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Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"

Trump furious at NBC's Kristen Welker for saying he had mixed results in primary endorsements.

Ars Technica • Aug 31, 2026 • Jon Brodkin
Technology Aug 31, 2026

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’

The seed round for the app that provides real-time legal and policy guidance to officers was led by SignalFire and Las ...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

https://cybercity.carino.systems/https://github.com/MiguelCarino/CyberCityASCII City: Traffic and Detail Update - https...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers

Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512895 Points: 0 #...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

The Safest Job from AI May Be Writing

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html Comments URL: https://...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts. ...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson

The company, which distributes medicines and medical devices to hospitals and healthcare practices across the U.S., said...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Kids These Days

Article URL: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/kids-these-days Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting

Article URL: https://www.olafalders.com/2026/08/31/you-rename-my-lake-i-move-my-hosting/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/stunning-percolation-proof-solves-decades-old-puzzle-about-phase-transition...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save Bolt

The controversial founder of the checkout startup once valued at $11 billion is putting in $5 million of his own money.

Technology Aug 31, 2026

GPU World

Article URL: https://www.gpuworld.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512169 Points: 6 # Comments...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds

Finding reveals an overlooked way that water can damage surfaces.

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Car owners want tech they can ignore

Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge scr...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Tim Cook’s parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder

Tim Cook’s farewell memo to Apple employees offers a glimpse at how he wants John Ternus to be seen: as a product buil...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Phil Schiller is leaving his biggest jobs at Apple

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller is stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store and Apple events, acc...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

German Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding

Article URL: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen/bautzen/bautzen-hoyerswerda-kamenz/computer-museum-schliesst-,konra...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

I Turned My Security Cameras into an Automatic Bird Identification System

Article URL: https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-system-wit...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients

Article URL: https://capitalandmain.com/mental-health-workers-say-algorithmic-triage-is-hurting-patients Comments URL: ...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Markiplier is now GoPro’s biggest shareholder

YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach has invested enough in GoPro to become its single largest shareholder, with an 8.5 ...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)

Article URL: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/you-probably-own-this-7-eleven Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network. ...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Read Tim Cook’s final message to Apple staff as CEO

Steve Jobs' successor carried the torch of the iPhone and built Apple into a global powerhouse with few rivals. Since be...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

Article URL: https://ravynos.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511534 Points: 19 # Comments: 5

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

I have always enjoyed building and playing puzzles. I am a regular user of NYT Games and LinkedIn Games. I thought it w...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

VLC crosses 7 billion downloads

In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion download...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million ro...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, mainte...