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://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-the-tech-world-thinks-the-american-dream-is-dying-daf793dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668394 Points: 5 # Comments: 3...
Ring has launched a new Ring Verify tool that the company says can "verify that Ring videos you receive haven't been edited or changed." But since Ring won't verify videos that have been altered in an...
Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot more AI-generated content from your favorite creators - including AI-generated versions of the creators themselves. In his annual letter releas...
Carmaker to work with Turgis Gaillard to produce drones at two of its sites...
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The initiative comes as enforcement actions and pending market structure legislation raise questions about how privacy tools and open-source developers are treated....
Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/21/parliament-tells-dutch-govt-keep-digid-data-american-hands Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703928 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Doug Bowser, former president and chief operating officer at Nintendo of America, has joined the board of directors at Hasbro. Bowser departed Nintendo on December 31 , less than a month ago. He had s...
The South Africa-born tech billionaire made his debut at the world's top political and economic summit in the Swiss Alps, telling the World Economic Forum that robots will outnumber people and AI will...
China's JY-27A radar didn't appear to be effective during the US raid on Venezuela. US Air Force Photo Venezuela's Chinese air defense radars weren't game-changing during the US raid to capture Maduro...
As we predicted , the world's biggest consumer electronics show was a bit of a bust for gamers this year! CES 2026 brought us several neat gamepads , but barely any handhelds and no new desktop GPUs -...
Z.AI released GLM-Image, trained entirely on Huawei chips, as Beijing moves to block Nvidia H200 imports in a push for AI self-reliance....
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700594 Points: 5 # Comments: 1...
The Zenfone 12 Ultra is Asus’s latest — and perhaps final — flagship phone. Asus chairman Jonney Shih told Taiwan's Inside that the company is done making phones for now, marking the end of its Zenfon...
A new tool aims to help AI chatbots generate more human-sounding text - with the help of Wikipedia's guide for detecting AI, as reported by Ars Technica . Developer Siqi Chen says he created the tool,...
One of the original designers of Tomb Raider 's iconic Lara Croft has revealed that Core Design's then-Japanese publisher had asked for the character to be given a "Manga" redesign to "appeal" to Japa...
Uganda has once again shut down the internet just before the elections....
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