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...
In tonight's edition, in Uganda, the preliminary results of the presidential election are beginning to emerge, indicating that President Museveni holds a substantial lead. Also in South Africa, a majo...
Hi HN, In most codebases Iâve worked on, temporary hacks (âTODO: remove laterâ, âjust for this releaseâ) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production....
Moldova's president Maia Sandu recently stated in a podcast that she would vote in favor of her country joining Romania in the event of a referendum. Her comments have caused outrage....
The hallmark of timeless home decor is that it lasts well over time and showcases personality. Benjamin C Tankersley/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Business Insider asked interior designers ...
Looks like LEGO isnât done with The Legend of Zelda franchise yet. A new previously teased (and leaked ) set based on the Nintendo 64 classic Ocarina of Time is up for preorder . It costs a relatively...
For the past 8 years at Louisa County High School in Mineral, Virginia, students have been using skills learned in their auto tech class to refurbish cars â and donate them to single mothers in need....
Worldâs largest asset manager drew in almost $700bn from clients in 2025...
In recent months, the EU has suffered the most serious diplomatic defeats. This will only change in the future if the member states possess greater military power, Karl-Heinz Paqué writes in an opinio...
Audible's new Harry Potter full-cast audiobook series has already received its third entry. This new form of the Harry Potter books kicked off back in November 2025 with a unique interpretation of The...
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...
Monster Hunter Wilds fans are asking Capcom for answers after one player seemed to discover that PC performance is dictated by the number of DLCs a user has. de_Tylmarande puts their theory plainly: â...
Amazon has announced that its MMO, New World, will be officially taken offline from all platforms on January 31, 2027. The game is now delisted, which means it is no longer available for purchase. You...
The airspace closure came as some personnel at a key US military base in Qatar were advised to evacuate, including the embassy in Kuwait, which also ordered its personnel to âtemporarily haltâ going t...
Terraria 1.4.5 will release on January 27. In an excitable post , Re-Logic's Loki confirmed that while the team "did have to resubmit a few things, which pushed us back a bit further than expected," t...
Thinking of giving your PS5 setup a bit of a color refresh for the new year? Sony is here to help. The company has dropped a brand new Hyperpop Collection of console covers and DualSense controllers t...
You can get a great budget device these days if you know how to pick your priorities. | Image: The Verge Some of us take a kind of âI eat to liveâ rather than an âI live to eatâ approach to gadgets. T...
Warning: This review contains full spoilers for The Pitt Season 2, Episode 2! âWas The Pitt always this funny?â Thatâs a question I found myself mulling over a lot while watching Season 2, Episode 2. ...
Cast your mind back to the end of last year, and you may remember we reported that a group of volunteer modders had united to develop an online mode for Rockstar's Bully (also known as Canis Canem Edi...
First visit to Beijing by a Canadian PM in almost a decade follows deep chill in relations between the two nations...