X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money
X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previous Stripe-powered payout system.
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.
Modding platform Nexus Mods now owns SteamDB
Nexus Mods said the community-led SteamDB site will operate as it always has, while becoming stronger and better resourced.
Uber cuts 10% of jobs today, stock up: Why these layoffs are different from others
Uber announced on Wednesday it is cutting 10% of its workforce. That’s 3,300 employees, the ride-hailing service told Fast Company. Uber reported a total of 34,000 employees in its 2025 annual filing. In an email to employees, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the...
Rare, working Apple I computer heads to auction
The same Apple I computer sold for over $671,000 in 2013.
Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo
Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.
Google Says a Fix for the Pixel 11 Pro’s Crackling Audio Is on Its Way
In the meantime, some users find that turning off Audio Zoom and clearing the Google Camera app cache helps.
Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x
Article URL: https://frontierharness.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538490 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
Article URL: https://www.markpitblado.me/blog/saving-on-google-photos-with-immich-your-own-personal-photo-storage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538375 Points: 11 # Comments: 6
Taco Bell’s newest menu item is a $3.99 twist on a discontinued favorite
Just in time for the last days of summer, Taco Bell is rolling out a taco made for the heat—alongside another frozen treat. Taco Bell and ice cream makers Salt & Straw are coming together once again, bringing a new version of their viral ice cream taco—the...
At G20, Treasury Secretary Bessent said all members align on cheap exports, except for one
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that 19 of the members of the G20 had agreed to address streams of “cheap exports” that cause global economic imbalances, but said China had dissented.Bessent made his comments at the end of a two-day meeting with finance...
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49538007 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
Here’s Another Rad Shirt That Can Defeat AI-Powered Security Cameras
Digital camouflage like this could be used to protest or evade new surveillance technologies.
Turning Apple Pencil Into a Reed Pen: How I Built and Shipped Qalaris
Building Qalaris forced me to simulate a flat-cut calligraphy nib with round hardware, teach a multimodal model to critique form instead of simply generate it, and redesign my AI credit system after local storage failed.A reed pen does not behave like a digital...
I Gave an On-Device LLM a Search Tool. It Ignored It and Made Up Data Instead
The feature is one sentence. Type "what do I send someone who hasn't paid?" into your own snippet library and get back a sentence naming a real snippet, with the list below filtered to the snippets it looked at. The obvious way to build that on iOS 27 is now roughly...
A Wrong API Key and One Missing Hyphen Almost Broke My Bible Study App After Launch
There is a very specific kind of frustration that only shows up on a Sunday evening. You sit down to write sermon notes, open your favorite productivity app, and realize it was never built for this. Notion is powerful. It can hold your entire life in neat little...
The TechBeat: Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2: A Guide to Faster Qwen Inference (9/2/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what's trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @laumski [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley...
Huskeys Raises $27M Series A Led by Blackstone to Tackle the Growing Complexity of Edge Security
Cybersecurity is facing a new management problem at the network edge. Organizations now rely on an expanding combination of cloud providers, content delivery networks, web application firewalls and other edge services, creating fragmented environments that are...
Reliability Testing for Fleet Camera Image Quality Drift
The Relentless Test of Time and Environment The camera-engineering lifecycle comprises several connected stages. Article 1: Component Selection defines the system’s theoretical upper limits through component selection; Article 2: Lab Build-up & Management...
We Cut Four of Five Tabs From ROLL Beauty and Shipped Anyway
Hi! I'm Ryu from AMANEKU Studio.Version 1 of ROLL Beauty went live on the App Store on August 28. It is free, it is iPhone-only, and you can record once without creating an account.Before anything else: this is not a completion announcement. What shipped is the...
Building Isolyne, a Safety Net for Fast-Moving Development Teams
In the high-pressure environment of a hackathon, development teams rarely fail because they lack technical skills or can't write the code. They fail because of "decision drift." This happens when two teammates quietly begin operating under completely different...
Building Billinox, an Offline-First Invoicing App for Small Businesses
Running a small business sounds simple until you have to keep track of customers, invoices, payments, expenses, and everything else that comes with getting paid. I’ve seen how easily business owners can end up using a combination of notebooks, spreadsheets, messaging...
Walnut Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform to Personalize the B2B Buyer Experience
For B2B software companies, product-led buying has created a new challenge: buyers increasingly expect to explore products on their own terms, while go-to-market teams still have limited time to tailor those experiences. Walnut is now betting that AI can make that...
I Couldn’t Remember the Russian Words I Was Learning, So I Put Them on My Phone Screen
I started learning Russian because I wanted to understand and use the language—not just complete lessons inside an app.But I kept running into the same problem: I could learn a new word, understand it in the moment, and then struggle to remember it later. I tried...
Securing a Real Time Social Map: The Trust Architecture Behind Beamrove
Beamrove brings nearby people, moments connected to places, and plans people can join into one live social map. That simple description carries a serious technical responsibility. The product works with identity, relationships, conversations, media, social intent, and...
500 Bugs, $22, and a Dream: Bringing PocketVault to Android
If you’ve ever stared at an ugly Excel spreadsheet at 2:00 AM trying to figure out how to save for your new home or even a LEGO set, you already know why traditional budgeting apps make people want to throw their phones out a window. Half of the apps feel like boring...
5 Practical Ways to Reduce AI Inference Costs
You’ve finally completed an agent. The cost of the demo was basically nothing, so you shipped it. But then, the first month of real traffic lands, and an invoice you got looks more like a mortgage payment. This is the part of AI engineering that doesn’t get talked...
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Wonderful's $550M Series C was led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce, Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer participating.
India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553 Points: 52 # Comments: 24