8.12.26 | Stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs, England aims to eliminate hepatitis C, compression is prediction
Hacker News Highlights · Aug 12, 2026 · 13:20
Hacker News Highlights · Aug 12, 2026 · 13:20
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England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257377
Compression is prediction
https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263497
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257160
Mojo 1.0
https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261128
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261133
London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255496
Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo
https://photosynthesis.camera
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226623
Grok Bot
https://x.ai/bot
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261514
Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nemotron-lightning-switchyard-rtx-dgx/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263340
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