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Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305927 Points: 135 #…
Racket v9.3

Racket v9.3

Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/racket-v9-3.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49302562 Points: 137 # Comments:…
Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

Article URL: https://getsmall.xyz/post/cmstjfl9l000if70ljmpzr4va Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305558 Points: 146 # Comments: 1…
Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)

Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306196 Points: 141 # Comments: 78…
The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here

Article URL: https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306443 Points: 141 # Comments: …
When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

Article URL: https://weightythoughts.com/p/when-genius-failsthe-intellectual Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299282 Points: 176 #…
The 10 Best Cooling Mattresses for Hot Sleepers (2026)

The 10 Best Cooling Mattresses for Hot Sleepers (2026)

Nothing ruins a great night of sleep faster than getting too hot. We slept on a myriad of cooling mattresses to find which ones drew the heat away bes…
Dear people who work at the airport

Dear people who work at the airport

Article URL: https://life-after-ssri.bearblog.dev/dear-people-who-work-at-the-airport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297801 Poi…
Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300800 Poi…
Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby

One of the big tradeoffs with Xteink's pocket-friendly e-readers is a lack of easy access to ebooks. On a Kindle or Kobo you can download tens of thou…
PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

PBS station fears losing 50TB of data after being ghosted by cloud storage provider

"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars.…
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case

Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.…
US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer

US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer

Study finds wait times for cancer surgeries hit 10-year high.…
You can now just point at a mess and this robot vacuum will suck it up

You can now just point at a mess and this robot vacuum will suck it up

Matic, my current favorite robot vacuum, just got a big upgrade. The company has launched Matic Cues, which brings voice and gesture control to the ro…
Gloomberb

Gloomberb

Article URL: https://gloom.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285982 Points: 250 # Comments: 112…
2K launches new studio to build its ‘next blockbuster sports franchise’

2K launches new studio to build its ‘next blockbuster sports franchise’

2K is launching a new AAA game development studio, Small Axe Studios, with an ambitious goal: to build the company's "next blockbuster sports franchis…
OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.…
Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams

Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams

Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious messages. Earlier this year, Meta…
Ford’s $28,000 Fathom EV nears production after $2 billion factory overhaul

Ford’s $28,000 Fathom EV nears production after $2 billion factory overhaul

Ford said today that its next-generation electric vehicle - recently dubbed Fathom - will go into production at the automaker's recently overhauled Lo…
ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

Article URL: https://openai.com/codex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281916 Points: 244 # Comments: 158…
Nintendo’s next Fire Emblem has a bold new structure

Nintendo’s next Fire Emblem has a bold new structure

Nintendo's first Fire Emblem game for the Switch 2 is structured in an ambitious way. Unlike the well-loved Three Houses, a strategy game that tasked …
Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’

Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’

Surveillance tech company Flock is rolling out updates to address reports of cops across the country abusing its tools to stalk ex-romantic partners a…
Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot

Article URL: https://knownagents.com/insights Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272569 Points: 265 # Comments: 199…
Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died

Article URL: https://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00070-EN.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272655 Points: 262 # Comments…
Grok 4.6

Grok 4.6

Article URL: https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274027 Points: 304 # Comments: 315…
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."…
Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down

A Petlibro outage is preventing its smart pet feeders and other devices from performing scheduled tasks, like dispensing food. The outage began on Tue…
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.

“It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”…
This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off

This 8BitDo mechanical keyboard has an extra keypad and is 30 percent off

If you’re looking for a mechanical keyboard that can give your desk a touch of retro flair, Amazon has 8BitDo’s Retro Mechanical Keyboard with Dual Su…
Made by Google 2026 live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah talk about the Pixel 11

Made by Google 2026 live blog: Let’s watch Trevor Noah talk about the Pixel 11

It's almost time for the Made by Google keynote, where the company will show off the brand-new Pixel hardware it announced today. Like last year, it'l…