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Your ‘health age’ is fake

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Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home

Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connec...

Technology 2w ago

Training Text-to-Image Models 3.6× Faster

Article URL: https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/jit-ddt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729816 Point...

Technology 2w ago

Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data

War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand. ...

Technology 2w ago

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface

Anthropic is initially releasing these features to Pro and Max plan subscribers.

Technology 2w ago

Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through...

Technology 2w ago

Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/cowork-is-now-claude Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49729412 P...

Technology 2w ago

I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior."

Article URL: https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-normal-user-behavior/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology 2w ago

Code Is Crap

Article URL: https://testing.googleblog.com/2011/02/this-code-is-crap.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology 2w ago

Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks

The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other facto...

Technology 2w ago

How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly 

“Why do I have to beg my grandparents to put on their hearing aids, but no one has ever needed to ask me to put on my ...

Technology 2w ago

Hear why Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak says the screen era is ending at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At this year's Disrupt, Neuralink's co-founder Max Hodak will present a vision for screen-free interfaces that can even ...

Technology 2w ago

Small Programming Tricks

Article URL: https://will-keleher.com/posts/small-programming-tricks-matter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: SeasonMap – when to travel where? visualized with climate data

Author here. I'm trying to visit every country and I've been to 158 so far.Before I decide where to travel, I'd ask a l...

Technology 2w ago

Can we stop with the uptime percentages?

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/stop-with-the-uptime-percentage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology 2w ago

Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now

Article URL: https://www.autism.org.uk/blog/autism-is-genetic-%E2%80%93-and-why-this-information-matters-now Comments U...

Technology 2w ago

May Mobility is going public in a $1.4B SPAC deal

The deal could net the asset-light robotaxi company more than $300 million in funding.

Technology 2w ago

What happens when neutrinos swap identities inside a supernova?

Identity-fluid particles may carry some energy out, leading to direct collapse. ...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: Free WhatsApp MCP (+UI) – Give Your AI Agents Access to WhatsApp

Hi,I built Chat-Man because I wanted a cheap way to give my agents access to WhatsApp without integrating a WhatsApp li...

Technology 2w ago

Robots are waiting for a ChatGPT moment: Nvidia’s Les Karpas explains why at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The robotics industry is still waiting for their breakthrough into day-to-day life. Nvidia's Les Karpas has an answer as...

Technology 2w ago

macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review

It's both a "Snow Leopard update" and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.

Technology 2w ago

Google says some Pixel phone owners were hacked in zero-day attacks

The Pixel phone maker said there are indications that a bug in the phone's modem "may be under limited, targeted exploit...

Technology 2w ago

The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here

Security researcher Matthew "Zigula" Gore-Kormanik was analyzing a fraudulent dating app called Dora when he got a pop-u...

Technology 2w ago

Xreal’s well-rounded 1S glasses are back down to their lowest price

USB-C-connected video glasses are a lot of fun if you want to see your games, movies (or just your computer screen) on a...

Technology 2w ago

Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6n07ypqz8kzo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727...

Technology 2w ago

The DeepMind Institute

Article URL: https://institute.deepmind.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727659 Points: 10 # C...

Technology 2w ago

Amazon gives its workers a raise of $1 per hour

Amazon's investment in these raises comes out to over $1.5 billion, or about 0.06% of its $2.68 trillion market cap.

Technology 2w ago

PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

Article URL: https://frvr.com/blog/news/ps5-linux-lead-quits-as-open-source-projects-have-become-a-bunch-of-noobs-using...

Technology 2w ago

Anatomy of a Texture

Article URL: https://agentlien.github.io/texture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727592 Points: 7...

Technology 2w ago

A warning about 'model welfare'

Article URL: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...