If you want to see the bleeding edge of 3D printing tech, you go to FormNext in Frankfurt, Germany. If you want to see the latest in consumer electronics, you go to CES in Las Vegas. If you want to see what it’s like to microwave your own head, you go to Open Sauce in San Mateo, California.
Tear down of a so-called air conditioner from Epicool revealed 'a simple PC fan combined with a small heating element.'
From threats to the safety of poll workers to voters who can’t distinguish between odds and results, prediction markets are already scrambling the political process.
Microsoft is working on a security patch for the "ShieldBreak" zero-day vulnerability disclosed last week by security researcher "Nightmare Eclipse" and now tracked as CVE-2026-69414. [...]
With more patches per month than at a pirate convention, the bug must be an endangered species. Well, about that
When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him that when he was anxious, he could calm down by exhaling through his lips so that he buzzed like a bee. They practiced breathing like dragons to manage feeling mad and sniffing like bunnies to boost his energy. But in the six years they’ve known each ot...
In the 1990s, Barbara Sherwood Lollar descended into the Kidd Creek mine in northern Ontario, which cuts more than three kilometers into the ancient root of North America. There her team of geochemists found water that had been confined underground for more than a billion years. This ancient brin...
Researchers found that a metabolite produced by gut bacteria can weaken the barrier that protects the brain and promote changes associated with the cognitive disease.
As part of a restructuring, OpenAI reportedly disbanded a team that assesses the potential for catastrophic risks with its models.
Hi HN, in my last vacation, I built desktopcolors.com as a place to collect iconic solid background colors. Let me know what you think. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327643 Points: 22 # Comments: 9
On this week's episode of The Reg's Kettle podcast, we revisit 'hacker summer camp,' where the hottest topic was ... sigh... agentic AI
Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge It's just a hook, sewn into a bag, but I really, really like it. Peak Design is so proud of its clever integration that the San Francisco-based maker of cam...
Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie
Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support
A fourth party is pursuing legal action against xAI, alleging that Grok was used to create CSAM based on her childhood photos.
Article URL: https://linear.axler.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326816 Points: 103 # Comments: 43
Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result
Article URL: https://www.gimp.org/news/2026/08/16/dev-update-august-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326156 Points: 203 # Comments: 154
Article URL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/644cad8a-6c9b-4b02-bcf3-b8b6e8c614c5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326071 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service