Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310725 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents
Article URL: http://www.stephen-cresswell.com/2026/08/15/Yadda-3.0.0-BDD-in-the-Age-of-AI-Agents.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310495 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR
Hi! This is my little project introducing quasicrystals animations with some parameters. It uses a custom shader to allow higher resolution.Not all combinations look equally good. For example the "Spectrum" color palette IMO makes sense only for low values of "Tempo"...
What’s the USB trident symbol for? How to know what kind of port you have
USB ports and cables have tons of potential capabilities, but making sense of them can be tricky if you don't know where to look.
Fully Characterized Systems
A friend from my old hackerspace was in grad school for electrical engineering. He had a professor who would ask, when something went wrong with a student project, “Have you fully characterized the system?” It’s a good, if lofty, goal, but it also became an inside...
GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix
Article URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/genrec-towards-llm-native-recommendation-at-netflix-f20be6f643e3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310177 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking
Article URL: https://hormuz.now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310170 Points: 8 # Comments: 3
USB4 Vs USB-C: What’s the difference between them?
There's a pretty major difference between USB-C and USB4. We'll dive into the details and how to tell them apart.
What happens when a hybrid battery dies and what to do about it
Don't wait to have your car checked out if its traction battery is having problems.
Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline
Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/filters/brazil_2026_election_filter.rs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310291 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest
Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-brain-rem-eeg.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310248 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
SpaceX has officially acquired AI coding startup Cursor
The $60 billion acquisition has been finalized.
Riffs on GoldenEye 007, Star Fox and Kingdom Hearts, and other new indie games worth checking out
Our indie game roundup this week features a handful of '90s-inspired entries along with a dog game, a cat game and a sheep game.
Expensive earbuds: When and why it’s worth paying more
Earbuds range in price from under $10 to hundreds. What do you get for the money?
Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel
Article URL: https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/autoresearch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309549 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Engadget review recap: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, Dell XPS 13 and more
A roundup of recent reviews from Engadget.
A Kingdom Hearts anime is coming to Disney+
Disney has announced an anime based on Kingdom Hearts, featuring a brand new story.
How ‘Trump accounts’ for kids could widen the wealth gap
So far, 530A tax-advantaged investment accounts for kids, also known as “Trump accounts,” have had a successful debut. As of July 27, just over three weeks after the accounts went live, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reported that 7 million children under 18 are...
ESP32 Music Sequencer is Clearly Nailing the Y2K Aesthetic
Do you remember back when electronics came in clear cases? Back around the turn of the millennium, when translucency was chic. [3DSage] sure does, which is why he went to great lengths to make a clear case for his Clear Retro Music Sequencer. The sequencer itself is...
Microsoft Merges Copilot Apps, Ditches Quirky ‘Mico’ Mascot
He was never going to be Clippy, anyway.
ChainDrop worm crawls into npm supply chain, evades standard defenses
A new variant of the Shai-Hulud npm worm has poisoned hundreds of packages while adding propagation techniques that can leave little trace in the corresponding source repositories. In Frank Herbert’s Dune, Shai-Hulud was the name of the giant self-sustaining desert...
Stripe is reportedly in talks to buy PayPal
Stripe and private equity firm Advent previously offered a deal PayPal didn't take, the Wall Street Journal says. Now, they're negotiating a new price.
Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions
Article URL: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/08/msg00002.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309050 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Using GCC’s Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II
Article URL: https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-07-14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308685 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Using Zmanim-WP Shortcodes for Shabbat
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. This blog series is designed to help you dig deeper into the plugin and understand what it does, how it works, and whether it’s right for your...
5 Spider-Man Villains Who Have Yet to Appear in a Live-Action Movie
There have been a total of 9 live-action Spider-Man movies. We’ve seen him go up against iconic villains such as Green Goblin, Mysterio, Vulture, and many more. However, Spider-Man’s rogue’s gallery is so vast that there are a ton of villains who haven’t even been...
118 Blog Posts To Learn About Js
Let's learn about Js via these 118 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. "Not a real programming language" since 1995. 1. A Beginner's Guide...
AI Code Review in Regulated Environments: What a Human Expert Still Has to Own
A landmark study of 1,689 Copilot-generated programs found 40% contained vulnerabilities. Every one of those PRs almost certainly had a human's name on the approval. That's the part of "human in the loop" nobody likes to examine too closely. A name on a PR isn't proof...
BTCC Exchange Joins TOKEN2049 Singapore as Platinum Sponsor, Unveiling Flagship Theme
George Town, Cayman Islands, August 14th, 2026/Chainwire/--BTCC, the world's longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange, announces its participation in TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026 as a Platinum Sponsor. Taking place October 7-8 at Marina Bay Sands, the world’s largest...
Clippy Is Back and Less Chatty
Codex pets bring back Clippy's character without the interruption, turning animated assistants into ambient status lights for long-running agent tasks. Something appeared on my screen while I was in Codex the other day, and I didn’t know what it was. A little animated...