Apple iPhone Duo makes developers think in folds
The October 23 ship date of Apple’s iPhone Duo grows nigh, so developers wanting to optimize their iPhone apps for the foldable will need to get to grips with its new display behaviors and form factor. “A fold is a UI event with backend consequences,” Atharva...
Linux from Scratch
Article URL: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707627 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
AI is fast food for the brain
It’s usually not a good day when your accountant says something that sends a shiver up your spine. Yet this had nothing to do with my finances and everything to do with a decision big technology firms had made that I somehow hadn’t noticed. “It’s incredibly annoying!”...
Root RCE Zero-Day in Cisco Secure Email Gateway Under Active Exploitation
An unauthenticated attacker can exploit CVE-2026-76461 to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying OS with root privileges. The post Root RCE Zero-Day in Cisco Secure Email Gateway Under Active Exploitation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
An Open Heart Rate Monitor
If you spend any time near a gym, you may be familiar with Bluetooth heart rate monitors — a small pack of electronics mounted on a strap round the chest which can relay heart rate data to an external logger or display. We’re pleased to see [Milos Rasic]’s project...
COBOL dev won .Net hackathon with help from AI – and their CIO loves it
The CIO of Australia’s taxation office (ATO) is letting administrative staff use Microsoft’s Copilot for everyday activities, in the hope it pays off by helping them to develop skills, and ideas, that eventually improve its core services. “We are getting AI into the...
Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-executives-say-the-great-fuel-crisis-is-here-b6b32030 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707477 Points: 21 # Comments: 12
Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
I kept hearing "just buy a Mac and run models locally, it pays for itself" and wanted to check. Sunk Cost takes a machine, a model and how many tokens you use a day, and works out how long the hardware takes to pay back against renting the same model by the...
Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/ex-ftc-boss-khan-urges-uncle-sam-to-break-out-the-handcuffs-for-ai-ceos-citing-1934-precedent/5296325 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706223 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
Writing an ESP32 Bluetooth Printer Driver In Two Acts
[Bas BotBerg] wanted to use a portable Bluetooth thermal printer to run off reports on sensor data collected by an ESP32-C3 microcontroller. But as is so often the case these days, the only official way to interface with the printer was through a proprietary...
Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too
When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.
Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input
Microsoft on Monday debuted draft principles for governing how the company will train future AI models, as part of a public consultation process. The Windows biz has solicited feedback to refine its Humanist AI Code of Conduct [PDF], with the expectation of applying...
HBO Max Reddit account compromised to serve ClickFix attacks
Someone compromised the official HBO Max Reddit account and used it to push more than 100 malicious ads serving up ClickFix attacks targeting both Windows and macOS devices with information-stealing malware. A Reddit user uncovered the infostealer ads on September 6,...
I’m not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I’m addicted to information
Article URL: https://explorator.dev/addiction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705868 Points: 48 # Comments: 14
How to use Meta Display glasses while driving with the Audio Only feature
The Meta Display glasses have an Audio Only feature that can detect when you're driving and turn off the display.
Can you use an Apple Pencil with an iPhone?
If you have the right Apple Pencil and iPhone, you can use them together. But it won't be cheap, and there are some limitations to know.
Is the Samsung Galaxy S24 still worth buying?
A refurbished S24 can still be a good deal, but its price needs to be low enough to justify buying a two-year-old phone instead of a newer model.
Show HN: Macros with a Behringer FCB1010 MIDI Pedalboard in macOS
Article URL: https://github.com/JamesRyanATX/fcbnerd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705442 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
LLMs are real, AI is fake
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/god-in-the-box/#llms-are-fake Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705130 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Charts built for Chat
Article URL: https://dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-built-for-chat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704246 Points: 21 # Comments: 5
The EPA wants to stop regulating power plant emissions
If only there were some kind of agency for environmental protection to stop this.
How High-Voltage Current Transformers Monitor the Grid
Being able to monitor voltages and currents is essential for many applications, with the national electrical grid being no exception. The obvious complication here is that the voltages and currents are massively higher than for those other applications, making safely...
How much data does Apple Music use for lossless audio quality?
Apple Music has two Lossless options for maximum audio quality, but they consume significantly more data.
Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
I'm surprised that this didn't get more attention during the Beta period.iOS 26 had a toggle you could select to disable all Apple Intelligence features.That toggle was removed for iOS 27. Every AI feature has to be turned off individually:...
How to use the Windows 11 Media Creation Tool to create a bootable USB drive
The Windows Media Creation tool is easy to use and lets you keep a USB drive handy so you can install Windows 11 anytime you need.
Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Article URL: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/26-1444/26-1444-2026-08-04.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704008 Points: 105 # Comments: 78
Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts
Article URL: https://www.techtimes.co.uk/oracle-new-layoffs-restructuring-costs-2-8-billion-1808676 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49702239 Points: 122 # Comments: 93
Backprop Alternative: Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding
Article URL: https://pub.sakana.ai/pc-alm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49701182 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Wired vs wireless gaming mouse: is there really a difference in performance?
In the past, choosing between a wired and a wireless gaming mouse may have meant accepting a number of tradeoffs. These days, there's very little between them.
ReleasePad Launches MCP Server So AI Agents Can Draft, Publish and Measure Product Changelogs
Miami, United States, September 14th, 2026/TechnologyWire/--ReleasePad, a Changelog Tool, today launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI coding agents such as Claude, Codex, Grok and other LLM's draft, publish and analyze product changelogs directly...