Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla
To reach their destinations safely, autonomous vehicles have just milliseconds to ingest and process streaming data from more than a dozen cameras. It's a job that's been handled with off-the-shelf AI components thus far, but Waymo has begun rolling its own AI ASICs...
Bought a home between 2022 and 2025? You could be most vulnerable to this housing market shift
The share of homeowners sitting pretty on a huge chunk of home equity just hit a nearly five-year low. In a new report, property data company Attom found that just 41% of U.S. homes with mortgages were equity-rich in the second quarter, down from 43% in the first...
Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts
Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and...
After one week wearing the Pixel Watch 5, here’s what I want most
The Google Pixel Watch 5 is a faster, intelligent smartwatch with some helpful health and wellness features under the hood.
Homebrew 68K Machine Has A PCI Bus
The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus was first introduced all the way back in 1992. It quickly became the standard way to interface add-on cards on the PC platform, supplanting earlier buses like ISA and various other oddball standards. You wouldn’t expect...
Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure
A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using Google Docs as a way to deliver malware.
Mark buys a castle
Mark Zuckerberg just bought a cozy abode somewhat close to Meta’s international headquarters in Ireland.
Senators press TikTok on ‘sinister’ experiment that held back an algorithm safety feature
A teen who died by suicide was reportedly part of the test.
Stop Eating Lady Gaga’s Oreos
Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/stop-eating-lady-gagas-oreos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379253 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378957 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Inside Berkshire’s big housing market bet to buy homebuilder Taylor Morrison: ‘Blind date to the altar’
Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Replacing a legendary investor like Warren Buffett—who led Berkshire Hathaway for 60 years—might be one of the toughest acts ever to follow in corporate...
Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah.I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'm finding it...
Seeking God in Science Part 10.5: The Mind-Body Problem (Take 2)
Article URL: http://blog.rongarret.info/2026/08/seeking-god-in-science-part-105-mind.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378724 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
TrueForge – The open-source agent harness
Article URL: https://github.com/truefoundry/trueforge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378419 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Scientific study reveals TikTok videos deactivate key cognitive brain regions
Article URL: https://www.rathbiotaclan.com/tiktok-videos-deactivate-key-cognitive-brain-regions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378630 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Consumer Rights Wiki
Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378243 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google is giving publishers a new button that lets readers make them a preferred source across Search, Discover, and Google News, potentially boosting their traffic as AI search sends fewer clicks to the web.
Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits. But the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders.
Runlayer and Rippling have dropped their lawsuits. No money was paid. Rippling celebrated by releasing a competing product.
Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles
The $1 billion Series C was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Carlyle, and JP Morgan Chase.
Meta’s app for creating generative AI minigames is now available in the US
It's called Pocket and is described as a "platform for making and sharing gizmos."
The business case for turning the barn lights back on
At dusk in rural America, you can tell a lot by whether the barn lights are still on. That light means a farmer is still doing the work. It means a family is still on the land. Across the country, those lights are carrying more weight than ever, because each one that...
ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More
A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old...
How to watch Gamescom’s Opening Night Live showcase
The two-hour stream will feature Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, Gears of War: E-Day and The Witcher 3: Songs of the Past.
Bitflash: A Tor-native revival of Bitcoin 0.1.0, mined on CPUs with RandomX
Article URL: https://bitflash.network/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378036 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
Article URL: https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-ussr/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377923 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
A neighborly feud is playing out in Starbase, Texas. Cards Against Humanity wants designers on its side
As a middle finger to Elon Musk, the creators of Cards Against Humanity are building a monument to annoy him in the middle of the company town he’s building at the edge of Texas. Already, ideas for what to put up are pouring in. Just across the U.S.-Mexico border on...
Firefox Users on Windows Can Play GeForce Now Games In-Browser
Without having to install Nvidia’s dedicated GeForce Now application.
U.S. national debt crosses $40 trillion
The national debt surpassed a record $40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering milestone as defense costs, social programs like Social Security and Medicare, and interest on the burgeoning deficit make up an enormous share of federal spending. The milestone figure was...
Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global
The platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website.
Foldable OLED Displays and the Bane of Dust
Much like Apple’s once vaunted super-slim butterfly keyboard, today’s range of portable devices featuring flexible OLED displays – which can fold said display into a much smaller form factor – are a marvel of engineering. The foldable phone after a dusty encounter....