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Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Several developers shared their current projects in this Hacker News thread, including a new spec called TPX that allows…

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

Aptera, a California-based electric vehicle company, has ordered major components to manufacture 40 solar-charging…

Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions

A developer has created an interactive simulation called "AI Liability Tribunal" that places autonomous agents with…

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

The Federal Communications Commission is moving to ban drones equipped with LiDAR obstacle-avoidance technology from…

An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power

TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is…

UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account

unYOLO is a framework that acts as a credential broker and policy engine for GitHub and other services, allowing agents…

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Storage engines must choose when to confirm a write's success to the client, balancing speed against…

Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Vibez is an open-source, Rust-based digital audio workstation that organizes music production into three workspaces:…

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

A tool called "Us vs.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Windows 11's built-in Weather app consumes over 1 GB of RAM—roughly five times more than Apple's native Weather…

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad…

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

A "cool URI" is one that never changes, yet millions of links become broken because organizations lack foresight when…

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about…

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people,…

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

In this 1978 excerpt from John C.

Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

A developer launched a project called Dark Hours without realizing it closely resembled an existing open-source app with…

Israeli startup was linked to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta

This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs

More than 20 years ago, King's Cross was one of the seediest area's in London. Now it's sprouting something new.

Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center

Amazon is proceeding with plans to build an AI data center in Gilroy, California, despite the local community voting…

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

A developer has ported the Project Oberon System from its original RISC-5 architecture to RISC-V (RV32), converting the…

Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt

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70% of AI revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic

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Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning is a new self-contained AI model that performs reasoning in latent space rather…

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

A user successfully revived their four-year-old reMarkable 2 tablet that had stopped working by fixing its system clock…

Everything You Do Is Being Recorded

Why the Memory Chip Shortage Is Reshaping Portfolios Across Semiconductors in 2026

The global memory chip market is in the middle of one of its tightest supply squeezes in decades, and the ripple effects…