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The Harness Is the Thing

Article URL: https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452346 Points: 102 # Comments: 28

Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

"Most" Xbox One and Series X games are compatible; discs will still work after being claimed.

Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the rei...

Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension

Users have a little more time to migrate from Azure storage to OneDrive

Will plug-in solar plus batteries solve your power problem? I did the math

It can't be just about harvesting solar power - it's also about storage, and time-shifting cheap, off-peak power to times when it's more expensive.

FDA Approves First in Class Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer

Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-class-targeted-therapy-metastatic-pancreatic-cancer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451675 Poin...

LibreOffice 26.8 released with paragraph layout changes, draft view + more

The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8, a major new version of the open-source office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Among the changes is a new Paragraph Composer. This improves th...

Tim Curry has died

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/26/tim-curry-dies-rocky-horror-show-stephen-king-it-legend-film Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451448 Points: 166 # Comment...

Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.

All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instag...

What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm s...

Claude Opus 4.6 Bypasses Gym Booking Limit, Cancels Other Users' Reservations in Tests

Aikido Security has published research that recreates the Australian gym-booking incident in a synthetic environment, finding that Claude Opus 4.6, running on the OpenClaw agent harness, exploited a c...

US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati

Article URL: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451343 Points: 108 # Comments: 140

The turbulent AI era is here

Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451313 Points: 133 # Comments: 111

Google Pixel 11 Review: Why the base model is still my favorite, even this year

In a year of iterative upgrades, Google is introducing smart features that make the base Pixel still the one to buy for most people.

Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

Court blocks Trump FCC order that could flood broadcast TV with more election ads

Republicans demanded that parties and fundraising committees be given lowest ad rates.

AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database

Cloud giant expresses love for DuckDB by buying its main support and development company

It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450898 Points: 104 # Comments: 63

Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems

Article URL: https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/08/go-runtime-netpoll-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450782 Points: 102 # Comments: 12

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450722 Points: 110 # Comments: 62

Amazon knocks $150 off Pixel 11 phones, with up to $200 in gift cards

If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL w...

Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist

AI and robots are advancing faster than you think, and we're not prepared for a world where the majority may be out of work

OpenAI Bans Russian ChatGPT Accounts Used to Run Influence Operation

OpenAI on Tuesday said it banned a cluster of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used VPNs to bypass access restrictions and run an influence operation, which relied on its artificial intelligence (AI) too...

Nebula Sans

Article URL: https://www.nebulasans.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450448 Points: 111 # Comments: 51

July was the worst month for ransomware victim claims in 2026 - or was it?

We shouldn't ignore agentic AI ransomware threats, but the claims of a new ransomware group might be skewing the numbers.

Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time

Messing with the genetic code might have gotten a bit easier to do.

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450353 Points: 106 # Comments: 33

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450188 Points: 101 # Comments: 70

New GPUThor attack defeats NVIDIA ECC protection for root access

A newly disclosed Rowhammer attack called GPUThor can bypass error-correcting code (ECC) protections on NVIDIA GPUs, enabling denial-of-service (DoS) and root-level privilege escalation. [...]

Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.

PageRank explained

Article URL: https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449888 Points: 111 # Comments: 80

Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk

Article URL: https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449749 Points: 110 # Comments: 65

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to be released soon.

15,000 years of solar wind in four hours? A Seattle company gives it a go.

"We're living in this world of scarcity with the Moon."

Being a mom is hard — the heat is making it harder

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask hi...

Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

Article URL: https://twitterwebviewer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449576 Points: 104 # Comments: 36

GLM-5.3-Flash

Article URL: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5.3-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449507 Points: 146 # Comments: 40

Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All

In addition to sending billions of dollars to states, Meta will make substantive changes to its platforms as part of a landmark settlement.

A hidden Ubuntu feature I use to tidy up my desktop

Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type into a collapsible icon. Images in on...

The Switch 2’s $50 price increase is happening next week

This is a friendly reminder that the Nintendo Switch 2 will jump in price by $50 starting on September 1st. That’s next Tuesday! The company gave plenty of notice, but the time has finally come. The b...

Psychiatry’s diagnostic bible is finally getting a biological upgrade

Biology is coming to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, even as reliable biomarkers remain rare.

Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children

The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users.

Apple Maps has ads now

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the "suggested p...

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

Article URL: https://cartefibre.arcep.fr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448872 Points: 144 # Comments: 84

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

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