Technology Aug 26, 2026

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 d...

TechCrunch Aisha Malik

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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&...

TechCrunch Theresa Loconsolo

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Tim Curry Has Died

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Curry Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451354 Points...

Hacker News GaryBluto

Technology Aug 26, 2026

US sanctions Italian hosting provider for encrypted email to Antifa and PKK

Article URL: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Hacker News unfocso

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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.ycom...

Hacker News LVB

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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 convers...

TechCrunch Sarah Perez

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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. ...

Ars Technica Jon Brodkin

Technology Aug 26, 2026

It's so hard to finish an idea that is not yours (and suggested by AI)

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/using-obsidian-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494508...

Hacker News zazuke

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Volvo’s cars will warn one another about hazards in the road

Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulner...

The Verge Andrew J. Hawkins

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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...

Hacker News birdculture

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Disruption with Some GitHub Services

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494...

Hacker News blimmer

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace

Article URL: https://github.com/SWUFE-DB-Group/TexLite Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450500 Poin...

Hacker News thisispi

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Nebula Sans

Article URL: https://www.nebulasans.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450448 Points: 15 # Commen...

Hacker News GavinAnderegg

Technology Aug 26, 2026

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

Article URL: https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/ Comments URL: htt...

Hacker News sreenathmenon

Technology Aug 26, 2026

AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

Article URL: https://github.com/AurionMail/docs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450394 Points: 6 #...

Hacker News polo46

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Researchers get two genetic codes to work at the same time

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

Ars Technica John Timmer

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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 int...

TechCrunch Lucas Ropek

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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=4945...

Hacker News theanonymousone

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

Article URL: https://iafisher.com/2026/08/sigprint Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450248 Points: ...

Hacker News hellerve

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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....

Hacker News polyrand

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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

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

TechCrunch Ivan Mehta

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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.

TechCrunch Russell Brandom

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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 syst...

TechCrunch Zack Whittaker

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical ga...

The Verge Tom Warren

Technology Aug 26, 2026

You could have invented PageRank

Article URL: https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Hacker News pkoird

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Take a Tour of SLAC

Article URL: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/public-tours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449755 Po...

Hacker News mooreds

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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 Point...

Hacker News speckx

Technology Aug 26, 2026

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 a...

TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?

This website counts titles containing the standalone word "AI", case-sensitive and word-bounded. "OpenAI" doesn't count...

Hacker News beekthos