This afternoon I wrote some tips on how to present a new* programming language to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608577 . It occurred to me that HN has a tradition of posts called "The {na...
Elden Ring: Nightreign just got a big balance patch, and even if you're not someone who's great at parsing patch notes, you might want to tune into this one, because basically every character that's b...
Ashley St. Clair sues xAI over Grok chatbot allegedly generating explicit deepfake images of her, using images from when she was 14 years old. Maja Smiejkowska/REUTERS Ashley St. Clair sued xAI, alleg...
During a recent subway outage in San Francisco I decided to build a webapp in the spirit of "Do I Need an Umbrella," basically to answer the question "Should I take the subway or a bus?" In the intere...
Sean Hollister demos the Lego Smart Brick at CES. The Lego Smart Brick won our Best in Show award at CES 2026, and it was no wonder after watching Lego designer Maarten Simons' expert demo there. So I...
Tyler Butterworth (left) and John Howell (right) have built a following on social media as military influencers. Jake Gabbard / Business Insider Army soldiers Tyler Butterworth and John Howell use soc...
1X's humanoid robot, Neo, will cost $20,000 or $500 a month via subscription. Camille Cohen for The Washington Post via Getty Images Humanoid robots often require human "teleoperators" to trai...
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...
Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell. John Lamparski/Getty Images Dell has told its employees to expect a companywide systems overhaul in May. Top exec Jeff Clarke told workers it would be the "b...
For a limited time Woot is offering an incredibly low price on a pair of factory reconditioned Beats Studio Pro wireless noise canceling headphones. It's currently on sale for just $94.99 and includes...
Due to increased demand for hardware from AI data centers, 2026 was already going to suck for anyone looking to upgrade or build a gaming PC. Now it looks like things are getting even worse, as the RT...
Hey HN! Wanted to show our open source agent harness called Gambit. If you’re not familiar, agent harnesses are sort of like an operating system for an agent... they handle tool calling, planning, con...
After the self-induced tumult Sonos went through last year , I can understand why some people are reluctant to spend money on the company’s products. But newly appointed CEO Tom Conrad has shown that ...
Natural Cycles, the company behind a controversial FDA-cleared birth control app, is replacing its thermometer with a wristband that measures skin temperature, heart rate, and movement during sleep. T...
PUBG developer Krafton has 26 games in development, and in a recent town hall meeting, the company outlined a plan to "focus on its core gaming business while outlining a disciplined approach to build...
Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. | Image: Getty Images Microsoft's library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among emp...
Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia's vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia F...
Hi HN, When working with BGP data, I kept running into the same friction: it’s easy to get raw data, but surprisingly hard to browse networks over time — especially by when they appeared, where they o...
Anthropic's Claude is the subject of a parade of X memes. illustration by Cheng Xin/Getty Images Anthropic is on a hot streak of launches, and it's got X in stitches. The platform is full of Claude me...
Jensen Huang Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images Nvidia has added key marketing, policy, and HR executives over the past year. Several senior software acqui-hires came via startup deals. Executiv...