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A curmudgeon tries a language server

Article URL: https://entropicthoughts.com/curmudgeon-tries-language-server Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448150 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Technology Aug 26, 2026

Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here

Article URL: https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai-work-for-everyone/reader/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-t...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/08/26/nitter-no-more-x-sends-in-the-lawyers-to-shut-down-open-sourc...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

Article URL: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Omarchy is full of security holes

Article URL: https://blog.happyfellow.dev/merchants-of-insecurity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks

Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft A...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/OgpCKYJ-founding-product-engineer Comments URL: htt...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses

The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of eye...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

The second-generation Bose QuietComfort Headphones are good, but don’t stand out

Bose QuietComfort headphones used to be innovative. Bose's noise-canceling research is the reason the technology is wher...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript

Hey HN!I built Typebase, a library that gives you Convex's DX with Supabase's openness.After trying Supabase I liked ho...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0j3z6147jo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446984...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

IBM's new Granite 4.2 models ride the wave of interest in local LLMs

The focus is on agentic capability and predictable enterprise deployment.

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet

Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI op...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Xtracycle's Swoop ASM e-bike brings an automatic transmission to cargo bikes

A steel frame cargo bike with a unique twist: You can let it choose your gear. ...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

AI Slop Is Ruining Cute Animals on the Internet

Pet owners, rescue agencies, and wildlife groups are calling for new safeguards as AI makes it harder to tell whether an...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them

Runable says 60%–70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.

Technology Aug 26, 2026

U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/u-s-govt-moves-to-suppress-pushback-on-data-center...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Green Chef Meal Kit Review (2026): Great Ingredients, Layered Flavor

HelloFresh’s organic meal kit Green Chef offers transparent sourcing, layered cooking, and trustworthy gluten-free dis...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/26/debian-polls-its-developers-on-whether-to-burn-the-bots-t...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446602 Points:...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

It's Not the End of Programming

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@abuseofnotation/117161292083848755 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/beyond-recall-and-the-illusion-of-competence.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/china-s-z-ai-made-ox-alpha-stealth-model-that-rivals-de...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

How Ikea Turned a Controller Thumbstick Into the Star of Its Xbox Gaming Range

Xbox and Ikea collab alert! This unique nine-piece collection for gamers arrives this fall and has a slew of Easter eggs...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool

Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coincidi...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260826-social-media-use-on-the-rise-among-australian-under-16s-aft...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp

https://xcancel.com "On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist th...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

Show HN: Banking Access Index – 19 US banking providers, 8 countries, CC-BY

Article URL: https://www.globalsolo.global/data/banking-access-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 26, 2026

A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spread

New findings shed light on what’s making the parasite less treatable using the drug that’s considered a first line o...