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The Job Interview Tattoo Guy Everyone Got Mad at Finally Explains Himself

LemonLime cofounder Jordan Zietz hears your criticism loud and clear. That’s why he got his startup’s logo tattooed on his shoulder.

Wired • Aug 12, 2026 • Kate Taylor
Technology Aug 12, 2026

Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News

Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s ju...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algo...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Show HN: Woxi - Open-source Mathematica / Wolfram Language reimplementation

Woxi is an interpreter for the Wolfram Language written in Rust.It comes with Woxi Studio, a Mathematica-like GUI built...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Tim Gowers: What sort of maths are LLMs good at?

Article URL: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/what-sort-of-maths-are-llms-good-at/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

My favorite nonfiction animal books that make you go holy shit

Article URL: https://bookdna.com/best-books/nonfiction-animal-books-that-make-you-go-holy-sht Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware

Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing ...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privac...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

FEMA's ‘Shadow Administrator’ Was Paid by a DOGE Member's Startup for Months

Details from recent court filings show that DOGE's influence within government—and potential conflicts of interest—e...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Reservoir raises $8M to make water heaters that people — and the grid — will actually want

Reservoir has built an ultra-efficient water heater that can predict hot water demand, store energy, and detect plumbing...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696 Co...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland

Article URL: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/beef-and-dairy-drive-41-of-biodiversity-damage-linked-to-global-far...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putti...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Dutch Train Map Simulator

Article URL: https://spoorkaart.zaza.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269641 Points: 11 # Comme...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

8 Great Deals From Patagonia’s Past-Season Sale

Summer’s not over yet; pick up some new gear for that last Labor Day trip. Save up to 40 percent on some of our favori...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

A Candidate Named ‘Count Binface’ Is the Most Normal Part of This Pivotal UK Election

Clacton's parliamentary race has it all: Nigel Farage, a man dressed as a trash can, a Union Jack bikini, white national...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials

Hey HN, we're Advaith and Akash from Discovered Materials ( https://discoveredmaterials.com/ ). We build AI agents tha...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-large-scale-link-crime-unauthorized.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nww2qlp7o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268697...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000

Article URL: https://www.cringebot3000.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268564 Points: 4 # Com...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

llama.cpp

Article URL: https://llama.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267928 Points: 19 # Comments: 4

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Dropbox, loved by the masses, a shareholder dead end

Article URL: https://s-1.vercel.app/posts/why-dropbox-is-a-obvious-pe-target/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand

Yulu aims to have a fleet of 200,000 bikes in the next two years and faster electric two-wheelers, aiming at new logisti...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

CVE-2026-53361 AF_Unix GC vs. MSG_PEEK use-after-free container escape

Article URL: https://github.com/sgkdev/bad_garbage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267550 Points: ...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

DARPA heavy lift challenge ends with winner at a 3.84:1 payload to weight ratio

Article URL: https://dronexl.co/2026/08/10/darpa-lift-challenge-results-avidrone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

The Human Is the Loop

Article URL: https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/the-human-is-the-loop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/ Comments U...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

The lifesaving secret hidden inside a horseshoe crab's blue blood

Article URL: https://whdh.com/news/the-lifesaving-secret-hidden-inside-a-horseshoe-crabs-blue-blood-and-the-race-to-pro...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner

Article URL: https://newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-police-officer-accused-of-using-flock-cameras-to-track-and-follow-...

Technology Aug 12, 2026

Gen Z has rediscovered the joy of going to the movies

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/11/gen-z-has-rediscovered-the-joy-of-going-to-the-movies Comment...