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Rivian is finally getting a long-requested feature — and no, it’s not CarPlay

Rivian R1S owners, rejoice. Rivian has heard your pleas for second-row captain's chairs. For years, Rivian owners have lamented the absence of captain's chairs in the R1S, noting that the three-row SU...

The Verge • Aug 13, 2026 • Andrew J. Hawkins
Technology Aug 13, 2026

Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public

Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history ...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

Article URL: https://github.com/fellowgeek/mcp-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286073 Point...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, but Almost No One Is Buying Them

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-3d-models-flood-market-but-almost-no-one-is-buying-them/ Comments URL...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Time to Move On: Querying Without Nulls and Bags

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10863 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49286030 Points: 4 # C...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Gloomberb

Article URL: https://gloom.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285982 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

Technology Aug 13, 2026

We've flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked

Let's shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft.

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index

Article URL: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/conceptual-reasoning-index/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Ordinary Abundance

Article URL: https://ordinaryabundance.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285770 Points: 12 # Co...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

I Built a 500k-Domain Search Engine for Makers in a Weekend for $10

Article URL: https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens

Jacob Fortinsky, the CEO and cofounder of the new prediction market Novig, says his outfit isn’t like those other mark...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Can social media start over? Bluesky’s CEO and COO deliver their case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider is joined by COO Rose Wang for a Disrupt Stage session on whether social media can start ov...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’

Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" in...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/08/12/ai-agents-lie-cheat-and-steal-that-is-putting-off-users Comm...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Nine PBS could lose 70 years of archival materials after cloud vendor defunct

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-after-contra...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

Article URL: https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

My Rules for Using Spreadsheets

Article URL: https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/08/my-rules-for-using-spreadsheets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’

Surveillance tech company Flock is rolling out updates to address reports of cops across the country abusing its tools t...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Nintendo’s next Fire Emblem has a bold new structure

Nintendo's first Fire Emblem game for the Switch 2 is structured in an ambitious way. Unlike the well-loved Three Houses...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

DeepSeek Harness

Article URL: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928524...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

DeepSeek API Pricing Update

Article URL: https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

Article URL: https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

Article URL: https://atg.science/careers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284697 Points: 0 # Commen...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now

The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited. ...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

The Google Pixelsnap Charger With Stand Is 50 Percent Off Right Now

Speedy Qi2 wireless charging in a magnetic puck and stand combo makes Google’s Pixelsnap well worth grabbing at half p...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/some-claude-users-are-mad-that-anthropics-new-watermarks-will-catch-them...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-rapid-atlantic-circulation-2c-slower.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

In a Heat Wave, Schizophrenia Is So Much Deadlier Than Any Other Medical Condition

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

Technology Aug 13, 2026

The 10 Best Cooling Mattresses for Hot Sleepers (2026)

Nothing ruins a great night of sleep faster than getting too hot. We slept on a myriad of cooling mattresses to find whi...