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Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/

Nation's Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/climate/lake-powell-record-low-colorado.html

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617

The Origin of Consciousness (2008) https://blog.plover.com/brain/Jaynes.html

Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family? https://beachfront.bearblog.dev/will-you-have-spent-more-of-your-life-with-computers-than-your-family/

India built the biggest digital payments miracle: Now comes the bill https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xnwqe00v1o

AirTag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/hidden-airtag-reveals-amazon-is-trashing-rare-books-to-train-ai/

The Lonely Men Who Work in Patagonia, at the End of the World https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/amazon-once-an-online-bookseller-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai-models/

Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/17/meta-attorneys-general-california-federal-trial-astronomical-consequences.html

Buy Your Friends Batteries https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/17/buy-your-friends-batteries/

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332751

Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332495

Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/17/judges-allegedly-relying-wholly-on-ai-in-order-is-covered-by-judicial-immunity-court-rules/

Show HN: Eve Software Factory https://github.com/vercel-labs/eve-software-factory-template/tree/main

How to ship a database every day https://turbopuffer.com/blog/control-plane

Incident with Github.com https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zkxwbgr0cnmx

GitHub down again? no PR access https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330632

Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer? https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5928263/cialis-viagra-tadalafil-longevity-heart-health