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2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet

At $25,305, you won't find many new cars for less. But you get what you pay for.

Ars Technica • Aug 3, 2026 • Jonathan M. Gitlin
Technology Aug 3, 2026

Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed)

Article URL: https://note.com/hirorohi03/n/n047a8c5f7f8b?hl=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days

Article URL: https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-six...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Twenty Years of Pandoc

Article URL: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate:...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took o...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/podcast/flocks-ceo-wants-zero-wrongful-stops-i-wasnt-the-first Comments URL: http...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Palworld’s expanding to mobile with a new MMORPG

After its 1.0 launch last month, Palworld is coming to iOS and Android with a new open-world MMORPG launching later this...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

A Louisiana launch site would offer several significant advantages.

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Spider-Man and The Odyssey are splitting up IMAX screens after a record-breaking weekend

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is joining The Odyssey in IMAX theaters after both movies led the biggest weekend in box offic...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Samsung’s 2TB 9100 Pro SSD is actually somewhat reasonably priced

Next to buying RAM, finding a fast, high-capacity NVMe SSD at a reasonable price has been a challenge during RAMageddon....

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Devtools must be open source

Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Utah produced more power from solar than any other source in May, a new first

Article URL: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/08/03/utah-sets-solar-power-record/ Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

The Future, Made in China

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/10/the-future-made-in-china Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

Article URL: https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros

Article URL: https://dmarcguard.io/blog/spf-record-syntax/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155626 ...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters

Trump's DOJ says citizens should no longer be able to enforce environmental laws. ...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video

Article URL: https://leoaido.com/how-llms-watch-video/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155555 Poin...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

More than 10 years ago I dropped Google Search because my searches were enshitified and bubble wrapped and quotes stop ...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

Article URL: https://www.intellinews.com/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-germany-for-the-first-time-ever-458379...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Lenovo Googlebook leaks reveal a laptop and 2-in-1 tablet

Lenovo is expected to release some of the first Googlebook models later this year, and leaked images have now given us a...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild

Untitled Goose Game is a tough act to follow. It was a silly experience that captured what I imagine it would feel like ...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered se...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's int...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/03/the-ai-bubble-is-already-popping-we-just-dont-know-it-yet...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

The Potomac River Midair Collision

Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-whirlwind-inside-the-potomac-river-midair-collision-047541...

Technology Aug 3, 2026

Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

Article URL: https://research.jfrog.com/post/sqlite-critical-cves-or-llm-slops/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....