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.

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

When a user switched their nameservers to Cloudflare to use R2 bucket serving, they discovered that Cloudflare had automatically injected a JavaScript analytics snippet into their HTML-only,…

2026-08-16 · 17:49 UTC
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Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

2026-08-16 · 17:10

Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have demonstrated that ordinary WiFi networks can identify…

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

2026-08-16 · 17:01

A Third World embedded engineer from Trinidad and Tobago responds to Dmitry Grinberg's critical article about RISC-V by…

Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’

2026-08-16 · 16:53

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.

TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis

2026-08-16 · 16:04

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Gemini 3.7 Flash Review: Google's Cheap Model Isn’t Dumb Anymore

2026-08-16 · 16:00

Three weeks after a Flash release that couldn't produce a working file, Google's budget tier zero-shots a playable game.

GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost

2026-08-16 · 14:53

A neuroscientist's GPS malfunction during a drive in Israel sparked reflection on society's heavy reliance on satellite…

The AI Credit Resale Economy

2026-08-16 · 14:44

A secondary market for AI credits has emerged, with "token brokers" buying unused credits from startups at discounts and…

People Are Turning to AI for Mental Health, California Wants It Banned

2026-08-16 · 14:01

A California bill is awaiting an Assembly vote to "place guardrails" around AI chatbots and prevent them from acting as…

Anthropic revenue reportedly jumps to more than $11.5B in second quarter

2026-08-16 · 13:58

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Head of Design Engineering

2026-08-16 · 13:30

Tasklet, a Y Combinator-backed AI platform startup, is hiring a Head of Design Engineering in San Francisco with a…

Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users

2026-08-16 · 13:21

I don't have an article to summarize—only a title and what appears to be incomplete or fragmented text ("One AI · One…

How a Sony Veteran Is Overhauling the Company He Grew Up In

2026-08-16 · 13:12

I built my own root DNS so I could stop renting names

2026-08-16 · 13:07

Anthony Ettinger created Moshpit, a personal root DNS system that allows users to claim free custom top-level domains…

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

2026-08-16 · 12:58

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Is the industry ready for tokens-constrained work?

2026-08-16 · 12:51

As AI token limits become a workplace constraint, companies face a mismatch between traditional time-based work…

How Many Employees Does It Take to Reach $100M ARR Now?

2026-08-16 · 12:49

Several AI companies reached $100M ARR in 2025 with remarkably small teams of 45-60 employees, including Lovable (45…

Claude: System Prompts

2026-08-16 · 12:48

Anthropic's Claude AI models use system prompts delivered at the start of each conversation to provide current…

A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator

2026-08-16 · 12:16

A hobbyist discovered a passion for vintage Casio pocket computers after learning they support BASIC programming and…

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Builder / Engineer

2026-08-16 · 12:00

Gooseworks, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by the team behind Athina AI, is hiring a Founding Engineer/Builder to…

Stripe 2.9% vs. Adyen 0.6% vs. Braintree 2.59%: 2026 Fees

2026-08-16 · 11:34

Adyen offers the lowest processing costs for enterprises at approximately 0.6% + €0.11 through interchange-plus pricing,…

Show HN: Remove AI voice from AI writings

2026-08-16 · 11:28

Unslop is a tool that rewrites AI-generated text to remove its characteristic voice and style, restoring a more natural,…

Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

2026-08-16 · 11:05

A Hacker News user asks whether any companies have abandoned LLM-assisted code generation and returned to purely…

Apple Changes its AI Strategy in China, with Alibaba Involved

2026-08-16 · 11:05

Apple changes its strategy in China.

AI Coding Without the Vibes

2026-08-16 · 10:31

Rather than entirely avoiding or fully embracing AI, students and professionals should use it strategically by dividing…

Show HN: Grafana agent observability for Hermes Agent

2026-08-16 · 08:40

A developer has created a Grafana Agent Observability plugin for Hermes Agent that records LLM calls and tool…

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

2026-08-16 · 07:37

Researchers created LittleLearner, a language model trained exclusively on elementary school curriculum (K-5 level), to…

Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext

2026-08-16 · 06:55

JitPass is a macOS-only tool that moves plaintext secrets (API keys, credentials, environment variables) from files like…

The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators

2026-08-16 · 04:24

21,000 MCP servers exposed: the protocol reaches a security inflection point

2026-08-16 · 04:07

Over 21,000 internet-facing MCP (Model Context Protocol) server instances are currently exposed, with 92% of production…

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