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

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

Ars Technica • Aug 14, 2026 • Kyle Orland
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: ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

AI by Hand

Article URL: https://www.byhand.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300568 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs

Article URL: https://mib-viewer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300419 Points: 3 # Comments: ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

"Solving a largely imaginary user goal"

Article URL: https://unsung.aresluna.org/solving-a-largely-imaginary-user-goal/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Google Is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption

Article URL: https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/ Commen...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Show HN: Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%

Article URL: https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299985 Points: 5 # ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

AV1 vs. AV2: Which Video Codec Should You Use in 2026?

Article URL: https://www.red5.net/blog/av1-vs-av2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299970 Points: ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

R-rated director's cut of X-Files film restores Chris Carter's original horror vision

Chris Carter chats with Ars about the film he originally wanted to make—and why it's more rel...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Introducing Toast 1

Article URL: https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/toast-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299746 Points...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4929968...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Qwen3.8-27B

Article URL: https://twitter.com/alibaba_qwen/status/2088280182356611304 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Seven books I keep close because I love them

Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/2026/08/02/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299675 Points: 9 ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Taylor Farms' connections to Trump admin spurs probe into Cyclospora response

Senator Warren questions whether Taylor Farms' influence swayed Trump admin. ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS

Article URL: https://kukuroo.cc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299667 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299605 Po...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

2025 GOTY Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is down to $33

For RPG fans who dig Persona-style turn-based action and who are pursuing games with original stories and fantastic tune...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Earth.nullschool.net

Article URL: https://earth.nullschool.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299364 Points: 3 # Comm...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

Article URL: https://weightythoughts.com/p/when-genius-failsthe-intellectual Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Every Fucking Website

Article URL: https://lxe.github.io/everywebsite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299222 Points: 23...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions. ...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph

Article URL: https://run.cosmograph.app/public/ca9fd1ad-fe83-4238-8b69-b707c633aef0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

Article URL: https://heyjonny.dev/posts/rss-to-eink-newspaper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299...

Technology Aug 14, 2026

Show HN: APIMart: Discounted AI API Aggregator for GPT-5, Sora 2

Article URL: https://apimart.ai/register?aff=yScTCM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299000 Points:...