Part didn't fit so techie got out his screwdriver. Then something flew off the motherboard
Whatever it was broke a PC and led to a face-saving lie
Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now ... or never?
Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support
Another woman joins lawsuit accusing Grok of generating CSAM
A fourth party is pursuing legal action against xAI, alleging that Grok was used to create CSAM based on her childhood photos.
Linear algebra done right
Article URL: https://linear.axler.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326816 Points: 103 # Comments: 43
Sainsbury's staff eject wrong shopper after facial recognition alert – again
Facewatch says its technology worked as intended before humans mishandled the result
GIMP Development Update
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
Strong gravitational lensing and microlensing of supernovae (2024)
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
Microsoft blames AI for delayed Exchange update, can’t say when it will arrive
Dealing with machine-made bug backlog makes it hard to find a moment to deliver promised subscription service
On A.I. regulation and messaging
https://xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325789 Points: 104 # Comments: 179
AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
Article URL: https://meanhamster.com/news/agi-64-brings-sierra-adventures-to-the-commodore-64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325714 Points: 95 # Comments: 12
Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees
Article URL: https://github.com/crabbuild/prolly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325458 Points: 47 # Comments: 4
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new model is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; South Korea to fine Apple, Google; India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Chinese AI company Zhipu claims its new is a better bug-finder than Anthropic, OpenAI
PLUS: HCL, TCS, admit data breaches; Google, Apple, India bans some rideshare tips; and more!
Rhombus 1.1 is now available
Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/08/rhombus-v1.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325384 Points: 95 # Comments: 28
Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/taking-tip-plants-eyes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325304 Points: 52 # Comments: 17
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
Article URL: https://reticulum.network/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325061 Points: 145 # Comments: 44
SafePal data breach impacts 39,798 customers, stolen info for sale
Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider SafePal is warning of a data breach affecting about 39,798 customers after a flaw was exploited to steal customer order information, and a threat actor is now claiming to be selling the stolen data. [...]
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qwen-38-27b/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324985 Points: 558 # Comments: 264
Anthropic confirms Claude is down in major outage affecting multiple services
Claude is experiencing a major outage, with users reporting login problems and degraded performance across several Anthropic services. [...]
Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324087 Points: 359 # Comments: 344