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Show HN: ValuePair – a friendship app that cares about values first

ValuePair is a free friendship app that matches users based on shared values rather than appearance by having both…

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to…

Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores

All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized

Christopher Alexander's seminal work *A Pattern Language* contains 253 design patterns organized across three…

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

Charles Choi automated his workflow of manually copying GitHub issues into Emacs Org files by leveraging the GitHub…

Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending

Q2 2026 was profitable, but barely.

Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

Safari Technology Preview Release 248 is now available for macOS Golden Gate and macOS Tahoe, featuring WebKit updates…

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S.

Tesla spending skyrockets as Cybercab, Semi, Megapack production timeline slips

Tesla's 26% boost in revenue wasn't enough to offset rising operating expenses and capital expenditures as it pushes to…

Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta is dropped

A closely watched social media addiction lawsuit that had been set to go to trial next week has been dropped after the…

Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

A developer received a suspicious job offer for a Python role with unusually high pay ($10,000-$15,000/month) from a…

ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

The Fairphone 6's ultra-wide camera (OmniVision OV13B10) now has experimental Linux support, allowing it to function in…

Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots

Book Corners is a community platform with 37,188 registered neighborhood book exchange libraries worldwide, allowing…

Alibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just Pretty

Qwen Image 3.0 generates dense newspapers and infographic grids in one shot and renders text down to 10 pixels.

SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown

SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut…

Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)

The BMW IDC23H infotainment unit, jointly developed by Harman Becker and Garmin, is the latest generation system found…

White House Accuses Chinese AI Firm Moonshot AI of Distilling Anthropic Models to Build Kimi K3

The White House has accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of secretly using Anthropic’s Fable model to develop its Kimi…

John C. Dvorak has died

Cathie Wood Says SpaceX Could Become ‘the Most Important Company in History’ Despite 48% Stock Slide

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood delivered a sweeping endorsement of SpaceX as shares traded 48% below their peak and 13%…

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox.

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to…

Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

Science Corporation’s vision-restoring chip wins EU approval

"The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed…

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

A developer created a 3D software renderer for the Playdate handheld by first testing a raycaster to benchmark the…

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth…

Anthropic joins UK FCA’s AI regulatory sandbox as second cohort launches

Anthropic will provide Claude AI models to companies participating in the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s next…