The first big outage of 2026 is here, as Verizon customers across the US, including several of our phones, complain that service has been spotty or nonexistent since just after noon ET, with phones sw...
Gaming earbuds have plenty of advantages over full-sized headsets . They're more portable, more versatile – many can connect to your phone for commuting and moseying around – and ditching the headband...
Kirill Avery is the CEO and founder of Alien. Courtesy of Kirill Avery Kirill Avery sold a percentage of his future earnings to fund startups like Alien and Human. He used a SAFE agreement to raise $5...
Steve Cohen is the owner of the New York Mets. Joe Raedle/Getty Images A new continuation vehicle has acquired stakes in Point72's fintech startups, a press release states. The new fund raised $280 mi...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images/Reuters OpenAI leads enterprise AI adoption, far outpacing Anthropic and Google, according to new data. Ramp data shows 46.6% of US bu...
This week, Nintendo finally removed an infamous, adults only-themed island from Animal Crossing: New Horizons . Existing since 2020, the suggestive fan creation was almost as old as the game, and gain...
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace where creators can sell mods. The Cfx Marketplace, described as a "curated digital storefront where talented FiveM/RedM creators can share and sell their ...
Hey HN! I built Retain as the evolution of claude-reflect (github.com/BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect). The original problem: I use Claude Code/Codex daily for coding, plus claude.ai and ChatGPT occasion...
Hi HN, I’m a co-founder building kacet, a new freelancing platform that connects freelancers and employers, with crypto as the core payment rail. The problem I’m trying to solve is pretty familiar: ex...
Lindsay Kaplan is a former marketing executive and cofounder of Chief, a networking company for women. Courtesy of Lindsay Kaplan Attention is a hot commodity in the age of social media overload &mdas...
Any ebook reader will let you cram a Beauty and the Beast -sized library’s worth of books in your pocket, but so will your phone. An ebook reader offers a more book-like reading experience, with fewer...
Hi HN! In the past few months my team and I have been working on Tusk Drift, a system that records real API traffic from your service, then replays those requests as deterministic tests. Outbound I/O ...
OP here. I spent the weekend red-teaming small-scale open weights models (Qwen2.5-1.5B, Qwen3-1.7B, Gemma-3-1b-it, and SmolLM2-1.7B). I found a consistent vulnerability across all of them: Safety alig...
A common approach to automating Amazon shopping or similar complex websites is to reach for large cloud models (often vision-capable). I wanted to test a contradiction: can a ~3B parameter local LLM m...
Marvel and Jurassic World star Chris Pratt has hit out at Tilly Norwood, insisting the panic within Hollywood about the potential impact of AI “actors” is “bulls**t.” Tilly Norwood is a viral AI-gener...
I'm Dan, and I built a CLI that lets AI agents design in Figma. What it does: 100 commands to create shapes, text, frames, components, modify styles, export assets. JSX importing that's ~100x faster t...
AI chatbots are increasingly able to buy things on users' behalf, a concept known as agentic commerce. Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images OpenAI broke new ground when it enabled shopping ...
Hi HN, we're Sam, Shane, and Abhi. Almost a year ago, we first shared Mastra here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103073 ). It’s kind of fun looking back since we were only a few months into ...
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...
Though Netflix's upcoming Star Search reboot will feature a panel of celebrity judges, viewers are going to have a hand in choosing which contestants win the competition. Ahead of Star Search 's premi...