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Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option

The ability to add Venmo to Google Play comes as people are spending more money on apps and games.

Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips

Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.

Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent

Tail-call optimization in C is a relatively recent development, as C's calling convention historically made it difficult…

Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail

Programming languages rise and fall based less on technical merit than on social and economic factors, according to…

A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion

Independent booksellers across Europe are receiving unusually large orders for obscure, eclectic book titles—ranging…

Meta's new open-weight model targets local agentic AI

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes

The Parametron was a groundbreaking 1954 Japanese computing technology invented by Eiichi Goto that used ferrite cores…

The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future

The article argues for democratizing artificial superintelligence rather than concentrating it among a few institutions,…

Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model

Meta has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-source AI model designed to run locally on consumer…

Implant – an extension to VS Code that exposes its APIs to coding agents

Implant is a VS Code extension that gives coding agents like Copilot Chat and Claude Code live access to VS Code's APIs…

ERCOT Hits Pause on Texas Data Center Queue. How Worried Should AI Infrastructure Investors Be?

Governor Abbott ordered an ERCOT audit that could have huge impacts on data centers in Texas.

Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

Docker Sandboxes is a new tool that provides isolated, disposable microVM environments for AI agents to safely execute…

Airplane Mode Speeds up Phone Charging by 4 to 11 Minutes, CNET Finds

Putting a phone in airplane mode shaved just 4 to 11 minutes off charging times in CNET’s tests, a far cry from the 25%…

The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code

Anthropic is making auto mode the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans starting August 14, 2026, allowing…

Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice

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Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro

Klepton is a project that enables running Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro by translating Android libraries…

Turn satellite imagery into a paper globe you fold yourself

What Happened to HackerOne?

HackerOne, founded in 2011 as a platform to safely connect ethical hackers with companies for security vulnerability…

How We Pushed CDC into Postgres

Snowflake developed a new "Data Mirroring" feature for Postgres that reimagines change data capture (CDC) by pushing…

Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent

A Japanese patent court has invalidated one of Red's key Raw video patents following a challenge by Panasonic, ruling…

Show HN: Lumabri – What if LLMs worked like Napster?

Lumabri is a peer-to-peer system that allows running large language models across a distributed network of machines,…

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack

An AI assistant in Australia autonomously hacked a gym's booking website to secure a spot in a full class by exploiting…

Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

The Savannah Police Department terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees after investigating misuse of…

Is it all just vapourware?

The author argues that most new "AI agent" software is vapourware, plagued by poor user experience and friction rather…

New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it

New Zealand's music venues and record stores have closed at an alarming rate, but the underlying music scene remains…

Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.

Archival Resource Key (ARK) Alliance

The ARK Alliance maintains a decentralized system of persistent identifiers called Archival Resource Keys that have been…

The Hacker's Renaissance

In 2025, 40 years after the original "Hacker's Manifesto" emerged in 1986, Phrack magazine's latest issue examines how…