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Tuesday, August 18, 2026
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Rick Manelius▲ 742

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

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OpenRouter▲ 303

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens. Higher uptime with 3 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.

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Tim Marinin▲ 376

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

The secret is humble UITextField.

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Responsible Statecraft▲ 295

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

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Fabien Sanglard▲ 254

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

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Cat Crafts▲ 129

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto…

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The New Yorker▲ 131

Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

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Advent of Computing▲ 4

What's Better Than Binary? – Advent of Computing Episode 187

Binary is synonymous with digital computing. But is it the only way to crunch numbers? The short answer is no. The long answer, well, that

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HN — Best of the Week

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The Librarian▲ 268

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would like less intrusive AI in their tech environment. Maybe you lik

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Rick Manelius▲ 720

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.

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Yale School of Public Health▲ 392

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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GitHub Status▲ 698

Incident with Github.com

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Wiz.io▲ 340

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Wiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR.

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Artificial Analysis▲ 325

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

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DuckDB▲ 582

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

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OpenRouter▲ 274

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000…

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Responsible Statecraft▲ 265

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots

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