Today so far 2026-09-15 · 00:00 UTC

The tech industry is experiencing significant momentum in AI development, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang asserting the company won't allow an AI slowdown while competitors like Cornelis raise $205 million to challenge Nvidia's dominance. Major AI companies are simultaneously expressing caution about their own creations, as OpenAI's Sam Altman warns humans could lose control of AI and AI leaders call for hitting the brakes after years of reckless speed. Meanwhile, Apple has launched iOS 27 with enhanced Siri AI capabilities, though reports indicate the operating system does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled.

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 artificial intelligence to issue a ruling, finding that using AI to make judicial…

2026-08-17 · 14:30 UTC
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Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP

2026-08-17 · 14:29

A researcher successfully ran Qwen3.8's 27B model with a full 256K token context on a single 24GB GPU, achieving 50.44…

Show HN: Eve Software Factory

2026-08-17 · 14:28

Eve Software Factory is a GitHub template that deploys "Foreman," an AI agent system that automates software development…

Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

2026-08-17 · 14:25

Saggar is a native Mac terminal application designed to organize and track multiple development sessions across…

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

2026-08-17 · 14:22

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

2026-08-17 · 14:18

Wiz Research's AI-powered security tool discovered a critical vulnerability in Snowflake's GitHub Actions workflow that…

Show HN: Learn Flags Quiz

2026-08-17 · 14:11

Learn Flags Quiz is an interactive web-based game that teaches world geography through 10 different quiz formats…

Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

2026-08-17 · 14:07

Germany's competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, found that Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework gave…

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

2026-08-17 · 14:07

A librarian provides a practical guide for disabling unwanted AI features across various devices and applications,…

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

2026-08-17 · 13:59

A Hacker News user asks about alternatives to GitHub due to recent downtime, prompting community suggestions including…

How to ship a database every day

2026-08-17 · 13:56

Turbopuffer deploys dozens of database upgrades daily across 100+ clusters spanning three deployment models—public SaaS,…

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

2026-08-17 · 13:46

DuckDB v2.0, releasing this fall under the codename "Cyanoptera," introduces major features including DuckDB as a…

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

2026-08-17 · 13:44

A 404 Media investigation tracked a shipment of rare books using a hidden tracking device and discovered that Amazon…

Incident with Github.com

2026-08-17 · 13:40

GitHub experienced a widespread service incident on August 17, 2026, affecting multiple core features including Pull…

GitHub down again? no PR access

2026-08-17 · 13:37

GitHub experienced a widespread outage affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and repository page loading, with an approximate…

Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

2026-08-17 · 13:35

1667 is a terminal-based writing tool that uses language models to help authors generate fiction, displaying multiple…

Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance

2026-08-17 · 13:35

Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that.

Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

2026-08-17 · 13:18

Uber is also making investing in Zipline as part of the tie-up.

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

2026-08-17 · 13:10

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector

2026-08-17 · 13:09

Plush is a toy programming language with an actor-based VM design that includes independent garbage collectors for each…

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

2026-08-17 · 13:07

This project implements an optimal Sokoban puzzle solver using A* search with several optimizations including macro-push…

Anthropic IPO: Polymarket Bets on an October Listing

2026-08-17 · 13:05

Anthropic officially filed its confidential IPO application in the United States on June 1, 2026.

David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post

2026-08-17 · 12:35

Pirated Copies of 'The Odyssey' Are Hiding Crypto-Stealing Malware

2026-08-17 · 12:31

Bitdefender says fake downloads of the newly released blockbuster are already spreading Lumma Stealer, malware that…

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

2026-08-17 · 12:09

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model represents a major advancement in vision capabilities, particularly in object detection where…

Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed

2026-08-17 · 11:55

Commodore, once a dominant home computer manufacturer in the 1980s with iconic products like the Commodore 64 and Amiga,…

AI Inference Is Entering a Pricing Reset, But Cheaper Models May Not Mean Cheaper AI

2026-08-17 · 11:46

The AI industry’s next battle isn’t about who has the smartest model. It’s about who can run a task the cheapest.

Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis

2026-08-17 · 11:00

What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?

Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

2026-08-17 · 10:45

Self-hosted email among the internet's top million domains has declined sharply from 44.6% in 2016 to 22.4% in 2026,…

The Marxist Case for the Technofeudal Hypothesis

2026-08-17 · 10:44

The author argues that a new form of capital called "cloud capital" has emerged—consisting of networked machines that…

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