Technology

All the wrong EVs are getting cancelled

These past few weeks have been particularly brutal for the EV industry - and anyone who believes that electric vehicles are the future. Thanks to slowing demand and policy whiplashes, automakers are o...

The Verge • Mar 19, 2026 • Andrew J. Hawkins
Technology Mar 19, 2026

The Original AirPods Max Are $100 Off

Save big on Apple's previous generation premium over-ear headset.

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR ‘for the Foreseeable Future’

A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain availabl...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

The "advanced flow" will be available before verification enforcement begins later this year. ...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

UK's Ofcom has today fined 4chan £450k for not having age checks in place

Article URL: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/4chan-fined-450000-for-not-protecting-c...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD

Article URL: https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/03/19/steam-changes-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Meta rolls out new AI content enforcement systems while reducing reliance on third-party vendors

Meta believes these AI systems can detect more violations with greater accuracy, better prevent scams, respond more quic...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Gauntlet AI (YC S17): Fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give you $200k+ job

Article URL: https://gauntletai.com/apply?utm_src=hackernews Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744277...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

How to Not Pay Your Taxes

Article URL: https://taylor.town/succession-000 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442699 Points: 8 #...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Android: Balancing Openness and Choice with Safety

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html Comments URL: https:...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

US national debt surges past $39 Trillion

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/us-national-deficit-hits-39-million-6ff73495bae701b5c009d3da5515ca3a Comments U...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Prediction markets are trying to lure journalists with partnership deals

Prediction markets are working to ingratiate themselves with mainstream news and culture: The Golden Globes broadcast in...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Google reveals its solution for true Android sideloading: a mandatory waiting period

Google has revealed the "advanced flow" that will be required to install certain Android apps once the company introduce...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Google introduces a new way for users to sideload Android apps that still protects against scams

Google is making Android sideloading easier with a new advanced setting that lets users disable app verification after a...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

A New Game Turns the H-1B Visa System Into a Surreal Simulation

Inspired by real immigrant stories, H1B.Life captures the uncertainty, trade-offs, and pure luck that shape the lives of...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilities

Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https://voltairlabs.com/). We’re making weatherized, hybri...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster

Article URL: https://blog.skypilot.co/scaling-autoresearch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442435...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Despite hardware limits, Parallels supports running Windows on MacBook Neo

"8GB unified memory is the minimum practical configuration."

Technology Mar 19, 2026

A survey on LLMs for spreadsheet intelligence

Article URL: https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/67962 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442297 Point...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Love of corporate bullshit is correlated with bad judgment

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/19/jargon-watch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474422...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Meta is actually keeping its VR metaverse running, for now

Meta is reversing its plans to shut down its VR metaverse - sort of. On Monday, the company announced that it would be s...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

DoorDash launches a new ‘Tasks’ app that pays couriers to submit videos to train AI

Delivery couriers will be able to earn money by completing activities like filming everyday tasks or recording themselve...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

World Happiness Report 2026

Article URL: https://www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441784 Poi...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance

OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Launch HN: Canary (YC W26) – AI QA that understands your code

Hey HN! We're Aakash and Viswesh, and we're building Canary (https://www.runcanary.ai). We build AI agents that read yo...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Epic and Disney now let Fortnite creators make Star Wars games

Epic Games and Disney are making a big announcement as part of their continually deepening relationship. In June, Epic a...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

After 25 years, Valve reworks Counter-Strike's reload system

Full-magazine reloads throw out muscle memory in favor of "higher stakes" decisions. ...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff

I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple s...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB

Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. (We had a ...

Technology Mar 19, 2026

Prompt Injecting Contributing.md

Article URL: https://glama.ai/blog/2026-03-19-open-source-has-a-bot-problem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...