Today so far 2026-09-20 · 18:01 UTC

The Trump administration is planning to establish an AI Force and appoint an AI czar, signaling a significant government commitment to artificial intelligence policy. Meanwhile, the AI industry continues to evolve with new developments including Qwen-Image-2.1 for image generation and discussions about whether chat-based language models replicate the mechanisms of psychic cons. Beyond AI, the tech landscape is also seeing shifts in infrastructure and community building, from home server DIY projects to new platforms bringing people together offline.

Show HN: Super Dario

2026-07-13 · 17:53 UTC
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Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here

2026-07-13 · 17:49

Logseq has released version 2.0 Beta (DB version), marking a major milestone after extended development.

Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise

2026-07-13 · 17:45

OpenClawMachines is an open-source platform that extends OpenClaw to enterprise environments by running isolated AI…

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

2026-07-13 · 17:28

"homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."

Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows

2026-07-13 · 17:18

The biggest smartphone makers keep on trucking in the face of component shortages and economic uncertainty.

'The Odyssey' Director Chris Nolan: Young Audiences are Rejecting 'AI Slop'

2026-07-13 · 17:16

The younger generation's judgment of AI has been “immediate and harsh,” according to the Oscar-winning director.

Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company

2026-07-13 · 17:03

General Fusion started trading on the Nasdaq following a reverse merger that saw high redemptions.

PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer

2026-07-13 · 17:00

PgDog, a YC-backed startup, is hiring a Founding Software Engineer to help scale PostgreSQL as a distributed database…

This Is How Much Your Boyfriend Is Spending on AI Girlfriends

2026-07-13 · 16:40

Romantic AI companion apps have brought in nearly half a billion dollars as users pay for virtual partners, flirting,…

Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"

2026-07-13 · 16:37

Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

2026-07-13 · 16:31

What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

2026-07-13 · 16:06

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API significantly outperforms both its predecessor (SFSpeechRecognizer) and OpenAI's Whisper…

A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

2026-07-13 · 16:05

"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."

Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now

2026-07-13 · 15:59

Wikipedia has temporarily avoided Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act following a July 2026…

Go-Flavored Concurrency in C

2026-07-13 · 15:56

Go's lightweight goroutines and channels provide an appealing concurrency model that's difficult to replicate in C,…

Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code

2026-07-13 · 15:56

Jacquard is a new programming language designed for AI-generated code that is reviewed by humans, featuring a compact…

As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans

2026-07-13 · 15:49

The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the…

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

2026-07-13 · 15:34

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

Now, defenders are embracing the prompt injection, too

2026-07-13 · 15:06

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

2026-07-13 · 14:52

Sega's Mega-CD add-on for the Genesis suffered from CD-ROM's severe speed limitations (800ms access time, 150 KiB/s…

Precursor

2026-07-13 · 14:39

Cloudflare has launched Precursor, a client-side verification system that continuously monitors user behavior throughout…

Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates

2026-07-13 · 14:18

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant's broader push…

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy

2026-07-13 · 14:13

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties…

Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

2026-07-13 · 14:02

Clawk is a tool that provides coding AI agents with their own disposable Linux virtual machine instead of direct access…

Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon

2026-07-13 · 13:54

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Benchmarking 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads

2026-07-13 · 13:48

A researcher benchmarked 15 decommissioned NVIDIA enterprise GPUs (K80, P100, V100) to evaluate their viability for…

Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers

2026-07-13 · 13:39

Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

2026-07-13 · 13:35

A Farewell to ARPs: IPv4 Service on IPv6-Only Networks

2026-07-13 · 12:58

An IETF proposal (draft-vanmook-intarea-ipv6-resolved-gateway) aims to eliminate the need for parallel IPv4 subnets and…

Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo

2026-07-13 · 12:30

Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.

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