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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

Software developers working across multiple repositories with different tech stacks can use task runners—simple tools…

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

SearXNG in Rust

A developer has created a metasearch engine in Rust that aggregates results from multiple search engines (DuckDuckGo,…

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying…

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite (https://hoplite.sh).

Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action…

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

Armature is a product analytics platform that captures and analyzes user sessions within AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT) and…

What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?

Researchers created MirrorCode, a benchmark that tests AI's ability to complete large-scale software projects by…

OpenAI announces solutions to 10 longstanding maths problems

Ten conundrums that stumped human mathematicians for years have been cracked by OpenAI's Astra model, continuing a hot…

2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet

At $25,305, you won't find many new cars for less. But you get what you pay for.

Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed)

ComfyUI v0.27.0 introduced INT8 ConvRot, a quantization method that outperforms the previously standard FP8 formats on…

The Hidden Trillion-Dollar AI Commitments Behind Big Tech 

Big Tech’s largest artificial intelligence wager is no longer measured solely by processors, data centers, or…

Twenty Years of Pandoc

John MacFarlane released the first version of Pandoc on August 3, 2006, as a Haskell-based document converter supporting…

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

This is a hiring thread from Hacker News (August 2026) where job seekers post their information in a standardized format…

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

This is a Hacker News "Who is Hiring?" thread from August 2026 where companies post open positions directly.

Will a new kind of AI that understands physical reality change the world again?

AI chatbots can describe reality in words, but don’t truly understand cause and effect in the real world.

Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley appeared on The Drivecast podcast to discuss the company's automatic license plate…

Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

The author discovered that Apple's Mail app contacts iCloud servers when sending non-iCloud emails, despite having…

Devtools must be open source

Software development tools must be open source to enable engineers to easily personalize and maintain customized…

Andy Pavlo Joins ClickHouse to Establish ClickHouse Labs

Andy Pavlo, a Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor who has tracked ClickHouse's development since 2016,…

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

MiniMax H3, an open-weights omni-modal video model, launched today with native support in ComfyUI and can generate…

SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros

SPF (Sender Policy Framework) records are single DNS TXT records starting with "v=spf1" that contain mechanisms,…

Frame selection is the whole game: notes on making LLMs watch video

When using vision LLMs to process videos, selecting which frames to include is critical since models can only afford…

Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?

A Hacker News user asks for search engine alternatives after becoming dissatisfied with DuckDuckGo's handling of search…

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered…

Pacifimax Corporate Review 2026: Scaling Multi-Asset Brokerage Infrastructure in the Asian Financial Sector

Executive Brief: International online brokerage firm Pacifimax has completed a major infrastructure deployment across…

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's…

Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

JFrog security researchers discovered that a batch of SQLite vulnerability advisories published on GitHub and quickly…