5 ways AI could save our democracy

Below, Beth Simone Noveck shares five key insights from her new book, Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy. Beth has worked on and written about how we solve our hardest problems from the White House to 10 Downing Street to the German Chancellery and served as...

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Australia’s social media ban has failed

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/australia-defends-teen-social-media-ban-after-study-shows-most-still-online-2026-08-01/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141877 Points: 11 # Comments: 5

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Your high performer is checked out. Now what?

One of the most difficult things to do as a manager is to deal with an employee who just isn’t feeling it and remains unmotivated for a long period of time. Everyone has their days when they’d rather be anywhere else but at work, but what do you do when a direct...

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Don’t credit the LLM

Article URL: https://isaacsu.com/2026/08/dont-credit-the-llm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141008 Points: 8 # Comments: 3

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UV Printer? 3D Printer? HeyGears says “Why Not Both”?

There’s a new contender in the prosumer UV printer world up on Kickstarter, the HeyGears G1. This one’s particularly interesting as they’re explicitly marketing it as being able to produce full-color 3D prints along with the “print-on-anything” functionality we’ve...

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A Uiua Type System

Article URL: https://www.uiua.org/blog/a-uiua-type-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139741 Points: 3 # Comments: 1

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Bike Trainers as Video Game Controllers

While we’ve largely settled on analog sticks and digital buttons for controlling video games, there’s all sorts of projects to create truly esoteric controllers that allow playing games in unique ways. This one from [sukolupo] lets you use data from standard bike...

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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

Article URL: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

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