
cbc.ca
Mounties reviewing First Nations' call for treason probe into Alberta premier, UCPhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/rcmp-alberta-treason-review-9.7315676?cmp=rssCanada's top Mountie has written to First Nations leaders in Alberta, confirming the RCMP will review the chiefs' call for a criminal treason investigation into the province's premier and governing party. The response has some chiefs feeling optimistic.Aug 21, 2026 5:53 PM

nasa.gov
Webb Opens Treasure Chesthttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/webb-opens-treasure-chest/NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this Aug. 6, 2026, infrared image of part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region also home to the Cosmic Cliffs. This feature, called the “Treasure Chest,” is an object known as a cometary globule. A cometary globule is an isolated cloud of gas and dust with a dense, […]Aug 21, 2026 5:35 PM
bing.com
Protesters 'shame' New Mexico public officials over data centerhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8914d844144761b0c2c899ad0d6686&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.santafenewmexican.com%2Fnews%2Flocal_news%2Fprotesters-shame-new-mexico-public-officials-over-data-center%2Farticle_2bc9d4d5-2665-42d4-86e9-74ed7aa352d4.html&c=10220527512477619531&mkt=en-usA lunchtime demonstration at the state Environment Department included skits and songs slamming officials over Project Jupiter.Aug 21, 2026 5:23 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
techcrunch.com
Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats?https://techcrunch.com/video/why-is-the-doj-investigating-andreessen-horowitzs-board-seats/Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs. Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]Aug 21, 2026 4:53 PM
theverge.com
Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leakshttps://www.theverge.com/games/983323/grand-theft-auto-vi-gta-leaks-microsoft-discord-subpoenaedFollowing several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that "infringes copyrights" held for the game, Kotaku reports. In the subpoenas, filed on Thursday, Take-Two says copyrighted material includes "audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements" and it is looking to identify "alleged […]Aug 21, 2026 4:52 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Ask HN: Combining Healthcare and Software Engineering into a Careerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390762I'm a former software engineer (self-taught) who is currently in school studying Kinesiology. I plan on going to graduate school for Occupational Therapy or Physical Therapy. Before starting school, I gained a few years of experience working with disabled children. I decided to pursue OT/PT because I very much enjoy working with disabled populations, but want more autonomy to actually make decisions that impact their well being.Despite all of this (and a rocky resume), I still feel like programming is a part of me and is something I find enjoyable as a discipline.Has anyone successfully made a career combining healthcare and software engineering? How did you do it?Aug 21, 2026 4:48 PM
github.com
Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agenthttps://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferateHi HN- I'm Pablo, the founder of Proliferate (YC S25)!Proliferate (https://github.com/proliferate-ai/proliferate) is an open-source, self-hostable AI IDE that lets you work and automate tasks with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Grok in one place.Here's a quick 2m demo of how we use Proliferate to build Proliferate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNX0oaWmBYI started building Proliferate after my team onboarded to OpenAI Codex. Within days, we were using it for everything: using computer use instead of navigating websites ourselves, having Codex coordinate other agents, and setting up automations for recurring work. We really never needed to leave the desktop app to get work done.If my team’s experience is anything close to representative, a Codex-like app (a horizontal agent with a beautiful UI) is the main interface every company is going to use to get work done. That is perfectly in line with OpenAI’s mission to make Codex the everything app (see: https://news.ycombinatorAug 21, 2026 4:47 PM
npr.org
Beatty files emergency request to stop Trump's name from returning to Kennedy Centerhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/21/nx-s1-5940799/kennedy-center-president-trump-filingJoyce Beatty, a Democratic representative from Ohio, asked a federal judge to stop the Kennedy Center trustees from putting President Trump's name up in three places at the arts complex.Aug 21, 2026 4:40 PM
theverge.com
Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trendhttps://www.theverge.com/podcast/983288/pixel-11-gets-in-on-the-digicam-trendI recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of photo I felt like I hadn't seen out of a phone in years. That might be changing, though. […]Aug 21, 2026 4:27 PM
whodunit.rip
Show HN: Whodunit? Solve a daily AI-written Mysteryhttps://whodunit.ripWhodunit started as a pen-and-paper game for family game night. It evolved into a web app with a new mystery every day.The mysteries are all written by LLMs. Some are better than others, but most work nicely.The web app is written in go with templ HTML templates, HTMX for on-page interactivity, SSE for content updates, and a turn-based game engine written as a Temporal workflow.Check out the mystery gen write up for more info: https://blog.apartment304.com/whodunit-llm-murder-mysteriesAug 21, 2026 4:04 PM

nytimes.com
Why Do We Keep Imagining a New Civil War?https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/opinion/civil-war-novels.htmlArt doesn’t predict the future, but it can be an early warning system.Aug 21, 2026 3:57 PM
telexpage.com
Show HN: Telex Page – Turn secrets into AES 256 encrypted PDFs, locallyhttps://telexpage.com/Hey! Every time I had to send something confidential, like a password, secret, .env, etc, I ended up using some openssl enchantment. It worked, but it was annoying for the team and impossible for my family.PDF docs already support strong AES 256 encryption and open pretty much everywhere. The annoying part was creating a doc and then jumping into a cli just to encrypt it.So I made telexpage.com. It runs 100% local in your browser and makes creating an encrypted PDF from a message as simple as possible. It works offline too.It's been really useful for me, hopefully it's useful for you too.Remember to send the password trough a different channel!Aug 21, 2026 3:42 PM
github.com
Show HN: Bounded GenAI metrics from Otel traces with O raw promptshttps://github.com/llm-measurement/otelcol-genai-sketchesHi friends,Author here. Like to present a project I've been working on - Otelcol-GenAI-Sketches, a Otel connector that works on genai/agent traces, and summarizes them (via sketches), to produce:() exact request counts/totals for tokens; () distinct users/prompts (estimates) (*) 'heavy' items in terms of tokensWhy does this exist: I'm a data scientist by profession, and needed to look at Otel traces, but soon ran into cardinality and portability issues, along with privacy issues (raw prompts being transported elsewhere, like for analysis in a notebook env is a no-no). I wrote a sketchlib first (llm-sketchkit) and then the connector for Otel collectors.To try it out, just:(i) git clone https://github.com/llm-measurement/otelcol-genai-sketches.gi... (ii) cd otelcol-genai-sketches (iii) export GENAI_SKETCH_SECRET="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" (iv) make example-up (v) profit!This would start a demo app that includes a Otel collector, prometheus server/db and a grafana dashboard.The repos contaAug 21, 2026 3:37 PM
cnn.com
Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendantshttps://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/health/flight-attendants-pilots-radiation-cancer-deathshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...Aug 21, 2026 3:23 PM
github.com
Show HN: A desktop fly drawn to the scent of vibecodehttps://github.com/kulikov0/desktop-vibe-flyIt is a fork of https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly, but with an important update.Now the fly can pick up the scent of the codebase with its neurons and fly straight to the source code of your B2B AI SaaS startup. It has learned to scan its surroundings for agent markers: AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursor/rules, .kiro/steering, and forty others. Anything on the screen that points to these markers becomes a source of the scent - an editor window with an open project, a line in Finder, or a desktop icon. An open project reeks the strongest, while a closed icon or nested folders give off a fainter odor.Aug 21, 2026 3:19 PM
news.ycombinator.com
Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49389408I always was a nerdy, deeply technical programmer. Contributing-to-open-source-and-reading-papers-in-my-spare-time type of programmer.Programming is like a game of chess for me: winning (i.e. delivering a product) is important, but only if I played this game myself. I don't enjoy winning if my opponent disconnected. I don't enjoy beating people who don't know how to move pieces. I don't enjoy winning with an engine, and coding agents are basically "winning with a chess engine".I started to use AI for coding a long time ago, when copilot was first introduced. At first, I was happy: "wow, this can write boring boilerplate and unit tests". Time went by, agents got better, time spent writing code myself went down. Half a year ago I suddenly realized I hadn't written any code for over a month, and I am a full-time software dev without any managing work. Not only did I stop writing code, but agents also became pretty good at proposing plans and architectures, and I was mostly providing missiAug 21, 2026 3:15 PM

cbc.ca
Alberta minister faces more fury at second town hall on AI data centreshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-ai-town-hall-redwater-9.7315335?cmp=rssAlberta's technology minister faced yet another firing line of fury at the government's second town hall hearing from residents over its plan for artificial intelligence data centres.Aug 21, 2026 3:05 PM
bing.com
You can watch the Steelers vs Jets NFL preseason game live for free tonight - here's howhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89c1f7181048099ef8ad1a93e5ff95&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fsports%2Fnfl%2Fyou-can-watch-the-steelers-vs-jets-nfl-preseason-game-live-for-free-tonight-heres-how%2Far-AA2aFMzO&c=14404292317720601215&mkt=en-usFriday night’s NFL preseason slate features the New York Jets facing the Pittsburgh Steelers in an exciting tilt. The Steelers are beginning a new era under head coach Mike McCarthy, and the Jets are ...Aug 21, 2026 2:45 PM

france24.com
FIFA suspends Argentina's Paredes for 10 games over World Cup final clasheshttps://www.france24.com/en/sport/20260821-fifa-suspends-argentina-s-paredes-for-10-games-over-world-cup-final-clashesSeveral Argentina players including midfielder Leandro Paredes have been slapped with bans and fines for taking part in scuffles during the World Cup final against Spain in July. Paredes, who was banned for 10 international matches, was also fined $90,000.Aug 21, 2026 2:39 PM