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Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit

Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit

Polls show that overwhelming majorities of Americans hate data centers. China makes a perfect scapegoat for tech leaders and their allies—the only pro…
Learn Programming with OCaml

Learn Programming with OCaml

Article URL: https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578280 Points: 204 # Comments: 80…
The revolt of the reader

The revolt of the reader

Article URL: https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580939 Points: 227…
Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581870 Points: 260 # Comments: 39…
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

Article URL: https://cloudinabottle.org/blog/launch-post Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582000 Points: 229 # Comments: 100…
Explore the globe in field recordings

Explore the globe in field recordings

I love field recordings. I love making them. I love them when they're incorporated into my ambient music. They're great background noise for working o…
The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

Article URL: https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576386 Points: 204 # Com…
How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Git hosting that never leaves Europe

Git hosting that never leaves Europe

Article URL: https://pushin.eu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49573680 Points: 199 # Comments: 104…
CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence

CD sales are booming as physical media continues its resurgence

According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization say…
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

Article URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/why-the-netherlands-moved-its-gold-from-us-and-canada/107111990 Comments URL: https://news.ycombin…
Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy

Fantasy Footballers’ Andy Holloway is a dedicated zero-inbox kinda guy

Andy Holloway cohosts the Fantasy Footballers podcast with his friends Jason Moore and Mike Wright. The show is one of the premier fantasy sports podc…
Content creators drop the ball

Content creators drop the ball

During Naomi Osaka's match against Anastasia Zakharova at this year's US Open earlier this week, a gaggle of ring light-wielding influencers who were …
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545 Points: 244 # Comments: 156…
Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634 Points: 286 # Comments: …
Robotaxis enter their villain era

Robotaxis enter their villain era

It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn't human - and the car may be …
Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’

The studio released an official catch-up list ahead of December’s release. We have easy links to watch every one of the movies so you can get up to sp…
Can AI design circuit boards yet?

Can AI design circuit boards yet?

Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569366 Points: 243 # Comm…
Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

Statichost.eu – European static site hosting

Article URL: https://www.statichost.eu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569896 Points: 243 # Comments: 78…
Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570669 Points: 226 # Comments: 126…
Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool.Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped crea…
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead Comments URL: https://news.ycombi…
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.…
IBM Bob

IBM Bob

Article URL: https://bob.ibm.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563851 Points: 206 # Comments: 244…
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.…
After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

"Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is."…
Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor

Audacity 4 is a complete revamp of the ‘world’s most popular’ audio editor

Audacity 4 has been in the works for some time, and had its own mini controversy last year when an unfortunate redesigned logo started making the roun…
Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo

Musk wins court order to block use of “Twitter,” but not “tweet” and bird logo

Saying X is “formerly Twitter” in App Store lets Musk block use of Twitter name.…