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Instagram’s β€˜First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedioushttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/instagrams-first-draft-feature-aims-to-make-editing-reels-less-tedious

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier. The company announced Tuesday in a Threads post that it’s rolling out β€œFirst Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut.Β  Instagram says the process can produce […]

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Spanish government says sorry to people of Ceuta for migrant crisishttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dl7dykrnvo

Several thousand migrants remain in the enclave after a mass crossing from Morocco in late July.

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FDA Authorizes First Wearable Device That Monitors Ketone and Glucose Levelshttps://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar

Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-first-wearable-device-continuously-monitors-both-ketone-levels-and-blood-sugar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439017 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Taiwan charges nine people for smuggling β€˜high-end’ AI servers to Chinahttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/25/taiwan-china-ai-smugglers

Among those charged are two Super Micro employees and one from Nvidia, marking another flashpoint in US-China AI rivalry Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for illegally exporting β€œhigh-end AI servers” to mainland China, adding another wave of turbulence in the AI ​​rivalry between China and the United States. Prosecutors said the servers involved were graphics processing units known as β€œB300,” which have been banned from sale to China. Continue reading...

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Dreame’s dream of a rocket-powered car is deadhttps://www.theverge.com/transportation/984485/dreame-rocket-car-shut-down

Dreame, the Chinese vacuum company that aspires to be a global technology giant, is reportedly shutting down its automotive project after funding from the government dried up. According to CarNewsChina, the company's automotive division called "Project Starry Sky" once employed over 1,000 people, but now only a handful legal and HR staffers remain, charged with […]

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Show HN: Ifso – a personal finance simulator for major life decisionshttps://ifso.io

Hello all! Ifso is a personal finance simulator that takes all of your various accounts (like taxable brokerages, retirement accounts, loans, etc) and various life events (like income changes, retirement, purchasing a home, increasing principal contributions to your home mortgage, etc.) and plays it out year by year for you. The simulation engine underneath the hood handles all of the tax math, capital gains math, investment growth rates, home appreciation, vehicle depreciation, loan amortization, and more. You can then create multiple scenarios by duplicating an existing one or creating a fr…

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Show HN: FetchMark – An Offline-first read-later app with AI summarieshttps://fetchmarkapp.com

Article URL: https://fetchmarkapp.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438682 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold Review: Better, Not Besthttps://www.wired.com/review/google-pixel-11-pro-fold

A polished update to Google’s foldable brings real improvements, but the price bump and rampant competition make it a tough sell.

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Show HN: Acurite 433MHz Sensor to Weather Underground via RTL-SDRhttps://github.com/lowerpower/wu-upload

Article URL: https://github.com/lowerpower/wu-upload Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438674 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Dolly Parton Has Diedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_Parton Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438661 Points: 14 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: Limitless Library – AI agents check first before starting from scratchhttps://github.com/Univeracity/limitlesslibrary

Article URL: https://github.com/Univeracity/limitlesslibrary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438658 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Littler's Players Championship hopes dentedhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/articles/c36ln69p1ldo

Luke Littler loses to Jermaine Wattimena in the quarter-finals of the 27th Players Championship contest of the year.

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Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agentshttps://pgbot.dev

Article URL: https://pgbot.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438492 Points: 3 # Comments: 3

How to turn off Find My iPhone (and when you definitely should)https://www.engadget.com/2242751/how-to-turn-off-find-my-iphone-when-should

Find My is a vital iPhone security feature that you should keep on almost all the time. Turning it off makes your device much harder to recover.

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Show HN: Wireshark in a TUIhttps://github.com/yeet-src/pktscope

Article URL: https://github.com/yeet-src/pktscope Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438446 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

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Dolly Parton: The life of a legendary country singerhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c7831ld8e73o

Iconic country musician Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80, her family announced on her social media.

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A Message from the Family of Dolly Partonhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DceNXgPJyZ9

Article URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DceNXgPJyZ9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438407 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Dribbling the AI Watermark Directly In-Prompthttps://www.explore-exploit.com/p/dribbling-the-ai-watermark-directly

Article URL: https://www.explore-exploit.com/p/dribbling-the-ai-watermark-directly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438392 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: I Designed a Quantum Computerhttps://github.com/50shadesofgwei/pathfinder-pic-ion-chip

I am posting a design for a quantum computer because I would like to speak with experts and people interested in hacking together physical quantum computers. This is an exploratory design and is an attempt to reason through quantum computation from first principles. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438366 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: InferIt – a word puzzle where the guesses have been madehttps://brej.org/inferit

Article URL: https://brej.org/inferit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438355 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Dolly Parton, one of country music's most singular performers, has died at age 80https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-3650175/dolly-parton-obituary

The artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.

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U.S. Sanctions Iran-Linked Hackers Behind Critical Infrastructure Breacheshttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/us-sanctions-iran-linked-hackers-behind.html

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced fresh sanctions on Iranian cyber actors as part of what it called an "unprecedented, whole-of-government, economic campaign" against the nation and its enablers. "We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections around the globe. Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime

The US Just Recorded Its First 2 Measles Deaths This Yearhttps://www.wired.com/story/us-recorded-first-measles-deaths-2026

The fatalities come amidst declining vaccination rates and calls from President Donald Trump to split up the MMR vaccine.

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Take a look at Microsoft’s new 25th anniversary Halo accessorieshttps://www.theverge.com/games/984530/microsoft-xbox-25th-anniversary-accessories

The new Designed for Xbox 25th Anniversary collection features a handful of limited edition gadgets available for pre-order today. Paying homage to the Halo special edition of the original Xbox, almost everything in the collection is translucent "OG Green," matching the Xbox Series X25 limited edition console it announced in June at E3. That includes […]

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DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflatedhttps://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5940807/noncitizen-voters-trump-nevada-call

The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary.

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Dolly Parton: The country legend who sang from the hearthttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9xdl4g25zo

The singer, songwriter and actress is known for timeless hits including Jolene and I Will Always Love You.

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Show HN: Built an on-device dictation agent for developers and knowledge workershttps://offloop.work

Article URL: https://offloop.work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438206 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Forest agree Β£50m deal for Chelsea striker Delaphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4g5zg526gdo

Nottingham Forest have agreed a fee worth around Β£50m to sign Chelsea striker Liam Delap.

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Dolly Parton, US country star, actor and philanthropist, dies aged 80https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/25/dolly-parton-country-singer-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438052 Points: 24 # Comments: 0

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Tonight marks your last chance to save up to $300 on a TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/tonight-marks-your-last-chance-to-save-up-to-300-on-a-techcrunch-disrupt-2026-pass

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-15 at Moscone West!

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Art and algorithms at Sotheby’shttps://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1140908/art-and-algorithms-at-sothebys

Do fine art and high tech ever converge? At Sotheby’s they do, thanks to Kelly Shen ’17. Shen works in the growing field of art intelligence for the New York auction house. Shen builds algorithms to predict prices, using factors like buying trends and artists’ popularity. She has also worked on such efforts as cataloguing…

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Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40https://twitter.com/WinRAR_RARLAB/status/2092182008319386067

Article URL: https://twitter.com/WinRAR_RARLAB/status/2092182008319386067 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437966 Points: 13 # Comments: 0

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Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platformshttps://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/3YMV4MS34KA?pli=1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437946 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Canada announces 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliatory tariffs on US as high as 50%https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3v4xg5klx7o

The latest escalation in an ongoing trade war between the US and Canada will see new levies on goods from steel to furniture, fresh tuna and makeup.

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Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils β€˜Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at β€˜negative impact’https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/25/ken-paxton-datacenters-plan-texas

The Republican Senate candidate announced the plan with a graphic X flagged as β€˜Made with AI’ US politics live – latest updates Ken Paxton , a Republican candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has unveiled plans to tackle the β€œnegative impact” of datacenters amid a growing backlash across the political spectrum. Paxton, endorsed by Donald Trump but facing a close contest against Democrat James Talarico, posted a β€œTexas first” datacenter plan on X with a graphic that the social media network flagged as β€œMade with AI”. Continue reading...

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SpaceX to Spend $100 Billion on New Spaceport in Louisiana

Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana during an event on Tuesday with SpaceX announcing a deal to build a new spaceport in his state.

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chathttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/claude-cowork-finally-remembers-what-you-told-the-app-in-chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

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Show HN: ShotSweep – visual regression testing from the command linehttps://github.com/nforshifu234dev/shotsweep

Article URL: https://github.com/nforshifu234dev/shotsweep Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437767 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Pogacar's astonishing solo effort punishes Vuelta rivalshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/cg598r38811o

Tadej Pogacar takes a huge step towards winning the Velta a Espana for the first time as he cruises to a resounding victory in the fourth stage on Tuesday.

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Show HN: Query Historical Data with Time Travel (Iceberg and Spark)https://oleander.dev/grow/querying-historical-data-with-time-travel

Tutorial for querying historical data using time travel in iceberg with spark. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437735 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Bose’s smallest Bluetooth speaker is a great deal at 35 percent offhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/984414/bose-soundlink-micro-seagate-game-drive-deal-sale

Bose may be best known for its QuietComfort headphones, but the brand’s Bluetooth speakers have earned a great reputation for featuring great sound and build quality. The compact Bose SoundLink Micro β€” its most compact Bluetooth speaker β€” is currently discounted to $79.99 at Amazon, a pretty great discount from its usual $129 price tag. […]

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Show HN: Slab – minimal iOS stacking game I built while learning to codehttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/slab-zen-stack/id6790939204

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slab-zen-stack/id6790939204 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437648 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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DOJ prosecutes single FOIA dodger while defending systemwide evasionhttps://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-prosecutes-single-foia-dodger-while-defending-systemwide-evasion

Article URL: https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doj-prosecutes-single-foia-dodger-while-defending-systemwide-evasion/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437637 Points: 11 # Comments: 2

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Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munichhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/waymo-robotaxis-are-headed-to-munich

Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial robotaxi deployment.

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Why movie tie-in games are rarely sold anymorehttps://www.engadget.com/2240883/why-movie-tie-in-games-rarely-sold-anymore

Movie-tie in games were huge in the 2000s, but have mostly dried up in the last decade. We still get games tied to existing IP, but in a different manner.

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Clara (YC P26) Is Hiring a Growth Engineer to Bring AI Doctors to Markethttps://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clara-2/jobs/8snci6k-founding-full-stack-growth-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437566 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/monthhttps://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month

Article URL: https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437483 Points: 6 # Comments: 4

Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: The biggest announcements and trailershttps://www.theverge.com/games/983891/gamescom-opening-night-live-2026-geoff-keighley

It’s time for another Geoff Keighley-hosted blast of gaming news. Gamescom’s two-hour Opening Night Live event is scheduled to kick off on Tuesday at 2PM ET, with a preshow starting 30 minutes before. Thanks to teases on social media, we already have some idea of what to expect, including looks at Final Fantasy VII Revelation, […]

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Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Gohttps://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon

Article URL: https://github.com/leodeim/vpsmon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437361 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Instagram’s β€˜First Draft’ trims your Reels clips for youhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/984463/instagram-first-draft-edit-reels

Instagram is launching a new Reels-editing feature that automatically trims your video clips to focus on the highlights. The feature, called First Draft, is rolling out to Instagram's iPhone app and provides a "starting point" that you can build upon with other edits, according to an announcement on Tuesday. An example shared by Instagram shows […]

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Nitter project received cease and desisthttps://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442

Article URL: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/1442 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 Points: 17 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: I built a cybersecurity challenge for university studentshttps://vitb-polimi-cyber-v4.vercel.app

Article URL: https://vitb-polimi-cyber-v4.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437244 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Black hole singularity is a surface not a pointhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21590 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437210 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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A new ceiling for Ξ›: the de Bruijn–Newman constant is at most 0.1787854https://www.judegomila.com/posts/riemann-lambda-0.1787854

Article URL: https://www.judegomila.com/posts/riemann-lambda-0.1787854 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437165 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

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Nothing OS 5.0 brings a new Glyph Interface app and a more customizable homescreenhttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/984430/nothing-os-5-launch-android-17

With the new design of Nothing OS 5.0, app icons and widgets can use adaptive color to get color tints pulled from your wallpaper, which update whenever your wallpaper changes. Alongside Android's built-in Dynamic Colors, the company says it allows you to have specific elements change to match your wallpaper "while Nothing's predominantly monochrome character […]

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Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centershttps://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers

Article URL: https://www.ceres.org/resources/reports/water-behind-the-watts-the-hidden-risk-of-powering-data-centers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437152 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: Typeclip – types your clipboard like a human, for screen recordingshttps://github.com/cssllcio/typeclip

Article URL: https://github.com/cssllcio/typeclip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437115 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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My Friend Aaronhttps://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron

Article URL: https://rorz.io/writing/my-friend-aaron Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437069 Points: 7 # Comments: 1

LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databaseshttps://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb

Article URL: https://github.com/jeffhajewski/latticedb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437049 Points: 8 # Comments: 2

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Show HN: Is this the limit of what a solo founder can build?https://limitpixel.com

Article URL: https://limitpixel.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437032 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

GeForce Now is getting support for the Steam Controllerhttps://www.theverge.com/games/984422/nvidia-geforce-now-steam-controller-machine-support

Nvidia's GeForce Now cloud gaming service will officially support Valve's Steam Controller and Steam Machine starting later this year. With Steam Controller support, you'll be able to play games with Valve's great new gamepad when using the GeForce Now app on your Steam Deck or Steam Machine. If you're using GeForce Now on Windows or […]

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Show HN: Offer discounts and get more visitorshttps://outdiscount.lol

Article URL: https://outdiscount.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436946 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Trump says all mines cleared from Strait of Hormuzhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyzw836d05o

Iran has closed the vital waterway since the beginning of the conflict causing wild fluctuations in oil prices worldwide.

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Show HN: Player vs. Computer – fight your computer in my web gamehttps://github.com/Rubinoslaw/Player-vs-Computer

Hi, Hello and Welcome, Everyone! I'm Filip, a.k.a. RubinosΕ‚aw from REParadoxy, and I wanna present to you my first own web video game, which was written in Python using Pygame and Pygbag. Player vs Computer! A funny game where you challenge your computer (not ai) in many ways, testing your durability, and you have to overcome it. - Get 5 points more than your computer in Rock Paper Scissors... Water(!) to win the game! - Click The Gigachad without ending to tire your computer, - and get some random fun facts, which are interesting! - Get funny responds from your computer, after every single…

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SpaceX – Starbase, LAhttps://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la

Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/sites/starbase-la Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49436822 Points: 15 # Comments: 3

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