Night update, generated 2026-08-20.
23 new stories since Lunch.
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 728 points, 245 comments (discussion)
I wish such shenanigans would simply trigger the little speaker icon most browser display on tabs these days. Given that they don't (at least in my experience), I'm assuming "playing silent audio" is a sufficiently common thing for websites to do to have motivated browsers into doing the slightly mo...
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 393 points, 94 comments (discussion)
Sources: Lobsters
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Sources: Hacker News
HN: 361 points, 166 comments (discussion)
As an old man I now think the art and humanities classes in school landed at the wrong time. You need context to really understand a book or a work of art. You want to know what kind of environment produced it, what it's talking to. But when you're in school, there isn't time for that. You aren't go...
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Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 326 points, 121 comments (discussion)
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Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 299 points, 259 comments (discussion)
GitHub really needs something finer-grain then just pretending the repo never existed during these incidents. [1] The bad package version has also just disappeared from crates.io [2] with no indication its been yanked. There's no security advisory there either [3] "No advisories found for this crate...
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Sources: Hacker News
HN: 237 points, 139 comments (discussion)
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Sources: The Register