Using the Famicom Network System in 2026
Usually, the name ‘Famicom’ and the associated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) don’t exactly bring to mind downloadable content and online services. However, at least in Japan, a modem add-on for the Famicom offered those features. Released in 1988, the Family...
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
Article URL: https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325714 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260815064805.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325508 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325384 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325185 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone
Article URL: https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325092 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Hackaday Links: August 16, 2026
We’re no strangers to unusual hardware failures around these parts, but even so, a swarm of jellyfish clogging up the works is a new one to us. That’s exactly what happened to the cooling system at the Gravelines nuclear power plant in France earlier this week,...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Kubernetes
Let's learn about Kubernetes via these 500 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. Is your system distributed, or just all over the place? 1....
Visby Earns a 76 Proof of Usefulness Score for Tracking Brand Visibility Across AI Search
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
Yokai OS Earns a 57.23 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Telegram-Native AI Community Operating System
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
Autonomous Company Deep Research Agent Earns a 52 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building Automated VC-Style Company Research Reports
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
hello.cv Earns a 63 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building AI-Powered Profiles That Network Autonomously
Welcome to the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon spotlight, curated by HackerNoon’s editors to showcase noteworthy tech solutions to real-world problems. Whether you’re a solopreneur, part of an early-stage startup, or a developer building something that truly matters,...
Designing an Intelligent Telecom Payment Stack With Agentic AI
Payment processing is all but invisible when it works right. The telecom customer signs up for AutoPay, saves their credit card or bank account information, gets billed each month, and expects the payment to take place automatically. It becomes apparent when things go...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Navigating Claude Code: The Full Workflow (8/16/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 16, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Census Bureau Announced Results Using Herman Hollerith's Machine in 1890, The First Transatlantic...
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324087 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Claude Seems Down
Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324078 Points: 17 # Comments: 8
Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-ipo-valuation-hinges-190-200-billion-2028-revenue-forecast-sources-say-2026-08-15/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323620 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Turn on these settings to protect your Android phone from theft
Google has added some smart theft-detection features to Android in recent years.
Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323686 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
Article URL: https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323459 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days
Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323157 Points: 27 # Comments: 1
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.
The Trumps’ Crypto Project Just Got One Step Closer to Becoming a Bank
Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/donald-trump-world-liberty-regulatory-approval/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322979 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
Is buying a OnePlus phone in 2026 still a good idea?
If you really want a OnePlus phone, you can still make it work.
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
Article URL: https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322695 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
Another Radio on a Chip Design
Another Radio on a Chip Design Go to Source It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, but you’d graduate to maybe a TRF or superhet design. FM radio...
Do you really need an antivirus app on your Android?
You probably don't need antivirus software on your Android phone, but there are some exceptions.
Protobuf has LSP support. You’re welcome
Article URL: https://buf.build/blog/protobuf-lsp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322573 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent
Article URL: https://math-ai-org.github.io/mathcode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322330 Points: 6 # Comments: 1