Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
Today's links Inefficiency is bad, actually: Now, "resiliency" on the other hand… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Canada's DMCA; Socialism x Pledge of Allegiance; Hate the ...
Soft-deprecating re.match()Python has a concept ofsoft deprecation, where APIs are marked as "should no longer be used to write new code" without any promise/threat to remove them in the future.Python...
Anker’s Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro came out swinging in May with incredible call quality, something that competing ear buds have struggled to get right. They’ve become part of our reviewer John Higgins’ ...
The University of Michigan is partnering with Los Alamos National Labs to build a massive data center in a small Michigan township. The residents say they were never consulted.
Article URL:https://huggingface.co/security.txtComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659245Points: 126# Comments: 22
Shipments rise with enterprise and government buyers joining the hyperscaler spending spree
Several times this summer, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, the monthly roundup of major security patches for Microsoft products, has included record-breaking numbers of security fixes. The August 2026 patc...
Graham Dumpleton's new monkey patching packagewraptureis shaping up to be an indispensable tool for Python developers. I'm not sure why I've seen so little buzz about it!Graham has been posting new tu...
Meta says it's making changes to the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed it digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters, as reported earlier by Futurism...
Article URL:https://www.statnews.com/2026/09/11/sept-11-25th-anniversary-ground-zero-exposure-cancer-moment-of-silence/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658819Points: 57# Comments: 1...
John Ternus didn't mention Apple Home once during his first keynote as Apple CEO. But he did open by describing an "intelligent personal hub" that prioritizes local processing, protects your privacy, ...
How should agents interact with other agents? What happens when they rap or fight against each other with the pressure of human spectators? Clawfight.ai is an experiment to explore this space.This is ...
That isn't Apple's former CEO promoting the Galaxy Z Fold 8 in a new Samsung ad - "Tim Cook from Palmerston North" just happens to have the same name and look a lot like him. Released right as Apple a...
Article URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QecDVkcGPxYComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658370Points: 9# Comments: 2
Article URL:https://github.com/Field-Logic-Ltd/ClaudeStatsBarComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658328Points: 9# Comments: 5
Ikea's new Badkruka wireless Bluetooth speaker is now available in the US for $59.99. It's reminiscent of the colorful and tiny $10 Kallsup speaker that Ikea debuted earlier this year at CES 2026, but...
Article URL:https://earendil.com/posts/measuring-code-sloppiness/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658311Points: 34# Comments: 15
Article URL:https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/re-engineering-youtube-for-the-living-room-bringing-%E2%80%9Cchrobalt%E2%80%9D-to-rdk.htmlComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/...
Article URL:https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cmd683p01eljtComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658299Points: 26# Comments: 4
Hello once again from Toronto, where for a week every year I watch far too many movies and tell you all about them. The festival, better known as TIFF, is always a great preview of the months ahead in...