Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338328 Points: 254 # Comments: 111
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Article URL: https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285 Points: 129 # Comments: 29
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations
Why flash drive capacity keeps increasing (and why small drives are rarely sold today)
While smaller drives can certainly still be found, there's a good reason why you don't often find them on retailers' shelves.
What Is El Niño? Here’s What It Means for Weather, Water, and Global Economy
This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record. This is what impacts to expect and how bad it could get.
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get things done, and I’ll have more to share soon," Jacob Bank, Relay founder and CEO, said.
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”
How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337630 Points: 48 # Comments: 19
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337602 Points: 303 # Comments: 154
Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users add context to songs, podcasts, and audiobook picks
Spotify today announced an expansion of its recently released User Notes feature. While User Notes are limited to songs, the new Playlist Notes also let users add context to podcast episodes and audiobooks in their playlists. Here are the details.
ABC’s livestreamed news show is powered by trending topics
ABC News has officially introduced Searched, a livestreamed show that highlights stories people are discussing on social media and searching on the web, as reported earlier by Variety. Though the network just announced the show now, Searched began airing on the ABC News Live streaming channel in ...
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337392 Points: 295 # Comments: 169
What are your retro game consoles worth?
Many variables affect the value of retro game consoles today. Which ones are worth keeping, and which ones are destined for the trash?
The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.
‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators
Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people who received a recent threat notification from Apple is unusually high.
This R-Rated Film Studio Wants to Be the HBO of AI
Rogue Studios, a new cinematic adult AI-generator, is betting big on the future of “sophisticated” spicy content.
As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value
"Network effect" can run in reverse.
Epic responds to Apple’s bid for settlement talks in App Store case
Epic Games has filed its response to Apple’s request for the court to order settlement talks in the long-running App Store lawsuit. Here are the details.
Payments giant Stripe is about to drop over $7 billion to become a gateway to AI token sales
AI gateways look promising as companies struggle with model orchestration
YouTube public view counts will likely get higher starting next week
The platform will start tracking views the same way across video formats.