bing.com
India to give Canada's Fairfax two years to consolidate holdings for IDBI Bank deal, sources sayhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8915857f334aaeac849315ff34b2d2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmoney%2Fcompanies%2Findia-to-give-canada-s-fairfax-two-years-to-consolidate-holdings-for-idbi-bank-deal-sources-say%2Far-AA2aDXnB&c=5051841534157660640&mkt=en-usBy Gopika Gopakumar and Ira Dugal Aug 21 (Reuters) - Canada's Fairfax Financial, a frontrunner to acquire the government's stake in IDBI Bank, is set to be allowed up to two years to consolidate its ...Aug 21, 2026 4:08 AM
bing.com
Back-to-School Picture Books That Will Fuel Your Kids’ FOMOhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88c53062954897954399f7724c1bd4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F08%2F21%2Fbooks%2Freview%2Fback-to-school-picture-books.html&c=8712932911247539467&mkt=en-usWorks by Amy Schwartz, Sophie Blackall, Oliver Jeffers and Chris Priestley show little ones what they might miss if they stay home.Aug 21, 2026 3:00 AM
nature.com
NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadeshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02574-6Aug 21, 2026 2:05 AM
pro.dnf.cloud.sitefinity.com
.NET Foundation Statement on Open Source Maintenance Feeshttps://pro.dnf.cloud.sitefinity.com/news-events/detail/.net-foundation-statement-on-open-source-maintenance-feesAug 21, 2026 1:43 AM

yahoo.com
Verb CEO says you should own your data and get paid for ithttps://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/verb-ceo-says-own-data-013632354.htmlAug 21, 2026 1:36 AM
nytimes.com
How to Find Your Daughter’s Therapy-Speak Less Traumatizinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/opinion/therapy-speak-daughter-trauma-anxiety.htmlStep 1: Take it seriously, not literally.Aug 21, 2026 12:06 AM
niki.cat
Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviourhttps://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviourAug 20, 2026 10:47 PM

engadget.com
GitHub says commits have doubled in the last four monthshttps://www.engadget.com/2241272/github-says-commits-have-doubled-in-the-last-four-months/The new traffic peak caused "capacity failures" that led to the developer platform's recent outage.Aug 20, 2026 10:26 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How to engage users in an open source project and when to stop?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377336I have been working on an OS project for years now, on and off, taking it back up for the last few months and giving it a good boost lately with AI. It has a super niche user base in quantitative finance.I really enjoy working on it, and although I get contacted every now and then by people who are using it or are interested in using it, and those are really interesting users, I always think I am wasting my time. It has been 8 years now since I started.I guess my questions are: is it worth it? And I know this question has two clear paths, the personal and the practical one, but I would like to hear from both. How can I know when to stop? If my audience is maybe in the order of two thousand potential users worldwide, how do I validate the idea? I have posted on Reddit and HN multiple times, tried LinkedIn, and that leads me to a handful of super interesting contacts, but I don't know if it is enough to keep going.Aug 20, 2026 5:09 PM
github.com
Show HN: Pond – lossless archive for agent sessions in your own S3https://github.com/tenequm/pondI wanted all of my sessions preserved in one S3 storage dump I could access from anywhere. I couldn't find anything that could store sessions from multiple machines in one remote S3 bucket without running a database service anywhere, make them available as an MCP for my agent, and efficiently search through them. pond was born out of this, and out of my necessity to stop being locked to my laptop. I'm convinced that the sessions we generate with agents are one of the most precious assets we have and it still feels so odd to me that we throw them away like we couldn't care less.With pond you just point it at an S3 bucket or a local directory. Under the hood is in-process Lance. It also supports safe concurrent writes, so I just collect all my sessions from all my local machines, remote VMs and telegram agent setups in one bucket dir. Right now that is 14,861 sessions, 2.83M messages, 10.6 GiB, from 8 tools (Claude Code, Codex, opencode, pi, Claude Desktop, oh-my-pi and a few more).The oAug 20, 2026 4:04 PM
excusemyfrench.org
Show HN: Excuse My French – an Open Source French-learning apphttps://excusemyfrench.org/hi HN! Many years ago (in 2018) I wrote a simple French-learning exercise generator in Javascript for my wife. I was looking for a way to generate as many exercises as possible for her to practice. The idea was being able to generate a huge combination of sentences and being able to transform them deterministically based on French grammar rules. The generation and transformation is rule-based (no LLMs back then).For example, we generate (using rule-based) :> Je mange une pommethen we ask the engine to transform it to past and replace the pronoun:> Je l'ai mangéeThen we compare with the user's answer.I recently picked the project back up, thanks to AI coding tools and some free time I improved the UI, added more conventional bits (flashcards, dictation, progress tracking, etc). I kept the core of it: the rule-based sentence generator, because it allows to generate extremely fast locally and in a controlled way.I pushed this new version on the same repository : https://github.com/CelebioAug 20, 2026 3:54 PM
codedge.de
How to compromise your system with a job interviewhttps://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interviewAug 20, 2026 3:50 PM
github.com
Show HN: A light-weight CLI that keeps your skills and rules in synchttps://github.com/nicolasakf/unityAug 20, 2026 2:02 PM
github.com
Find what your analytics agent will get wrong in your dbt repohttps://github.com/GetCassis/dbt-agent-readinessAug 20, 2026 1:43 PM

finance.yahoo.com
Your next oil change is becoming a bigger part of car dealers’ business as profits cool and service departments make up the differencehttps://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/articles/next-oil-change-becoming-bigger-133634180.htmlAug 20, 2026 1:36 PM

yahoo.com
Swiss tourist sentenced to a year in jail for insulting Bali's sacred Day of Silencehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/swiss-tourist-sentenced-jail-insulting-121434694.htmlAug 20, 2026 12:14 PM
bing.com
Here's the Average Credit Card Debt for Your Age Group in 2026http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89566665da4fddb7312d18d236b139&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmoney%2Fpersonalfinance%2Fheres-the-average-credit-card-debt-for-your-age-group-in-2026%2Far-AA2ay1SV&c=14633633087984383984&mkt=en-usGen X carries the highest card balances of any generation. See where you land, what carrying a balance costs, and how to start cutting it down.Aug 20, 2026 4:30 AM
reuters.com
Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifieshttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/former-meta-engineer-resumes-testimony-landmark-trial-over-social-medias-harm-2026-08-19/Aug 20, 2026 3:31 AM
github.com
Bapu Studio – Open-Source Client for APIs, Databases, and Secretshttps://github.com/joravar/bapu-studioAug 20, 2026 2:08 AM