theatlantic.com
Donald Trump Effectively Just Told Iran to Get a Nuclear Weaponhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/trump-north-korean-iran-nuclear-weapons/688339/Aug 21, 2026 4:53 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
ft.com
Donald Trump turns on Washington's museums in new culture war offensivehttps://www.ft.com/content/659a00b4-be9b-467b-a676-cb73e2d3d64dAug 21, 2026 1:35 AM
news.google.com
Rookie Kayden McDonald swings Mendoza to the ground for 11-yard sack - Houston Texanshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipwFBVV95cUxNd1pFQ1k3dzY5YkZfNHByeHEzY2RSeGNsOU5yZzFpSlBJNWxHTkJubU9JcmxXZTRHMGZpVkFSZFFMM3FZb04yX3dJc0ZjaFVtZTFjMVFJR1RudjdFckw3cGFTbi1wSjVhUEw5TGwwZ1lrZk9JcFM3aFdRTllYc2VtVVlxSGNWdXI2TWp6TEQ2YXhKbVFfRFZHTG0tbVBWeWxGbFp6OWZGaw?oc=5Rookie Kayden McDonald swings Mendoza to the ground for 11-yard sack Houston TexansAug 21, 2026 1:19 AM

cbc.ca
Vance tells audience at private event that Carney tried to 'out-tough' Trump on tradehttps://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vance-jivani-trump-carney-trade-talks-9.7314830?cmp=rssU.S. Vice-President JD Vance weighed in on the latest trade deal with Canada at a fundraising event Wednesday, saying Prime Minister Mark Carney tried to "out-tough" U.S. President Donald Trump while crediting his longtime friend Conservative MP Jamil Jivani as a helpful advocate for Canada.Aug 21, 2026 12:00 AM
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McDonald's New Fall Drink Is Already Getting Slammed Online: 'Tastes Like Drinking A Candle' - The Takeouthttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihAFBVV95cUxNb05UbjFkWGZRRGJCSmF5TEZYNTczamw4bTJsLUNIOFhoMlVjM2Y2d1FDMXZKX1B5UXVmVW1kWkZ6UnFnb2I3WGNqSThSSVU2NXd3Tk1GSHZQRjM0NXhhOVVnS01wbDdJZ2NoYmd6WDVvYk55MGY0M2VnNWtfTDBsU1hnbUo?oc=5McDonald's New Fall Drink Is Already Getting Slammed Online: 'Tastes Like Drinking A Candle' The TakeoutAug 20, 2026 10:22 PM
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 PAug 20, 2026 10:13 PM
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What college students often don’t know about their own health - ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitAFBVV95cUxOS28yQXN1V3J1b3BES0ZuQllIeks4cTdNNDN4aFhfbVRzekw4MUEtU3EwakxBRVpoVW1uajZtelo1Ylp4enNyeUhFa2Q2OXJHMkZyQmF5NnpCZ2hBeXFSYUZuYkxvZFJCbjhsWTRvRUdUeXZBRG1STXpMSlN4WF9mbW5jU3VzTjJUMW1mbDl6OVk4MnVvWVRMcGFycmhQSGN2QnVmOWtZaGY2VlJxNkNEaVdpdGM?oc=5What college students often don’t know about their own health ClickOnDetroit | WDIV Local 4Aug 20, 2026 9:00 PM
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Which Restaurant Stock Is Dominating in 2026: McDonald’s, Chipotle, or Starbucks? - Yahoo Financehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqAFBVV95cUxNSFZSRmJKSk1KU2psdG5HTWFoOG93M2JDTjZ4ME5OOUVSSTJfRVNNRDMwcFNIdFJ2WVkxbTF3X3p6MjdCdU9SVUx0RndjWld2NWZabkprVUNVVW8zZGdhMWNlYTJ6NWpGVXdpQkpMQXhocWt6Q3BpUkdXekZqcGxaeWVfcy12LTFNMnkxRzZqYnNheXo4SHl6M2IxQjdkQm1maGItQWlGMUw?oc=5Which Restaurant Stock Is Dominating in 2026: McDonald’s, Chipotle, or Starbucks? Yahoo FinanceAug 20, 2026 7:07 PM
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Adeline Rudolph, Audra McDonald & Dylan McDermott Join Amazon MGM’s Tennis Rom-Com ‘Love Love’ - Deadlinehttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipgFBVV95cUxNUm9PM1RqWGo2eXc5M0o0VDFjWXZFWXVMUnFtSTRUc3BWMEVJNlJYdjA2QlNKbEVLb1NPdGI5T1pvbGktdm42WWktYnlHaGFBMUc5UExCbGw3RkQ1XzBtSnpicVY5SzVJSlY4c0tKMWNJSGMyWUtNQzFmVVB0RjliUmFqaGhyYndVT3ZrRFYyT1VXeUVlN2tyUGN2QWdnc3h0SXhheDJn?oc=5Adeline Rudolph, Audra McDonald & Dylan McDermott Join Amazon MGM’s Tennis Rom-Com ‘Love Love’ DeadlineAug 20, 2026 7:00 PM
tablecanon.app
Show HN: Building Table Canon, an AI Campaign Memory Engine for TTRPGshttps://tablecanon.app/Hey HN! I built Table Canon to solve a problem my playgroup kept running into: 3-4 hour tabletop gaming sessions leave behind massive audio recordings, but standard meeting note-takers treat every session as an isolated island, butcher fantasy terms, and don't know who is speaking.I wanted an engine that tracks long-term state across months of games, so I built a pipeline to extract entity updates, open quest hooks, and character promises across sessions.The Tech Stack:* Transcription: whisper-large-v3-turbo * Diarization: pyannote for speaker embeddings & voice profile matching Extraction & Memory: OpenAI API with Structured Outputs (JSON Schema enforcement for state updates) * TTS & Audio Recaps: Kokoro / Chatterbox Turbo Music Generation: ACE-Step-v1.5-XL-Turbo for rendering session summaries into lyrics/balladsA Few Engineering Lessons & Challenges:* State Delta Extraction vs. Context Explosions: Feeding 20 prior session transcripts into context windows quickly becomes cost-prohibiAug 20, 2026 4:40 PM
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Look inside Croydon's Centrale as it becomes ghost town with vanishing shops - Yahoo News UKhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihAFBVV95cUxQVTRJbU1ERlIxaERfR0t3SFVIN1V1QUR0V0hvYk1nRHg3YjBaNmxjTnZpV2V0bVIxck1aOEdQS29SMFZFU1Vjb28ydkh3VUJxcjlUcnNLV1FhRjlzdTFESmYxZmNyUXlTendfRl9yNEpoejBVb1BBVDE1aFlZLUhuaUVzQjY?oc=5Look inside Croydon's Centrale as it becomes ghost town with vanishing shops Yahoo News UKAug 20, 2026 4:00 PM
compute.cx
Show HN: Compute.cx is simple (modal.com like) interface for on-demand GPUshttps://compute.cxHi everyone, Please checkout compute.cx which is a simple cli interface for using on demand GPUs from RunPod and HotAisle. I created this because I really like the ease of modal.com for severless gpu access, but don’t always want to pay their markup. Compute.cx gives the same DX but on public on-demand GPUs like runpod and hotaisie.Please try it out, and write to me harsh@theoric.com for any questions/suggestions, or file a bug report on https://github.com/theoriclabs/docs.compute.cxThanks! Harsh Gupta https://x.com/hargup13P.S. BYOK AWS, GCP and Azure coming soon, let me know if you want it.Aug 20, 2026 3:47 PM
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From McDonald’s to Congress: can a former fry cook flip a key district for Democrats? - The Guardianhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilAFBVV95cUxOZm9namRYYklzSzVsV3VTeVBoRjd2RXBqN1dXNDd3MU5DbzIzZmg0alItWWZkVm1US0xyRnJmV21Vc0oxbGMwYzk1ZFltTmNJWWtlTHJYSjU5MFh2VjN3U0tCUHBRazh6bWtzNkJQSmJvTEI4dHZ0SHRDYW9GLU9hOWRqM2ROQXl4NnZPQk5wODQ5UHdN?oc=5From McDonald’s to Congress: can a former fry cook flip a key district for Democrats? The GuardianAug 20, 2026 3:28 PM

abcnews.com
IndyCars set to race on streets of nation's capital. Here's what to knowhttps://abcnews.com/Sports/weekends-indycar-race-streets-nations-capital/story?id=135743374President Donald Trump is transforming the streets around the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this weekend into an IndyCar motorsports mecca for the first time.Aug 20, 2026 2:49 PM
pub.doub.ly
Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yourshttps://pub.doub.ly/Hi HN, I built this. Quick background on why it exists:When music is streamed on digital streaming platforms (think Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora), there are two separate royalty streams: one for the recording, paid through your distributor (DistroKid, TuneCore, CDBaby), and one for the underlying work (generally known as publishing). The work side's mechanical royalties are collected by The MLC, a nonprofit that was created by the 2018 Music Modernization Act (MMA). If you haven't registered your songs with The MLC, there are issues with your metadata, or about half a dozen other reasons, that money will never reach you, it just collects in a big pile we call the "black box".That pile is big. The MLC's own dashboard currently shows over $656M is held (themlc.com/blanket-royalties), and the biggest problem is the MMA dictates that The MLC cannot hold that money indefinitely. At some point, by law, The MLC must distribute this big pile of cash, and since they don't know who it's supposeAug 20, 2026 2:38 PM

nasa.gov
The View from Above: The Gemini Visual Acuity Experimentshttps://www.nasa.gov/history/the-view-from-above-the-gemini-visual-acuity-experiments/NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited our planet during the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission in May 1963. Cooper’s view from the window of his Faith 7 spacecraft was spectacular, and he reported that he could see vehicles motoring on dirt roads, smoke-belching trains, […]Aug 20, 2026 2:30 PM
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Comic: What Have Movies Ever Done For You? - Film Commenthttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMigwFBVV95cUxPdjcwTVVjVTB5RFNCWmdoVEdDNUdQNW9mbXgwYW85TFFLY1M4SldaMVNsaG1QbFJTVkVhbEMxS3dTY3RlX0J3TnFaS1JHbS1RZXlJS1BybVlMa3NnTXVTUTFibzZVN3gxMHc4N09jZmRlazVKSXdOTzhWQTVTME9UclljUQ?oc=5Comic: What Have Movies Ever Done For You? Film CommentAug 20, 2026 2:06 PM
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The loss of low-income diners cost McDonald’s a lot of money last quarter - Restaurant Businesshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxOTk1taVFFbGViYWwtTXRQQ3NRTnJIZWxCc05xeFJzQ3FjanVadWczUkJmaDIwb2dkamlCYlFkT2NzM0N5TjdOOGZQNFFuWVhGcFktX0pPVF9OZ045Z3ZWRzVybFU2SGw0dWttRjNNaG5JX1NmMDE3aXpFTXdJcWVleEttOWh5emtRc3dTTXN3aDM3NXR1dll0VzFGT3dQUkVPU2hoWEdkbmtnclk?oc=5The loss of low-income diners cost McDonald’s a lot of money last quarter Restaurant BusinessAug 20, 2026 1:03 PM
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Defense strategy in Tupac murder case: don't believe my client - Reutershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMirwFBVV95cUxPbFozSk1ZMUhJdG14cUEzckkwcFQydm5sb05wcF83c2RGaDRjQ0hfUEpQaDh6MGRWRWJnNTN3VXlBekdGYXNpb0U1YjQzZ0hPbUc1YXFVOEM4NWlPc0t4ckVGWG9kQnNqbTA2dF85WFU1Wnlpc2h6bkJpSm9EMXhpVGVhM3Y0dUI4UW9PbW1ZVzkyeEU1TnQ1MWI1Q0dTMmVEZkI4Y1N6eG9ReHZMYjdj?oc=5Defense strategy in Tupac murder case: don't believe my client ReutersAug 20, 2026 10:09 AM