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Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

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Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

Article URL: https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418 Points: 851 # Comments: 583

World · The Guardian Ukraine

Ukraine war briefing: Reboot of ‘fortress belt’ defences as Zelenskyy visits frontline

Two modern commanders appointed on Donetsk front after dismissal of ‘Soviet-era’ Oleksandr Syrskyi as head of military. What we know on day 1,645 Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed two of Ukraine’s most prominent commanders to oversee and strengthen defences of the “fortress belt” of industrialised cities in the Donetsk region . Visiting the frontline, Zelenskyy said Third Army Corps leader Andrii Biletskyi and Denys Prokopenko, commander of the First Corps ⁠Azov, would head new groupings. Both units are known for embracing Nato-style doctrine and new technology. Russian forces are putting pressure on the cities of Kostiantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk – all critical strongholds for Ukraine. According to open-source mapping group Deep State, Moscow’s ‌troops have been infiltrating deeper into Kostiantynivka, with the Ukrainians weeding them out from houses, basements and ruins. Russia was also stepping up its air and artillery ​attacks on Kramatorsk and Sloviansk to prepare for a targeted offensive on those cities, Deep State said. Ukrainian military analyst Mykola Bielieskov told Reuters the appointments were “the right move” in giving Ukraine’s new commander in chief, Mykhailo Drapatyi, greater scope for strategic planning . His predecessor, the “Soviet-era” general Oleksandr Syrskyi, was criticised for micromanagement. Ukrainian drone forces commander Robert Brovdi, a leader of Kyiv’s mid and long-range strike campaigns, praised the appointments as an important step towards “network-centric warfare … This is exactly what ‘Smart War’ is,” he posted. Ukraine hit ⁠16 sites in Russia ⁠over ⁠the past day ​including oil facilities and ⁠logistics , Zelenskyy said ⁠on Wednesday. The ‌targets also included ‌airfields, a missile unit, a military enterprise and infrastructure that ‌Moscow uses to launch attacks against ​Ukraine. Ukraine’s military general staff said its forces struck a Lukoil refinery overnight in Kstovo, in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, setting it on fire. The refinery can process 125m barrels annually. Long-range Ukrainian drones burned a Wildberries warehouse to the ground in the Tambov region south-east of Moscow, Russian authorities said on Wednesday. A ⁠ Russian guided aerial ⁠bomb ⁠attack seriously ​damaged a combined ⁠heat and power plant ⁠in ​ Ukraine’s southern ‌city ‌of Kherson , ‌the plant’s owner, Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz, said ‌on Wednesday. The extent of ​the damage would be ⁠assessed as ​soon as ​the security ​situation allowed, ​Naftogaz ‌said. There were explosions ​in ⁠the ⁠Ukrainian capital ​of ‌Kyiv ‌early ‌on Thursday, ‌a ​Reuters ⁠witness ​said. Around the same time, Russia ⁠attacked an industrial facility ⁠in ⁠the central ​Ukrainian city of ⁠Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles, ⁠injuring two ​people, ‌said Oleksandr ‌Vilkul, the head of ‌the city’s defence council. It came after Bloomberg reported that Russia was considering ⁠stepping up its ballistic missile strikes ⁠on ⁠Kyiv , including ​targets in the city centre, ⁠and on critical infrastructure elsewhere in ⁠Ukraine after concluding that ​efforts ‌to negotiate ‌a peace deal ‌had reached a dead end. While Ukraine has repeatedly offered ceasefires and negotiations, the Kremlin has not altered its demands – chief among which is total control of Ukraine’s Donbas region. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded Ukraine’s Order of Freedom to Elon Musk , whose SpaceX has provided Starlink satellite internet to Ukraine’s military. Musk has restricted its use over Russian territory – a policy Zelenskyy hopes to change so that Ukrainian weapons can use Starlink to navigate to their targets. Ukraine freed 10 Russian prisoners of war , Russia’s human rights commissioner said on Wednesday. On Monday, Russia released 10 Ukrainian prisoners of war who were previously thought to be missing. A pro-Russian hacker group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a cyber-attack on Digdir, the Norwegian government’s digital services agency. The denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks tried to overwhelm the agency’s computers to block services, including one that enables citizens to use one login across multiple public services. A Digdir spokesperson said the agency still managed to keep the services running “practically all the time”. The pro-Russian hacker group Server Killers said it attacked because Norway renewed its security cooperation with Ukraine on 23 August. Continue reading...

World · Al Jazeera

At least 12 dead, 54 injured as wildfires ravage northeastern Algeria

Six people in critical condition as a severe heatwave fuels 154 wildfires across Algeria in a single day.

World · Al Jazeera

Pro-Israel Democrats picked for top roles on key US House committee

The decision comes at a fractious time for the party amid a growing divide among its voters over US aid to Israel.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled) https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161 Points: 1573 # Comments: 711

Business · CNBC Technology

Nvidia wows Wall Street with a strong quarter and an eye-popping sales forecast

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang did it again.

Business · CNBC Technology

Jensen Huang defends Nvidia's growing financial support for AI ecosystem, says 'the risk is low'

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defended the chipmaker’s growing role in financing AI companies, calling its investments a “once in a generation” opportunity.

Developers & Open Source · vercel/next.js Releases

v16.4.0-canary.9

Misc Changes fix: don't drop client references when the concatenated module id is 0: #97936 Replace resumed render bailout error with ReactDOM.browser behind a flag: #96844 Replace useSearchParams bailout error with ReactDOM.browser behind a flag: #96843 Replace CSRBailout error with ReactDOM.browser behind a flag: #96826 fix(next/image): reject non-2xx internal image responses: #97957 [test] Pin Vercel CLI to Node 20.9 compatible version: #97960 Re-enable AVIF image optimization: #97931 Don't report a client-aborted RSC stream as a render error: #96715 [PPF] Only track runtime accesses when the promise is used: #97165 Fix Turbopack re-export cycle deadlock: #97933 Port React's @gate test directive to the e2e harness: #96228 Migrate from box_patterns to deref_patterns: #97924 Turbopack: expose list of non-inlined env vars: #95310 feat(turbo-tasks-fetch): stub HTTP on wasm targets: #97585 fix(turbo-rcstr): make TaggedValue usable on wasm: #97577 docs: explain origin matching for allowedOrigins and allowedDevOrigins: #97805 Turbopack: improve Pat::Assign modelling in analyzer: #97867 Upgrade rustc to nightly-2026-08-20: #97665 Upgrade React from bd6ea412-20260824 to f789f203-20260825 : #97887 [test] Fix flaky build CLI output capture: #97900 turbo-tasks-backend: parent_count reference counting: #95976 Credits Huge thanks to @jgruica , @devjiwonchoi , @zeeshan56656 , @eps1lon , @lazerg , @lubieowoce , @sokra , @acdlite , @mischnic , @icyJoseph , and @lukesandberg for helping!

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.

World · Al Jazeera

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dies at age 80

Curry, a three-time Tony nominee, was best known for his portrayal of Dr Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic musical.

World · Al Jazeera

Iran war live: Qatar PM to visit Tehran; Trump ‘not in a hurry’ over talks

Qatar's PM will meet Iranian officials to discuss ways to de-escalate tensions in the region, foreign ministry says.

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.33.1

What's Changed MLX: Qwen3.8 Flash Next support cmake: make external compat patches idempotent MLX and llama.cpp update mlxrunner: add structured output support mlxrunner: avoid Metal GPU timeouts when loading models from slow storage New Contributors @pd95 made their first contribution in #17948 Full Changelog : v0.33.0...v0.33.1

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance boost. I've been trying it out on a DGX Spark using these Unsloth quantized models . I'm still exploring the model - so far I've tried the 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S one (producing these pelicans ) and the 78.9GB UD-Q2_K_XL (producing these ). My favorite so far was this xhigh reasoning effort one from UD-Q2_K_XL: Via Hacker News Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , qwen , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , ai-in-china , nvidia-spark

AI · TechCrunch AI

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.

World · Al Jazeera

World Health Organization says Ebola outbreak in Uganda is over

International body declares Uganda Ebola-free after 42 days without new transmission, though cases rise in DR Congo.

World · Al Jazeera

Spain’s tomato food fight leaves thousands covered in pulp

Thousands of people pelt each other with tomatoes as Spain’s famous ‘La Tomatina’ festival gets underway.

World · Deutsche Welle

France: Car rams crowd at bus stop in Caen

At least one person was killed and several injured when a car drove into a bus shelter in the northern French city of Caen.

World · BBC Europe

Iceland holds knife-edge referendum on EU - and it could be decided on fish

On Saturday, Iceland will vote on EU membership talks, amid economic and geopolitical tensions.

Business · BBC Business

Plug-in solar panels are coming to a shop near you - here's what to know

The UK government claimes panels could help homes "significantly cut" energy bills.

Business · BBC Business

Meta's $18bn settlement may hasten reckoning for social media on child safety

Perhaps our days of doomscrolling are numbered, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.

World · Al Jazeera

Barcelona vs Athletic Club: La Liga – prediction, teams, lineups

Lamine Yamal and Raphinha will seek to add to Barcelona's five-star La Liga opener when Athletic arrive from Bilbao.

Products & Consumer Tech · Product Hunt

Creatium Coach

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World · Al Jazeera

US judge declines Minnesota’s effort to force Texas to extradite ICE agent

ICE agent Christian Castro faces criminal charges for shooting a Minnesota man in the leg during an immigration raid.