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SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport

"This will be a project like no other."

Ars Technica • Aug 25, 2026 • Eric Berger
Technology Aug 25, 2026

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

Article URL: https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailers

It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is sc...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

Article URL: https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437361 Points: 7 # ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for you

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights....

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Nitter project received cease and desist

Article URL: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 P...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437210 Points: 15 # ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant is at most 0.1787854

Article URL: https://www.judegomila.com/posts/riemann-lambda-0.1787854 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreen

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers

Article URL: https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers Co...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

My Friend Aaron

Article URL: https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437069 Points...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

Article URL: https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437049 Poin...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

GeForce Now is getting support for the Steam Controller

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve's Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting la...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

SpaceX – Starbase, LA

Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436822 Point...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Tooltips Need a Delay, and Then They Need to Skip It

Article URL: https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Life360 expands pet tracking with new $8 scannable tags and zoomie alerts

Life360’s new $7.99 scannable pet tags alert families when a lost pet is found and share its last known location, whil...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler

Article URL: https://www.kurz.net/posts/fuzzing-gleam-compiler Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Why iPhone App Blockers Are Harder to Build Than They Look

Article URL: https://usefella.com/blog/how-iphone-app-blockers-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-expected-to-tell-investors-it-sees-over-30-trillion-in-potential-rev...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Lab supply companies have been selling antibodies using manipulated images

Image changes that would get a paper retracted are widespread among suppliers. ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Polestar claims it was blindsided by sales ban

Polestar said the Trump administration strung it along for months before finally rejecting its request to continue selli...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Run Minecraft in a Windows Sandbox for Computer Use Agents

Article URL: https://cua.ai/docs/how-to-guides/sandbox/minecraft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest

Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps. ...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

That fake Grand Theft Auto VI demo is actually just malware

Grand Theft Auto fans, eager for news about one of the most anticipated video games of all time, appear especially vulne...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Pacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power

Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough e...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Warnock: Harnessing GPU Geometry Amplification for Vector Graphics

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3820012 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435781 Poi...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

How much of HN is AI?

Article URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/how-much-of-hn-is-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4943572...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

Found that you can actually run a 35B Qwen model on a Pi with very impressive intelligence and stability. Built connect...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha's provenance

Article URL: https://www.ctgt.ai/research/behaviorally-fingerprinting-ox-alphas-provenance Comments URL: https://news.y...

Technology Aug 25, 2026

The Supreme Court’s Mail-In Ballot Ruling Is a Step Toward Chaos in the Midterms

The Supreme Court has removed one roadblock from the Trump administration’s attempts to impose severe restrictions on ...