Technology

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/july-jobs-report-unemployment-0d7c08a7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210240 Points: 13 # Comments: 1

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Technology Aug 7, 2026

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

Technology Aug 7, 2026

AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91576086/ai-psychosis-is-the-new-leadership-blind-spot-ai-leadership-blind-spo...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface

We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see. ...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale

Article URL: https://w.on-t.work/web-deployment-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209921 Point...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Trump is losing his war on wind power

A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice

Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice Comme...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/july-2026-jobs-report-rcna591138 Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Why is Everyone in Tech so sad?

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programmin...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

So i've been working on this project since a few days (or months i should say), it's called wyzer (meaning wiser) it's ...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/doge-savings-overstated-watchdog-report-01027797 Comments URL: ht...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

The best classic slasher movie you’ll never watch

Starting with the original in Camp Miasma in 1980, the horror franchise went on to have a long life. There were multiple...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case

Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case

Technology Aug 7, 2026

The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization Comments ...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

Article URL: https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

Technology Aug 7, 2026

3 Best Cheap Gaming Laptops (2026): Lenovo, MSI, Alienware

As gaming laptop prices continue to rise, it’s increasingly difficult to find affordable options that aren’t terribl...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

For roughly an hour this week, Telegram vanished from Apple's App Store. Even during that blip, it was a stunning absenc...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

Article URL: https://textlog.cc/about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208458 Points: 12 # Comments...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kitesurf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208393 Points: ...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-plow-through-big-bend-national-park-sparking-fury-in-texas-12295668 Co...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry

Many young men are driven to resentment and are financially exploited as influencers sell them classes, pills, and the i...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Trying to explain One Night Only’s tech-enforced sex dystopia

From the omnipresent One Night Only trailer, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the movie glosses over its terrifying a...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208314...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

The Hottest New AI Chatbot Is Just a Guy Answering Your Questions

WIRED spoke with Tucker Bryant, an artist and former Google employee who created ChatTJB to get people to reflect on the...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Ratio vs. Simply Good: Which Plastic-Free Coffee Maker Is Best?

Microplastics are in everything, especially your coffee. A new generation of plastic-free drip coffee brewers is trying ...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Show HN: Certo – An open source platform to deliver Open Badges

Certo is open-source infrastructure for issuing, managing, verifying, and exchanging digital credentials.It implements ...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling

Meta has been ordered to pay $567 million in the second phase of New Mexico's landmark child safety case, bringing total...

Technology Aug 7, 2026

Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity

Article URL: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/generative-ai-the-guitar-hero-of-creativity/ Comments URL: https://...