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Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M

Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a broader market for space, defense and security, after raising ¥2.6 billion ($16 ...

TechCrunch • Aug 22, 2026 • Kate Park
Technology Aug 22, 2026

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117136278553665985 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

HN: The Good Parts (2016)

Article URL: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395171 Points: 9 # Co...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Paul Atkins Misreads Adam Smith and the American Founding

Article URL: https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2026/08/03/paul-atkins-misreads-adam-smith-and-the-american-founding/...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land

"We probably need another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability." ...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

Article URL: https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/electric-shock-gloves-already-in-use-by-police-depar...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data c...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Tesla’s Door Handles Lead to Its Biggest Recall Yet

A Chinese agency says the two recalls affecting some 3 million vehicles can mostly be fixed by over-the-air updates—bu...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

I think agent-first chat interfaces will be a primary software modality and busy dashboard/UI will go away. I’m not s...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCr...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/stars-stripes-pentagon-censorship-media-d42affb0c17fef31c6089645c8dbbe70 Commen...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia....

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Three important steps in my maturation process

Article URL: https://thomasdullien.github.io/posts/2026-08-21-three-important-steps-in-my-maturation-process/ Comments ...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ghost-job-ads-are-getting-so-bad-that-lawmakers-want-to-ban-them-258...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US

I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby stea...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 ove...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48-hours

Rillet CEO Nicholas Koop shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia ...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

Article URL: https://henriemategui.com/post/remotely-unlocking-electric-scooters Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Over one million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have a...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer Comments URL: ht...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams

Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus away from certain initiatives.

Technology Aug 21, 2026

The Creation of Abulafia

Article URL: https://blog.veitheller.de/abulafia.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393537 Point...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging

Thunderstorms make seismic waves that can be used to find sub-surface features. ...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

TikTok reaches $400M settlement over children’s privacy lawsuit

Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that TikTok violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection A...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says

Renters say hidden Zillow listings make it harder to afford living in New York City. ...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

The $225 Pebble Time 2 is a refreshingly fun smartwatch

The $225 Pebble Time 2 pairs quirky watch faces and apps with physical buttons, an e-paper display, weeks of battery lif...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/21/rust-glancer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49393052 Poi...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude

Article URL: https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/a-week-of-using-codex-more-than-claude/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutti...

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI ...