Edison Motors Offering All-Mechanical Trucks, At Least to Start
We’ve been following Canadian startup Edison Motors for some time now, but their latest offering caught us a bit off guard– their BDE-sieries truck will be offered first without the electric hybrid drive that first peaked our interest. They make a good case for why in...
PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history
Article URL: https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2026/08/17/prime-minister-carney-announces-largest-clean-energy-investment-north Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339577 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items
Article URL: https://www.repaircafe.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339097 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Cursor Origin
Article URL: https://cursor.com/docs/origin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49339359 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
Puppy PPE
Article URL: http://amosdudley.com/weblog/Designing-PPE-for-Hilde Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338953 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Stop paying for smartphone storage you don’t need – here’s a better approach
How to stop wasting money on storage: Think in dollars, not gigabytes.
Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B
The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.
scScript for Linux
Article URL: https://scapplications.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338428 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Article URL: https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338459 Points: 97 # Comments: 76
Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows
https://archive.ph/cD5hF Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338404 Points: 31 # Comments: 38
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Are web coders losing their respect for standards? A recent review of the world’s largest sites suggests so. ValidateHTML, a project by independent French developer Théo Ducreux, examined the contents of the 5,000 most widely used web domains, as estimated by the...
One Man’s Perfect Retro-Style Monitor Takes All Inputs
Perfection is an inherently subjective measure, in that one must choose the criteria against which to measure. A perfect circle is an absolutely rubbish octagon, for example. So when you see that [RetroBuiltGames] declares that he has built “the perfect multi-input...
Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Article URL: https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338459 Points: 44 # Comments: 26
Nation’s Largest Reservoirs Are Drying Up, Threatening Life in the Southwest
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/climate/lake-powell-record-low-colorado.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338404 Points: 13 # Comments: 13
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338328 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Article URL: https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
AI Coding Tip 032 – Build a Dark Factory Pipeline
Build a factory where no human needs to work, keep the code coming, and place regular human audits. TL;DR: Run your pipeline like a dark factory: automated, sampled, and policed by an adversarial model. Common Mistake ❌ You let one model write a pull request, then...
74 Blog Posts To Learn About Learn Programming
Let's learn about Learn Programming via these 74 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Learning programming involves acquiring skills to...
LLMs Can’t Jump and They Shouldn’t Have To
A position paper by Google DeepMind researcher Tom Zahavy, LLMs can't jump, makes a specific claim about the limits of current AI: models are good at induction (finding patterns in data), increasingly good at deduction (formal logic and proof), and bad at abduction —...
The Sodax Guide to Redesigning Tokenomics Around Growth and Bringing It to Traders Worldwide
A long-time ICX holder opens their Kraken account, sees the migration banner for ICX to SODA, and is welcomed through without lifting a finger. No seed phrase to write down, no browser wallet to install first. SODAX's Head of Marketing, David, has described...
How to Replace Your Agent’s Generic Taste With Your Own
Ask a coding agent to design a SaaS product and you can usually predict what arrives: cream or near-black background, muted orange button, serif headline, centered hero, three feature cards, rounded corners everywhere and, of course, a sparkle icon for AI.You did not...
I Ran the Same Anime Character Through Meshy Multiview and Single-Image 3D
Multi-image input was a user request long before it was a shipped feature. Scroll the feature-request threads on almost any image-to-3D project and the same ask keeps surfacing, usually with the same reasoning attached: one picture can't carry the proportions, and it...
How We Measure Whether an AI 3D Model Actually Matches Your Image
Two years ago, testing an image-to-3D model meant looking for the obvious failures: a mesh with a hole in it, a character with three arms, a shape that made no sense. Those failures are now rare across the leading models, and the question worth asking has changed....
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How Much Predictive Signal Is Hidden in a Chess Opening? (8/17/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 17, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, NBS Dedicated SWAC Computer in 1950, World's First Transatlantic Balloon Flight completed in 1978,...
Why flash drive capacity keeps increasing (and why small drives are rarely sold today)
While smaller drives can certainly still be found, there's a good reason why you don't often find them on retailers' shelves.
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay, which offered businesses workflow automation, will stop operating next month. Its CEO and some of its staff plan to get to work on Google Chrome next.
The Origin of Consciousness (2008)
Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/brain/Jaynes.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336909 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects
GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and...
Siemens and Reinhausen turn up the voltage for hungry AI racks
Siemens and fellow German engineering biz Reinhausen are developing a solid-state transformer (SST) to deliver 800-volt DC power directly to increasingly dense AI datacenter racks. As AI hardware grows hotter and hungrier, server farm operators are looking to overhaul...
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
Payments biz Stripe has reportedly finalized an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for at least $7 billion, signaling a shift in focus for the AI industry. OpenRouter provides a way for customers to integrate multiple AI models into their workflow and infrastructure and...