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Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos

Reddit is trying out a new way for people to take in content on Reddit: by turning text posts into audio / video content. As part of an experiment, some posts are being adapted into videos that use AI...

The Verge • Aug 17, 2026 • Jay Peters
Technology Aug 17, 2026

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

Article URL: https://www.repaircafe.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339097 Points: 4 # Commen...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Puppy PPE

Article URL: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Flock cameras haven't improved Atlanta's crime clearance rates

Article URL: https://atlpresscollective.com/2026/07/28/flock-cameras-atlanta-clearance-rates/ Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Article URL: https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493384...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

scScript for Linux

Article URL: https://scapplications.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338428 Points: 4 # Commen...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Nation's Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/climate/lake-powell-record-low-colorado.html Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows

Again, the CDC did not publish a full report and instead simply put the data online. ...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

Article URL: https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

'Buy Now, Pay Later' Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/business/buy-now-pay-later.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Aug 17, 2026

My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

Article URL: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2026-08-18-returning-to-AI/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

What Is El Niño? Here’s What It Means for Weather, Water, and Global Economy

This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. This is what impacts to expect and how bad it could ...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month. Its CEO and some of its staff plan ...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts

“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.” ...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Point...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

ABC’s livestreamed news show is powered by trending topics

ABC News has officially introduced Searched, a livestreamed show that highlights stories people are discussing on social...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it

Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid. ...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

This R-Rated Film Studio Wants to Be the HBO of AI

Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of “sophisticated” spicy content.

Technology Aug 17, 2026

As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value

"Network effect" can run in reverse.

Technology Aug 17, 2026

GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform

Article URL: https://status.cursor.com/incidents/l9h9vrd726jv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493369...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)

Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/brain/Jaynes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336909 Poin...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Supreme Court rejects Verizon bid for $47 million refund of FCC fine

Despite loss, carriers still claim selling device-location data isn't illegal. ...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family?

Article URL: https://beachfront.bearblog.dev/will-you-have-spent-more-of-your-life-with-computers-than-your-family/ Com...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

Article URL: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Three Minutes of Sprinting Beats 90 Minutes of Moderate Exercise

Article URL: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(26)00405-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinking...

Technology Aug 17, 2026

Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21 

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to joi...