 PM
bing.com
MIT study finds some AI images can’t be traced to any single training sourcehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f527bb3642028ff75d64ee93f6ed&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fmit-study-finds-some-ai-images-can-t-be-traced-to-any-single-training-source%2Far-AA2avoo3&c=1010137235842929595&mkt=en-usAI image generators learn from enormous datasets filled with photographs, illustrations, paintings, and other human-made images. Sometimes they can reproduce parts of those training examples ...
Aug 19, 2026 12:44 PM
aljazeera.com
Aid workers faced record number of attacks in 2025, UN sayshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/19/aid-workers-faced-record-number-of-attacks-in-2025-un-says?traffic_source=rssGaza remains the deadliest place for humanitarian workers for third consecutive year, with 186 killed in 2025.
Aug 19, 2026 8:40 AM
nasa.gov
Behind the Lens: Meet NASA Johnson’s Photographershttps://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/behind-the-lens-meet-nasa-johnsons-photographers/Photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have documented some of the most defining moments in human spaceflight. From astronaut training and engineering tests to mission control operations and milestone celebrations, their images preserve the history of exploration while capturing the people and teams behind the missions shaping the next era. Meet the photographers behind the lens and explore the […]
Aug 19, 2026 5:02 AM
deftwriting.com
Show HN: Deft Writing, an AI lab for non-slop LLMshttps://deftwriting.comAnnouncing Deft, a new AI lab for better writingCurrently, 86% of user queries are fully human according to pangram.This is still a small beta model and it might make mistakes. We are launching our public beta now to get more feedback before scaling up.Tips for better performance: - Add more details to your prompt. If you just provide a short sentence prompt, it will likely get detected as AI. - Try changing the style in "advanced options" - Deft currently works better for some use cases like Analysis/Essays, Creative writing, and Rewrites. It works less well for Marketing copy and news articles.Our main goal is better writing, fooling AI detectors is just a side effect.Here's the launch announcement the Deft model wrote for itself:Introducing Deft Writing We are proud to announce the launch of our new startup, Deft Writing. Having spent many years in the trenches with other Large Language Models (LLMs), we were continually hampered by poor writing. We believe writing well is hard. So
Aug 18, 2026 6:33 PM
bloomberg.com
The RealReal Bets on Luxury Resale Boomhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-08-18/the-realreal-bets-on-luxury-resale-boom-videoThe RealReal CEO Rati Levesque joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why resale prices are increasingly shaping what shoppers buy new, with more than 80% of Gen Z and millennial customers checking secondhand values first. She also reveals which unexpected fashion pieces are appreciating, and why AI still can’t fully replace human luxury authenticators. (Source: Bloomberg)
Aug 18, 2026 3:01 PM
variety.com
North Korea-Focused Film Fund Bearing North Launches With ‘School for Defectors’ (EXCLUSIVE)https://variety.com/2026/film/news/north-korea-stories-new-film-fund-bearing-north-1236837122/A new private grantmaking initiative dedicated to films about North Korea has launched out of Los Angeles, with an advisory board drawn from documentary filmmaking, journalism, and human rights advocacy. Bearing North, founded by entrepreneurs and film investors Blaine Vess and Esther Paik Vess, will award grants to independent filmmakers worldwide at any stage of […]
Aug 18, 2026 3:00 PM
context-engine.app
Show HN: My agents kept hallucinating APIs, so I built them a headless IDEhttps://context-engine.appI built Context Engine last year mostly out of frustration. Agents impressed me and made me angry at the same time: they kept calling APIs that don't exist, re-implementing APIs already defined in the codebase, and getting stuck in write-compile-rewrite loops. Sometimes they seemed very intelligent and sometimes extremely stupid. But they aren't stupid: take any brilliant engineer, give them a whiteboard, and ask them to implement a new feature in a large codebase they have never seen. And for agents, every session is a project they have never seen.The problem is that agents lack proper tooling. They work with plain text, like human engineers in 1995, in the pre-IDE era, and they face the same problems engineers faced 30 years ago. Where a human engineer just hovers over a symbol or presses F12, an agent spends thousands of tokens to get the same result. So I built the IDE part they were missing, without the editor part they don't need — an IDE headless in the same sense as a headless
Aug 18, 2026 2:01 PM
theguardian.com
‘Our task is to laugh at these enemies’: the Ukrainian unit posting drone videos of Russian soldiers’ last momentshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/18/ukraine-drone-chase-videos-russian-soldiersCreators of chase compilations reject any moral qualms and say they show ‘death is waiting’ for those who join warTo many observers they will appear dehumanising and offensive. To many Ukrainians, however, they are a brutal reminder of the fate that awaits Russian soldiers who take part in Vladimir Putin’s invasion, as well as a potent propaganda weapon.Over the past year and a half, videos of kam...
Aug 18, 2026 11:43 AM
news.ycombinator.com
AI is like farming. (and the purpose behind what I'm building)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49342690I was watching a documentary on bronze ages last night. A line stuck with me. After the invention of bronze tools farming got more efficient and people had more time on their hands. They used it to BUILD cities (and everything in it). That's the true human spirit that can't be diminished.Are transitions usually violent (also economically and politically)? Yes. Bigger the technological advancement, bigger are the transitions.We are going to be witnessing a massive re-training of an entire workforce into working with AI.This is exactly why I'm building AISA. I believe we need to be able to measure AI skills, provide gap analysis and learning roadmaps... As well as proof of someone's proficiency, in certificates or credentials. This is a part of how we navigate this change.We'll build new cities, and everything in it.
Aug 18, 2026 7:48 AM
theguardian.com
White House launches personal attack on CNN reporter over question to Trumphttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/white-house-personal-attack-cnn-reporter-trumpCNN says attack ‘beneath the office’ after Kristen Holmes asked president about Jon Ossoff’s comments on key aideThe White House launched a personal attack against a CNN reporter on Monday with a social media post that mentioned her children and accused her of asking a “disgusting and inhumane question”.A White House post targeted Kristen Holmes, a senior White House correspondent for the network,...
Aug 18, 2026 2:04 AM