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The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …
Roborock Qrevo 2 Review (2026): A New Budget Vacuum King?

Roborock Qrevo 2 Review (2026): A New Budget Vacuum King?

Roborock's more affordable vacuum did well on corners and navigating my home, but thresholds and small objects remain a challenge. Still, it's a good …
Apple's Dimensional Drawings

Apple's Dimensional Drawings

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/accessories/dimensional-drawings/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690174 Points: 191 # C…
Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds (2026): Bose, Apple, Samsung, Beats, and More

Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds (2026): Bose, Apple, Samsung, Beats, and More

I’ve tested dozens of wireless earbuds. These are the best for when you want to tune out the world, wherever you are.…
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fa…
‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction

‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction

While the publishing industry frets over how authors are using AI, many readers are taking things into their own hands.…
Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

Article URL: https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The contagion of fear

The contagion of fear

Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/the-contagion-of-fear/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689460 Points: 180 # …
Making Startups Powerful

Making Startups Powerful

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/powerful.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49684196 Points: 172 # Comments: 76…
Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49683262 Points: 161 …
David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models

Article URL: https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685991 Points: 169 # Comme…
Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco

Global Shortage Has Led to Motor Oil Rationing at Costco

Article URL: https://guessingheadlights.com/global-shortage-has-led-to-motor-oil-rationing-at-costco/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says

Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says

The 40-year-old unvaccinated woman reportedly had underlying health conditions.…
Aligned to whom?

Aligned to whom?

Article URL: https://hyperbo.la/w/aligned-to-whom/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49679643 Points: 158 # Comments: 95…
Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/munJKF7iWMsWJLAH2/astra-and-fable-still-hack-on-simple-variants-of-alignment Comments URL: https://news.y…
The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection

The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking…
Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers

Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Appl…
Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation

Article URL: https://www.investigatetv.com/2026/09/08/flock-worker-calls-police-investigatetv-reporter-filming-public-camera-installation/ Comments UR…
Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2098443262214230095 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49677577 Points: 189 # Co…
Homebrew 7.0.0

Homebrew 7.0.0

Article URL: https://brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-7.0.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49681545 Points: 238 # Comments: 107…
Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun

Two people were arrested in San Fransico while riding around in a Waymo robotaxi after the cab pulled over and called the cops on them. The riders wer…
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will make you forget all about Marvel’s Blade disaster

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother will make you forget all about Marvel’s Blade disaster

Marvel's mishandling of its Blade reboot will likely go down as one of the studio's biggest mistakes. There was a great actor in place to play the vam…
JetKVM Mini

JetKVM Mini

Article URL: https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49681152 Points: 195 # Comments: 82…
I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

The manufacturer has a service that lets owners repair their own equipment.…
Your car is selling your data

Your car is selling your data

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on cars, data privacy, and autonomous vehicl…
Apple’s new phones are here

Apple’s new phones are here

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 143, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is …
3 iOS 27 Safari Settings Worth Turning On for a Faster, More Personal Browser

3 iOS 27 Safari Settings Worth Turning On for a Faster, More Personal Browser

Apple’s Safari browser gets a few helpful automation and personalization features in iOS 27.…
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

Article URL: https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power

AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildo…
With a Better Understanding of Physics, We Could Predict Volcanic Eruptions

With a Better Understanding of Physics, We Could Predict Volcanic Eruptions

“There’s no reason we can’t think that, at some point in the future, we can have volcano forecasts that are like weather forecasts.”…