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Aspirational Clownmaxxing and Joey's cadillac todo list

A developer uses Claude AI to build a darkly humorous mid-century country-club-themed todo-list app in Python with…

US Cities Eye AI Data Center Limits as Study Flags Water Risks

Austin is the latest city to consider restrictions as communities challenge the water and electricity demands of AI…

Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager

Sesame is an open-source, local-first password manager for Windows that stores passwords, 2FA codes, and recovery…

Bye, Bye GitHub

An author who has used GitHub since 2012 has migrated all their private repositories to a self-hosted Forgejo instance,…

The Analytical AI Handbook

Analytical AI refers to using foundation models to process unstructured data and make operational decisions—distinct…

Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases

Brave's browser begins testing an email alias feature that lets you keep your main email info private.

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Annual Apple TV subscriptions get the biggest bump.

Fed Chair Warsh Calls AI a 'Hinge Point in History'—4 Key Things He Said

Fed Chair Warsh devoted a full section of his speech today at Jackson Hole to AI's weight on the economy.

How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems 

Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech…

Attimet (YC F24) Is Hiring Members of Technical Staff – Engineering and Research

Attimet, a Y Combinator F24 startup, is hiring Members of Technical Staff for engineering and research roles focused on…

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

A security researcher discovered that automated AI-powered exploit systems can find vulnerabilities within minutes of a…

Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom

Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

How Dactyl Works

Dactyl is a development platform that enables LLM-based native app creation without compromises by using Swift and…

Friend-focused photo sharing app Retro snags $21M

Retro, a friend-focused photo-sharing app built by former Instagram employees, has raised more than $21 million in…

Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio

Qwen3.8 27B, a new 27-billion-parameter AI model, generates text at approximately 14 tokens per second on a Mac Studio…

EasyEffects: Essential for Enhancing Laptop Speaker Sound on Linux Distributions

EasyEffects is a Linux application that leverages PipeWire to apply audio effects and equalization to improve the…

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

A blog post argues that GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven rather than developers defaulting to terminal user…

Don't use musl if you care about performance

The author benchmarked musl libc in containerized applications and found its allocator performs significantly worse than…

Creating the Aetheryte Radio

A software engineer spent six years listening to a looped YouTube recording of an in-game ambiance sound from Final…

Apple TV is raising its subscription prices again

Now, Apple TV subscriptions will cost $14.99 per month, up from its previous price of $12.99 per month.

Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need

Software updates often make products worse rather than better—a phenomenon the German language captures with the word…

Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits

Scott Hanselman debugged why his 10 Gigabit Ethernet network was only achieving 300 megabits per second by running…

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

The `alloca()` function allocates memory from the stack by calling the same `__chkstk()` probing function that compilers…

Show HN: NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU

A developer created an NFC-powered business card PCB with 21 LEDs that animate when tapped against a phone, harvesting…

OpenStreetMap State of the Map 2026

State of the Map 2026 will be held in Paris, France from August 28-30, with both in-person and online attendance…