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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Optimizer w...

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Technology 1w ago

Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf]

Article URL: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology 1w ago

Plants vs. Zombies for PlayStation 2

Article URL: https://github.com/OptiJuegos/pvz-ps2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035740 Points: ...

Technology 1w ago

Interview with a Maintainer

Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/24/interview-with-a-maintainer.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology 1w ago

AI firms want more data centers; Trump's EPA may give neighbors less say

Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be. ...

Technology 1w ago

PCI DSS DMARC Requirement: What Section 5.4.1 Requires

Article URL: https://dmarcguard.io/blog/pci-dss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035563 Points: 4 ...

Technology 1w ago

My Emacs Configuration (Dired)

Article URL: https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-07-05-my-emacs-configuration-dired.html Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology 1w ago

Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab

Article URL: https://timharek.no/blog/kaizen-4/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035550 Points: 5 #...

Technology 1w ago

OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

Technology 1w ago

Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending

Article URL: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442 Comments URL: https://news...

Technology 1w ago

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

Letter: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-L... [pdf]https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/208064368...

Technology 1w ago

How the God of Israel Was Born

Article URL: https://andreafontana.it/en/birth-god-israel-yahweh-el.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology 1w ago

Patreon laying off 20% of staff

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/jackconte/posts/painful-update-164628951 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology 1w ago

Ah, the Codeberg Drama

Article URL: https://gagliardoni.net/#20260724_codeberg_drama Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490349...

Technology 1w ago

Eight Newly Produced MQ-9 Reaper Drones Destroyed in Iranian Strike

Article URL: https://militarywatchmagazine.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034895 Points: 20 ...

Technology 1w ago

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18 Comments U...

Technology 1w ago

Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system

Seller is a dedicated Marketplace app for people who list and sell items frequently.

Technology 1w ago

Em dashes are fucking amazing

Article URL: https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology 1w ago

Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

Article URL: https://www.bruh.ltd/blog/programming-language-file-extensions-that-match-an-iso-3166-1-alpha-2-country-co...

Technology 1w ago

Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?

Article URL: https://elsewhere.news/en/zhenfund/why-is-programming-so-captivating-yet-so-agonizing Comments URL: https:...

Technology 1w ago

I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year

Article URL: https://www.alexhyett.com/videos/tried-building-app-with-ai-it-took-a-year/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology 1w ago

Whack-a-drone

In Pasadena, California, there's a cute red brick courtyard where one storefront isn't like the rest. The glass doors op...

Technology 1w ago

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

Article URL: https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034292 Points: 15...

Technology 1w ago

German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/german-battery-maker-varta-files-insolvency-applications-2026-07-24/ Comm...

Technology 1w ago

The case for MUDs in modern times

Article URL: https://www.andrewzigler.com/feed/the-case-for-muds-in-modern-times Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology 1w ago

TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU

TikTok has attracted the ire of the European Union over its protection of children who use the video sharing platform. T...

Technology 1w ago

Robot snakes searched for Venezuela earthquake survivors in collapsed buildings

US robotics researchers flew to Venezuela with snakebots after getting a call. ...

Technology 1w ago

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival

Article URL: https://technicshistory.com/2026/07/24/the-ibm-pc-part-1-arrival/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology 1w ago

BenQ TK705STi 4K Projector Review: A Midrange Pick for Gamers

The TK705STi’s highly responsive, low-latency performance makes gameplay ultra-realistic. For movies and TV? It’s a ...

Technology 1w ago

What Is Entropy, Really?

Never mind the “heat death of the universe.” Entropy is just a bridge between two levels of reality.