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DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

Article URL: https://status.digdir.no/incidents/d7hvqmf2yr3l Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160631 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

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Technology Aug 3, 2026

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in un...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real

Article URL: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real Comments URL: ...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

Technology Aug 3, 2026

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Top scores increased by 5x.

Technology Aug 3, 2026

KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

Article URL: https://github.com/SwagSoftware/KisakCOD Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159970 Point...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of use...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of del...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/zx-spectrum-system-tour-sound/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app h...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

WhatsApp says it is is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after ...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Europe’s AI labeling and transparency rules are now in effect

The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and A...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/billable-usage-api/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915871...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

The first-gen Kindle Scribe is a big e-reader and digital notebook that’s $150 refurbished

The Kindle Scribe is worth considering if you’re heading back to school, as its large 10.2-inch screen can display tex...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

Article URL: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-r...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Article URL: https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158333 Points...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

Article URL: https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158287 Points...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

Technology Aug 3, 2026

SearXNG in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158141 Poin...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying o...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite (https://hoplite.sh). Hoplite lets you deploy coding agents in the c...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC

Building on its recently announced plans to bring original Xbox games to PC, Microsoft is also planning to let developer...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action ite...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

Hi HN! We’re Theodore and Louis, founders of Armature (YC P26). We reconstruct the entire session behind the MCP tool...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?

Article URL: https://epoch.ai/MirrorCode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157786 Points: 15 # Comme...