theguardian.com
‘Absolutely unacceptable’: Japan condemns visit by Vladimir Putin to disputed Kuril Islandshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/13/japan-condemns-vladimir-putin-visit-kuril-islandsJapanese PM says islands seized by Soviets late in second world war are part of her country under international lawThe Japanese government has reacted angrily to Vladimir Putin’s first visit to the disputed Kuril Islands, which are claimed by both Tokyo and Moscow.Japan’s foreign minister, Toshimitsu Motegi, summoned the Russian ambassador Nikolay Nozdrev, while the prime minister, Sanae Takaichi,...Aug 13, 2026 12:56 PM
stackdome.com
Show HN: Stackdome – An open source self-hostable Railway alternative on K8shttps://stackdome.comHello Hacker News, this is Ashish.We started building Stackdome in 2024 as a hobby project. The idea was to package the tooling in the CNCF/cloud-native ecosystem into an opinionated platform, so that developers can get a well engineered platform without learning Kubernetes YAMLology or a dozen other projects from the CNCF landscape.Railway and Render did this well for their hosted products. I wanted to bring that level of polish and DX to something you can self-host. Stackdome uses Kubernetes underneath, but it's completely transparent to users. (I have some ideas for an expert mode that exposes more of the bells and whistles.)My day job involves working with cloud native technologies, and it made me appreciate how much is already solved by Kubernetes and the tooling around it. If you are already running Kubernetes, Stackdome is something you can adopt incrementally. (I have some ideas around adopting already-running workloads.)Features:- First class support for multi-service applicatAug 13, 2026 12:43 PM
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South Korean airport becomes busiest in world for global traffic amid Iran warhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/13/south-korea-incheon-airport-iran-war-middle-eastIncheon airport had 38.39m international passengers in first half of 2026, as traffic diverted from Middle East hubsSouth Korea’s Incheon airport has become the world’s busiest airport for international passengers, in part owing to disruption in the Middle East caused by the Iran war.The airport, South Korea’s main gateway, about 30 miles (48km) west of Seoul, handled 38.39 million international p...Aug 13, 2026 9:45 AM
esa.int
MTG-I1 captures eclipse path of totality over Europehttps://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2026/08/MTG-I1_captures_eclipse_path_of_totality_over_EuropeYesterday between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, parts of the Iberian peninsula experienced a total solar eclipse. This animation, composed of images from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I1), caught the Moon’s dark shadow as it passed over Earth’s surface – converging with the advancing twilight shadow as dusk fell over Europe.Aug 13, 2026 8:30 AM
codewithbullet.com
Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agenthttps://www.codewithbullet.comHi HN! We’re Adi and Alex, founders of Bullet, a faster coding agent.Bullet started in a senior year dorm. We were fresh out of working at AppLovin and Citadel, and naturally thought we were on a sure path to startup success. We were going to use our skills optimizing stock pricing calculation speeds and agent document context to take over the world. So, Bullet started as an AI hedge fund, a browser-use agent, synthetic financial data (oof), a mobile IDE, and a bunch of other things. We wanted to build something people wanted, but it seemed like everything we built was just terrible, useless, or both.So, we decided to do something completely different, something completely out of the blue, something that no one had ever done before. Solve a problem we actually had.Over the course of six pivots, we suffered. Throughout all of our adventures, one final boss kept getting in our way. Claude Code and his little brother Codex. We were spending hours waiting for coding agents like Claude CodeAug 13, 2026 8:14 AM
news.ycombinator.com
Gemini API removes postpay billinghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283011Mail received:We are writing to inform you of an upcoming billing change to Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.We require developers to switch your Gemini API billing from Postpay to Prepay by September 14, 2026. This is part of our ongoing effort to improve our platform to give developers more control over API consumption and costs.This change applies exclusively to your Gemini API usage in AI Studio. All other GCP services on your account will remain on Postpay. What you need to knowKey changes: Starting September 14, 2026, to use paid features in the Gemini API you will be required to change the billing plan associated with your Google AI Studio projects to Prepay. Learn more about the Prepay billing plan here.Potential impact: If you do not transition to Prepay and purchase credits before September 14, 2026, your service will be interrupted. What you need to doAction required: If you use, or plan to use, paid features in the Gemini API: Switch to Prepay: Transition to Prepay on thAug 13, 2026 8:05 AM
bing.com
The Supreme Court expands protections for digital data – now what?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89b6f3be48441fbeca3f597077b507&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Farticles%2Fsupreme-court-expands-protections-digital-130000172.html&c=4335782775307092193&mkt=en-usThis term, in Chatrie v. United States, the Supreme Court recognized one’s digital location as firmly protected by the Constitution from police searches without a warrant. Beyond its particular ...Aug 13, 2026 6:30 AM
joinfabfriends.org
Show HN: Fab Friends a crowdfunding site for Rwandan college studentshttps://www.joinfabfriends.org/donateHey HN,I'm a Rwandan-American software engineer. I was fortunate enough to make it to the US, build a career here, and have opportunities that changed the trajectory of my life.I've been thinking for a long time about how I could give something back.So I built joinfabfriends.org.The idea is pretty simple: think GoFundMe, but specifically for Rwandan college students who need help paying for things like tuition and textbooks.There are incredibly talented students in Rwanda for whom a relatively small amount of money can be the difference between continuing their education and dropping out. I want Fab Friends to make that gap a little easier for people like me, and hopefully some of you to help close it.I'm starting small. I want to learn whether this model works, how to make the process trustworthy and transparent.And because just asking HN for money felt boring, here's my slightly unusual donor perk:If you become a donor(Good Samaritan), you're invited to come to Rwanda with me in summAug 13, 2026 5:19 AM
news.ycombinator.com
How do I self-host a good-looking AI generated websitehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281976I'm happy to use a service, but most come with hosting plans, and I just want the code so I can host it on my own website.I'm a long-term software developer of the type that isn't good at UI/UX (i.e. scroll bars are the devil, and the mouse isn't much better).I'm soon to do UI as part of my masters degree as part of my redemption arc, but I need something in the meantime, and I'm trying to be efficient with my search :)Aug 13, 2026 5:08 AM
bing.com
BHEL enters into strategic tie-up with Hystar AS to manufacture PEM electrolyser systemshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a898645130c4452a499d94da9b0c144&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-in%2Fnews%2Fother%2Fbhel-enters-into-strategic-tie-up-with-hystar-as-to-manufacture-pem-electrolyser-systems%2Far-AA2a1QR1&c=8154987869076201939&mkt=en-usBharat Heavy Electricals Limited has partnered with Norway's Hystar AS for manufacturing electrolyser systems. This collaboration will support India's growing green hydrogen projects and initiatives.Aug 13, 2026 4:54 AM
spacenews.com
Virgin Galactic delays resumption of commercial flights to 2027https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-delays-resumption-of-commercial-flights-to-2027/Virgin Galactic says it will not start commercial flights of its new suborbital spaceplane until early 2027, a delay of a few months. The post Virgin Galactic delays resumption of commercial flights to 2027 appeared first on SpaceNews.Aug 13, 2026 1:46 AM
bing.com
Alliant Energy stock: Is Wall Street bullish or bearish?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d2760d6d41aea0cf836ac76856d9&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fmoney%2Fother%2Falliant-energy-stock-is-wall-street-bullish-or-bearish%2Far-AA29ZSdK&c=2958384945301445497&mkt=en-usHeadquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Alliant Energy Corporation (LNT) runs a utility holding company that delivers regulated electricity and natural gas services through Interstate Power and Light ...Aug 13, 2026 12:02 AM
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Olivia Seo '28 :: Mathematics & Statisticshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMicEFVX3lxTE50aHZNNUdsWWlQNWZYMndBa1AxUzQ5RDFsRk45QjBKN1M1dFlKWExDNlAxckVXbm5VZWF1ck00S1ROVkhKM1J5U1JSUjlXa3lPeWlZUjFKRXUxV0l4T2lxVE9DVU9NZTNzM3ZhckZCUkQ?oc=5Olivia Seo '28 :: Mathematics & Statistics Swarthmore CollegeAug 12, 2026 11:07 PM
spacenews.com
Pentagon missile buildup changing the factory floorhttps://spacenews.com/pentagon-missile-buildup-changing-the-factory-floor/Startups are bringing software, robotics and manufacturing methods developed around commercial space into a defense industry under pressure to produce weapons faster The post Pentagon missile buildup changing the factory floor appeared first on SpaceNews.Aug 12, 2026 11:00 PM
sociedadmedia.com
FARC Dissidents Kill 2 Soldiers in Huila Ambushhttps://www.sociedadmedia.com/algeciras-huila-ambush-farc-dissidents-2026/FARC dissidents ambush Colombian Army convoy in Algeciras, Huila, killing two soldiers and wounding over a dozen more — striking as the military remains stretched thin managing Colombia’s deadliest earthquake in decadesAug 12, 2026 10:02 PM
github.com
Show HN: Tmux-agent-switcher: see which Claude/Codex agents need your attentionhttps://github.com/Ymirke/tmux-agent-switcherSince the start of this year I've coded pretty much exclusively by running multiple AI agents in parallel.Having tried a bunch of tools for managing them, I kept coming back to tmux. This is becaues I want to run them on a separate machine as I like being able to close my laptop, or even have long running tasks continue even if I board a flight without WiFi.So I built tmux-agent-switcher, a tmux plugin that gives me a better overview of all of them without replacing tmux as the core tech for managing processes on the server.Ctrl+n opens a sidebar showing windows across all sessions. The sidebar shows the agent's state as icons. After selecting an Idle session it also checkmarks it, so you get indicator if you've seen it or not. It also has Vim and "number-based" navigation styles.I didn't want to make a wrapper that would own how agents are launched, so I still run claude or codex normally. The plugin passively looks at tmux metadata, and visible terminal output to infer the agent statAug 12, 2026 8:53 PM
nasa.gov
2026 Total Solar Eclipse in Spainhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/2026-total-solar-eclipse-in-spain/A total solar eclipse is seen from San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse – the Moon passing between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun – swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of […]Aug 12, 2026 8:08 PM
github.com
Show HN: Tried some experiments with architecture for Long term memory for LLMhttps://github.com/faisalhussain-devs/MindCache/tree/collapsed_treeThe main ideas that survived the experimentation are:using four memory types — user, knowledge, episodic, and decision memories, each with different lifecycles, different roles and different token budget in the retrieved context. Decision analysis + anchors — decisions can evolve overtime so they can be active or superseded or conditional instead of remaining as unrelated memories. we keep the track of decision memory which is active, superseded or conditional with additional context and using such active decisions related to the query as anchors to further retrieve memories using lexical bm25 often helps. Smart injection — New memories aren't simply assigned to a topic based on similarity. An LLM-guided ingestion step uses the existing topic structure as context to decide where a memory belongs and how it relates to what is already there. This lets the hierarchy grow dynamically instead of becoming a collection of isolated memory nodes.Hierarchical summaries — MindCache adapts the staAug 12, 2026 8:03 PM
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About the Commercial Buildings Integration Programhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijAFBVV95cUxQMktWcEo3bVpRNlp4TmY5RHVXVGY3Z19STWc3WWF4bVBTQUZJMjlBRDFnXzJONzJoSjVBM2J1dUJUNHZSWktUb2NtYXo3VEpMenluTlRJX0RkNVZYem9kQ252bTFMRUk0MW1rNDB1TGlOYS1iTE9ZbENGMEp0ODJsblo0Nm8tcmNBUVJFdA?oc=5About the Commercial Buildings Integration Program Department of Energy (.gov)Aug 12, 2026 7:00 PM
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Online Spectral Calculatorhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiakFVX3lxTE9NQl9iWUVQa2tVckN2djNwXzlNb1FQa0dmNEZJVHpNb3FxVnZCUGV2VlU2Q3ZBRWJZalpnQTYtaHhjeGtrSEF0SzR2MmZUQV9vT0VWRy1rd0Rpd3dOLW0tSEg0MXlTcnNUamc?oc=5Online Spectral Calculator Department of Energy (.gov)Aug 12, 2026 7:00 PM
