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Reddit begins testing a new audio and video experience, similar to popular TikTok videos

Reddit is beginning to test video and audio versions of popular posts, allowing users to watch or listen to Reddit…

Sound-powered fire protection startup gets $15M to snuff out fires before they turn catastrophic

Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from…

Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

Roboflow Playground is a new tool that allows users to test and compare up to five zero-shot computer vision models…

How I Over-Engineered My Book

The author built an over-engineered book publishing system using developer tools like Git, Markdown, and CI/CD pipelines…

Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI

Amazon’s team uses a T. rex preparing to devour a book as its logo.

YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment

Llama.cpp v0.1.0

Llama.cpp released version 0.1.0 on August 17, marking an official release of the project with 124k stars and 21.8k…

We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng

SecretSpec has released dotenv-ng 1.0, a fork of the unmaintained dotenvy library that fixes critical parsing bugs where…

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

Researchers have developed a GPU programming framework integrated into the Rust compiler that enables safe, portable,…

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices

Memory prices have surged 500% over the past 12 months, reaching levels up to 10 times higher than the lowest prices…

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B, an open-weight model released in August 2026, scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence…

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

After switching from Gmail to Fastmail several months ago, the author reports being satisfied with the choice, praising…

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while…

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub alternative that allows users to host code directly on Cursor's platform while…

Buy Your Friends Batteries

Home batteries make excellent group birthday gifts, with a 5 kWh battery costing around €1,600 that can be split among…

Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available…

Sun Clock

Sun Clock is a free, JavaScript-based 24-hour clock that displays the sun's position, sunrise/sunset times, and lunar…

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and…

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

What Stripe's $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Actually Means for AI

Stripe just bought the layer that decides which AI model answers your prompt—and it was already collecting the money for…

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

Speko, a Y Combinator-backed startup, launches as an "OpenRouter for Voice AI," providing a unified API that benchmarks…

Ahmad on X: "Anthropic's War on open source AI" / X

Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

A Hacker News user asks GitHub employees to explain recurring platform issues.

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to…

This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.

WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan

WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional…

Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules

A federal judge ruled that a state court judge is protected by judicial immunity even if she relied entirely on…