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Why it's so hard to apologize sincerely in a foreign language

When people apologize, they do more than acknowledge a mistake. They also reveal how they understand responsibility, ethics, social and moral norms, and their relationship with others. These things all differ widely between cultural contexts.

YSL’s ‘Slime Language 3’: All 41 Tracks Ranked

The 41-song compilation is a peek into the present and future of Young Thug's label.

Why it’s so hard to apologise sincerely in a foreign language

Saying ‘sorry’ to someone in authority evokes more guilt and shame in your first language.

Young Thug’s YSL Records Surprise-Drops ‘Slime Language 3’ Double Album

The 41-track project, released late Friday, includes appearances from Lil Baby, Travis Scott, Future, Yeat, Trippie Redd, Cash Cobain & more.

How the French language contributed to the U.S.-Canada trade war

The dispute with the U.S. was not just about tariff demands but what Canada's prime minister called unacceptable "threats" to the French language and "Quebec culture."

What languages are agent skills written in?

Article URL: https://plicara.ai/research/agent-skill-languages/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427825 Points: 11 # Comments: 2

Hadith computational science in the age of large language models: a critical narrative review

arXiv:2608.20364v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We examine how hadith computational science is being reshaped by transformer models, retrieval-grounded pipelines, and large language models (LLMs). Recent reviews document growth in the literature, but they do not yet provide a cri

Young Thug Drops Slime Language 3 With Future and Veeze

Cash Cobain, Lil Baby, Tezzus, and diamond* also feature on the latest Young Stoner Life compilation

Body Language

Nanette and Josie finished praying and walked toward the bus stop. Josie pulled out her phone. She wanted to show Nanette a group she’d found on Instagram: @NunsAgainstGuns. “This one is fire,” Josie said. Nanette looked at a photo of

How to build a diffusion language model

Article URL: https://kuleshov-group.github.io/blog/blog/2026/how-to-build-a-diffusion-language-model/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503956 Points: 122 # Comments: 14

Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)

Article URL: https://sander.ai/2026/08/24/continuous-dlms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502611 Points: 97 # Comments: 34

‘Indigenous languages and cultures are surviving, and will continue to survive’: Interview with Juang-language writer Kshetrabasi Juanga

An Indian educator is documenting his vulnerable Indigenous language on YouTube. He hopes his videos “will create an invaluable resource for the entire humankind.”

Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material

I've been learning Japanese for a few years and kept running into a similar problem.

Canada welcomes US shift on French language discoverability in trade talks

US trade officials downplay French language dispute, calling claims fabricated.

Is English a foreign language in India? | In Focus Podcast

In this week’s In Focus-Parley, Experts Apoorvanand and Ganesh Devy discuss whether English should be considered a foreign language in India’s diverse linguistic landscape.

Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

Show HN: RealDiff – runtime behavior diffing for pull requests (six languages)

Article URL: https://github.com/issacnitin/RealDiff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464459 Points: 22 # Comments: 4

Beyoncé Details Expansive, 27-Track 20th Anniversary ‘B’Day’ Deluxe Edition Featuring B-Sides, Spanish-Language Versions

The upcoming (Sept. 4) editions will also feature the singer's recent one-off single, "Morning Dew (Donk)."

A curmudgeon tries a language server

Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448150 Points: 48 # Comments: 26

New AI That Detects Body Language And Eye Contact At Las Vegas Crosswalks Likely Won't Help Prevent Pedestrian Deaths

Like every other surveillance-type AI-driven software, it was implemented in an area where the people paying taxes didn't vote for it or agree to it.

Founders once linked to Bezos project pitch AI that models physics, not language

The new type of artificial intelligence model built by Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik has learned to predict physical phenomena in space and time.

Mark Carney says Canada can’t accept US trade deal that would weaken French language

Prime minister praised for rejecting US trade proposal as Trump shows little interest in retreating from dispute Are you a Canadian boycotting US products? We’d like to hear from you Mark Carney said on Monday that while American negotiators saw the French language in Canada as a

TriPLU: Bypassing the Gate with Direct Trilinear Product FFNs in Tiny Language Models

arXiv:2608.20360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study whether tiny decoder-only language models benefit from feed-forward layers that directly multiply learned feature projections. TriPLU, a Trilinear Product Linear Unit, replaces the usual gated FFN branch with a product-only

ExpertIVS: Sociological Expert Driven Individual Value Simulation in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.20355v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated considerable potential for social simulation, yet struggle to accurately model individual value systems. Most existing methods mechanically stitch survey responses into prompts, wh

Who Do Language Models Think Is Competent? A Mechanistic Analysis of Occupational Bias

arXiv:2608.20347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) often pass behavioral bias evaluations, but it remains unclear whether they no longer represent the underlying associations that give rise to biases, or have merely learned not to express them. In this study, w

Things I want in a modern relational query language

Article URL: https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402491 Points: 19 # Comments: 7

National resolve needed to preserve tribal languages, culture: Union Minister

Collective efforts were needed to safeguard tribal languages, traditions and cultural heritage, says Union Minister of State for Tribal Affairs Durga Das Uikey

Why are Maharashtra’s auto-rickshaw, taxi drivers being issued notices for lacking Marathi language skills? | Explained

Maharashtra’s auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers face scrutiny for not meeting new Marathi language requirements, sparking protests and service disruptions

Rijiju accuses Congress of avoiding debate on anti-paper leak Bill, slams Rahul Gandhi's 'abusive' language

Congress leaders did not speak on the Bill at all. They were only doing politics. We hope Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders will speak on the Bill today, says Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju

India news: Rahul Gandhi criticizes Modi over 'cultural shock' remark on girls' language

Gandhi said Modi's remarks about girls using abusive language during CJP protests reflected societal patriarchy and called on women to challenge it. DW has more.

The UN says Israel is targeting Palestinian children. Here’s why the ‘bias’ defence doesn’t hold up

The dehumanizing language used by Israeli officials reflects and enables an underlying disregard for Palestinian life that connects to the findings of the recent June 2026 UN Commission of Inquiry report.

How the Trump Administration’s ICC sanctions reveal the power of international law

Washington’s campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court also masks a fear of the enduring power of the language of the law.

Yayoi Kusama Created Fantastical 'Infinity Mirror Rooms' That Became the Art World's Most Famous Backdrops. Her Work Spanned Counterculture to the Cosmos

The Japanese artist, who died on August 14 at 97, sought solace from hallucinations in her art, developing a visual language of polka dots, pumpkins and mirrors that entranced the world

Why Aitana's 'Superestrella' is the surprise Latin hit song of the summer

There's a reason why the escapist hit from singer Aitana has swept most of the Spanish-language world.

Access to bilingual education lags behind in Andalusia's rural areas, study reveals

Over the past two decades, bilingual education programs have significantly expanded within the Spanish education system, with the aim of improving foreign language learning—primarily English—while making it more accessible for all. Although more and more schools are offering bili

Multilingual Verifier Bias in RLVR: Benchmark, Rollout Diagnosis, and the Cross-Lingual Selection Bottleneck

arXiv:2608.20362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a standard recipe for training large language models on mathematical reasoning, where an answer verifier serves as a language-neutral reward function. We show that this assump

Multilingual people may have brains up to 13 years younger

People who speak several languages may have brains that age more slowly, with four-language speakers showing brains that appeared about 13 years younger than those of monolinguals. Starting earlier and becoming highly fluent were also linked to a stronger effect.

Drone Metal Orthodox Priest Guitarist Responds to Fascism, Homophobia Accusations

Father Dionysios Tabakis had recently come under fire for religious blog posts that employed homophobic language, as well as ties to a Greek neo-Nazi organization

How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer

Installing a large language model on your personal computer gives you a handy digital assistant that won’t compromise your data privacy.

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Before establishing itself as a recognized language, modern architecture took shape through progressive shifts in ideas, experimentations, and critical revisions that traversed different cultural and geographical contexts.

Duffy announces emergency shutdown of 110 driving schools over English proficiency rule

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Monday his department is shutting down 110-plus driving schools that gave licenses to drivers who failed English language proficiency (ELP) tests.

What’s the difference between proprietary, open weight, and open source AI?

Most people know that when it comes to large language models (LLMs), not all are created equal.

Myopia prevention in Japan reaches a milestone

For the first time, Japan's Basic Policy includes language on preventing childhood myopia. It's a start, but more must be done.

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'Erra kota' translates to 'red fort' in the local Telugu language.

High-powered task force looking into NTA reforms invites stakeholder suggestions

The Nandan Nilekani-led task force set up by PM Narendra Modi requested stakeholders to submit their suggestions by Sept. 13; submissions can be made in English, Hindi or regional languages by phone, mail, WhatsApp or website

UGC-NET results announced for 84 subjects; over 4,000 qualify for JRF

The testing agency had also issued a special notice concerning the Sociology, Commerce and English papers after an expert committee found factual, typographical, translation and language-related errors in the question papers.

“Weird” is a weird word

Article URL: https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/weird-is-a-weird-word Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478489 Points: 46 # Comments: 17

The Clarity Act will put Main Street banks at a disadvantage

The Blockchain Association’s Summer Mersinger dismisses the harm to community banks in defending the stablecoin rewards language in the Clarity Act, says community banker Nate Franzén.

Keralam Dalit activist Sunny Kapikad booked over ‘derogatory’ remarks on Sabarimala deities, says Ramesh Chennithala

During a recent event at an educational institution, Kapikad allegedly used sexually derogatory language while referring to Lord Ayyappa and Malikappurathamma

IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

IBM has rolled out the newest models in its family of open-weight large language models designed to be downloaded and self-hosted.

Federal Judge Cites Dolly Parton While Striking Down Texas Drag Ban

The ruling also pointed to Elvis impersonators, cosplay, and swimming as examples of performances that could be swept up by the law's vague language. Federal Judge Cites Dolly Parton While Striking Down Texas Drag Ban Alex Krinsky

AI for Good: How the UN uses AI to advance human rights

For Ari, a six-year-old boy with learning difficulties in Jamaica, artificial intelligence (AI) opened the door to something many children take for granted: reading a book in his own language.

Google’s new AI transcription edits out your ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’

Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages.

‘The Full Monty’ comes to Japan to bare all and open minds

The English-language musical comedy starring Koji Yamamoto asks big questions about masculinity and vulnerability while loosening up local audiences.

Data Centers: The Latest Thing to Destroy Beautiful West Virginia

The data centers have been speaking to me lately, in the form of ChatGPT slop. The spam offers to market my new novel for a fee, perverting the language I’ve written about a place the data centers promise to destroy:

A Season of Change for Public Health Accreditor

A Season of Change for Public Health Accreditor Josh Moody Tue, 08/25/2026 - 03:00 AM The Council on Education for Public Health is changing language in its standards on racial disparity, prompting criticism from scholars. It also walked away from federal recognition. Byline(s) J

Kurdish-led forces in Syria dissolve after merging with army

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander campaigns for Kurdish language preservation after decade fighting ISIL.

Japan’s only high-speed trader Dharmacapital moves to Singapore citing tax rates

Comparatively high income tax rates and language barriers are among the factors cited by some finance professionals for choosing other cities over the Japanese capital.

Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help

Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02551-z The figure, which is much higher than previous estimates of large-language-model use, is for papers published in December and archived in PubMed.

What would happen to human interaction if AI could read our emotions?

AI systems are increasingly being developed to recognize emotions by analyzing facial expressions, voices, body language and other physiological signals. Although the scientific validity of many of these systems remains contested, they are already being tested in health care and

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child. Now there are two. Four short years after the release of C

The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer to use human language requires an inhuman amount of data. An LLM can easily c

Toward Auto-Research: Mining Falsifiable Research Ideas from Paper Knowledge Graphs with Categorical Structure

arXiv:2608.20361v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated research-idea generation systems built on large language models (LLMs) share a structural weakness: they reduce ideation to free-text recombination, random paper pairing, or embedding-similarity retrieval. The three approa

Self-Speculation for Faster Reasoning Models

arXiv:2608.20359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are deployed for increasingly complex tasks involving planning and multi-step decision making, but high-quality performance on these tasks often requires generating long reasoning traces. This is a poor

Beyond Prompt Engineering: A Systematic Analysis of Prompt Lexical Sensitivity and Its Impacts on Quality

arXiv:2608.20349v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit extreme sensitivity to surface-level prompt variations, in which minor lexical changes can trigger disproportionate performance fluctuations. Moving beyond black-box optimization and coarse-grain

Inhibitory Attention for Clinical Long-Context Reasoning: Characterizing and Mitigating Lost-in-the-Middle Effects in EHR Processing

arXiv:2608.20348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electronic health records now routinely exceed 100,000 tokens per patient. Yet large language models exhibit the lost-in-the-middle (LitM) effect: information near the center of a long context is retrieved less reliably than informa

Building and Evaluating a Synthetic Bengali Speech Resource for Telecom Customer Care

arXiv:2608.20346v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech systems used in customer-facing applications often require domain-specific language coverage. We present a synthetic Bengali speech dataset for telecom customer-care scenarios. The dataset contains 10,000 audio-text pairs, ap

SDAD: Spec-Driven Agentic Development for the AI-Native SDLC

arXiv:2608.20341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier coding agents backed by large language models with context windows from hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens are restructuring the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Rich context handling and multi-step reasonin

PrimeAgentOrchestrator: Memory-Primed Agent Spawning for Personal AI Infrastructure

arXiv:2608.20342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) coding agents start each session with an empty context window, discarding accumulated knowledge from prior work. We present PrimeAgentOrchestrator (PAO), a system that spawns new instances of Claude Code -