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Genesis joins the giant electric SUV club with new GV90

A retractable screen, a huge heads-up display, and an optional 4-seat VIP interior.

Ars Technica • Aug 20, 2026 • Jonathan M. Gitlin
Technology Aug 20, 2026

Slack Code

Article URL: https://www.salesforce.com/introducing-slack-code/?bc=HL Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyq011414eo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374920...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30

Article URL: https://elliptic-rank.icarm.cloud/curve/273 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374873 Po...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

I have been using omarchy on my tower since nearly a year now, shortly after it was released first. I really love the e...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Bun 1.4

Article URL: https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374797 Points: 41 # Com...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch

Seven months after Elon Musk announced that Tesla Robotaxis in Austin were operating without human safety monitors onboa...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Hacking with Claude on a $27 Smart Watch

Article URL: https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2026/08/19/hacking-with-claude-on-a-27-smart-watch.html Comments URL: htt...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter

Article URL: https://stwipe.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374738 Points: 70 # Comments: 9

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect

Comcast announced a new platform this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the option to let customers turn their ro...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

This tiny guitar amp is the most unhinged distortion pedal I’ve ever used

Is Amp Crash a guitar amp or a guitar pedal? Yes. Death By Audio's latest is, in fact, both. While it's in a guitar peda...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Welcome to the AI crisis in math

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

We played The Duskbloods, the Switch 2’s wildest new exclusive

The Duskbloods is a world away from the approachable games Nintendo is known for. But for its next Switch 2 exclusive, t...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

FromSoftware can do anything

There's something just a little bit different about FromSoftware's office in Tokyo. Like with any other successful video...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis

What's in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste

The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Every Model Cheats

Article URL: https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive-cyber-ta...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Index of the best vibe coding tools

Article URL: https://www.vibeleaderboard.ai/tools Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374599 Points: 5...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Apollo Atomics wants to make nuclear power cheaper by shrinking an overlooked part

Y Combinator alumnus Apollo Atomics is shrinking a key nuclear reactor part, which promises to slash the cost of electri...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

CI jobs artifacts should not be difficult

Article URL: https://deadsimpleci.sparrowhub.io/doc/job-artifacts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

I Spent Twenty Years Becoming Good at the Wrong Game

Article URL: https://savvynormie.com/i-spent-twenty-years-becoming-good-at-the-wrong-game/ Comments URL: https://news.y...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

DJI Osmo fans are breaking the shackles of its closed-source camera app

Even if you love DJI's drones and cameras, you might not love the company's bloated closed-source apps that phone home t...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Reverse-lookup service exposed millions of photos of people’s faces

People-search tool ClarityCheck left database containing more than 9M image files exposed. ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374287 Points: 18 # ...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Malicious Rust Crate Arrayref Runs a Build-Time Payload

Article URL: https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Canonical Backs New Project to Translate Large C Codebases into Safe Rust

Article URL: https://linuxiac.com/canonical-backs-new-project-to-translate-large-c-codebases-into-safe-rust/ Comments U...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

NASA gives up on trying to rescue the Swift telescope

Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water....

Technology Aug 20, 2026

UK internet age checks have boosted rogue adult sites, says Pornhub

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/295c2eba-da29-434d-84e0-e9de3b0b1cc2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

AI data giant Alation confirms cyberattack

The data search and AI giant confirmed unauthorized access to its systems during an incident on Tuesday, and said it was...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail. ...