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Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80 | Film

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Stephen King’s It, dies aged 80 | Film

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tim Curry, the versatile performer of screen and stage, who made his name as the flamboyant Dr Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, has died aged 80. Reports say Curry died at his home in Los Angeles.Ironically, Curry’s best-known roles all required a considerable physical transformation, to the extent that he was unrecognisable in all of them. Frank-N-Furter, Rocky Horror’s deranged scientist, saw him daubed in garish makeup and wearing stockings and suspenders, for the stage show (which debuted in 1973) and the film adaptation…
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GitHub Status – Disruption with some GitHub services

GitHub Status – Disruption with some GitHub services

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Subscribe to updates for Disruption with some GitHub services via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever GitHub creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375) Belgium (+32) Belize (+501) Benin (+229) Bermuda (+1)…
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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda | Israel

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda | Israel

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it.The site gives Israel’s position on subjects including the torture of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli war crimes and whether Israel has deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, all presented as neutral research.The New York media production company Piro Inc filed the site with the US…
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DuckLabs – DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source

DuckLabs – DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen 2026-08-26 | 10 min Today, we’re announcing that DuckLabs will join Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is expected to be effective in early September. Our team will remain together in Amsterdam, continuing our work on DuckDB, DuckLake, Quack, and the broader community. Joining AWS gives us the resources and reach to bring this technology to many more developers and organizations, and to pursue ideas at a scale that would have been difficult for us to reach alone. Most importantly, the…
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Merchants of Insecurity – One Happy Fellow

Merchants of Insecurity – One Happy Fellow

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Merchants of Insecurity – One Happy Fellow - blog Posts About Contact Subscribe RSS 25 Aug, 2026 First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit. You can't polish a turdOmarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only describe as regrettable (because I promised my mum I would swear less). There are bangers like video title bash injection or all notifications being able to run arbitrary bash on your…
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U.S. gov’t moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them

U.S. gov’t moves to suppress pushback on data centers by removing requirements for public input on pollution — EPA change would allow air pollution permits without publicizing them

💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The U.S. government is looking to move a critical transparency step in the approval of data centers behind closed doors. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has plans to remove a requirement that forces states to seek public feedback on applications for air pollution permits, as reported by The New York Times. The change, if it goes into effect, would apply to a subset of air pollution permits. However, the primary concern is around data centers, as local communities seek to delay, or outright ban, AI…
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Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Australia implemented legislation barring children from social media platforms in December, with the UK, France and others following suit.Youngsters' use of social media fell across the board when the legal restrictions were first implemented, data from parental control app Qustodio showed.But since then their social media activity has climbed -- even approaching pre-ban levels for some apps.The use of apps TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat among 10-12 year olds and 13 to 15-year olds was on the rise, data from parental control app Qustodio showed.In the…
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The end of programming — Paul Dix

The end of programming — Paul Dix

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 2026-08-25 Last week Bun 1.4 was released. This was the one that contains the rewrite of Bun from Zig into Rust, apparently containing more than 1 millions new lines of Rust code. And while this caused a bunch of drama in the programming community centered around the language switch, I think the most important thing about this release is how the rewrite was done and the scale of it. The details of this, along with my own experiences, and soon to arrive advances in AI…
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Tributes pour in after country music legend Dolly Parton dies – latest updates | Dolly Parton

Tributes pour in after country music legend Dolly Parton dies – latest updates | Dolly Parton

💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dolly Parton,US news,Culture,Music,Country ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Dolly Parton's team confirms she died after 'brief battle with cancer'Dolly Parton’s team has confirmed the country music legend died after “after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer”.“Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones,” the statement continued.US country music legend Dolly Parton died at the age of 80, her family announced on social media on 25 August 2026. Photograph: Chris Torres/EPARead the full report below:ShareUpdated at 08.06 CESTKey eventsHere’s some more…
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A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Aspen Highlands in 1974. Ron Hoffman/Wikimedia.When the Aspen Skiing Company wanted to raise its lift ticket prices from $10 to $12 in 1975, it had to ask the US Forest Service for permission.When Aspen residents wanted to fight the proposed price increase, they wrote letters to their local forest supervisor.That’s the way ski business was done half a century ago: through a federal intermediary. Most ski resorts in the western United States operate under Forest Service permits, and in the 1970s, politicians, national forest…
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