Technology

Is this e-reader case a gun?

Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol…

2026-07-25

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

Article URL: https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-builds/16891 Comments URL: https://news.y…

2026-07-25

IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center

Article URL: https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033240 Poi…

2026-07-25

‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do wi…

2026-07-24

Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant

Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allo…

2026-07-24

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases…

2026-07-24

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

Article URL: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-us-air-force-fly-ai-controlled-f-16 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021597 Poi…

2026-07-24

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

Article URL: https://learnopengl.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022634 Points: 260 # Comments: 138…

2026-07-24

I regret migrating to Codeberg

Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021856 Points: 303 # Comme…

2026-07-24

Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”…

2026-07-24

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…

2026-07-24

The Beam Engine

Article URL: https://glinscott.github.io/beam-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007221 Points: 260 # Comments: 69…

2026-07-24

Never Enough

Article URL: https://dark.ronacher.eu/2026/7/21/never-enough/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001472 Points: 227 # Comments: 99…

2026-07-24

“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

https://xcancel.com/mkratsios47/status/2079933645888880708 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007610 Points: 252 # Comments: 661…

2026-07-23

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.…

2026-07-23

Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending

The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”…

2026-07-23

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonn…

2026-07-23

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email…

2026-07-23

Back to Kagi

Article URL: https://blog.melashri.net/micro/back-to-kagi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006195 Points: 309 # Comments: 233…

2026-07-23

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.…

2026-07-23

Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.…

2026-07-23

Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.…

2026-07-23

Microsoft is testing free, ad-supported cloud gaming for Xbox Insiders

Xbox Insiders can stream games from their libraries for free in ad-supported streaming sessions starting today. The free streaming sessions are limite…

2026-07-23

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the…

2026-07-23

Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015588 Points: 303 # Comments: 489…

2026-07-23

The Best Vacuum for Pet Hair—We Tested Many to Find Which Ones Work Best (2026)

Cordless, handheld, robot, and traditional—we tested them all to find the vacuum that’s fantastic for fur.…

2026-07-23

22 Back-to-School College Dorm Room Essentials (2026)

Deck out your room and make class a cinch with these WIRED-tested favorites.…

2026-07-23

Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns

Article URL: https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005973 Points: 298 …

2026-07-23

PCjs Machines

Article URL: https://www.pcjs.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992323 Points: 211 # Comments: 30…

2026-07-22

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-thomson-reuters-125-million-to-find-voter-fraud/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48…

2026-07-22