Final Fantasy VII Revelation launches on April 8, 2027
Final Fantasy VII Revelation is the third in a trilogy of remakes that each cover a portion of the original PS1 game.
New report: El Niño 2026 is now the strongest in 1,000 years. Here’s what that means for your winter forecast
El Niño is now the strongest it has been in 1,000 years, according to new research from the University of Michigan, which reconstructed ocean surface temperatures over the last millennium by looking at fossilized corals in the Galápagos Islands. The study, published...
ChatGPT and Codex Is Down
Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/codex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550640 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
This EPA proposal on data centers could leave the public in the dark about air pollution
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States and transformed the midterm election landscape.The EPA proposal...
Apple has a hardware guy as CEO. Here’s what people want him to do
Apple’s new CEO John Ternus wrote “hello” in his first X post on Tuesday after taking the helm from former CEO Tim Cook, and his replies were immediately inundated with with requests for products and product design changes. It makes sense. He’s a hardware guy. A...
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidance
Salesforce was unable to improve its margin forecasts because of the dollars it is spending on Claude tokens, an investor conference heard last week. As an example of how heavily the CRM giant is investing in its own AI capabilities to build products for customers,...
Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM
A decade or two ago, board executives asked "why should I care about cybersecurity?" Five years ago, they were asking "Are you patching our software vulnerabilities?" Now, they're starting to ask: "Are we actually secure?" They might want a simple 'yes' or 'no'...
Dyson’s new gigantic air purifier looks like a sandworm from Dune
Dyson just announced three new robovacs, but the most eye-catching launch is the giant air purifier.
Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often. WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in...
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex
Article URL: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550886 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Codex Is Down
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28756 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550769 Points: 28 # Comments: 12
Gen Z doesn’t want to go to college. This startup school wants to fix that—by ditching clubs, sports, and dining halls
Arguably, the most memorable parts of college have nothing to do with education. Participating in clubs, rooting for your team at athletic events, and making friends over food at the dining hall are likely among the fondest memories for alumni of any four-year...
ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614 Points: 125 # Comments: 60
Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond
Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-year-old-walk-to-the-pond/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550174 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn’s Atmosphere
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-spot-an-uncannily-geometric-10-sided-structure-in-saturns-atmosphere Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549877 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang vows to keep Hugging Face ‘an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem’
Nvidia Corporation announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. While rumors and speculation about Nvidia’s potential play had been swirling for weeks, the chipmaker has now made it official. Hugging...
Cannabis consumers are no longer stoner stereotypes. Not all brands are marketing accordingly
When it comes to marijuana, millennials may be the last generation of Americans to grow up when Amsterdam still had a whiff of the mystical. For those who were cannabis-curious in the ‘90s and early-aughts, Amsterdam represented an impossible dreamland where one could...
Trump loves data centers, voters don’t. Of course he’s doubling down right before the midterms.
Americans don’t agree about much in 2026, but a majority are in lockstep on data centers. According to recent polling, a full 75% oppose having one built anywhere near them, a number within striking distance of the 84% of Americans who oppose cutting Social Security. ...
Lego’s near 1:1 PlayStation set launches on October 1
The detailed Lego replica of the first PlayStation console also features two miniature dioramas of classic PlayStation games.
ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click
Article URL: https://www.military.com/ice-has-a-2-million-contract-for-spyware-that-can-hack-phones-without-a-click Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549762 Points: 25 # Comments: 3
Elevated Errors for Multiple Models
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/461yvfrzpwtt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676 Points: 36 # Comments: 8
From a Ten-Line Script to a Real Utility with Codex
I’m an experienced programmer, and I’ve worked in many different languages. Sometimes being a programmer is a two-edged sword. You want to accomplish something, and you can do it easily — but it can be a lot of work to do it right. Maybe more work than you want to do....
Hohem’s Eyepic gimbal camera has a detachable camera
Hohem has combined its gimbal tech with a wearable camera unit.
Final Fantasy Resonance hands-on: A love letter to classic 2D turn-based RPGs
The story might be loosely based on the mobile game Brave Exvius, but it's so much bigger than that.
Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas)
Article URL: https://foaas.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549873 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Haiku OS rises / Beta 6 sails open web / Virtual winds fly fast
The sixth beta of the Haiku OS is here, now with more choice of web browsers and a working hardware-accelerated hypervisor. Haiku OS beta 6 came out just a week after the project’s 25th birthday. We have been trying it on several different machines around the Irish...
CERN’s ‘Mini Big Bang’ Helps Scientists Study the Universe’s Earliest Moments
Their research found surprising atomic behavior that could reshape models of the early universe's evolution.
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B, promises not to squeeze too hard
BREAKING Nvidia has agreed to buy AI developer platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, tightening its grip on the ecosystem surrounding open models. Following weeks of industry chatter, Nvidia confirmed Thursday it had entered into a definitive agreement to buy the...
Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face
Article URL: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548952 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
The largest school system in the U.S. just banned AI for students through 8th grade
New York City’s public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using generative artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday.The one-year moratorium — part of a broader...