Cyberattack sends International Meteor Organization crashing back to Earth
The International Meteor Organization (IMO) is watching for fireballs again, but much of its website remains offline after a cyberattack that it says will take weeks to recover from. The Belgium-based nonprofit, which coordinates meteor observations and brings...
How to fix Outlook’s “Your message can’t be displayed right now” error
When Outlook runs into issues, whether on the web or its desktop version, you can fix them and get back to your mail.
A list of 1,325 AI assisted repositories, mined from GitHub
Article URL: https://github.com/ActuallyTaylor/strata/blob/main/paper/data/large/datasets/ai-assisted-repositories.csv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697727 Points: 8 # Comments: 6
Top 5 AI Code Review Tools 2026
Top 5 AI Code Review Tools 2026 Go to Source AI reviewing AI? What could possibly go wrong?Well, for starters, the biggest issue here is bias. If a model has written the code, it probably shouldn’t be the one doing the review. Then...
Why mouthfeel is trending globally in the food and beverage industry
Texture is having a crunchy, gooey moment in the food and beverage industry.For many people, the way a menu item or packaged snack feels in the mouth has become as big a draw as flavor, although consumers don’t always recognize the part texture plays in their cravings...
Phone makers ditched 3.5mm for USB-C, but which one offers better audio quality?
Working out whether to invest in headphones with a 3.5mm jack or USB-C connector can be tricky. Turns out, there's a lot more to it than how you plug them in.
⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, WeChat Worm, PaperCut Attacks, AI Espionage, and Rootkits
AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed up exploits, test defenses, and automate more of the job. Some models are also crossing lines on their own. That is not a great combination. The rest of the week is more familiar: old bugs still...
Sources say Automattic’s board is out after failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg
Automattic’s board is out, days after its members voted to put chief executive Matt Mullenweg on leave, sources tell TechCrunch.
Fly Brain Connectome Used to Trade Stocks and Play Games
Recently researchers finished mapping the central nervous system (CNS) connectome of not just the female Drosophila melanogaster (i.e. fruit fly) brain, but also that of the male D. melanogaster for a comparative analysis. Here the sexually dimorphic changes turned...
What’s the biggest IMAX theater in the world? It depends who you ask
Working out which movie theater hosts the world's biggest IMAX screen can be quite confusing. It all comes down to whether you want a true IMAX experience.
NBKR Signs CertiK to Secure Kyrgyzstan’s Digital Som Ahead of a December Pilot Deadline
NBKR Signs CertiK to Secure Kyrgyzstan's Digital Som Ahead of a December Pilot Deadline Go to Source Nine days ago the president of Kyrgyzstan gave his central bank a deadline: build a working digital som platform and pilot it by 31...
Rocket Lab calls foul on Blue Origin’s $700M Mars comms contract
Blue Origin is getting a taste of its own medicine after Rocket Lab filed a formal protest over NASA's decision to award Jeff Bezos' space biz a contract worth up to approximately $700 million to build the agency's Mars Telecommunications Network. NASA issued the...
Six Lessons From Building an AI-Powered Marketplace Search Engine
Six Lessons From Building an AI-Powered Marketplace Search Engine Go to Source Two years ago, searching a large marketplace catalogue in anything other than English or Chinese was close to useless. Type a plain description of what you...
RubyGems Open Source Supply Chain Security and OpenAI
Article URL: https://rietta.com/blog/rubygems-supply-chain-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697666 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Graphic Rants: Nanite Tessellation
Article URL: http://graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nanite-tessellation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697444 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Where has Construction Automation been successful?
Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/where-has-construction-automation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697235 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/h-1b-visa-us-government Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697171 Points: 35 # Comments: 21
Understanding FlashAttention Pt 1: Personal Notes
Article URL: https://chizkidd.github.io//2026/09/13/flashattention/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697046 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
If you're building an AI company, the question isn't whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It's whether your company will continue creating value as they do. The greatest risk isn't building a weak product — it's building a strong one that eventually...
Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama
Article URL: https://patrickmccanna.net/notes-on-migrating-large-prompts-away-from-anthropic-openai-to-self-hosted-llms/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49697014 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Emmy Awards 2026 livestream: How and when to watch
It’s hard to believe in the golden age of streaming, but television used to be looked down upon by movie stars. These days the boundaries between the art forms barely exist—just ask the cast of the hit Apple TV series The Studio. Tonight (Monday, September 14, 2025),...
Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work
Fathom said that it has over 400,000 monthly active users
5 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The last day to apply for an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on Sept 18. Just 5 days left. Secure your spot on the Expo Hall floor and put your business in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders.
People Who Can’t Picture Anything Are Rewriting the Science of Imagination
Article URL: https://dailyneuron.com/aphantasia-mental-imagery-brain-network/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696453 Points: 17 # Comments: 7
Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Article URL: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-rust-coreutils-complete Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696697 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026)
In November and December 2025, inspired by Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark, I had some then-current LLMs create SVGs from thirty similar prompts, such as “Generate an SVG of an octopus operating a pipe organ.” Simon mentioned that experiment on his...
Trump’s mail ballot order gets blocked again by a federal judge. Here’s what comes next
A federal judge late Sunday ordered that the U.S. Postal Service not implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail balloting, adding another obstacle to the administration’s effort to rewrite election rules as the Supreme Court is poised to weigh in...
Hear how AI can engineer nature’s comeback at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Not long ago, bringing an extinct species back to life belonged to science fiction. Today, it’s the mission of a billion-dollar startup. Advances in artificial intelligence, genetics, and computational biology are changing what’s possible in conservation research,...
Will GTA 6’s Ultimate Edition be worth the extra cost? Here’s what it’ll come with
Many have paid the extra $20 for the GTA6 , but there's no rush to join them.
Perfect-10 GitLab bug under attack days after patch lands
CISA says attackers are exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab flaw that lets unauthenticated miscreants read arbitrary files from vulnerable servers after the code shack released fixes on September 10. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added...