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When housing is unaffordable, this artist’s device makes pedaling harder

Justin Blinder had just been laid off when he first came up with the idea for Ground Truth. It was 2020, two weeks before covid lockdown went into effect, and the Brooklyn-based artist and technologis...

The Verge • Aug 15, 2026 • Andrew J. Hawkins
Technology Aug 15, 2026

OpenAI rolling out ads for Europe later this month

Article URL: https://openai.com/policies/eu-privacy-policy-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding

Article URL: https://allen.bargi.org/notes/working-with-ai-feels-like-leadership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

6 Best Apple Watch Accessories to Upgrade Your Watch (2026)

These are the Apple Watch accessories I recommend adding to your setup.

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Instapaper, the Original Read-It-Later App, Just Got a Huge Upgrade

New fonts, better customization, and a whole new layout all make it worth dusting off your Instapaper account.

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Auk Mini 2 Indoor Smart Garden Review: Better Where It Counts

Auk’s Mini 2 improves on the original model with better lights, a sleeker design, and fun new colors.

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Zyzz Was the Original Looksmaxxer. His Rise and Untimely Death Feel More Relevant Than Ever

A new Apple documentary explores the life of Aziz “Zyzz” Shavershian, who rocketed to internet fame in an age before...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Puerto Rico Is Rationing Water. It Could’ve Avoided It by Harvesting Rainwater

The island could capture billions of gallons of water a year if it implemented systems to catch it as it falls from the ...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions

Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00002.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out

When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to tr...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/14/jason-arday-found-dead-after-resigning-from-cambridge-over...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II

Article URL: https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308685 P...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-t...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

"That's not SoC 2 compliant"

Article URL: https://ampcode.com/notes/thats-not-soc-2-compliant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?

In the last 2-3 years, mostly because of AI, keeping up with interesting articles on HN has become harder and harder.Ho...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations

Article URL: https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307700 Poin...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Show HN: Rent vs. buy, backtested across 241 US metros with pinned data

Article URL: https://github.com/assumptionsshown/RunTheNumbers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist

Article URL: https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

The End of Mathematics

Article URL: https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/8/11/the-end-of-mathematics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

AI Driven Testing

Article URL: https://app.deltix.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307099 Points: 5 # Comments: 3

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

Article URL: https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

NSA and IETF, Part 9

Article URL: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260814-update.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306432 Poi...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization

Article URL: https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/16/2d-gaussian-splatting-for-bezier-spline-line-art-vectorizati...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306196 Points: 9 # C...

Technology Aug 15, 2026

Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

Article URL: https://sf.gazetteer.co/corgi-kills-short-lived-website-that-ranked-its-female-employees Comments URL: htt...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

The case for overhauling American science

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/13/the-case-for-overhauling-american-science Comments URL:...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

Article URL: https://getsmall.xyz/post/cmstjfl9l000if70ljmpzr4va Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up

PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's ...