Tech

Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.

2026-08-31 · 15:15 UTC
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World

How Scrapping Weekly F&O Expiries Could Reshape Retail Trading in India

2026-08-31 · 15:15

Scrapping Weekly F&O Expiries would change how Indian retail traders access short-duration derivatives, where activity…

Crypto

Strive buys 1,800 Bitcoin for $143M, becomes fifth-biggest corporate holder

2026-08-31 · 15:08

Strive’s latest Bitcoin purchase lifted its holdings to 23,156 BTC, making it the fifth-largest publicly traded…

Crypto

Balancer V1 Pool Hacked for $234K in Same Bug Family

2026-08-31 · 15:05

A Balancer V1-style liquidity pool lost roughly $234,000 to a rounding-error exploit on August 31, according to…

Crypto

Belgium Targets Crypto Wallets Behind Pirate Sites in New Cross-Border Crackdown

2026-08-31 · 15:05

On August 19, 2026, the Belgian Department for Combating Online Harm (BAPO) issued five decisions requiring four…

Tech

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

2026-08-31 · 15:02

Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics.

Tech

Agentic Trust Controls

2026-08-31 · 15:01
World

Trump pushes Apple to change 'Lake Ontario' to 'Lake America' on its maps

2026-08-31 · 15:00

The request comes after Google made the switch for US-based users over the weekend.

Science

How our bodies adapt to extreme temperatures – until it gets too hot

2026-08-31 · 15:00

No matter where you’re from, there are things you can do to cope better with extreme temperatures.

Tech

Show HN: 2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and research

2026-08-31 · 14:59

Inference for Kimi and GLM.

Crypto

Tom Lee's Bitmine Buys $131M of ETH in Largest Ethereum Purchase Since June

2026-08-31 · 14:54

The purchase lifts Bitmine's stash to 5.9 million ETH—4.9% of supply—as chairman Tom Lee points to crypto's strong third…

Tech

Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

2026-08-31 · 14:54

Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform written in Rust, has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become an official…

Tech

Doubling of Kobo's U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer base

2026-08-31 · 14:53
Tech

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

2026-08-31 · 14:52

The European Union has designated ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as "Very Large" online platforms under the Digital…

Tech

Playa Phone

2026-08-31 · 14:52

A functioning phone booth has been installed at Burning Man 2023 in Black Rock City, Nevada, allowing festival attendees…

Tech

C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

2026-08-31 · 14:52

C++26 introduces "hardened" standard library implementations that detect programming errors like out-of-bounds access in…

Tech

MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario

2026-08-31 · 14:51

MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.

Crypto

Russian crypto trading to bring $46B to regulated exchanges in first year after legalization: Report

2026-08-31 · 14:50

Regulated cryptocurrency exchanges may see more than $46 billion in crypto trading volume during the first year after…

Science

Culture Clash

2026-08-31 · 14:50

In his 1959 Rede Lecture at Cambridge, C.P.

Sports

'It's an unknown' - Capsey takes England gloves for first time

2026-08-31 · 14:49

Alice Capsey will keep wicket for England this week despite having only done it once in her career, but remains…

Crypto

Ireland Excludes Crypto From New Tax-Advantaged Investment Accounts

2026-08-31 · 14:49

The Irish government has officially unveiled a roadmap for a new State-backed Savings and Investment Account (SIA)…

Sports

Everton forced to move EFL Cup tie at short notice

2026-08-31 · 14:46

Everton are forced to move their Carabao Cup third-round match against Championship side Wolves - nine days before it…

Tech

My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point

2026-08-31 · 14:37

Eric Bailey argues that feedback mechanisms like Netflix's rating buttons oversimplify human experience—we all know our…

Tech

Marx, Keynes, and A.I

2026-08-31 · 14:36

A new economic paper demonstrates that individual firms have rational incentives to adopt AI automation to reduce costs…