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Article URL: https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/17/buy-your-friends-batteries/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333932 Points: 60 # Comments: 63

Analogue and Supreme are teaming up to release metallic versions of the Analogue Pocket handheld in red and gold as part of Supreme's fall / winter 2026 collection. Here's how they're described on Supreme's website: Metallic portable handheld multi-video-game-system. Unibody aluminum with 24K Gol...

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.

Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature," according to a post Sonos shared to Reddi...

Article URL: https://sunclock.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333824 Points: 11 # Comments: 5

Don't worry, this one was via a bug bounty program

TikTok's parent company signed a memorandum of understanding with The Motion Picture Association.

Go beyond Do Not Disturb: control what alerts you get and when instead of being overwhelmed with pings all the time.

A bulldozer plows through land during construction for a section of border wall near Santa Elena Canyon on August 14, 2026 in Big Bend National Park, Texas. | Photo: Brandon Bell via Getty Images About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mount...

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

Article URL: https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333344 Points: 151 # Comments: 59

Experimental feature to block some, but not all, ads

Alibaba has agreed to sell its game development unit, Lingxi Games, to Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital, according to an internal staff memo.

Hi HN! I'm Bek, founder of Speko, a platform that finds an optimal combination of speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models, given your constraints, among all our public benchmarked options, and tells you why. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no2LY2gRh-c Typical production voice agent i...

The first Zipline drone deliveries for Uber Eats orders will start later this year.

Next month’s new iPhone lineup will bring a brand new ‘iPhone Ultra’ foldable, but the most popular models will no doubt be the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. Here are six new features rumored for iPhone 18 Pro.

Buying an older iPhone is a great way to save money while taking advantage of Apple's long support. But is the iPhone 15 too old to be worth it now?

A bug in macOS screen sharing lets attackers view your screen, open files and do just about anything else they want.

With the massive best prices to date, but we are also now tracking AirPods Max 2 at $120 off and the lowest price in several months on AirPods 4 with ANC. Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break also features the return of all-time low pricing on the latest AirTag 2 – singles from $24 (or less) and the 4-pa...

Article URL: https://twitter.com/TheAhmadOsman/status/2065307070044234186 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332564 Points: 63 # Comments: 20