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Lego’s Donkey Kong arcade machine lets Mario jump endless barrels — Miyamoto is reportedly happy

Lego’s Donkey Kong arcade machine lets Mario jump endless barrels — Miyamoto is reportedly happy

Carl Merriam has designed some of my favorite nostalgia-inducing Lego sets, including the Lego Nintendo Game Boy and Piranha Plant. He's assisted on t…
Making

Making

Article URL: https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008440 Points: 245 # Comments: 101…
Does creatine make you smarter?

Does creatine make you smarter?

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/creatine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008642 Points: 245 # Comments: 215…
Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

Article URL: https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010129 Points: 326 # Comments: 13…
John C. Dvorak has died

John C. Dvorak has died

https://xcancel.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012070 Points: 404 # Comments: 112…
Meta won’t have to face the next planned social media addiction trial

Meta won’t have to face the next planned social media addiction trial

Less than a week before Meta's lawyers were set to return to a Los Angeles courtroom, the plaintiff accusing the platform of inflicting harm dropped t…
Clayface trailer leans into the body horror

Clayface trailer leans into the body horror

"The people I trusted betrayed me. The justice system failed me."…
Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.…
The startup's Postgres survival guide

The startup's Postgres survival guide

Article URL: https://hatchet.run/blog/postgres-survival-guide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005787 Points: 212 # Comments: 112…
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, acc…
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mi…
iOS code could reportedly let Apple cut off apps when users miss iPhone payments

iOS code could reportedly let Apple cut off apps when users miss iPhone payments

Code found in an iOS 27 beta would allow Apple to put a financed iPhone in "Restricted Mode" if it detects any missed payments, 9to5Mac reports. The f…
Price-hiked iPads are a little cheaper right now

Price-hiked iPads are a little cheaper right now

A number of Apple products got more expensive last month, so we’re happy to find deals wherever and whenever we can. If you’re searching for a high-en…
‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope

‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope

Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out.…
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.…
Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

https://xcancel.com/nikitabier/status/2079787406300266743 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007374 Points: 256 # Comments: 302…
Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI …
Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators…
Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Over the past few months, our team has been building more and more slidedecks using web frontend technologies with coding harnesses like Claude Code, …
Dyson V10 Konical Review (2026): Affordable and Solid

Dyson V10 Konical Review (2026): Affordable and Solid

Out of Dyson’s two new affordable stick vacuums, this one is easily my favorite.…
Apple is reportedly testing a MacBook Neo with more RAM

Apple is reportedly testing a MacBook Neo with more RAM

Following the MacBook Neo's huge popularity so far, Apple is reportedly developing an updated version of its budget laptop with a new processor and mo…
"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-drawing-arena-colored-pencils-claude-gpt-grok Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998404 P…
Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assis…
Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among US companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.…
Preorders for Samsung’s new Z Fold and Flip 8 come with up to $350 in gift cards

Preorders for Samsung’s new Z Fold and Flip 8 come with up to $350 in gift cards

Samsung's newest foldables are here. At Galaxy Unpacked, the company announced the Galaxy Z Flip 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8, and Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra. All th…
How the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 phones compare

How the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 phones compare

Samsung's latest round of folding Galaxy Z phones and updated smartwatches were announced at its July 2026 Unpacked event and set to launch on August …
Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US

Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US

Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, has raised $15M in a Series A round led by Insight Partners…
The Download: NASA’s new space telescope and OpenAI’s autonomous hacker

The Download: NASA’s new space telescope and OpenAI’s autonomous hacker

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. …
Samsung Unpacked 2026: all the news from the July foldable launch

Samsung Unpacked 2026: all the news from the July foldable launch

Samsung is set to reveal a new slate of foldables at this summer’s Galaxy Unpacked, which kicks off at 9AM ET / 6AM PT from London. In addition …
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptiv…