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Today so far 2026-09-12 · 18:00 UTC

The dominant story in tech today centers on AI governance and investment, with Anthropic's CEO calling for AI development to slow down while Nvidia considers a $10 billion investment in a potential record Anthropic IPO, underscoring the tension between rapid AI advancement and calls for measured progress. Meanwhile, OpenAI's newest GPT-6 Astra model has drawn criticism from users who say it's become less capable, while a data breach at Revolut revealed how hackers successfully impersonated state agencies to access customer information. Other notable developments include LG responding to allegations about TV spying and ongoing discussions about whether technology's current trajectory warrants a cultural reckoning.

CMS with AI, Not AI CMS: Wagtail 8.0's New API

Wagtail 8.0 introduces a new v3 API with 50+ automated admin operations across content management tasks, enabling users to programmatically manage pages, images, and documents while supporting both…

2026-08-27 · 16:32 UTC
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BRIN is 1/4570th the size of a B-tree, until 5% of rows are updated

2026-08-27 · 16:26

BRIN indexes in PostgreSQL are remarkably efficient on freshly loaded, ordered data—48 KB versus a 214 MB B-tree for the…

Markdown Database Pattern

2026-08-27 · 16:01

The Markdown Database Pattern treats a collection of markdown files as a queryable database by using frontmatter…

Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

2026-08-27 · 16:00

The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond…

Small Models Have Arrived

2026-08-27 · 15:56

Small language models like GPT-5.6-Luna have become capable and cost-effective enough to enable new consumer and…

The broadcast squeezeback, rebuilt with CSS Grid and WebVTT

2026-08-27 · 15:56

A developer rebuilt the "squeezeback" effect commonly seen in sports broadcasts—where the main video shrinks into a…

Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

2026-08-27 · 15:55

Suica, Japan's first IC transit card developed in the 1990s, revolutionized train travel by enabling contactless…

Launch HN: Salem Robotics (YC S26) – Software for industrial inspection robots

2026-08-27 · 15:46

Salem Robotics, a YC S26 startup founded by former Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers, has developed software…

Show HN: Watches user sessions, finds bugs that matter, and fixes them

2026-08-27 · 15:45

Opslane is a tool that monitors user sessions to automatically detect, investigate, and fix bugs in production…

Needle: The benchmark your search engine can't memorize

2026-08-27 · 15:17

Keenable, a search startup that raised $26M from Accel and Conviction, introduced NEEDLE, an open-source benchmark…

Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens

2026-08-27 · 15:04

Nvidia projects 70% revenue growth for fiscal 2028, forecasting $673 billion in annual sales as AI demand expands beyond…

Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days

2026-08-27 · 15:01

The original Snowboard Kids for Nintendo 64 has been fully decompiled in just 84 days, meaning all of its functions now…

This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’

2026-08-27 · 15:00

The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and…

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck

2026-08-27 · 14:56

Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home…

Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?

2026-08-27 · 14:48

Hollywood is increasingly replacing superhero adaptations with video game-based films and shows, following the massive…

Launching Route 53 Files

2026-08-27 · 14:45

AWS has launched Route 53 Files, a new file system that allows users to manage DNS records directly through standard…

Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town

2026-08-27 · 14:40

You read that right.

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

2026-08-27 · 14:36

Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other…

Flock CEO Asks Americans to 'Compromise' on Privacy as Camera Backlash Grows

2026-08-27 · 14:33

Garrett Langley says 99.9% of police are good actors, days after a report identified at least 69 officials accused of…

French CII's Mitra-15 in SIMH. Work in Progress

2026-08-27 · 14:27

A developer is creating a preliminary simulator for the Mitra-15, a French 16-bit minicomputer from the early 1970s,…

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

2026-08-27 · 14:27

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and…

The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall

2026-08-27 · 14:27

Major tech companies have made massive compute commitments to fuel AI development, with trillions in spending…

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

2026-08-27 · 14:27

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could…

Software engineering is about managing complexity

2026-08-27 · 14:23

Software engineering fundamentally differs from code writing—while AI excels at the latter, the former requires managing…

Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

2026-08-27 · 14:16

Restoredrill is an open-source tool that automatically tests PostgreSQL backups by restoring them to a temporary…

507 Mechanical Movements

2026-08-27 · 14:08

A website has made Henry T.

Six Months of Writing Code Exclusively with Agents

2026-08-27 · 14:05

A developer spent six months writing code exclusively through AI agents rather than by hand, starting in February after…

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

2026-08-27 · 14:01

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real…

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

2026-08-27 · 14:00

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

AC2 Protocol: The missing security layer for AI agents

2026-08-27 · 13:55

AC2 Protocol is a security framework that sits between AI agents and sensitive operations, requiring hardware-bound user…

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