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Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets

Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don't know everything in the a…
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel

Article URL: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/29/qsb-118/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496918 Points: 161 # Comments: 64…
Hacking IKEA Furniture

Hacking IKEA Furniture

Article URL: https://greenlightning.eu/diy/hacking-ikea-furniture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497810 Points: 177 # Comments:…
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

Article URL: https://0xcc.io/posts/omarchy-root-creds/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499854 Points: 172 # Comments: 148…
Creepy Crawlies

Creepy Crawlies

Article URL: https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491791 Points: 292 # Comments…
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued

Article URL: https://freecore.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494856 Points: 157 # Comments: 84…
Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496782 Points: 163 # Comments: 48…
No AI Fridays

No AI Fridays

Article URL: https://noaifridays.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498095 Points: 232 # Comments: 136…
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-m…
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — bu…
TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

Article URL: https://github.com/kingroryg/turbokv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486334 Points: 176 # Comments: 85…
Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/30/turns-out-brits-would-quite-like-their-private-messages-to-stay-private/5292994 Comments …
Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games

Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it's going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online ches…
Two new small, powerful Macs

Two new small, powerful Macs

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, how is it almost Se…
China’s robots race ahead

China’s robots race ahead

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the US-China AI race, …
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6983/https://www.npr.org/2026/08/28/nx-s1-5905370/nasa-nancy-grac...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_G…
How to Escape Group Chat Hell

How to Escape Group Chat Hell

Young adults are in more group chats than ever—sometimes more than 20 at a time. Here’s how to tame the chat madness.…
Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored

Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored

Burnt out on wrist buzzes and notification overload? A new crop of minimalist wearables promises to collect your health data without demanding your at…
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-dist…
Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins

Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins

The discovery redefines how large atoms need to be to produce the extreme state of matter found in the early universe.…
Bug Blindness

Bug Blindness

Article URL: https://danluu.com/bug-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494520 Points: 206 # Comments: 99…
I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again

I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again

Article URL: https://joshkaramuth.com/blog/aws-cognito-authentication-startup-nightmare/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478091 P…
Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale

I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of…
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported

Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washingt…
Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-samsungs-processing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487341 Points: 206 #…
“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is fin…
Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions

Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions

BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of th…
Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango

Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango

Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noi…
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.…
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.…