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Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

Saggar is a native Mac terminal application designed to organize and track multiple development sessions across projects, automatically categorizing them by status (needs attention, working, idle,…

2026-08-17 · 14:25 UTC
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Tech

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

2026-08-17 · 14:22

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

Sports

Wrigley & Harris well-placed for Olympics after Worlds win

2026-08-17 · 14:22

British sailing duo Martin Wrigley and Bettine Harris establish themselves as favorites for the 2028 Los Angeles…

Science

How to put 170 atoms in an atom

2026-08-17 · 14:21

Scientists can fit over 100 atoms inside a single Rydberg atom—an atom with an electron excited to a very distant…

Tech

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

2026-08-17 · 14:18

Wiz Research's AI-powered security tool discovered a critical vulnerability in Snowflake's GitHub Actions workflow that…

World

Ten Years On, Why Aren’t You Any Richer? The Hidden Cost of the 2% Inflation Target

2026-08-17 · 14:14

A recent Bitget Wallet research piece lays out an argument worth sitting with: for most of the past decade, savers who…

Tech

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

2026-08-17 · 14:11

Learn Flags Quiz is an interactive web-based game that teaches world geography through 10 different quiz formats…

Sports

'Sensational' Hunt's historic European Championships

2026-08-17 · 14:10

Relive Great Britain's Amy Hunt's "iconic" European Championships where the sprinter won four gold medals with victories…

Tech

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

2026-08-17 · 14:07

Germany's competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, found that Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework gave…

Tech

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

2026-08-17 · 14:07

A librarian provides a practical guide for disabling unwanted AI features across various devices and applications,…

Crypto

Bitcoin Has Been Declared Dead 21 Times in 2026, Yet It Won’t Stay Buried

2026-08-17 · 14:05

With bitcoin still holding above $60,000 and 19 full weeks left in 2026, critics have already buried it 21 times this…

Crypto

Ethereum UTXO Proposal Could Cut Permanent State Usage by 99.8%

2026-08-17 · 13:59

Ethereum researchers are examining whether the network stores more information as permanent state than some transactions…

Tech

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

2026-08-17 · 13:59

A Hacker News user asks about alternatives to GitHub due to recent downtime, prompting community suggestions including…

Tech

How to ship a database every day

2026-08-17 · 13:56

Turbopuffer deploys dozens of database upgrades daily across 100+ clusters spanning three deployment models—public SaaS,…

Sports

Man Utd will reject any bid for Fernandes

2026-08-17 · 13:55

Manchester United have no intention of selling captain Bruno Fernandes despite Turkish club Galatasaray being prepared…

Tech

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

2026-08-17 · 13:46

DuckDB v2.0, releasing this fall under the codename "Cyanoptera," introduces major features including DuckDB as a…

Tech

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

2026-08-17 · 13:44

A 404 Media investigation tracked a shipment of rare books using a hidden tracking device and discovered that Amazon…

Science

Meet the only known trebuchet casualty in history

2026-08-17 · 13:41

"It highlights the brutality of medieval warfare," said paleopathologist Jo Buckberry.

Tech

Incident with Github.com

2026-08-17 · 13:40

GitHub experienced a widespread service incident on August 17, 2026, affecting multiple core features including Pull…

Tech

GitHub down again? no PR access

2026-08-17 · 13:37

GitHub experienced a widespread outage affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and repository page loading, with an approximate…

Tech

Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

2026-08-17 · 13:35

1667 is a terminal-based writing tool that uses language models to help authors generate fiction, displaying multiple…

Tech

Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance

2026-08-17 · 13:35

Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that.

Crypto

3 Altcoins Gaining Momentum as the Market Heats Up — LINK, NEAR, POL

2026-08-17 · 13:35

Chainlink: Decentralized oracle infrastructure supports DeFi, tokenized assets, and growing blockchain adoption.

Crypto

Hackers Are Abusing a macOS Screen Sharing Flaw to Secretly Mine Monero

2026-08-17 · 13:31

The Dutch cyber agency says attackers exploited an authentication flaw in macOS Screen Sharing to gain root access and…