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Over half a million power tool batteries have been recalled due to a USB-C charging fire risk

Greenworks Tools has issued a recall for around 554,780 Kobalt-branded power tools designed for yard work because of a battery issue "posing a risk of serious injury from fire hazard." There have been...

The Verge • Jul 17, 2026 • Andrew Liszewski
Technology Jul 17, 2026

Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time

Article URL: https://honeypotlive.cc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947548 Points: 6 # Comments:...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs

Xbox is currently in a "reset" period that includes laying off around 3,200 employees over the next year, involving deep...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

Article URL: https://improvesomething.today/responses-to-problems/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

The manosphere’s testosterone fever is coming for the troops

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the lat...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Article URL: https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-17-which-lisp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947455 ...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Conspiracy Theorists Think Trump’s Speech Paves the Path to the Insurrection Act

Election deniers have spent years promoting the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. They believe Donald Trump’s sp...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

More Bounce to the Ounce – By Maciej Cegłowski

Article URL: https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/more-bounce-to-the-ounce Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum

Article URL: https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947184 Point...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Even Microsoft couldn’t make Windows 11 work well on 8GB of RAM

Last year, Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks. At $90...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/manufact/jobs/Dh6PYP5-senior-infrastructure-engineer Comments URL: h...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Multi-Primary Color Display Emerges as Next-Gen Color Reproduction Technology

Article URL: https://en.ubiresearchnet.com/multi-primary-color-display-technology-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Minikotlin

Article URL: https://minikotlin.run Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946783 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Trump is selling high-speed access to his market-moving Truth Social posts

Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is selling Wall Street faster access to the "most market-moving" posts on ...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

VulnHunter: Capital One's agentic AI code security tool

Article URL: https://www.capitalone.com/tech/open-source/announcing-vulnhunter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal

A $400 million chip-backed loan points to the next wave of AI infrastructure deals.

Technology Jul 17, 2026

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving. ...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize

Article URL: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423 Comments URL: https://n...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals

FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company. ...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2

Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Rocket Report: India's Vikram-1 nears debut flight; AST to become rocket company?

"We have done everything that could be done to test Vikram-1 on ground."

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Valve Steam Machine Review: A Compromised Console

Great for indie darlings, but Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo remain kings of TV gaming.

Technology Jul 17, 2026

The war on ‘woke science’ comes for space research

The Trump administration is waging a culture war on science, and the latest salvo is in the form of a dry, bureaucratic ...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars

I receive an AWS Budgets alert that my budget is exceeding the alert threshold. Threshold is 5$. Forecasted amount is l...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Just got an AWS billing alert projecting my monthly cost at $140B

This has to be a bug. My usual monthly S3 bill is only $2–3. Has anyone else received a strange billing estimate toda...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

Panasonic Japanese Microwave Review (2026): True 1-Button Cooking

The Japanese Microwave measures food temperature directly, and stops cooking when food’s hot. It’s kinda terrific.

Technology Jul 17, 2026

A $10K Bounty Aims to Make Sony’s PlayStation 5 a Computer Again

Nice PlayStation you got. Bet it could probably run Linux too.

Technology Jul 17, 2026

God Of War TV series is recasting Kratos

Amazon's upcoming God Of War show has hit a major snag - it's now on the hunt for a new Kratos, after an on-set injury p...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from...