Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
Research:smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScriptI tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task:Put https://smolmachines.com throug...
Article URL:https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260818-00/?p=112621Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370440Points: 9# Comments: 1
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Meta was infused with a culture in which employees obsessed over user numbers and consistently pushed safety to the side, according to Arturo Bejar, a for...
Broadcom’s VCF-or-nothing licenses are coming to Azure
After the little Mars helicopter Ingenuity blew everyone away with its performance, it was clear that a future Mars mission should involve more helicopters like it, with even more capabilities.…read m...
Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.
What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models? Stripe says it's because of "the singularity" but it's really for a far more real and powerful reason.
Gaming The Binding of Isaac: Repentance+ Online release goes head-to-head with GTA 6 on November 19 There’s nothing else going on that day, right? By Anna Washenko Aug. 19, 2026 7:10 pm EST Most game ...
Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk is expected to spend up to $200 million in the midterms. It could be a big boost for GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton, who’s struggled to raise cash.
My hypothesis is thatthere is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and p...
Article URL:https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/former-meta-engineer-resumes-testimony-landmark-trial-over-social-medias-harm-2026-08-19/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370083...
BrianFagioli writes: PINE64 has some very bad news for Linux hardware fans. PINE64 says it has no plans to produce additional Linux devices in the near future because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shor...
House of Zen claims latest systems already 4x more efficient than two years ago
[Ayushmaan] states up front that most of his free time is spent “building things that probably didn’t need to exist”. Well, this one might be an anomaly, because it seems…read more
Last week I recordedan episode of the Talking Postgres podcastwith Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of...
Article URL:https://www.computerenhance.com/p/turns-are-better-than-radiansComments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49369408Points: 10# Comments: 3
Article URL:https://fetzu.ch/blog/20260819_claudevsdrobo/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368911Points: 3# Comments: 0
Article URL:https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13664Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368828Points: 3# Comments: 0
Article URL:https://www.kmbc.com/article/gardner-kansas-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers-privacy/73468724Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368625Points: 4# Comments: 0
Article URL:https://www.bram.us/2026/08/20/the-future-of-css-target-multiple-classes-with-the-class-prefix-selector/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368182Points: 6# Comments: 1