Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op?

Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op?

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. In the mid-twentieth century, modern art and design represented the liberalism, individualism, dynamic activity, and creative risk possible in a free society. Jackson Pollock’s gestural style, for instance, drew an effective counterpoint to Nazi, and then Soviet, oppression. Modernism, in fact, became a weapon of the Cold War. Both the State Department and the CIA supported exhibitions of American art all over the world. The preeminent Cultural Cold Warrior, Thomas W. Braden, who…
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SiFive’s First Server Platform – by George Cozma

SiFive’s First Server Platform – by George Cozma

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hello you fine Internet folks,The RISC-V ecosystem is an ever-evolving one especially in the high-performance application class silicon space. We have seen a number of acquisitions and exits in the past year with Ventana being acquired by Qualcomm in December of last year and the wrapping up of operations of Condor Computing. We have also seen silicon being taped out with the most prolific chip being SpacemiT’s K3 SoC with Tenstorrent following suit with their Atlantis SoC along with Akeana taping out their test chip.But…
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dragthelake/ambient-context: A menu bar app that keeps a written record of what you worked on. · GitHub

dragthelake/ambient-context: A menu bar app that keeps a written record of what you worked on. · GitHub

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A macOS menu bar app that keeps a written record of what you work on, for your own LLM to read. While the eye in your menu bar is open, Ambient Context reads the text of whichever window you have focused (via the macOS accessibility tree, every few seconds) and appends it to a plain markdown file: one file per day, in a folder you choose. Point Claude Code or any other agent at that folder and it can answer "what did I work on…
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a microharness for persistent agents // Laude

a microharness for persistent agents // Laude

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Introducing Headlong, an open source agent microharness featuring persistent agency. Your agent keeps thinking between external interactions in a self-guided loop inspired by human inner monologue. Headlong is a complete agent harness with a core of less than 10K lines of Bash, available on GitHub. A Headlong mind log growing, including multi-player social interaction.Most agent harnesses are reactive: you give your agent a task, it works until the task is done, and then it sits frozen until the next request. Some harnesses add cron jobs…
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Thomson Reuters Leverages its World-Class Data Assets to Launch Its Own Frontier Model

Thomson Reuters Leverages its World-Class Data Assets to Launch Its Own Frontier Model

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TORONTO, August 24, 2026 – Thomson Reuters (Nasdaq/TSX: TRI), a global content and technology company, today announced the launch of Thomson, the company's first proprietary large language model, developed in-house. Frontier labs have typically spent billions of dollars on compute and years of infrastructure investment to reach the frontier. Thomson Reuters took a different path: starting from a strong open-source foundation and investing $40 million to train Thomson into the right intelligence for the jobs that matter most, covering talent and compute. The result is…
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How Universities Should Prepare Founders

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: August 2026How should universities prepare students to start startups? Y Combinator is in the perfect position to answer this question, because we get them next. We're like grad school. And because YC has had 20 years to refine its model of what a promising founder looks like, you probably won't find a better target.What do the YC partners look for? It's surprisingly simple. They want people who are good at building things and have a habit of doing it.The hard part of startups is product:…
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What language are agent skills written in? · Plicara Labs

🔥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the first quarter of 2026, 13.0% of newly written agent skills were in a language other than English, and one quarter later it was 16.3%. That is three points in three months across 255,068 skills, with confidence intervals nowhere near touching. For comparison, GitHub-wide non-English documentation took ten years to travel from 3.7% to 13.0%, so whatever is happening here is happening at a different speed entirely, and the most plausible explanation is that AI development has arrived somewhere other than San Francisco. Reviewing…
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Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

Iran Is Using Foreign Criminals to Attack Its Critics Overseas

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On a Friday in March, 2024, at around 3 P.M., Zeraati was leaving home for his weekly commute to Iran International’s studios. As he walked to his car, a nineteen-year-old Romanian man, Nandito Badea, came up to him and asked him for “three pounds.” At the same time, another Romanian, David Andrei, approached Zeraati from behind. One of them grabbed Zeraati while the other plunged a knife into his right leg three times. The two men ran, laughing, to the blue Mazda that was…
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GitHub – murerkinn/bookshelf: Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage

GitHub – murerkinn/bookshelf: Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A self-hosted library for the ebooks you already own. One server-rendered page lists them, filters them with a search box, serves downloads, and reads them in the browser — EPUB and PDF, each with its own reader — as a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or as a Node server over a directory on disk. Everything above is npm run demo — a generated shelf of public-domain titles, so the screenshots can be reproduced without finding books first. Node 24 or newer, and a Unix-like system:…
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Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple – Latest News

Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple – Latest News

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption.After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com. What you need to do Developers with apps or websites that use Sign in with Apple should ensure that their account systems, email validation logic, and allowlists accept addresses on the new private.icloud.com domain in addition to the existing privaterelay.appleid.com domain.Learn more…
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