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Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana

The longtime far-right operator and troll, a UK citizen, is being held in a detention center about 200 miles from New Orleans.

Wired • Aug 28, 2026 • Miles Klee
Technology Aug 28, 2026

The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager

Article URL: https://tmog.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483248 Points: 3 # Comments: 6

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete

Article URL: https://isitdoneyet.gg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483187 Points: 13 # Comments:...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every s...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA

Article URL: https://www.thehealthy.com/news/chicken-recall-fsis-august-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Show HN: Conduct, open-source guardrails for LLM and MCP tool calls

Article URL: https://github.com/sseshachala/conductai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483173 Point...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Chrome Deletes the Last Manifest V2 Extensions on August 31

Article URL: https://bumbletap.com/blog/chrome-manifest-v2-extensions-removed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list

Article URL: https://charlesleifer.com/blog/aspirational-clownmaxxing-and-joey-s-cadillac-todo-list/ Comments URL: http...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

I have been working on Sesame, an open-source password manager that keeps your vault local by default. You don't need a...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Bye, Bye GitHub

Article URL: https://log.ozgur.works/bye-bye-github.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49483020 Po...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

The Analytical AI Handbook

Article URL: https://handbook.sutro.sh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482925 Points: 15 # Comment...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launches this Sunday

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5905370/nasa-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-dark-energy-supernova ...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases

Brave's browser begins testing an email alias feature that lets you keep your main email info private.

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China

Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sum...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance. ...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Secrets of the Atomic City

Article URL: https://longreads.com/2026/08/06/radiation-paducah-atavist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Mice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart

“Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?” ...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems 

Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosyst...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Save hundreds on a TCL mini-LED TV with quantum dots and high refresh rate

Amazon and Best Buy have the TCL QM7L mini-LED TV on sale for as low as $797.99 for the 55-inch model, a $200 discount f...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23691 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481455 Points: 12 # ...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/attimet/jobs/6btZFDg-member-of-technical-staff-engineering Comments ...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversa...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Trump’s EPA wants to let data centers hide their air pollution

Just as new data centers face growing backlash from neighboring communities, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

DLSS 5 leaked and modders are putting Nvidia’s AI effects on everything

Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia's DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other g...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

Article URL: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494...

Technology Aug 28, 2026

More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

Technology Aug 28, 2026

Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-insists-it-can-keep-printing-money-to-fund-the-ai-boom-195e7d5e Comment...