Technology Aug 21, 2026

Walmart to finally start accepting Apple Pay and Google Pay

Are pigs flying? Walmart has finally caved on its refusal to support Apple Pay and Google Pay.

TechCrunch Sarah Perez

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Zig's Io.Threaded Is Neat

Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2026/08/06/neat-io-threaded.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust

Article URL: https://www.winonapost.com/news/wpd-wont-replace-stolen-flock-cameras-citing-public-trust/article_06a67859...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

What We Lost When Search Stopped Making Us Think

Article URL: https://blog.8ball.space/what-we-lost-when-search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Olympian Jenny Simpson Says Her Running Career Is Over After Cardiac Arrest

Article URL: https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a73487839/jenny-simpson-running-cardiac-event-update/ Comments URL: http...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up

There's about to be a big fight to secure access to space.

TechCrunch Tim Fernholz

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Article URL: https://kagi.com/changelog#11296 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388154 Points: 92 # ...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Kodak's "Pre-Invented" Lunar Orbiter Camera; Or, the Fate of SAMOS Readout

Article URL: https://invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/kodaks-pre-invented-lunar-orbiter-camera-or-the-fate-of-samos-reado...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Rama 0.4: System proxy and PAC support

Article URL: https://plabayo.tech/blog/rama-0-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388064 Points: 5 #...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Tesla recalls 3 million cars as part of China-wide push to stop hidden door handles

Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels that help occupants identify the often hard-to-find manual ...

TechCrunch Sean O'Kane

Technology Aug 21, 2026

How a Texas student blew the whistle on a rogue AI hacking attempt

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/how-texas-student-blew-whistle-rogue-ai-hacking-attempt-2026-08-20/ Comments...

Hacker News olalonde

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Getting silly with C, part and((int*)-8)[3]

Article URL: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/getting-silly-with-c-part-and-int1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Hacker News surprisetalk

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money

Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder ...

The Verge Charles Pulliam-Moore

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Private equity firm Apollo confirms data breach amid hacking wave targeting financial giants

The private equity giant confirms a breach, weeks after Google researchers said hackers were targeting financial compani...

TechCrunch Zack Whittaker

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18214 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387856 Points: 5 # C...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Nvidia AVO scores 100% on the ARC-AGI-3 interactive reasoning benchmark

Article URL: https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2090786258981466231 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Hacker News dsrtslnd23

Technology Aug 21, 2026

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x

Article URL: https://catalystneuro.com/blog/cost-of-intelligence-drops-100x/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Hacker News bkd9

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Convite

Article URL: https://www.guidavid.com/writing/convite Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387687 Point...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Blue Eye Samurai’s second season will hit Netflix in January

Good news for Blue Eye Samurai fans: Netflix has shared the first trailer and release timeline for the second season of ...

The Verge Jess Weatherbed

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Waymo doubles spending on lobbying in robotaxi battle with Uber

Alphabet-owned company is seeking to persuade US regulators to clear a path for fully autonomou...

Ars Technica Rafe Rosner Uddin in San Francisco and Michael Taffe in New York

Technology Aug 21, 2026

I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases

Article URL: https://lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570 Point...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

We are living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

Article URL: https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2026/08/16/new-worlds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Hacker News speckx

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Senator asks US government watchdog to review how feds use hacking tools

Senator Ron Wyden sent a letter to the U.S. federal watchdog requesting a comprehensive review of how the FBI, DEA, ICE'...

TechCrunch Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older

Article URL: https://github.com/baturyilmaz/agent-office Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387504 Po...

Hacker News arbayi

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

Article URL: https://san.com/cc/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-ohio-man-charged-with-destroying-flock-camera/ Comments U...

Hacker News throw7

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar

Article URL: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2007/07/19/yes-no-cancel-causes-aspirin-sales-to-soar.html Comments URL: http...

Hacker News ankitg12

Technology Aug 21, 2026

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/08/20/duckdb-20-peg-parser Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4938...

Hacker News karma_daemon

Technology Aug 21, 2026

Nothing Doing

Article URL: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/08/10/nothing-doing-12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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Technology Aug 21, 2026

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html Comments URL: https...

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