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The Best External Hard Drives for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd4e53254709ad589b77fa29b6d9&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcmag.com%2fpicks%2fthe-best-external-hard-drives&c=9761128523562471101&mkt=en-usLaptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage provides a cost-effective alternative to SSDs. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right ...Aug 12, 2026 12:24 PM
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The Best External Hard Drives for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d2e79566478f8052c8d8fb0ec3aa&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcmag.com%2fpicks%2fthe-best-external-hard-drives&c=9761128523562471101&mkt=en-usLaptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage provides a cost-effective alternative to SSDs. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right ...Aug 12, 2026 12:24 PM
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The Best External Hard Drives for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c8be85f34d51baafc727373a24a1&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcmag.com%2fpicks%2fthe-best-external-hard-drives&c=9761128523562471101&mkt=en-usLaptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage provides a cost-effective alternative to SSDs. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right ...Aug 12, 2026 12:24 PM
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The Best External Hard Drives for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e3a996794b31ac4041348b8ae8ce&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcmag.com%2fpicks%2fthe-best-external-hard-drives&c=9761128523562471101&mkt=en-usLaptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage provides a cost-effective alternative to SSDs. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right ...Aug 12, 2026 12:24 PM
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The Best External Hard Drives for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ce85d6064207ac7797b6b773e939&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcmag.com%2fpicks%2fthe-best-external-hard-drives&c=9761128523562471101&mkt=en-usLaptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage provides a cost-effective alternative to SSDs. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right ...Aug 12, 2026 12:24 PM
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The Best External Hard Drives for 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d51f31504205b33a3271350c2319&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.pcmag.com%2fpicks%2fthe-best-external-hard-drives&c=9761128523562471101&mkt=en-usLaptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage provides a cost-effective alternative to SSDs. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right ...Aug 12, 2026 12:24 PM
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At least 44 dead after overcrowded ferry capsizes on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/12/zimbabwe-lake-kariba-ferry-capsizeOperation under way to rescue dozens missing after boat overturned by waves at world’s largest human-made lakeAt least 44 people have died after an overcrowded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, police said.The boat had a capacity of 90 people, but was carrying 114 adult passengers, five crew members and an unknown number of children, Zimbabwe’s civil protection unit (CPU) said earlier on ...Aug 12, 2026 12:21 PM
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Show HN: Hallucinote, integrating Ableton and Claude Codehttps://github.com/brookstalley/hallucinoteHey HN!This is the first public release of Hallucinote, an integration of Claude Code and Ableton Live. Hallucinote helps with the entire lifecycle of songwriting, including ideation, instrumentation, harmony, rhythm (including microtiming), arrangement, mixing, and production.Hallucinote is focused on assisting songwriting, not doing it for you. Key features:- Git-first representation of songs, using Ableton as an audio rendering and performance capture surface- A decision log for each song, covering all aspects of songwriting and music production- Composition skills adhere to the song’s decision log and write with micro-timing and other niceties- Support for meter changes, polymeter, and alternate tunings- Skills to critique melody, harmony, and rhythm against your stated goals (NOT “is this a good melody in the abstract”)- Round trip: perform MIDI tracks in Live, pull down into Hallucinote for embellishment, push back to Live (no audio track round trips yet)- Captures every track anAug 12, 2026 12:07 PM
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Juventus secure Lucumi for €20m including bonus from Bolognahttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b00b77d314404879932f01125ddb3&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffootball-italia.net%2Fjuventus-secure-lucumi-e20m-bonus-from-bologna%2F&c=17038908725158818947&mkt=en-usMultiple sources confirm Juventus are down to the details for a €20m purchase of Jhon Lucumi, as the Bologna defender rejected every other possibility.Aug 12, 2026 12:05 PM
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Fifty Ways to Hose Your Codehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270224The problem's all inside your code she said to meRecursion's very easy if you take it logicallyI'd like to help you in your struggle to learn CThere must be fifty ways to hose your codeShe said it's really not my habit to #includeAnd I hope my source code won't be lost or misconstruedBut I'll recompile it at the risk of getting screwedThere must be fifty ways to hose your codeJust muck up the stack, JackLeave out an &, StanMake a bad call, PaulAnd set your pointers freeHog up the bus, GusYou don't need to recurse muchJust hit the wrong key, LeeAnd listen to meShe said it grieves me to see you compile againI wish there was some hardware that wasn't such a painI said I appreciated that and would you please explainAbout the fifty ways.She said why don't we both just work on it tonight.And I believe by morning we'll have it running right.Then she hosed me and I realized she probably was rightThere must be fifty ways to hose your code.Fifty ways to hose your code.Just lose the address, LesCAug 12, 2026 10:29 AM
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Ask HN: What are GitHub's push-farm botnets for?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49270205Every hour GH Archive records ~160K public GitHub events, and right now ~64% of the pushes are spam. Thousands of auto-created accounts (word+digits usernames like smithhoward5868, gibberish repo names) push hundreds of times an hour to fresh repos, 24/7. One repo, LiamBruhin/SillyStuff, pushed 690 times in a single hour from ONE actor, and has kept that up for 13+ hours straight.I built a live radar that had to detect these farms to rank honestly, and I've been tracking them for 34 hours. Live: https://github-pulse.surge.sh — full writeup with charts and the farm ledger: https://github-pulse.surge.sh/report.html — open-source single script: https://github.com/Atheistam/github-pulseBut I genuinely don't know what they're FOR. No stars, no forks, no issues, no PRs, no meaningful README — just endless pushes to fresh gibberish repos. SEO? GitHub Actions reselling? Training-data poisoning? Has anyone seen this pattern before, or does anyone know what the endgame is?Aug 12, 2026 10:27 AM
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘We Ended Up in Her Bed’http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d587eb3884d428687dffd104894ba&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F08%2F12%2Fstyle%2Ftiny-modern-love-stories-we-ended-up-in-her-bed.html&c=17611887845113718377&mkt=en-usAs the court date drew near, he declared, “I don’t want anyone else.” Tears falling down my face, I replied, “I don’t want anyone else, either.” Marriage no longer looks like what we pictured, but our ...Aug 12, 2026 10:24 AM
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Show HN: Huntclaw – a fast (maybe fastest) simple find-and-replace utilityhttps://github.com/tigerlang/huntclawHello everyone,I’d like to introduce huntclaw—a find-and-replace utility written in Zig that turned out to be faster than sd (written in Rust) and the standard GNU utilities. (benchmark as .png and .py script available on github repo, you can verify the accuracy of the benchmark: I've uploaded the test to the repository, including the better tests.)There’s a fairly simple explanation for this high speed: the lack of a regex engine and a focus on speed itself, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Note that searching is also very fast, thanks to SIMD two-byte prefiltering, which is also implemented in huntclaw.The benchmark also shows that ripgrep is faster at sparse searches, which makes sense, since it’s an excellent utility with SIMD pre-filtering and optimizations far superior to huntclaw—though the gap isn’t that big. I look forward to your feedback or comments.Thanks for reading!Aug 12, 2026 10:22 AM
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Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementationhttps://woxi.ad-si.comWoxi is an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust.It comes with Woxi Studio, a Mathematica-like GUI built with iced, but you can also use Woxi through a CLI, Jupyter kernel, Python package, npm package, or WASM module.Compared with wolframscript / Mathematica, the main differences are:- Free and open source - Very fast startup - Typically milliseconds rather than seconds for the Wolfram kernel, making Woxi practical for shell scripts, one-liners, and other short-lived processes - Embeddable - It can run in a browser via WASM or be embedded into another application as a scripting languageA more detailed comparison with Mathematica is available here: https://woxi.ad-si.com/docs/comparison/mathematica/.Conformance is ensured with ~26'000 unit tests and ~900 .wls script snapshot tests.The current focus is on fixing remaining edge cases, improving performance, and growing the community.If you use the Wolfram Language, I'd be particularly interested in feedback on compatibilityAug 12, 2026 10:06 AM
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WATCH: Duct tape prom outfits help pay for collegehttps://abcnews.com/video/135569872/ABC News' Danny New talks to students who competed in Duck Brand's annual Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest, where they construct their tuxedos and dresses entirely out of duct tape.Aug 12, 2026 9:54 AM
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CNN Host Calls Out Stunning Problem With Trump’s ‘Patriot Games’http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d26d1b2944a789a829424a519e4eb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Farticles%2Fcnn-host-calls-stunning-problem-155641172.html&c=14226346148887040289&mkt=en-usCNN host Audie Cornish has taken aim at Donald Trump’s Patriot Games for their lack of diversity. During Wednesday’s episode of CNN This Morning, Cornish pointed out that the competition was ...Aug 12, 2026 8:57 AM
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Female gut muscles reshape to meet the demands of reproduction, preclinical study suggestshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8ce00ba5d141138590cb0d592d519e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fhealth%2Fnutrition%2Ffemale-gut-muscles-reshape-to-meet-the-demands-of-reproduction-preclinical-study-suggests%2Far-AA29WZVb&c=11922261203948910186&mkt=en-usOrgans don't just grow in early life; they can change in response to physiological or environmental challenges in adulthood. Researchers have now identified an active role for the intestinal muscles ...Aug 12, 2026 8:40 AM
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Lego canned a fan-made Bionicle game, so the devs turned around and made something even betterhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d2f96faee4651be29e3a052f80598&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fgaming%2Fgeneral%2Flego-canned-a-fan-made-bionicle-game-so-the-devs-turned-around-and-made-something-even-better%2Far-AA29ZFFx&c=18252969005674414536&mkt=en-usUnmasked Games spent eight years working on a Bionicle game before Lego shut it down. Now, the team is back with its original work Rustbound.Aug 12, 2026 8:20 AM
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Google’s Android chief lays out his vision for how AI will change our smartphoneshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d2a325ae7439ab2d2bfe05ec17850&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Ftechnology%2Fgoogle-s-android-chief-lays-out-his-vision-for-how-ai-will-change-our-smartphones%2Far-AA29WaSj&c=15383269326693284407&mkt=en-usWhat if you didn’t have to dig through your email to schedule a follow-up doctor’s appointment, or check your phone to see if your favorite baseball team is at bat yet?Aug 12, 2026 8:00 AM
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Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materialshttps://discoveredmaterials.com/research/Hey HN, we're Advaith and Akash from Discovered Materials ( https://discoveredmaterials.com/ ). We build AI agents that discover new materials for the semiconductor industry.GPUs today have a heat problem. Nvidia & AMD are almost doubling the TDP (Thermal Design Power) in every chip they release - the H100 (released 2022) has a TDP of 700W, Blackwell (2024) gives out 1.2 kW and Rubin (2026) gives out at 2.3 kW of heat. This trend is expected to continue, and getting rid of this heat is one of the major reasons datacenters consume so much power and water today - they need it to keep chips cool during operation.The amount of heat produced by a chip and its ability to dissipate it are both influenced by the materials used to make it. For example, we could reduce the energy per bit required to move data between logic and memory by 10-50x by 3D packaging chips (placing HBM memory stacks directly on top of logic chips, instead of placing them beside logic on a 2D circuit board). However, we'Aug 12, 2026 7:51 AM
