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Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

Tiny Hairs That Help Corals Breathe May Malfunction in Warming Oceans

Several new studies have uncovered this long overlooked aspect of coral physiology that could be the key to the animals’ fate in a changing climate.…
Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Mess…
San Francisco Onion Futures Company

San Francisco Onion Futures Company

Article URL: https://onionfutures.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763296 Points: 263 # Comments: 91…
Laya the open source version of Jev

Laya the open source version of Jev

Article URL: https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765348 Points: 316 # Comments: 62…
The colorful, unique Hyte X50 PC case is $50 off

The colorful, unique Hyte X50 PC case is $50 off

The Hyte X50 is a PC case that really stands out from the typical black box design, and it’s $50 off at the company’s site until September 21st, 2026,…
Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now

Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now

Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you m…
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Article URL: https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764791 Points: 248 # Commen…
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

Article URL: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/two-separate-brains.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763697 Point…
Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.…
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of…
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

Research suggests that bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits.…
Minimal Phone 2

Minimal Phone 2

Article URL: https://minimalcompany.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749369 Points: 271 # Comments: 220…
Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law

Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law

While lawmakers iron out the details, advocates hope this approach could serve as a model for addressing histories of environmental hazards often conc…
6 Best VPN Services (2026), Tested and Reviewed: A Buyer's Guide

6 Best VPN Services (2026), Tested and Reviewed: A Buyer's Guide

Every VPN says it’s the best, but only some of them are telling the truth.…
Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4

Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4

For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page and into real life.…
Saving another 100TB of RAM

Saving another 100TB of RAM

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758580 Points: 275 # Com…
Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear

Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear

The SkyNomad—with heated floors, a projector, a pop-up roof, a fridge, swiveling seats, and over 1,000 miles of range—is a “luxury” ride that undercut…
Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud

Article URL: https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694 Poi…
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758736 Points: 343 # Commen…
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned…
Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.…
FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.…
Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.…
Apple Watch Ultra 4 Review: The Series 12 Is Closing the Gap

Apple Watch Ultra 4 Review: The Series 12 Is Closing the Gap

The Ultra 4 gets smarter about health tracking and lasts longer between charges. But for most people, the Series 12 gets close enough.…
Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointe…
Rocket Report: China wants a Raptor 3 engine; SpaceX set for big Starship test

Rocket Report: China wants a Raptor 3 engine; SpaceX set for big Starship test

“I can tell you SpaceX has already gone captive."…
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.…
Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest

Meet the winner of Nikon's Small World in Motion video contest

Ning Xu of Tsinghua University captured tiny cilia beating in airways of a child with rare respiratory disorder.…
This cartridge-playing Game Boy clone is smaller and cheaper than Analogue’s Pocket

This cartridge-playing Game Boy clone is smaller and cheaper than Analogue’s Pocket

FunnyPlaying, a Chinese company known for its Game Boy and GBA upgrade kits, has announced a new handheld that plays original Nintendo cartridges and …
Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7X is the most laptop that $1,000 can currently buy

Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7X is the most laptop that $1,000 can currently buy

Anyone shopping for a Windows laptop with a $1K budget should head to Best Buy, where for the rest of the day you can get a great deal on a capable Le…