2026-08-08

New York Times

• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/america-poverty-peru.html [ Growing Up in Peru, I Thought I Knew Poverty. America Surprised Me. The New York Times ] OOOO
• https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/garden-weeding-tool-stirrup-hoe/?eafs_enabled=false [ How to Get Rid of Weeds in Your Garden The New York Times ] OOOO

Bloomberg

• https://www.bloomberg.com/ [ Berkshire Hathaway Buys Back $4.5 Billion of Its Own Shares bloomberg ] OOOO

Financial Times

• https://www.ft.com/content/2b3726f6-8149-4a74-a58e-eaaa20c9f2b9?syn-25a6b1a6=1 [ China’s biggest travel site grapples with watchdog’s reservations myFT ] OOOO
• https://www.ft.com/content/c2b7e004-3097-4d64-8b68-c48a360a1878?syn-25a6b1a6=1 [ An American farewell to China ft.com ] OOOO
• https://www.ft.com/content/5ef8cb99-deae-4c9a-be1f-be791ae6b1cd [ A short history of valuing stocks myFT ] OOOO

Wall Street Journal

• https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/move-37-ai-demis-hassabis-google-deepmind-alphago-ec832a41?eafs_enabled=false [ Move 37 Is the Moment AI Changes Everything. It’s Suddenly Happening Everywhere. wsj ] OOOO
• https://www.wsj.com/business/restaurant-reservation-apps-30a29e6b [ Why It’s Impossible to Get a Restaurant Reservation wsj ] OOOO
• https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/downsizing-retirement-slowly-494acdc1 [ The Unexpected Joy of Downsizing Slowly in Retirement wsj ] OOOO
• https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/americas-electric-honeymoon-is-over-ev-owners-must-work-out-where-to-go-next-337da117 [ America’s Electric Honeymoon Is Over. EV Owners Must Work Out Where to Go Next. wsj ] OOOO
• https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/berkshire-hathaway-earnings-q2-2026-brk-a-stock-e394a0e7?eafs_enabled=false [ Berkshire Hathaway, Under a New CEO, Starts to Spend its Cash Pile wsj ] OOOO
• https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-a-e-says-iran-attacked-one-of-its-ships-in-hormuz-bfbec3b2 [ U.A.E. Says Iran Attacked One of Its Ships in Hormuz wsj ] OOOO
• https://www.wsj.com/world/china/a-lost-civilization-is-baffling-experts-and-rewriting-chinas-origin-story-cda8dba7 [ A Lost Civilization Is Baffling Experts and Rewriting China s Origin Story wsj ] OOOO

Hacker News

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221939 [ Don t use your phone while you poop Hacker News ] OOOO
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 [ A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS Hacker News ] OOOO
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163879 [ Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer Hacker News ] OOOO
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218179 [ NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year Hacker News ] OOOO
• https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/now-we-have-a-timeline-of-the-openai-accidental-attack-against-h/ [ Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face Hacker News ] OOOO
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236 [ 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out Hacker News ] OOOO
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 [ Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale Hacker News ] OOOO
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213754 [ Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK Hacker News ] OOOO


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