Technology

This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.…

2026-08-17

Apple ordered to stop scaring iPhone and iPad users away from third-party apps

Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that…

2026-08-17

How much hydrogen awaits us underground?

In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient r…

2026-08-17

There’s a New Link Between Gut Health and Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers found that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can weaken the barrier that protects the brain and promote changes associated with the co…

2026-08-17

I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags

It's just a hook, sewn into a bag, but I really, really like it. Peak Design is so proud of its clever integration that the San Francisco-based maker …

2026-08-17

The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/vinton_report_5.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325185 Poin…

2026-08-17

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985 Points: 162 # Comments: 67…

2026-08-17

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding

Article URL: https://www.highereddive.com/news/inside-the-federal-keyword-lists-that-canceled-billions-in-research-funding/826203/ Comments URL: https…

2026-08-17

NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-ending-key-grant-budding-clinical-researchers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

2026-08-17

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/nvidia-scales-back-250-billion-openai-data-center-guarantee-wsj-reports-2026-08-14/ Comments URL: https:…

2026-08-17

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-16/stripe-nears-deal-to-buy-ai-firm-openrouter-for-over-7-billion Comments URL: https://n…

2026-08-17

St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

Article URL: https://www.wptv.com/news/treasure-coast/region-st-lucie-county/saint-lucie-nuclear-power-plant-unit-1-manually-shut-down-after-3-control…

2026-08-17

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers

A few hours ago I switched my nameservers to Cloudflare in order to enable R2 bucket serving through my own subdomain, and I found out that it silentl…

2026-08-17

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better"

Article URL: https://rvembedded.com/blog_post/12/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321717 Points: 164 # Comments: 88…

2026-08-17

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

Article URL: https://w4g1.dev/blog/models-are-getting-dumber-on-purpose Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322695 Points: 138 # Comm…

2026-08-17

Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal crafted a hip hop breakup masterpiece

"Breakups are… tough." It's the opening lines of an interlude towards the end of DOOMED! Called "It Happens in Every Universe." It's also basically th…

2026-08-17

Stripe Will Reportedly Acquire AI Gateway Startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.…

2026-08-17

The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake

Article URL: https://www.core77.com/posts/144869 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312165 Points: 136 # Comments: 58…

2026-08-16

Amazon is trying to crush class-action suits before they get started

On Friday, Amazon customers received an email alerting them to an update to the site's terms and conditions. Most notably, it stated that disputes wou…

2026-08-16

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI Backlash Is ‘Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust’

Dario Amodei is pushing back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of AI.…

2026-08-16

AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-026-01496-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 Points: 170 # Comments: 84…

2026-08-16

Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history

Article URL: https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=493147…

2026-08-16

Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316271 Points: 163 # Comments:…

2026-08-16

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

Article URL: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22kidney+disappointment%22 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319389 Points: 187 …

2026-08-16

Claude: System Prompts

Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-prompts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319556 Points: 216 …

2026-08-16

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker

Article URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-ads-firefox-ios Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49319633 Points: 202 # Comm…

2026-08-16

A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02448-x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312008 Points: 183 # Comments: 79…

2026-08-16

What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

Article URL: https://littlelearner-ll.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49317760 Points: 186 # Comments: 141…

2026-08-16

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born (2023)

Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 Points: 187 # Comments: 47…

2026-08-16

Software Engineering fundamentals matter more

Article URL: https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…

2026-08-16