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...
No space for bookshelf speakers? The Victrola Soundstage sits neatly under my turntable
The Victrola Soundstage is ideal for those who want to build their vinyl system up rather than out, with plenty of digital and analog connections for every kind of listener.
Jif’s new logo is a rebrand done right
Jif just rebranded for the first time in 30 years, and it’s a (rare) example of how to modernize a beloved brand without killing its quirk. The updated branding will appear across all of Jif’s products starting this fall, and includes a new wordmark, logo, fonts, and...
7 Best Self-Hosted Inference Servers for Open-Source Models, Compared (2026)
The great decision to self-host has landed. Model weights are free, your data is your own, and no more per-token bills addressed to the accounting dept. Then you open a list of serving options, and there are more than a dozen of them. Not a single one gives you a...
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308553 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
Jason Arday, professor at centre of Cambridge plagiarism row, found dead
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/14/jason-arday-found-dead-after-resigning-from-cambridge-over-plagiarism-claims Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308748 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
How to change your self-perception and beliefs
Below, Owen Fitzpatrick shares five key insights from his new book, Inner Propaganda: Leading Hearts and Minds Through Turbulent Times. Fitzpatrick is a social psychologist, behavioral change expert, and international speaker who has spent three decades studying how...
As weather gets harder to predict, which iPhone weather app is best?
As weather gets harder to predict, which iPhone weather app is best? Go to Source Ask people which app they use most frequently on their phones, and they’re likely to pick one of five types: a messaging app, a maps app, a web browser,...
Lego’s supersized Hubble deserves a little more shine
Lego has released its largest Hubble Space Telescope yet – a model built at approximately minifig scale that dwarfs the observatory included with its Space Shuttle Discovery set. The first thing to say about this set is that there is an awful lot of grey. This is...
A Tape Deck Gets a Service
If there’s an engineer’s equivalent to those YouTube ASMR videos, then perhaps it comes in a good repair or servicing journey filmed without edits at the bench. Relaxing to watch, has an interesting outcome. So it is with [Ken’s Shop], as he performs a full service on...
This 1 high school class is worth $100,000—and most students still don’t take it
A Baylor College of Medicine pediatrician just told Texas lawmakers that “high school seniors are legally walking around with Vegas in their pockets.” Lindy McGee was describing prediction-market apps such as Kalshi and Polymarket, where users as young as 18 bet real...
“That’s not SoC 2 compliant”
Article URL: https://ampcode.com/notes/thats-not-soc-2-compliant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308073 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?
In the last 2-3 years, mostly because of AI, keeping up with interesting articles on HN has become harder and harder.How do you deal with it? Besides the simple solution of simply ignoring interesting stuff more and more. Comments URL:...
Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations
Article URL: https://chenxiachan.github.io/thoughtdag/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307700 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Rent vs. buy, backtested across 241 US metros with pinned data
Article URL: https://github.com/assumptionsshown/RunTheNumbers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307653 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
The other Sean Byrne doesn’t exist
Article URL: https://conic.al/writing/the-other-sean-byrne-doesnt-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307592 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Twin Guitar-Playing Robots Will Work for Tab
Remember Animusic? They were these incredible animated music videos with original tunes being played by computer-generated robots. Well, the MegCell Pulse might be the coolest robots-playing-music thing we’ve seen since Animusic. Built by [Bruce] over six years’ time,...
Who is pointing out your blind spots?
Who is pointing out your blind spots? Go to Source “I don’t understand. The deal was moving forward. My team’s reports said we were on track. I had lunch with their CEO last month, and everything felt solid.” Andy was talking about a...
Why stability might be the smartest career move right now
Why stability might be the smartest career move right now Go to Source Employees today are stressed, angry and sad, and they’re experiencing these emotions more than even before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Gallup. A big reason...
AI Driven Testing
Article URL: https://app.deltix.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307099 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Large-Scale Pokémon Eviction Looms with Pokémon Bank Server Shutdown
After the Nintendo 3DS handheld console saw most its online services including the online store (eShop) taken offline not too long ago, it was only a matter of time before the demise of even the remaining paid services, such as the Pokémon Bank which Nintendo has now...
The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Article URL: https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306443 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306196 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees
Article URL: https://sf.gazetteer.co/corgi-kills-short-lived-website-that-ranked-its-female-employees Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306080 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Anthropic says text watermarking scheme relies on inconsequential words
In an effort to "watermark" text that Claude has generated and comply with the EU AI Act, Anthropic unveiled a plan on Friday to modify its bots' choice of words in a way that would be detectable as AI. Traditional watermarks are patterns or images overlaid on...
DeepSeek’s innovative harness treats everything as a plug-in
DeepSeek has piqued the interest of the developer community by releasing an early version of its open source agent harness. This happens as harnesses have become increasingly important to those working with machine learning models. "Powered by the Cordis...
1.6M RingCentral accounts’ data dumped after ShinyHunters extortion attack
Some 1.6 million unique email addresses tied to RingCentral have been leaked online, alongside names, physical addresses, and phone numbers, according to Have I Been Pwned. RingCentral disclosed the breach on July 28 and said “it was the target of a sophisticated...
Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306577 Points: 3 # Comments: 0