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Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

<a href="https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement-prime-minister-carney-canada-us-trade-negotiations" rel="nofollow">https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2026/08/21/statement...</a>

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

<a href="https://archive.ph/SflVC" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/SflVC</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU</a>

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Being ambitious and being a dad

OpenLogi

The Amazon tax

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Paper: <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.26358689v1.full.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.26358689...</a>

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin

Qwen 3.8 27B

Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook

<a href="https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_disgusting_facebook_devs/" rel="nofollow">https://reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1vgcjg5/about_dis...</a><p><a href="https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-ads-are-so-hard-to-block-that-ublock-origin-stopped-filtering-them/" rel="nofollow">https://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-ads-are-so-hard-to-bloc...</a>

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?

France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls

As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?