news.google.com
Houston ranked #23 in 2026 Preseason AP Top 25https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMilAFBVV95cUxQOGF0MWhaWXFMUUprZG95aGZZZnptOU5WV0VFZTMyaDltcWJZWHlOWXBaVGRRZjFZejNQMVltR2VpU1pFRlREeEVGSnExbkJZOTRiYkRtNTk4N0ZjNTJhaHVlLWpEU1Fya2ZRZWNaM0NnM2VlWW44VU5wcmhUS0pHRHV6ODU0bzJHOHdYb1pRcXB2VjhB?oc=5Houston ranked #23 in 2026 Preseason AP Top 25 underdogdynasty.comAug 17, 2026 4:07 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Where is Georgia football ranked in this preseason poll?https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/where-georgia-football-ranked-preseason-160554660.htmlWhere is Georgia football in the latest preseason media poll? The rankings came out Monday. Here's where the Bulldogs and Kirby Smart start the 2026 season.Aug 17, 2026 4:05 PM
classify.stylometry.net
Show HN: Classifier and browser extension to detect rule violating HN commentshttps://classify.stylometry.net/I love HN, but lately I have been sick of reading the same dismissive criticisms over and over again. Along with political arguments that have been litigated to death, people's issues with smooth scrolling on blogs, etc. Many of these comments do not get flagged for whatever reason. So I made a service to automatically classify whether comments violate (a modified form of) the HN guidelines automatically. In addition there's a Chrome extension to collapse these comments (if they violate your score thresholds) so you don't have to read them too. You can also just watch guideline violating comments as they are posted on the home page.Here's more info on how it works: https://classify.stylometry.net/how-it-worksAug 17, 2026 4:04 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Jim Harbaugh, Mike McDaniel support women’s sports with statement tees at Chargers training camphttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/jim-harbaugh-mike-mcdaniel-support-160419874.htmlIn January, Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh hired former Miami Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel as his new offensive coordinator. From that moment on, the Chargers guaranteed their 2026 NFL season would at least be interesting. Harbaugh and McDaniel still have to prove whether they make a dynamic football duo. Whether it’s McDaniel’s…Aug 17, 2026 4:04 PM
openwebsearch.ai
Show HN: OpenWebSearch – A router for web search indexeshttps://openwebsearch.aiHi HN, I'm one of the people behind OpenWebSearch (https://openwebsearch.ai).It's a router for web search indexes. You POST to one endpoint with a `provider` field, and it normalizes both the request and the response for web search indexes like Parallel, Brave, Exa and moreWhy we built it: we run a model company (Interfaze) and a lot of our models are smaller in size and we're experimenting if given web search can a smaller 9b or 70b model perform the same as 300b or 600b model and we found that it does extremely better when given web search similar to this paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05115)but we also found not all web search are built the same, some are better in people search, some better at financial data and others are bio research, etc.Like LLMs, web indexes are becoming commoditized with different indexes having different strengths and weaknesses with access to niche data, performance and cost. Every large model lab including Interfaze has to build their own internal mini-Aug 17, 2026 4:03 PM

theguardian.com
European farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive heatwaveshttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/17/european-farmers-unprecedented-crisis-successive-heatwavesVegetable and grain growers call for urgent action, warning of ‘catastrophic’ harvests due to continent-wide droughtSuccessive intense heatwaves and an increasingly severe, continent-wide drought have left many of Europe’s farmers in an “unprecedented” crisis, with vegetable and grain growers in particular warning of “catastrophic” harvests.French vegetable production is down by “a very significan...Aug 17, 2026 4:01 PM
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College Football Rankings: Preseason AP Poll Top 25 releasedhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijgFBVV95cUxPUUVSejVFb2dJbkNxc2xQUUJhNmUzRW9xZXZzbjZFQkZtVGd5TzF1ZURTb1NzbUdJYm9EcUQ5NjNGOWlvdGZIWmhpOTA3c0J6dkprRUNPWUZyeVQzZmVQMTBDRWNzaTNWTXY5MmtYY2J2ZEVUUkZBREFZdUdTVVZ0d0d4Tm16Q0gyYnpvNWtn?oc=5College Football Rankings: Preseason AP Poll Top 25 released On3College Football Rankings: AP Top 25 Reveals Preseason Poll for 2026 Sports IllustratedOhio State wins AP Top 25 battle for No. 1 ranking. Here’s how I voted in preseason poll nytimes.comAug 17, 2026 4:01 PM
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FSU standing out to elite in-state offensive tacklehttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/fsu-standing-elite-state-offensive-160114961.htmlThe Florida State Seminoles have been named one of the standout programs for four-star offensive lineman Nation Farmer.Aug 17, 2026 4:01 PM
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Duck Hunting Pressure Was a Problem Even 30 Years Ago. Here Are the Time-Tested Secrets to Beating the Crowdshttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiggFBVV95cUxNT2RGSTU0ZDVNcmtqM0FBbjIteml4M1lnckdxR0twcUlaQWhNZV9xWWtDbjNDcjBKbjBUR3NKcDdWNV95VzgxWW42cWRMbEVtcWRnZGpCLUxRQTZON0dmZkhXaUtPM3dkd29mZWp1YlVTQlM1TUJOTzNDNC1mWUVxdndR?oc=5Duck Hunting Pressure Was a Problem Even 30 Years Ago. Here Are the Time-Tested Secrets to Beating the Crowds Outdoor LifeAug 17, 2026 4:01 PM
sports.yahoo.com
Michael Wilbon says he’d consider continuing ‘PTI’ with Frank Isola if Tony Kornheiser retireshttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/michael-wilbon-says-d-consider-160049362.htmlFor nearly a quarter century, Pardon the Interruption has endured on the strength of Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, weathering even a pandemic that exiled Kornheiser from the Washington studio for more than three years, until his triumphant in-person return in December 2023. While the 77-year-old Kornheiser’s in-studio appearances have become few and far between,…Aug 17, 2026 4:00 PM

nasa.gov
Colorful Collage of Tarantula Nebulahttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/colorful-collage-of-tarantula-nebula/Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope combine to reveal a vibrant view of 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula Nebula, in this Aug. 11, 2026, image. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way about 160,000 light-years from Earth, the […]Aug 17, 2026 4:00 PM
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AT L Braveshttps://sports.yahoo.com/articles/l-braves-160000169.htmlNow Throw Your Hands In the Air, And Wave ‘Em Like You Just Don’t CareAug 17, 2026 4:00 PM
cbsnews.com
Can old debt be re-added to your credit report?https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-old-debt-be-re-added-to-credit-report/Old debt can occasionally resurface on your credit report, but that doesn't necessarily mean it belongs there.Aug 17, 2026 3:57 PM

theguardian.com
Can Trump’s peace plan for Gaza be saved? – The Latesthttps://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/aug/17/can-trumps-peace-plan-for-gaza-be-saved-the-latestDonald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is on a diplomatic mission in the Middle East to meet Hamas officials and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in an attempt to salvage a ceasefire in Gaza.The talks come after Netanyahu rejected the US-backed 15-point peace plan for the territory in a rare public break with the Trump administration this month.Nosheen Iqbal speaks to global editor...Aug 17, 2026 3:56 PM

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US gas prices reach highest ever recorded for August amid stalled talks with Iranhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/gas-prices-august-record-iran-warEnergy prices have been high since the US-Israel war with Iran began and the strait of Hormuz was blockedUS gas prices this month are so far the highest ever recorded for August as peace talks between the US and Iran have stalled and Donald Trump launched fresh threats against Oman.The national average price of gas was $4.06 per gallon on Monday, according to data from AAA, $0.05 higher than last ...Aug 17, 2026 3:51 PM

mashable.com
Samsung Galaxy phones could soon get a popular Apple featurehttps://mashable.com/tech/samsung-one-ui-9-5-app-mirroringApple phones and laptops have been able to interface with each other for years, and Samsung devices could do the same soon.Aug 17, 2026 3:51 PM
sports.yahoo.com
‘Cam Ward is a bust’: Criticism mounts for Titans quarterback after he ‘couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn’https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/cam-ward-bust-criticism-mounts-154028208.htmlWhen the Tennessee Titans drafted Cam Ward with the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the team undoubtedly thought that he would be the team’s franchise quarterback. Unfortunately, that’s not how it looked during his preseason debut on Thursday night. Ward started the preseason showdown against the San Francisco 49ers, and even though…Aug 17, 2026 3:40 PM
speko.ai
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AIhttps://speko.ai/Hi HN! I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models, given your constraints, among all our public benchmarked options, and tells you why.Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no2LY2gRh-cTypical production voice agent is an ensemble of three models: STT, an LLM, and TTS.Each of those layers offers a dozen credible vendors, and each month there are new models on the market. Almost everyone evaluates once, picks a stack of their choice, and never rechecks because switching from a vendor to another involves yet another integration and arguments about the numbers.The result is that you use voice agents running last quarter's models while better and cheaper options are available.Before founding Speko, I spent four years as cofounder and CTO building voice agents for enterprises across Asia in 10+ languages. Each time a new speech model would arrive, we repeated the same ritual: hire native-speaking raters, benchmarkAug 17, 2026 3:36 PM

theguardian.com
US supreme court again rejects Trump’s bid to overturn E Jean Carroll verdicthttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/trump-e-jean-carroll-appealDecision leaves intact $5m civil judgment against Trump after jury found him liable for sexually abusing writerThe US supreme court has once again declined to consider Donald Trump’s appeal of a jury verdict in 2023 that found him liable for sexually abusing writer E Jean Carroll, and later defaming her.The court announced the decision in an unsigned order on Monday, without providing an explanat...Aug 17, 2026 3:35 PM

sports.yahoo.com
2026 FedEx Cup standings: Who made top 50 entering BMW Championship?https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/2026-fedex-cup-standings-made-153438768.htmlScottie Scheffler's dominating win and Rory McIlroy's early struggles highlight updated FedEx Cup top 50 standings heading into the BMW Championship.Aug 17, 2026 3:34 PM