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Read-it-later app Pocket shut down down — here are the best alternatives

Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.

TechCrunch • Aug 14, 2026 • Ivan Mehta, Sarah Perez
Technology Aug 14, 2026

Show HN: Mole – Deep research agent for your terminal

Doing research with agents is fun until they blow way past budget, jumble the sources, and don't even give you the best...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Show HN: Embed a real Linux terminal on your website

Article URL: https://sandbox.bio/training/embed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303027 Points: 4 #...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

The American Sports Plutocracy Is Bullshit

Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-american-sports-plutocracy-is Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping

If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that compu...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation

Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Every fucking website: 2026 edition

Article URL: https://op.tngl.io/every-fucking-website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302737 Poin...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Racket v9.3

Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/racket-v9-3.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft. ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

The X-Files creator Chris Carter wanted to make a more horrific movie

The version of The X-Files: I Want to Believe that premiered in 2008 was not exactly the movie co-writer / director Chri...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Lamborghini’s flagship Revuelto levels up with SV trim

A lot of automakers talk about wanting to minimize or eliminate driver distractions so as to make the experience of driv...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Google’s best new camera feature is only for the Pixel 11 series

Arguably the coolest new photo feature for the Pixel 11 lineup is Google's new Camera Looks, which process image data di...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

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

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate. ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

State judge orders Kalshi to stop offering sports bets and other wagers

Kalshi ordered to stop offering bets in Washington, must implement geofencing. ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars. ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

A Contract-Grade Verifier for LLM-Generated GPU Kernels

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12700 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301417 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam

Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Discrete Fourier Transform by Hand

Article URL: https://www.byhand.ai/p/28-discrete-fourier-transform Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce97mm3vvemo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301260...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Show HN: LuaCAD – Parametric CAD Scripted in Lua

LuaCAD models solids in Lua rather than the OpenSCAD language, with operator overloading for CSG (`a + b`, `a - b`, `a ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the u...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

The Qdrant Output Connector

Article URL: https://opencrawling.org/blog/introducing-qdrant-output-connector.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore â...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file

Technology Aug 14, 2026

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

Article URL: https://rustdesk.com/blog/unattended-remote-access-wayland/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

Technology Aug 14, 2026

France blocks social media ban because it would require adults to prove age

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-court-rules-social-media-ban-curtails-freedom-expression-2026-08...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax

Article URL: https://rayforcedb.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300615 Points: 3 # Comments: ...