Business & Economy

Nothing’s first B-series phone is also skipping the US

Nothing is shaking up the branding of its cheapest phones, following up last year's Phone 3A Lite with a new Phone 4B. Combining design elements of th…

How to sequence your own DNA at home

Article URL: https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812156 Points: 189 # …

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

Article URL: https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811644 Points: 191 # Comments: 47…

Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/blog/fable5-vending-bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803762 Points: 182 # Comments: 124…

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

Article URL: https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48809…

The incredible shrinking Xbox: Five studios, 3,200 employees let go

Move affects ~20% of the gaming division, which will refocus on its biggest franchises.…

Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing …

Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years

I'm making a platform for simple open source games you can play anywhere.Games are all just JavaScript classes and you can read the source of every ga…

Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market

When I first started testing Vizio's 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for…

Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests

It’s a pretty good movie, but it needed to be a great movie to thrive in an oversaturated superhero market.…

Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776345 Points: 225 # Comments: 154…

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

Article URL: https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780417 Points: 257 # Comments: 90…

Where NASA Posts Its Best Space Photos, and How to Find Them

Explore decades of incredible images and videos of stars, planets, moons, and galaxies—most of which are free to use and share.…

7 Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US (2026)

Avoid phone FOMO with our favorite smartphones that aren’t officially sold stateside but are available in markets like the UK and Europe.…

Immich 3.0

Article URL: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/29439 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944 Points: 370 # Comments…

Sony Erases Digital Content From Libraries, a Reminder That You Don’t Own What You Buy

In September, some PlayStation customers will no longer be able to access some purchased movies and shows. It underscores the fact that digital purcha…

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

Article URL: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770647 Points: 414 # Comment…

Incoterms for Robot Imports: Which Terms to Use When Buying Industrial or Collaborative Robots (2026 Guide)

Robot Import Duties & VAT in 2026: GCC, EU, UK and US Rates Compared (HS Code 8479.50 & 8428)

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

Article URL: https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761118 Points: 316 # Comments…

Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

Article URL: https://clashreport.com/world/articles/spain-orders-blacklist-of-us-tech-giant-palantir-from-public-and-private-companies-fsnc2z17gjv Com…

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763035 Points: 302 # Comments: 156…

Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low and behold.…

Spotify Confirms Streaming Fraud After Kalshi Trader Cries Foul

One of Kalshi’s most prominent traders tells WIRED he’s swearing off Spotify-related markets until the issue is resolved.…

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.…

Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SH9QRTAlL02THgAN2AGmWe9El0_2ZJF6hhgDBx8k97c/edit?tab=t.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting th…

China Robot Lead Times in 2026: Actual Timelines by Robot Type, Brand, and Order Size

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

Article URL: https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/topic,129691.0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747116 Points: 260 # Comment…

Cleared by the US, derailed by the UK: Getty’s Shutterstock merger falls apart

Getty is planning to axe its $3.7 billion merger agreement with Shutterstock after a UK regulator imposed restrictions that would prevent part of Shut…