SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana
The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.
A Message from the Family of Dolly Parton
Article URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DceNXgPJyZ9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438407 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit
Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston on November 4 will be no different!
Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438052 Points: 24 # Comments: 0
Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437946 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
That Mysterious New Android Pulse App Helps Your Android Spot RAM-Hungry Programs
Think of it like a health tracker for your phone.
Tonight marks your last chance to save up to $300 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!
Android’s motion sickness feature is rolling out – how to see if you have it
Will moving dots cure your car nausea? History says yes.
Some Spectrum internet customers can get free Amazon Prime – see if you’re eligible
The offer is open to subscribers on any tier, but it is location-based.
Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat
Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.
Clara (YC P26) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer to Bring AI Doctors to Market
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437566 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go
Article URL: https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437361 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich
Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.
It’s PSL day—but the Starbucks 2026 fall menu offers more than just Pumpkin Spice Lattes with these 6 new cozy drinks
Autumn just came early. Starbucks’s 2026 fall menu is officially in stores as of August 25, bringing returning favorites along with new takes on fall flavors. From a selection of pumpkin drinks to other fall fruits and even new merch for diehard fans, here’s...
Nitter project received cease and desist
Article URL: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
Why movie tie-in games are rarely sold anymore
Movie-tie in games were huge in the 2000s, but have mostly dried up in the last decade. We still get games tied to existing IP, but in a different manner.
Prompt injection ranks No. 1 with OWASP and No. 12 in the incident record. The attack itself is invisible to a scan.
A CISO who sees a low CVE count and deprioritizes prompt injection is reading the scoreboard wrong. Prompt injection has held the No. 1 spot on the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications for three consecutive years. When two leaders of that list checked it against 6,639...
Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers
Article URL: https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437152 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437210 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
My Friend Aaron
Article URL: https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437069 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Tooltips Need a Delay, and Then They Need to Skip It
Article URL: https://blog.master.dev/tooltips-need-a-delay-and-then-they-need-to-skip-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436786 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Streamers Sue Twitch and Amazon Over AI Training Data Fiasco
Neither company has publicly commented on the lawsuit.
The Nokia 300 Charge doubles as a 10W powerbank
The Nokia 300 Charge doubles as a 10W powerbank.
Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing
Microsoft has issued a warning to Excel users. Want to keep using the Exchange Connector? You'll have to migrate your workbook connections and switch to Microsoft 365 or Office 2024. The software giant just published a timeline for the switchover in its Message...
You could’ve applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack
In late July, Oracle released a mammoth security patch dump with 1,449 patches, in a perhaps unprecedented bad day for database admins. None of them, it turns out, would have prevented the credential theft on an Oracle database server described by security platform...
Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop
ChatGPT may spew a lot of digital garbage onto the internet, but the same bots that output the trash can be used to stop it. The company draws the line at influence operations that want to slop in the name of love . . . of mother Russia. OpenAI said in a Tuesday blog...
Warnock: Harnessing GPU Geometry Amplification for Vector Graphics
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3820012 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435781 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
It’s PSL day—but Starbucks 2026 fall menu offers more than just Pumpkin Spice Lattes with these 6 new cozy drinks
Autumn just came early. Starbucks’s 2026 fall menu is officially in stores as of August 25, bringing returning favorites along with new takes on fall flavors. From a selection of pumpkin drinks to other fall fruits and even new merch for diehard fans, here’s...
Australia’s music industry bans AI-generated songs from official charts
Australia’s recorded music industry will bar tracks wholly generated by artificial intelligence from official charts as burgeoning generative technologies threaten artists’ livelihoods, a representative said on Tuesday. The crackdown comes as a variation...
Amazon Raises Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and Eero Prices by up to 60%
RAMageddon strikes again.