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Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday found dead amid plagiarism allegations, university sayshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixAFBVV95cUxPWS1CUEhndlhGU05kTHA4SDhaeGgxLXB3dHZGb2p0c3dGSWpTLWxoS3pjWnVvRjNwR0psbDkyWlFkeHpWMDlDSVFUWk9RckhQQVdhM2o3V1BjbUxiWU1YX0ZyYl94NmtOeFBTcGR3T0o3S0VVTTRkV0ZjNjFIOHhrV3dfcHptdjExZTZ6enZWYmoxaFpqaDg2czkzV1JiS0p2a19YNnplSlZXUUUyQWhvMVQ4bDE0ekpwYTd5bUZaVnJ3S1cz?oc=5Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday found dead amid plagiarism allegations, university says ABC7 Los AngelesProfessor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring nytimes.comCambridge professor found dead after scrutiny over academic record faced ‘sustained abuse,’ family say CNNJason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead The GuardianYou...Aug 15, 2026 6:04 AM
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Google Workspace Promo Codes: 14% Off for August 2026https://www.wired.com/story/google-workspace-promo-code/Boost your productivity and save with exclusive Google Workspace coupons from WIRED. Get up to 14% off plans for three months, including Starter, Standard, and Plus tiers.Aug 15, 2026 5:00 AM
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The 10 Best Peanut Butter Alternatives That That Are Just As Creamyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ca15b6a94727a039e6d252b2bbc4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.aol.com%2farticles%2f10-best-peanut-butter-alternatives-112000000.html&c=17235782840091850415&mkt=en-usIf you want to replace your usual peanut butter, these are some of the best alternatives. The list also includes delicious and convenient nut-free alternatives.Aug 15, 2026 4:20 AM
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The 10 Best Peanut Butter Alternatives That That Are Just As Creamyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85ca71c1074af181c1ab1f59df4d20&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.aol.com%2farticles%2f10-best-peanut-butter-alternatives-112000000.html&c=17235782840091850415&mkt=en-usIf you want to replace your usual peanut butter, these are some of the best alternatives. The list also includes delicious and convenient nut-free alternatives.Aug 15, 2026 4:20 AM
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The 10 Best Peanut Butter Alternatives That That Are Just As Creamyhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85c88af5444d78afa8a2fa76f9e696&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.aol.com%2farticles%2f10-best-peanut-butter-alternatives-112000000.html&c=17235782840091850415&mkt=en-usIf you want to replace your usual peanut butter, these are some of the best alternatives. The list also includes delicious and convenient nut-free alternatives.Aug 15, 2026 4:20 AM
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‘Public transportation is critical’: Fresno mayor announces upgrades to cut wait times in halfhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMihgFBVV95cUxPb2dTQzgtOUpCVWdFZTRlSHRST2NlVmRTWjBscW44bW0zWnBSOXdKRGJSUDNPU1RVUEJSeDgycndNQVJ5ZTdmNDlCWmg2MFo2VUg2a1RNeWczdTM5amc3SEY4cnpKQlZXQzMzYlJ1ZDZrakllRG9mMVV1aElic3ByYjZ0aXJzd9IBiwFBVV95cUxNTHFLeWpPVG0wbHVNTjJsVzlWaERBQ0xXblpvWjFZS2REdE9XVjc2cEMxekxDWWc5cmNGMkxiWXJJS2lzLVBlOFZoekM3TXdYUkpOQ2k0Smx2WXZMcHVncDNYbUNMUHdXeDJZclI0LXZ6RnRISGg5NGlEVDg0RGhKTUF1ZFE3MElPVWdv?oc=5‘Public transportation is critical’: Fresno mayor announces upgrades to cut wait times in half yourcentralvalley.comAug 15, 2026 3:30 AM
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Modi Maps India’s Growth Push as He Reaches Out to Studentshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-15/modi-vows-chip-plants-nuclear-reactors-in-india-growth-pushIndia’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his Independence Day speech to renew his pledge to make the country a developed nation within two decades and reach out to younger citizens following widespread student protests.Aug 15, 2026 2:48 AM
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The surprise must-see movie of the summerhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/980428/end-oak-street-pixel-11-lanterns-installerHi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 140, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, don't forget to hydrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
This week, I've been reading about Will Ferrell and Fabrizio Romano and Heather Cox Richardson, scrolling and scrolling through Ordinary Abundance, watching Avatar Aang (wh...Aug 15, 2026 2:30 AM
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6 Exercises Physical Therapists Wish Everyone Did to Age Wellhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a893f862ebc43b18c99e707ffa2fdb4&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F08%2F15%2Fwell%2Fmove%2Fexercises-physical-therapists-longevity.html&c=16675855080803594786&mkt=en-usHabits like sitting at a desk all day, looking down at your phone or even straining to pick your socks up off the floor can lead to a body that feels creaky, tight and sore. Making time to practice ...Aug 15, 2026 2:00 AM
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Wordle today: Answer, hints for August 15, 2026https://mashable.com/entertainment/wordle-today-answer-august-15-2026Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1883 on August 15 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself.Aug 15, 2026 2:00 AM
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DOJ refers to Air Force One threat as ‘assassination attempt’ in ballroom appealhttps://news.google.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?oc=5DOJ refers to Air Force One threat as ‘assassination attempt’ in ballroom appeal The HillTrump secretly switched planes. The journalists left aboard say they deserved a warning. The Washington PostHow Do You Report on a Presidential Ruse? nytimes.comWhy officials decided to smuggle Trump out of Turkey with a catering truck and a secret plane CNNBROADCAST BIAS: Networks turn Trump’s plane switc...Aug 15, 2026 12:21 AM
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Show HN: I asked Claude to turn 20 years of my research into a gamehttps://playhyperbubble.com/I'm a professor of advanced technology transitions at ASU, and part of my work includes pushing at the edges of what frontier models can and can't do. Out of curiosity I asked Fable 5, via Claude Code, to research the past two decades of my research and design a browser game from it — something that would stand up as a game on its own, but that genuinely reflected the work.Over 90 iterations later (this was a long collaborative effort) the result was Hyperbubble — a one-button browser-based game where your task is to navigate your character through a future of emerging technologies, complex risks, transformative possibilities, and unexpected delights, all while protecting and growing their state of “flourishing.” Each element of the game tracks back to aspects of my work — even the seemingly weird ones!Sharing as an example of how emerging AI capabilities are allowing complex ideas to be translated into modes and platforms that would have been exceptionally difficult to achieve withoutAug 14, 2026 10:01 PM
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The Best Movies to Stream This Month (August 2026)https://www.wired.com/story/the-8-best-movies-to-stream-right-now/Avatar Aang, Heartstopper Forever, and Exit 8 are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month.Aug 14, 2026 9:18 PM
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A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shoppinghttps://www.theverge.com/tech/979996/best-laptops-students-middle-high-schoolThe MacBook Neo is an easy recommendation. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that computer prices are out of whack due to the ongoing RAM and storage crunch, making some a little pricier than they used to be and others wildly more expensive.
The good news? Despite that, there ...Aug 14, 2026 7:37 PM
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Polaroid’s tiny instant camera is $72 and includes a free pack of filmhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/980448/polaroid-go-second-generation-film-pack-bundle-deal-saleThe compact Polaroid Go is great for road trips and adventures. | Image: Polaroid
Smartphone cameras are convenient, but they lack the charm of analog instant cameras. If you’re trying to relive the nostalgia of waiting for an instant photo to develop, Amazon is selling the second-generation Polaroid Go instant camera with a 16-photo film pack for $71.99 (usually $109.99). That’s the lowest pric...Aug 14, 2026 6:11 PM
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Google’s best new camera feature is only for the Pixel 11 serieshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/980467/google-pixel-11-camera-looks-older-phonesArguably the coolest new photo feature for the Pixel 11 lineup is Google's new Camera Looks, which process image data differently at the sensor level to produce photos that don't have that "smartphone" look. The result is new styles like "Digi," which mimics the style of photos taken by older digital cameras. But to use Camera Looks, at least initially, you'll need to have one of Google's Pixel 11...Aug 14, 2026 5:35 PM
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Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding love fresh vegetables and guitar pedalshttps://www.theverge.com/report/980288/switched-on-pop-nate-sloan-charlie-harding-podcast-netflix-interviewThey’re the Lennon–McCartney of overanalyzing pop music. | Image: Daniel Randall
As if you needed more reason to love Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" beyond its pop perfection, it is also, according to lore, the genesis for Switched on Pop, one of the best music podcasts out there. Cohosts Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding obsessively dissect pop songs, from the theory behind their musical choic...Aug 14, 2026 5:01 PM
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Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Luahttps://luacad.ad-si.comLuaCAD models solids in Lua rather than the OpenSCAD language, with operator overloading for CSG (`a + b`, `a - b`, `a * b`).It ships with a CLI and a desktop app, including a preview area and a text editor.I've always been a big fan of OpenSCAD, but the SCAD language itself is unfortunately quite cobbled-together and is a very poorly designed programming language.LuaCAD takes all the good parts of OpenSCAD and combines them with one of the best scripting languages. It has now completely replaced OpenSCAD for me, and I think it provides a better experience than OpenSCAD for all use cases. I'd love to hear any reasons why LuaCAD shouldn't fully replace OpenSCAD!It’s fully open source and you can find the repo here: https://github.com/ad-si/LuaCADTech stack:- It's implemented in Rust and uses mlua (https://github.com/mlua-rs/mlua) to execute the Lua code.- Uses OpenCSG (https://opencsg.org) for fast and correct rendering of the 3D models (like OpenSCAD)- Uses Manifold (https://github.comAug 14, 2026 4:43 PM
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Kakehashi Update: Running Apple Clang build and lowering overhead to 1.24xhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299613Hello again HN!After 11 days, I'm back with an update about Kakehashi. I want to thank you for your support! Thank you for all your stars, comments. I didn't expect you to be so interested in the project.What's new:I managed to significantly accelerate the implementation process. Now, 7zip lags by just 1.24x compared to native Linux performance, and the Lua build differs literally by 1.5 to 2 seconds from a native launch. The Lua build fails to compile via kh run make due to Linux-specific flags, which mirrors its behavior on native macOS. However, if it is built using kh run gcc -- -Wall -O2 -DLUA_USE_MACOSX -std=c99 onelua.c -lreadline -o /tmp/lua-onelua, everything compiles, builds, and runs perfectly. Overall, I am currently actively working on the following binaries: git, clang, make, xcrun, otool, gcc, curl, 7zip, rm, ls, sh, csh, zsh, bash, and the Rust installation script. Please note that you currently need to manually port the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib/zsh folders fAug 14, 2026 3:00 PM
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Ask HN: Should hard-tech founders join a problem or technology-first PhD lab?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299333I'm an engineering undergrad considering pursuing a PhD with the long-term goal of founding a hard-tech startup. I’m undecided about the specific area and only have a vague sense of what interests me -- industrial decarbonization, mining / mineral processing, and advanced materials are a few areas that currently seem exciting.However, I'm unsure which type of PhD lab would provide better preparation: either a problem-first lab (e.g., like Yet-Ming Chiang at MIT) or a technology-first lab (e.g., your typical academic lab that focuses on novel science without a predetermined application, and where commercialization happens largely by chance — when a technology happens to have a valuable market application).I've looked at advice online from successful hard-tech entrepreneurs, but the answers are conflicting. Some say to work backwards from a problem, but others argue that problem-first approaches often don't work since deep tech is inherently different: you often can't force a scientific Aug 14, 2026 2:38 PM
