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Nvidia Starts Pac as AI Chip Maker Builds DC Influence Force

Article URL: https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/nvidia-starts-a-pac-as-ai-chip-maker-buids-influence-force-in-dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49469249 Points: 14 # ...

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Technology Aug 27, 2026

Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else

Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments

Article URL: https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/08/27/y-combinators-ankit-gupta-faces-backlash-over-h-1b-comments-48...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Labor Day 2026 Deals Got Me a Complete Starter Tool Kit for Under $375

I combed through the Labor Day sales to find the power tools and other essentials that cover nearly every household repa...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady4523 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

I measured what my Claude.md, skills and hooks are worth

Article URL: https://github.com/jameskomo/config-drift-checker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Previewing the Model Hardware Standard

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Gemini-3.5-Transcribe

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-5-transcribe/ Comments UR...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Show HN: Voronoi Go

I posted once before but wanted to share again because a lot has changed. There's now a fairly strong bot to play again...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack

The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its c...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer

Article URL: https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/24290 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

M5Stack Launches PaperMono

Article URL: https://shop.m5stack.com/blogs/news/m5stack-launches-papermono-a-compact-e-ink-development-terminal-for-co...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Show HN: Yet another minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer written in Go.

Article URL: https://github.com/patriceckhart/hrdx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468507 Points: ...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurit...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Two German airport workers die of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane'

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz6zwgg9y8go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49468315...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Netflix Failed at Video Games. Now It’s Trying to Promote Them

Netflix has walked back plans to put AAA games on its streaming platform. Instead, it's pivoting to marketing highly ant...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-cache-memory-optimization-1111/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/ Commen...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist

Google teamed up with the Pokemon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep a...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Product and AI Engineers

Article URL: https://www.bild.ai/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467837 Points: 0 # Comments:...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup

Fashion startup Atorie announced Thursday a $9.5 million seed round.

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

Technology Aug 27, 2026

OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively un...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Grok Bot for Linux: Unofficial port of the official app (open source)

Article URL: https://github.com/jakob-bu/grok-bot-linux-unofficial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

See fiber breaks linked to a map

Article URL: https://react-networks-lib.rackout.net/otdr-strip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why

Article URL: https://github.com/kelviq/tare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467551 Points: 21 # Co...

Technology Aug 27, 2026

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths. ...