Haven’t you heard? Phones are boring now . And that’s just fine! Most people buying a new phone just want something familiar that works better than the device they’re replacing. If that’s your MO, the...
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios has released update 1.11.0 along with its patch notes, below. It adds the Abyss cosmetic set along with some fixes and balancing changes to the Trigger ‘Nade and K...
Meta is laying off around 10% of staff at its Reality Labs division as part of sweeping cuts set to affect more than 1,000 people. This includes the closure of a number of VR-first studios, such as Tw...
Article URL: https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614688 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-rapid-rise-and-slow-decline-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46605452 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...
Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out...
Polygon Labs signaled that it’s becoming a regulated payments company by acquiring Coinme and Sequence for a combined $250 million....
ZKsync’s 2026 plan shifts focus from experimentation to production-ready infrastructure designed for banks, enterprises and regulated financial systems....
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Article URL: https://scotthelme.co.uk/what-a-year-of-solar-and-batteries-really-saved-us-in-2025/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602532 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...
Insta360’s webcams are now going pro. | Image: Insta360 Insta360 has announced new Pro versions of its Link 2 and Link 2C webcams that first launched in September 2024 . As with the previous versions,...
The pandemic gave workers increased options as home offices became the norm in some fields. Now, with the EU experiencing industrial slowdown and AI automation, workers are growing increasingly wary o...
See also Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging - https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/signal-creator-moxi... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...
Hi HN, I built an open-source AI agent that has already indexed and can search the entire Epstein files, roughly 100M words of publicly released documents. The goal was simple: make a large, messy cor...
Article URL: https://files.littlebird.com.au/ascii-sketch.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609389 Points: 4 # Comments: 2...
Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron told Cointelegraph that the acquisitions position the network as a regulated payments platform built to move stablecoins onchain at scale....
Around 10 percent of Meta's Reality Labs division, which develops its XR products and services, will be laid off beginning on Tuesday, as reported by Bloomberg . Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton confir...
The Verge CES ground crew posing for a group photo in the Linq Promenade during CES 2026. We spent last week running to meetings, demos, and the convention floors to see as much as we could at CES 202...
Our picks include carrying cases and ones you can leave on during handheld and docked play. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a prote...
If you're seeking the absolute best of the best in PC gaming performance, look no further than Alienware's flagship Area-51 prebuilts. Following CES 2026 , Dell has discounted an Alienware Area-51 AMD...