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Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

Fences, Not Sandboxes

The author describes operating a team of 50-60 AI agents, primarily using Anthropic's Claude Fable model, spending…

Agent Lightning v1.0

Agent Lightning v1.0.1 is Microsoft's first official release of a skill designed to help coding agents optimize other AI…

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

San Francisco has been converted into an interactive video game environment that users can explore and navigate in…

Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam

Nvidia is extending CUDA support to RISC-V processors, opening the architecture for GPU compute applications including…

EuroHPC Launches 6 Quantum Calls with €119M in Funding

The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched six quantum technology calls with €119 million in total funding to advance…

Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China

Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.

Show HN: A Modern GUI Library for Ada: CSS Styling, XML UI, SDL3

Adi2 is a modern GUI library for Ada that provides developers with familiar web-like features including CSS styling with…

Public services are increasingly strained by LLM-written appeals for benefits

AI-generated appeals for government benefits are overwhelming public services through a phenomenon called "agentic…

Ox-Alpha Is GLM?

OX Alpha, a mysterious new model appearing on OpenRouter, has been reverse-engineered and identified as GLM, developed…

A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more

A security researcher discovered that Beam Living, a Blackstone portfolio company, exposed sensitive personal…

Show HN: GlassBox – what the browser reveals, and how identifiable you are

GlassBox is a browser tool that measures your digital fingerprint across four tiers—from hardware/environment factors to…

Show HN: PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storage

PicoMQ is a durable, real-time streaming system that operates over HTTP and runs on S3-compatible object storage,…

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance

# Summary As AI coding tools become increasingly prevalent, developers who entered the field during the AI era face a…

Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence

Jabber/XMPP represents 25 years of digital independence built on open standards that allow users and organizations to…

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

Microsoft Paint and Photos embed invisible, server-issued GUIDs as watermarks into locally-generated AI images, even…

Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics

General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space…

OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

OpenAI has reduced pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol, with the price cut lasting until at least November 21.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

https://xcancel.com/lemire/status/2091894299289874926 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420873…

Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer

Adafruit has released a USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer for $4.50, a small PCB adapter designed to solve compatibility…

OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.

Brake problems in GM EVs draw greater federal scrutiny

In one crash, the driver of a 2024 Blazer EV said they had to "deliberately steer the vehicle into a concrete curb" to…

Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B

Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B.

US nutrition startup Berry Street merges with India’s Healthify as GLP-1 trends upwards

Berry Street founder Noah Kotlove and Healthify founder Tushar Vashisht will act as co-CEOs of the new entity.

Digital Sovereignty Alliance Concludes Digital Asset Case Study Course at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School

Washington, D.C., August 24, 2026 — The Digital Sovereignty Alliance (DSA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to…

Review: Chuwi's $449 Unibook laptop is a funhouse-mirror MacBook Neo

The Unibook is a weird entry-level laptop for people with patience.

Microsoft Axes a Cult Publishing App After 30 Years, With .pub Files at Risk

Microsoft is retiring Microsoft Publisher in October 2026, ending service for Microsoft 365 subscribers on October 1 and…

Nearly 3 million Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles

Other brands affected by the recall include Chinese carmakers XPeng, Xiaomi and Geely.

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2091544343589060625 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49412396…