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Monday's prep highights Sages win girls' golf tournamenthttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mondays-prep-highights-sages-win-144800067.htmlAug. 18—FARMER CITY — The Monticello girls' golf team carded a collective 367 to win the Mike Hendricks Invitational on Monday at Woodlawn Country Club, with medalist Cate Sanders' even-par 72 leading the way. Sophie Billedo's third-place score of 93 also helped the Sages, who outpaced Prairie Central (413) and Arcola/Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond (416) among the eight-team field. Gibson ...Aug 18, 2026 2:48 PM

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Childhood Friends, Adopted From India, Discover They’re Sistershttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/world/europe/friends-adopted-sisters-india-netherlands.htmlMeena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from India by families in the Netherlands and grew up less than 100 miles apart.Aug 18, 2026 2:47 PM
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Real Madrid officially presents José Mourinho in a closed-door ceremonyhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/real-madrid-officially-presents-jos-144717211.htmlThe event took place at the club's headquarters in Madrid, with president Florentino Pérez welcoming the coach. The only images of the presentation were provided by Real Madrid TV and the club's website and social media accounts. “I'm one of you,” Mourinho said in a message to fans in a video released by the club.Aug 18, 2026 2:47 PM

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Nominees revealed for 3 VMA categorieshttps://www.cbsnews.com/video/nominees-revealed-vma-categories/"CBS Mornings" revealed the nominees for three categories at this year's VMAs, including artist of the year.Aug 18, 2026 2:46 PM
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New arch keeps Highfield Road memories alivehttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/arch-keeps-highfield-road-memories-144158810.htmlThe new arch is part of a wider project to make the park a venue for fans to come and reminisce.Aug 18, 2026 2:41 PM
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Find your team on the Manitowoc, Sheboygan 2026 prep football schedulehttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/team-manitowoc-sheboygan-2026-prep-144128128.htmlThe 2026 high school football season starts August 20. See the full schedule for Manitowoc and Sheboygan teams.Aug 18, 2026 2:41 PM
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Show HN: K7d – Fork live Kubernetes clusters in GRPO-train AI on infrahttps://github.com/katakate/k7dHey HN, Gary here.Today I want to present k7d which is an Apache 2.0, tight Rust VMM + shim enabling something not possible before: fast forking of live running virtualized multi-node k8s clusters with surviving of in-flight connections.A 3-VM nodes K8s cluster gets forked in 105ms, and a 50x fork of a 3-VM cluster in 4.1s on a 64GB RAM box.I have two goals here:1) enable large scale GRPO/RL training of AI on Kubernetes infra, which IMO is a great playground for reasoning training, besides training a capability that's actually useful. And this requires not only fast episode reset (as you need tens of thousand of multi-turn runs during RL post-training) but also greatly benefits from fast forking so you can do parallel branch exploration, rollback, pruning during RL training. Faithful forks also give you byte-identical starts for the G of GRPO, which gives variance reduction across the group.2) enableAug 18, 2026 2:38 PM
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Its National ICEE Day: How to get a free ICEE on Aug. 18https://mashable.com/life/national-icee-day-2026ICEE is celebrating its first-ever National ICEE Day on Aug. 18, with free small ICEEs available at Walmart, Krystal, AMC, Regal, and Urban Air locations nationwide.Aug 18, 2026 2:36 PM

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Girona signs central defender Abdul Muminhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/girona-signs-central-defender-abdul-143500769.htmlThe Girona FC has signed Abdul Mumin to strengthen its defensive line for the 2026/27 season. The 28-year-old Ghanaian center-back joins on a free transfer and becomes part of the red-and-white projec...Aug 18, 2026 2:35 PM
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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes ranks 18th on the 2026 'NFL Top 100'https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-ranks-143052758.htmlKansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes ranks 18th on the 2026 'NFL Top 100' | @EdEastonJrAug 18, 2026 2:30 PM
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YouTube remains frontrunner for local NBA streaming hub, per reporthttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/youtube-remains-frontrunner-local-nba-143051337.htmlThe NBA remains in “advanced talks” with YouTube about launching an aggregated local streaming hub ahead of the 2027-28 season, but DAZN is “waiting in the wings” should those talks fall apart, according to the latest update on the matter by Tom Friend in Sports Business Journal. Friend writes that there is an expectation by…Aug 18, 2026 2:30 PM

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Which offensive lineman can the Badgers not afford to lose?https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/offensive-lineman-badgers-not-afford-143007875.htmlThe Badgers need health on the offensive line. Which starter is the most valuable?Aug 18, 2026 2:30 PM
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Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49346107I'm trying to make an app to help out my local community, but with the intention of scaling it at some point and serving a much wider community. It's a complex app with a lot of moving parts, and as a junior dev with little experience in some of the technologies I'm using, I'm going to be relying heavily on Claude. However, I know generally, Claude is only as strong as the developer using it—and I'm a junior dev. So, for example, what do I do about architecture? I can't leave the architecture up to Claude, but I'm not at the point in my career where I can design the architecture on my own without flaws.What are y'all's thoughts on what I can learn on my own through posts/YouTube videos, vs. what I might need to hire a senior dev to help me do?I've had this idea for a while, with the thought that I'd make it when I'm a more experienced software engineer, but there's no time like the present and I just want to bite the bullet and get started, even if it means I'll be making more mistakesAug 18, 2026 2:27 PM
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Goldman Sachs Bulks Up Asset Management Business With LCN Dealhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-08-18/goldman-sachs-bulks-up-asset-management-business-videoGoldman Sachs struck its second deal in a week as the firm pushes ahead with plans to grow its $4 trillion money-management arm. The company will pay as much as $410 million to buy LCN Capital Partners, a commercial real estate investor that focuses on sale-leaseback agreements and triple-net leases. Todd Gillespie has more on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)Aug 18, 2026 2:25 PM
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Little Falls native named Preseason D-III All-Americanhttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/little-falls-native-named-preseason-142212606.htmlA Little Falls native and a graduate student at Utica University has found himself on a very prestigious list to start his final campaign with the Pioneers.Aug 18, 2026 2:22 PM
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Show HN: CSS-in-JS Arena Bamboo, StyleX and Panda on Pixel-Identical Appshttps://github.com/gajus/css-in-js-arenaA little context, I've been working on Contra for the last 6 years. It's a marketplace-network – an application that's comparable to the likes of LinkedIn, UpWork, and similar in terms of its surface area. That's hundreds of routes, thousands of components, and tens of thousands of styles.Over the last year, we have been obsessed with performance. We have optimized every layer of our infrastructure to the point where profiling the application increasingly started to surface bottlenecks in client-side (bundle size, and metrics like TBT, LCP, and INP). That's where CSS-in-JS comes in.6 years ago, we started with styled-components. Then zero-runtime alternatives emerged and we started to experiment with them, eventually landing on Panda CSS. Panda took us a long way, but... they aren't _actually_ zero-runtime. Panda extracts CSS at build time, but it uses ~15KB runtime to map those style objects at runtime. This overhead surfaced repeatedly when profiling pages with lots of components (seAug 18, 2026 2:21 PM
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FPL 2026/27: The Best Players to Own Ahead of Gameweek 1https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/fpl-2026-27-best-players-141758229.htmlAfter a summer filled with World Cup action, the Premier League is back. The 2026/27 campaign kicks off on Friday, August 21, when defending champions Arsenal host newly promoted Coventry City at Emirates Stadium. For managers searching for the best player picks for Gameweek 1, locked-in starting lineups can be tough to finalize. Below is […]Aug 18, 2026 2:17 PM
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How much can debt forgiveness save on $30,000 in credit card debt this August?https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-credit-card-debt-forgiveness-saves-30000-august-2026/Having part of a $30,000 credit card balance forgiven could mean big savings, but the final amount can vary widely.Aug 18, 2026 2:16 PM
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Fourth Chiefs player on NFL’s ‘Top 100’ countdown is Patrick Mahomes, No. 18https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/fourth-chiefs-player-nfl-top-141500378.htmlKansas City’s superstar quarterback is 13 spots lower than he was ranked last summer.Aug 18, 2026 2:15 PM
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Arizona Cardinals Daily Links:https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/arizona-cardinals-daily-links-141403488.htmlESPN recently dropped their annual set of “future” power rankings, which are based on how well the franchise is set up to be successful over the next three or so seasons. The Cardinals were unfortunately ranked dead last thanks to a lackluster quarterback situation. Jacoby Brissett is not what any team wants as their long-term […]Aug 18, 2026 2:14 PM