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99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots

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U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

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Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

A quieter place for your thoughts.

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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.

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The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

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São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

Today, Tiquatira Linear Park is a green area with a playground and lots of leisure for the population. But 20 years ago, it was very different...🌳🌸

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Taste Is All That's Left

On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.

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Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy.

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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second

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TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

Build harmonious type scales on a skeuomorphic analog control panel. Per-element editing, Google Fonts, live previews, and Figma export.

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Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI

This article was translated by AI using Gemini 2.5 Pro from the original Chinese version. Minor inaccuracies may remain. Application Binary Interface, or ABI as we commonly call it, is a concept that feels both familiar and unfamiliar. Familiar in what sense? It’s often discussed when troubleshooting, frequently mentioned in articles, and sometimes we even have to deal with compatibility issues it causes. Unfamiliar in what sense? If someone asks you what an ABI is, you’ll find that you know what it’s about, but describing it in precise language is quite difficult. In the end, you might just resort to saying, as WIKI does: an ABI is an interface between two binary program modules. Is there a problem with that? No, as a general description

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US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership to "strengthen how we collect, …

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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

Scientists using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun, shedding light on solar activity and space weather.

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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

The RWE payout is the latest in a string of deals cancelling wind energy projects, a power source long derided by Trump.

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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

Ruling comes as part of second phase of landmark trial that found social media company enabled harm against users

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U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July, a sign that the labor market had not stabilized after four months of positive growth.

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Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

The Wyzer Programming Language. Contribute to Wyzer-Lang/wyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.

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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.

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A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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On this day

Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

Taste Is All That's Left

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI

US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]

On this day

Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.

The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.

At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.

The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.

Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.

Space Shuttle Program: The Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-85 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Fine Air Flight 101 crashes after takeoff from Miami International Airport, killing five people.

The Chilean government declares state of emergency in the southern half of the country in response to an event of intense, cold, wind, rain and snowfall known as the White Earthquake.

Ada Deer, a Menominee activist, is sworn in as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.

U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia.

The National Cold Fusion Institute opened in Salt Lake City.

Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.

Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.

The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.

Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.

California judge Harold Haley is taken hostage in his courtroom and killed during an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.

Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Vietnam War: The U.S. Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.

Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey is awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.

Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.

Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.

IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).

World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal begins as the United States Marines initiate the first American offensive of the war with landings on Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon Islands.

The Kingdom of Iraq slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Simele. This date is recognized as Martyrs Day or National Day of Mourning by the Assyrian community in memory of the Simele massacre.

The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are murdered.

The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.

The first British Grand Prix was held at Brooklands.

Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

Anna Månsdotter, found guilty of the 1889 Yngsjö murder, became the last woman to be executed in Sweden.[better source needed]

The first Australian rules football match is played between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College.

Simón Bolívar triumphs over Spain in the Battle of Boyacá.

U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.

American troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.

The United States Department of War is established.

The first federal Indian Reservation is created by the United States.

George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War.

The Battle of Gangut: The first important victory of the Russian Navy.

The brigantine Le Griffon becomes the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

Battle of Guinegate: French troops of King Louis XI were defeated by the Burgundians led by Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg.

The Ming dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor.

Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

Pope Stephen III is elected to office, and quickly seeks Frankish protection against the Lombard threat, since the Byzantine Empire is no longer able to help.

The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Constantinople.

Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628: Sassanid troops under general Shahrbaraz conquer the town of Zenobia.

Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

On this day

Air India Express Flight 1344 overshoots the runway at Calicut International Airport in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India, and crashes, killing 21 of the 190 people on board.

The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.

At AT&T Park, Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run to surpass Hank Aaron's 33-year-old record.

The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades neighboring Dagestan.

Bombings at United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya kill approximately 212 people.