The Delicate Art of Making a 1907 House Smarter
I tested modern locks, lights, climate controls, and more in a historic home that I very much wanted to keep historic.
Ten years later, the iconic GTX 1080 Ti still holds up in 1080p gaming, but not without showing its age — Redux testing highlights the wonders of 11GB VRAM & the woes of time
PC Games Hardware has retested the GTX 1080 Ti, along with its GP102 brethren, in a range of new games across multiple resolutions. The results reveal the obvious: the 1080 Ti is still a capable GPU at 1080p, mostly thanks to its 11GB VRAM buffer, but it's highly inefficient by today's standards.
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next
Your next drive-thru order might be taken by a bot. And you might not even notice.
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.
MacBook Air laptops are reportedly in short supply due to Ramaggedon
Not only did MacBook Air prices recently go up, but you couldn't get one today even if you wanted to.
Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Article URL: https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manually-retyping-llm-generated-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153374 Points: 288 # Comments: 256
The ‘Guardrail Guy’ Went Viral for Posting About Flock Cameras. Then Someone Destroyed Them
Steve Elmers, also known as the “Guardrail Guy,” is done calling out license plate readers after two that appeared in his videos were vandalized.
Nothing Ear (3a) Wireless Earbuds Review: Style Meets Value
The $100 earbuds look and sound better than earbuds nearly twice the price—as long as you can stomach just average noise canceling.
What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not
Article URL: https://senderledger.com/articles/what-dmarc-actually-protects-you-from Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153361 Points: 97 # Comments: 25
As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK
Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output
Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. When two OpenAI models hacked into the website Hugging Face in July, they weren’t trying to make money or commit sabot...
Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
Article URL: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152842 Points: 227 # Comments: 82
Claude Code is revolutionizing digital archaeology. Enterprise better dig it
'As a big AI skeptic, you just blew my mind'
Octane – React’s programming model, compiled
Article URL: https://octanejs.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152640 Points: 111 # Comments: 37
AI is 'both the weapon and the target' in latest wave of cyberattacks
CrowdStrike tracks 89% surge in machine-assisted activity as patch windows shrink to 48 hours
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-project-goals/blob/main/src/2026/move-trait.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152023 Points: 191 # Comments: 72
IT boss left root session open for bring-your-kid-to-work day
Daddy, I typed a Unix command! Was it a bad one?
Microsoft says 8 GB of RAM should be enough for anyone running Windows 11
Redmond adds new items to its make-Windows-better list
Meta straps on a ‘Kick Me’ sign by mistakenly taking down video by India’s prime minister
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