Cowboys flashback: Reliving a forgotten thriller from 2007

It is wild how long ago 2007 was.

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

I've spent the last few months working on this codec.It has the following characteristics:- SOTA decompression throughp...

Belkin Charging Grip for Nintendo Switch 2 Review

J-space comparisons across open models

Article URL: https://eliebak.com/viz/jspace-open-v2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922803 Points:...

Denshattack! review

Saturated spectacle can't mask this energetic game's flawsSurprisingly lacking in the trai...

Matt Damon As Odysseus From Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Joins Fortnite Just As Homer Always Dreamed He Would

'Don't give me consolation about death, glorious Odysseus'

Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes eyeing Week 1 return vs. Broncos: 'I don't want to miss that game'

The Chiefs open the season on "Monday Night Football" against the Broncos.

Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents

Hey HN, we’re Nitish and Prateek, the founders of Coasty (https://coasty.ai/computer-use). We’re building computer-...

Tom Holland Says Last Frame of Spider-Man: Brand New Day Will Explain the Movie's Title — and Fans Have Some Exciting Theories for What He Could Mean

Tom Holland has dropped a cryptic tease regarding the ending of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and said that the movie's tit...

Show HN: SirixDB 1.0 Beta – Git-Like Versioning, Diffs, Time-Travel Queries

Hi HN! I've posted SirixDB here before, back in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19834681) and again in 2023 ...

Nat Slipstreaming v2.0 allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP service

Article URL: https://sa.my/slipstream/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922625 Points: 3 # Comments...

Game Dev Explains Why Pictures Of His Sleeping Wife’s Face Became An RPG Boss Fight Monstrosity: ‘Mutual Trolling’

We're relieved to report they're a very happy couple

"Never say never": Criterion aren't ruling out a return to Need For Speed, but Battlefield is their only focus for now

Last week, to mark its 30th anniversary, EA rebranded Criterion as Criterion: A Battlefield Studio. The storied studio ...

PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for July 2026 Confirmed

Sony has confirmed the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for July 2026, which is headlined by Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, ...

When A.I. Is a Member of the Family

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/20/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family Comments URL: https://news...

The age of the Universe from a large sample of the oldest Galactic stars

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00764 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922469 Points: 3 # C...

Poll finds 100% of Japanese online game developers are using AI, though mostly for 'user preference analysis' and 'user behavior prediction'

The report comes courtesy of Japan's Online Game Association. ...

Jon Gruden sounds alarms on football: 'I think the game is dissolving'

Jon Gruden is worried about the state of football, pointing to a lack of QB development before player's turn pro.

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/SEC on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

Article URL: https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-g...

Special police team to investigate killing of an anti-migrant leader in South Africa

The March and March provincial leader died of his injuries in hospital several days after being shot.

Aaron Donald Doesn’t Want To Take Lesser Role If He Returns

Rumors have run rampant about former Rams DT Aaron Donald potentially coming out of retirement following the acquisition...

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal va...

One Piece TCG Scalpers Cause Shortage Of Popular Anime Magazine For The Silliest Reason

One Piece TCG resellers in Japan are flaunting truckloads of Weekly Shonen Jump's latest issue, causing issue 33 to sell...

Daylight saving time is on track to become permanent in the US

The US is one step closer to observing daylight saving time year-round. On Tuesday, the House advanced the Sunshine Prot...

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba...

League of Legends Classic players clash against old-school skin cosmetics, as the faithfulness of the new game mode is called into question

League of Legends Classic has been revealed in earnest by Riot Games. A recreation of an older MOBA experience, League ...

The Duskbloods' promised playtest is happening next month on Switch 2, and it sure looks like getting in will be hard

The lack of news on The Duskbloods - finally ended by June's Nintendo Direct announcement of a playtest - has kept the ...

Denshattack review: one of 2026's best games so far is a racing ruckus of railways, rebellion, and ramen

I fear I’ve authored some kind of Boy Who Cried Wolf situation, vis à vis Denshattack. It’s shown s...

Rams will reveal two more alternate jerseys next Thursday

What type of jersey are you hoping to see in next week’s reveal?