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The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts, and have stopped getting a response. This week, thank...

The Verge • Feb 27, 2026 • Dominic Preston
Technology Feb 27, 2026

Red Dwarf creator Rob Grant has died

Article URL: https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/17193/red-dwarf-rob-grant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border

Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says. ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: What’s actually at stake?

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes question...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Leaving Google has actively improved my life

Article URL: https://pseudosingleton.com/leaving-google-improved-my-life/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading

Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by ma...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Director Gore Verbinksi and screenwriter Matthew Robinson on the making of this darkly satirica...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Everything Larry and David Ellison Will Control If Paramount Buys Warner Bros.

Paramount Skydance’s sprawling media empire will get a major boost if the deal is approved.

Technology Feb 27, 2026

AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Let's discuss sandbox isolation

Article URL: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/52/lets-discuss-sandbox-isolation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

GitHub Copilot CLI downloads and executes malware

Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/github-copilot-cli-downloads-and-executes-malware Comments URL: http...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring an Enterprise Account Executive

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/59yPaCs-enterprise-account-executive-ae Comments URL: htt...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same....

Technology Feb 27, 2026

FedEx promises to refund customers for ‘illegal’ tariffs

FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling that some of President Donald Trump's ta...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount

When Amazon first showed off its redesigned Fire TV OS at CES, we were impressed. It’s faster, better organized, and f...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Writing a Guide to SDF Fonts

Article URL: https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2026-02-26-writing-a-guide-to-sdf-fonts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Block spent $68M on a single party in September 2025

Article URL: https://twitter.com/BullTheoryio/status/2027250361816486085 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183578 Poin...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Don't run OpenClaw on your main machine

Article URL: https://blog.skypilot.co/openclaw-on-skypilot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183503...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Your Device Identity Is Probably a Liability

Article URL: https://smallstep.com/blog/ncsc-zero-trust-device-identity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Robust and efficient quantum-safe HTTPS

Article URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2026/02/cultivating-robust-and-efficient.html Comments URL: https://news.y...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Theory of Constraints: "Blue Light" creating capacity for nothing (2007)

Article URL: http://theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com/2007/06/toc-stories-2-blue-light-creating.html Comments URL: https...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Show HN: SignalCend – API that resolves conflicting IoT device state in 47ms

Article URL: https://signalcend.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183176 Points: 3 # Comments: ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Show HN: Vibe Code your 3D Models

Hi HN,I’m the creator of SynapsCAD, an open-source desktop application I've been building that combines an OpenSCAD c...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

AI music generator Suno hits 2M paid subscribers and $300M in annual recurring revenue

Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to gen...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

747s and Coding Agents

Article URL: https://carlkolon.com/2026/02/27/engineering-747-coding-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

How strong is New York's "illegal gambling" case against Valve's loot boxes?

Lawyers tell Ars the state has a tough road ahead, even as Valve is uniquely vulnerable. ...

Technology Feb 27, 2026

Apple and Netflix team up to air Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix 

As Netflix continues its live sports push, the company has partnered with Apple to air the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix...