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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

Article URL: https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583 Points: 61 # Comments: 21

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How Teen ‘After-Prom’ Kings in LA Monetized the High School Rager

The West Coast house-party scene has long been iconic. For these young, tech-savvy entrepreneurs, it was also inspiratio...

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Sennheiser’s new Momentum 5 earbuds feature easily replaceable batteries

Sennheiser announced the next version of its flagship wireless earbuds with a major redesign focusing on sustainability....

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Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users

Binance's Agent OS works with tools including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.

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LG’s new OLED breakthrough can boost display lifespans

LG Display has unveiled a new OLED manufacturing method that reportedly results in panels that are brighter, longer-last...

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Salmonella Is Everywhere

From granola to guacamole, a wide variety of foods have been recalled lately over salmonella risks. Experts say common-s...

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Don't Paste the AI, please

Article URL: https://dontpastetheai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371857 Points: 60 # Comme...

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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030825-00/?p=42803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

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Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/asana/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370862 Points: 12 # C...

Technology Aug 20, 2026

Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260818-00/?p=112621 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

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Turns are Better than Radians

Article URL: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/turns-are-better-than-radians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

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NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this yea...

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Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

Article URL: https://fetzu.ch/blog/20260819_claudevsdrobo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368911 ...

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Universality of Gradient Descent Neural Network Training

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13664 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368828 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Aug 19, 2026

Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny

Article URL: https://www.kmbc.com/article/gardner-kansas-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers-privacy/73468724 Comments ...

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Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because...

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Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust

Article URL: https://schipper.ai/posts/technical-leaders-should-have-the-largest-ai-exhaust/ Comments URL: https://news...

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Elon Musk Is Expected to Point His Money Machine at Texas

Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk is expected to spend up to $200 million in the midterms. It could be a big boost for G...

Technology Aug 19, 2026

The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector

Article URL: https://www.bram.us/2026/08/20/the-future-of-css-target-multiple-classes-with-the-class-prefix-selector/ C...

Technology Aug 19, 2026

Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?

HoverAir drones always have intriguing gimmicks. This one folds flat to fit in your pocket. This one can land on water. ...

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Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities

The next-generation robotaxi called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's push towards mass scale, and eventually,...

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OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterpris...

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Collaborative Human Agent Protocol (CHAP)

Article URL: https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367836 Points: 4...

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Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026

US residents face trade-offs as delivery drone services such as Prime Air expand. ...

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Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition. SpaceX has already acquired Cursor as it races to cat...

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Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’

After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have ...

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Anthropic Refuses to Support Agents.md

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/6235 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a

Article URL: https://os8088.com/spotlight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367256 Points: 8 # Comm...

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DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

Article URL: https://inco.ai/blog/dflash2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366792 Points: 9 # Comm...

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Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops

Framework says it's replacing some out-of-warranty AMD mainboards.