Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.
How data center controversies are transforming the 2026 midterm landscape
The snowballing opposition to data centers in communities across the United States has transformed the midterm election landscape, thrown a wrench into the plans of the world’s richest companies and brought perhaps the industry’s biggest booster, President Donald...
Rockstar calls GTA 6 leaks ‘heartbreaking for our team’ and says the game is nearly finished
Ahead of the extended look at GTA 6 on Netflix, Rockstar has addressed leaked gameplay videos in a statement.
Disruption with Some GitHub Services
Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/hcbtzksccj2f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450722 Points: 20 # Comments: 7
How Packaging Can Kill An Electronics Microbusiness
Quite a few in our community make a bit of cash on the side by selling our creations, and it’s not uncommon to find that a project which catches your eye can be picked up as a kit for a few of your preferred currency units. But there’s a problem facing such tiny...
What’s the difference between WAN and LAN?
Two identical ports, two different purposes.
AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 analyzed 405 AI-linked malware samples and found only 12 reached production endpoints. The post AI Speeds Up Malware Development, Not Its Success Rate: Analysis appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bluesky now supports 10-minute videos
File sizes have also been increased and uploads should be faster.
Nebula Sans
Article URL: https://www.nebulasans.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450448 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents
Article URL: https://sreenathmenon.com/blog/2026-08-04-webmcp-teaching-websites-to-talk-to-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450417 Points: 16 # Comments: 6
AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX
Article URL: https://github.com/AurionMail/docs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450394 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450353 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
You could have invented PageRank
Article URL: https://praveshkoirala.com/2026/08/26/you-could-have-invented-pagerank/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449888 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Take a Tour of SLAC
Article URL: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/public-tours Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449755 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed
Carhartt data breach affects 12.9M, half of what ShinyHunters claimed Go to Source Workwear and fashion retailer Carhartt’s data breach was about half as bad as ShinyHunters claimed, according to Troy Hunt, who reviewed the data dump...
Who Makes Your Supplements?
Article URL: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/who-actually-makes-your-supplements Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450073 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Taylor Farms: How One Company’s Reach Became a National Risk
Article URL: https://farmaction.us/taylorfarmsreport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449749 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
July was the worst month for ransomware victim claims in 2026 – or was it?
We shouldn't ignore agentic AI ransomware threats, but the claims of a new ransomware group might be skewing the numbers.
CIOs are on notice – vSphere 8 times out in October 2027
For users of vSphere 8, October 11, 2027 looms large on the calendar. That is the day general support for vSphere 8 ends, along with bug fixes and security patches, and the day traditional perpetual licensing for the technology also expires. From then on, customers...
Apple should make a Mac Neo to fill the void left by the more expensive Mac mini
A modest proposal for Apple to add a lower-cost option to its Mac lineup.
Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.
AWS buys DuckLabs, the people behind the popular in-process OLAP database
Amazon Web Services has bought DuckLabs, the support and development company behind open-source DuckDB. The deal — the financial details of which were not disclosed — will see DuckLabs, founded by authors of the in-process OLAP database, become part of AWS. AWS said...
Gates warns society faces an AI-pocalypse unless we get more socialist
Bill Gates thinks that experts underestimate the potential havoc AI will wreak on society and says preparations to ease the transition are inadequate. The Microsoft founder and former CEO is usually a cheerful proponent of AI tech, talking up its potential to...
Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
X, the social media mouthpiece of free speech absolutist Elon Musk, has reportedly sent legal takedown notices to Nitter and related service XCancel over alleged data scraping and rules violations. XCancel's home page now contains some minimal text stating: "On Monday...
IKEA and Xbox have fully unveiled their new furniture collection at Gamescom
Who hasn't dreamt of sitting on a green stool modeled like a thumbstick?
Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features
Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.
Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.
Microsoft sketches out a Whiteboard extension
Microsoft is giving customers who are still clinging to its doomed legacy Whiteboard technology a lifeline, and has pushed the deletion date to October 16, 2026. The migration tooling for "legacy enterprise whiteboards" will be retired on September 25, 2026, and the...
CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July
The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.
How to avoid asking stupid questions in meetings
It is rather common these days to say that there are no such things as stupid questions, but (and apologies if this sounds stupid) does anyone actually believe that? Interestingly, we tend to praise those who ask smart questions but rarely condemn the reverse. Yet,...