
bbc.co.uk
As they return to the UK, Harry and Meghan search for a brand that stickshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0l5d387j18o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rssThey will not be working royals when they come back. So what could they be doing instead?Aug 22, 2026 12:03 AM
cbsnews.com
Iran on U.S. tariff threat: "Same bull, different bullies"https://www.cbsnews.com/video/iran-on-us-tariff-threat-same-bull-different-bullies/Next week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to announce what he calls the "toughest sanctions in history" on Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said of the threat, "We have seen this movie before. Same bull, different bullies." CBS News' Courtney Kealy reports.Aug 21, 2026 11:39 PM
chickenbutt.dev
Show HN: ChickenButt a Native GTK Chat Client for Ollama on Linuxhttps://www.chickenbutt.dev/What's up, ChickenButt?I made a free, native GTK client called ChickenButt. :)It lets you chat with local models through Ollama, and I figured some of you might get a kick out of it.Here's the repo: https://github.com/pixelhackstudios/ChickenButtI've always hated reading long text in the terminal, and I couldn't find anything that ran locally that allowed me to get quick answers from LLMs when I needed them.Also, not everyone has access to the frontier models and whatnot, so I thought helping people who only have access to more cost-effective AI would be a fun way to contribute to the FOSS community. So, I built ChickenButt!It was really fun to build, and I wanted to share it.Enjoy! :)Aug 21, 2026 11:12 PM
ozbrain.com
Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your teamhttps://ozbrain.comI think agent-first chat interfaces will be a primary software modality and busy dashboard/UI will go away. I’m not sure who exactly wins it, but I want my knowledge to grow/go with me.A lot of the “knowledge” ie research, analysis, reasoning will be done by agents as the primary user. Our current notes tools & tasks management systems were built for humans… I don’t care what the 17th thing on my bug backlog is. I want to conduct agents that can execute for me and do great work.What I built OzBrain to do: + Create a central place for agent reasoned knowledge to live + Be agnostic about what apps/agents connect to it + Capture everything and track it so I can audit it + Enable teams, collaborators or partners to share brains + Handle conflicts so many agents in the same article doesn’t blow up + Refactor knowledge into more token friendly chunks and map the index well + Close the knowledge loop so new thinking supersedes old thinking across the corpus. Don’t erase, depreciate and link +Aug 21, 2026 11:09 PM
npr.org
A battle over 'Italian brainrot' could shape who owns AI arthttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/19/nx-s1-5867638/artificial-intelligence-brainrot-memes-copyright-spyder-tung-tung-sahurA legal battle over what looks like a cartoon stick could help set the rules over whether creators can claim ownership of their AI-generated characters.Aug 21, 2026 10:16 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393465I've been building a lot of tools for my company internally and have been doing a combination of self-hosting on VPS/Vercel/whatever else. Super curious how everyone is going from localhost to sharing in your team.Aug 21, 2026 8:36 PM
cbsnews.com
People are scrambling to find wads of cash dropped all over American citieshttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/cash-drop-videos-us-cities/Cash drop social media accounts have people racing to find money hidden across the country. Here's what's behind the viral videos.Aug 21, 2026 7:48 PM
github.com
Show HN: Lore – build and monetize personal contexthttps://github.com/dipakkrishnan/lore-mcpPersonal context will have its own market. Large-scale market research and simulation (and more) require context that isn't available on the Internet. Lore allows you to take what your agent knows about you, augment it with your files / dictations and sell it at a price you set. You control what memories stay private and what becomes available to buyers. This is the first step towards a personal context market, focused on the seller experience today, and powered by personal agent human interactions!Would love feedback on the core premise / shape!Aug 21, 2026 6:25 PM
traccia.ai
Show HN: Traccia - Observability, Runtime Control & Audit for agentshttps://traccia.ai/AI applications are becoming agents, which has started to take autonomous decisions. There are plenty of tools and platform available to trace, and observe what an agent or llms calls does. They are good in what they do, but tracing and observability isnt enough for AI agents era. We need a solution that can help you observe, evaluate, create run time policies to govern and finally audit the actions of the agent. We built Traccia to solve this problem. The good part, all of these can be achieved by just writing few lines of code. Traccia has an open-sourced sdk that can work with your existing observability tool like grafana, tempo, jaeger, etc. In case you need more than just observability, Traccia provides the platform to evaluate, control and audit the agents. The platform is easy to use. The product's documentation is quite extensive. It is also cloud vendor and framework agnostic. Traccia is being built by an Indian start up ,based out of Bengaluru. We are running a 3 months free Aug 21, 2026 6:20 PM
poorleton.fit
Show HN: Poorleton – AI Generated Cycling Workoutshttps://poorleton.fitHello everyone, I recently got a used Peloton a couple of months ago for $200, but I didn't use it enough to justify $50/month for classes, so I vibe coded https://poorleton.fit/ over the weekend to have AI generated cycling classes.Let me know what you think.Aug 21, 2026 6:19 PM

france24.com
Deadly 'double-tap' Russian drone strikes target Ukraine shopping centrehttps://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260821-back-to-back-russian-drone-strikes-kill-14-people-in-ukraine-shopping-centreA pair of Russian drone strikes that hit a shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih Friday killed at least 15 people and wounded scores more, authorities said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of targeting emergency workers in what's known as a "double-tap" strike, with the second drone reportedly striking the mall half an hour after the first.Aug 21, 2026 6:07 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: How to Relicense an Old Projecthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391444I've heard from someone who wants to revive an old abandoned project of mine and asks that I change the license from GPLv3 to LGPL or MIT. I'm willing to do that but I took down the original repo from github a long time ago and there seems to be only a fork that still exists. What's the right way to make it publicly known that I'm changing the license?Aug 21, 2026 5:38 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Should we stop "correcting" AI writing so it improves English for us?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391188For example, AI writing often puts an "or" at the list of items because that is more logical in some contexts.Changing it to "and" would make it sound more natural, but it would be less logical.Keeping it as "or" may make it standard usage over time, even when people are not using AI to write.What do you think? Should people stop "correcting" AI writing when it is actually more logical?Aug 21, 2026 5:20 PM
wondering.app
Show HN: Visual way to understand things in parallelhttps://wondering.app/canvasHey HN!Really excited to be showing what I think is a better way to understand complex topics with AI.You start a chat with your question, and whenever you want to clarify something or understand some jargon, you can branch out a new chat from that thread.The cool unlock is being able to see all related chat threads in the same context without tab switching, for e.g. I can first dive into understanding world models, then spin a new chat thread on who the key players are in there, and another asking what's the frontier with this stuff.The responses are also not just a wall of text. They're: - Filled with interactive diagrams and visuals - Super fastAnd for those curious, this is how we built it: - React Flow (@xyflow/react) for the canvas - React Components for interactive diagrams - GPT Image 2 for image generations - Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for super fast response - Parallelization whenever possible to keep things fastYou can also highlight and add notes :)Try it out and let me know whaAug 21, 2026 5:06 PM
github.com
Show HN: Caspian – Talk to Human Tool for AI Agentshttps://github.com/TryCaspian/caspian-sdkSup HN! Dipanshu and Rushant here from Caspian. One is a functional programmer and the other has been deploying AI employees. Together we realized how agents have communication bottleneck.Given the coming agentic economy, we had a thought experiment on what can be the key infrastructure for agents as they get better. Our inspiration for solving for communications infra came from our own time spent just setting up comms while we were deploying open claw for companies plus we noticed about 15%+ of issues in Openclaw and Hermes were that of comms.So we abstracted the headache of reliable communication web-hooks, handling of queues, provision and identity management behind an single SDK integration / tool call. Think of it like rather than rolling your own auth, you can use better auth sdk, same thesis here.Technically, we designed the SDK from the ground up as a DSL for communications (heavy inspiration from functional programming) and then add on our own run time environment which auto pAug 21, 2026 4:17 PM
apps.apple.com
Show HN: Gramola, a CoverFlow-style music dock for macOShttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/gramola-music-dock/id6801078031?mt=12I'm a 23yo solo dev from Spain with a passion for UI/UX and I built Gramola, a music dock for macOS that is there when you need it. No more opening a music app to change what you're listening to; just move your mouse to the edge of the screen, and all your music is there in a gorgeous CoverFlow style, or ready to be instantly searched.Fully usable with a mouse, but also fully usable with keyboard, accessibility built in, and both Spotify and Apple Music support as well as local tracks via the Music app.Free to try for 7 days! I would love to know what you think :)Please feel free to ask any questions, technical or not! I would love to explain.Demo videos and other images on the App Store page and my website (https://gramola.fulltimefeline.com)Aug 21, 2026 3:52 PM

engadget.com
Can you use a satellite dish as a free TV antenna? It depends where you livehttps://www.engadget.com/2240106/can-you-use-satellite-dish-as-free-tv-antenna/A satellite dish left by previous owners may yet have something to offer today. Here's what it can and can't do.Aug 21, 2026 3:30 PM
bing.com
LeBron Has Retirement Planned!http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89304547d44236a9ec2600727e5a88&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsports.yahoo.com%2Fvideos%2Flebron-retirement-planned-214247137.html&c=15534957263306772234&mkt=en-usWhen LeBron James finally walks away from basketball, he's already set for an even richer life. So what will LeBron do after the NBA? First, golf. "I told myself when I turned 40 that I wanted to do ...Aug 21, 2026 2:42 PM
theverge.com
Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI moneyhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983181/matti-haapoja-sam-kold-kolder-higgsfield-seedance-backlashOver the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]Aug 21, 2026 1:37 PM
bing.com
New Mexico man killed in rare fatal bear attack, only second in state in a centuryhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89d89c0a3748c083503a0ec9875b2e&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2026%2Faug%2F21%2Fnew-mexico-fatal-bear-attack&c=272621471986523316&mkt=en-usPolice department for Navajo Nation neither identified the victim nor said what type of bear had killed him ...Aug 21, 2026 1:28 PM