Motorola just introduced another Razr that's covered in Swarovski crystalshttps://www.engadget.com/2250433/motorola-just-introduced-another-razr-covered-in-swarovski-crystals
The latest crystal-covered Razr phone is here.
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Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or plannedhttps://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-data-center-tracker-see-where-600-projects-are-operating-or-planned-across-state-in-interactive-map
Article URL: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-data-center-tracker-see-where-600-projects-are-operating-or-planned-across-state-in-interactive-map/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552375 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant racehttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/ollie-is-betting-privacy-can-win-the-ai-assistant-race
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it wonβt use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
NASA wires up Dragonfly and names the landing areahttps://www.theregister.com/science/2026/09/03/nasa-wires-up-dragonfly-and-names-the-landing-area/5294231
Titan-bound rotorcraft set for launch in 2028
Until Dawn 2 launches January 28https://www.engadget.com/2250420/until-dawn-2-launches-january-28
The interactive slasher Until Dawn 2 takes place on a tropical island and stars 'Stranger Things' actor Dacre Montgomery.
Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Facehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4vnr5g1k7o
The deal gives Nvidia control of a leading open-source AI platform and developer community.
Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Facehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4vnr5g1k7o
The deal gives Nvidia control of a leading open-source AI platform and developer community.
Lenovo unveils two Yoga laptops with NVIDIA's RTX Sparkhttps://www.engadget.com/2250161/lenovo-yoga-pro-9n-nvidia-rtx-spark-ifa-2026
Lenovo's Yoga laptops now get the option of harnessing NVIDIA's RTX Spark for heavy-duty workloads.
NVIDIA's PAIR lets you use idle PCs for AI computing taskshttps://www.engadget.com/2250189/nvidia-ifa-2026-pair-distributed-ai-computing-home-network
NVIDIA's PAIR is a free, open-source tool that can distribute AI workloads across idle computers.
Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keephttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/google-launches-ai-voice-features-in-gmail-docs-and-keep
Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature
I held the first truly bezel-free phonehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/985009/tecno-bezelless-concept-phone-ifa
Cast your mind back a decade or so, and smartphone makers were obsessed with shrinking the bezel on phones. Screens got bigger, the black bars around them got smaller, and for a while it looked like truly edge-to-edge displays were imminent. Then, progress just stopped. The bezel shrunk down until it was a millimeter or [β¦]
Circularβs new smart rings add contactless payments and vibrating alertshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/988517/circular-ring-3-pro-slim-nfc-contactless-payment-vibrating-alerts
Circular announced its new Ring 3 Series today as a follow-up to the Ring 2 that debuted at CES 2025 with upgraded sensors and FDA-cleared atrial fibrillation detection. The new Ring 3 collection consists of both a Pro model that carries forward those same health-tracking features, and a smaller Slim option that offers more limited [β¦]
Circular brings mobile payments to its 3 Series smart ringhttps://www.engadget.com/2239021/circular-brings-mobile-payments-to-its-3-series-smart-ring
Circular's smart ring gets NFC and a haptic motor to go with its one-line ECG.
Google now lets you chat with Gmail, Docs, and Keephttps://www.theverge.com/tech/989508/google-gmail-docs-keep-live-voice-modes-gemini
Google is rolling out AI-powered voice assistant modes for Gmail, Docs, and Keep that allow you to manage the apps by talking to them. The real time conversational capabilities are called Gmail Live, Docs Live, and Keep Live, and like the Gemini Live experience for Google's chatbot, aim to make it easier to note down [β¦]
This 14-inch laptop has a screen that unrolls to 17 incheshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/989477/lenovo-thinkbook-project-swan-concept-laptop-14-17-rollable-ifa-announcement
Lenovo's latest rollable concept, announced at IFA 2026, is the ThinkBook Project Swan: a business laptop with a screen that expands horizontally from 14 to 17 inches. Rollable screens are nothing new for Lenovo. The company has shown off several concepts and even launched a real one last year (and it was pretty great). But [β¦]
Nvidia launches free tool that links idle computers into a personal AI data centerhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989435/nvidia-pair-personal-ai-router-home-local-llm-compute-tool-rtx-macbook
Nvidia is announcing its new Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that syncs up your home computers for tackling local AI inference tasks with tools like Ollama and LM Studio. Let's get the obvious thing out of the way, despite what its name might imply: PAIR is not a hardware router. It's open-source software [β¦]
Nvidiaβs new RTX Spark laptops launch in October with two different configshttps://www.theverge.com/news/989133/nvidia-rtx-spark-laptops-n1x-specifications
All the rumors leading up to Nvidia's announcement of its Arm-based RTX Spark chips over the summer mentioned two specific chips: the N1X and N1. While the N1 won't be arriving this year, Nvidia says its N1X chip is arriving in RTX Spark laptops in two different configurations in October. You'll be able to buy [β¦]
This ultra-thin Lenovo laptop concept uses solid-state coolinghttps://www.theverge.com/tech/988882/lenovo-project-aeroblade-concept-frore-airjet-silent-cooling
Lenovo is announcing a new concept laptop for IFA 2026 that uses solid-state cooling instead of traditional fans, making it incredibly thin and super light. The 14-inch Project AeroBlade concept laptop is less than 10mm thick and weighs under 1.8 pounds / 830g. For reference, recent ThinkPad X1 Carbons are around 14mm at their thickest [β¦]
The Moto Watch Ultra is a return to Wear OShttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/988734/moto-watch-ultra-release-date-price-specs-wear-os-ifa
Just a few months after getting back into the smartwatch game, Motorola is targeting the premium end of the market with the first Moto Watch Ultra. It comes with some upgrades from the recent Moto Watch - most obviously the jump to Wear OS - but lacks the outdoorsy features that would make it a [β¦]
Lenovoβs new MacBook Neo competitor comes in two sizes and seven colorshttps://www.theverge.com/tech/988765/lenovo-ideapad-vibe-laptop-macbook-neo-competitor-ifa-colors-price-specs
Lenovo is announcing the IdeaPad Vibe, a productivity laptop aimed at taking on the MacBook Neo with a similar starting price and a wider range of colors. The Vibe comes in 14- and 15-inch sizes, with AMD and Qualcomm chip options due out in October and November, respectively. Intel versions (likely Wildcat Lake) are set [β¦]
Google rolls out AI-powered voice capabilities for Gmail, Docs and Keephttps://www.engadget.com/2250178/google-rolls-out-ai-voice-gmail-docs-keep
Google makes its suite of voice tools available for Gmail, Docs and Live - at least if you're a paying customer.
Lenovoβs Project AeroBlade Fanless Laptop Takes Thin and Light to the Extremehttps://www.wired.com/story/lenovo-project-aeroblade-ifa-2026
Using Froreβs air-cooling technology, Lenovoβs Project AeroBlade Concept is an ultralightweight laptop with efficient heat management.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at oncehttps://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/github-copilot-app-for-beginners-run-several-agents-at-once
Learn how to run parallel agents in the GitHub Copilot app, and experience the moment it stops feeling scary and starts feeling powerful. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Deadpool-Wolverine derby in the offing as Hugh Jackman targets Norwich Cityhttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/9/3/deadpool-wolverine-derby-in-the-offing-as-hugh-jackman-targets-norwich-city
After Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds's purchase of Wrexham, his Wolverine costar could land Championship rivals Norwich.
nomos.can() β authority as a first-class primitivehttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w6bawf/nomoscan_authority_as_a_firstclass_primitive
Software has primitives for most of the hard things. Identity: you call an auth library. Data: you call a database. Network: you call fetch(). But "is this action permitted, and on whose authority" has no primitive. It lives as scattered if-statements, a hand-maintained rules file, a wiki page, a Slack thread. It isn't addressable, it isn't portable, and you can't hand the answer to anyone who doesn't run your code. nomos.can() makes it one call: import { can } from "@nomosprotocol/sdk"; const r = await can({ authority: "eu-ai-act", action: "deploy_system", facts: { risk_tier: "high", conformβ¦
20 million children a year face online sexual abuse, UNICEF sayshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/20-million-children-a-year-face-online-sexual-abuse-unicef-says
More than one in five children aged 12 to 17 were targeted on digital platforms, the UN childrenβs agency reports.
Billionaire Leon Black sues US congressional panel over Epstein subpoenahttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/billionaire-leon-black-sues-us-congressional-panel-over-epstein-subpoena
Lawyer accuses House panel investigating sex offender of 'fishing expedition' as lawmaker calls for contempt charges.
Sony makes bold claim about game ownershiphttps://aginggamer.net/game-industry/sony-makes-bold-claim-about-game-ownership
Article URL: https://aginggamer.net/game-industry/sony-makes-bold-claim-about-game-ownership/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551925 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Everything announced during the PlayStation State of Play double headerhttps://www.engadget.com/2250392/everything-announced-during-the-playstation-state-of-play-double-header
Sony showed off expansions for Crimson Desert and Ghost of YΕtei, Grand Theft Auto 6 controllers and much more.
Show HN: Airplane AI β Works when all other AIs are offlinehttps://airplane-ai.franzai.com
Article URL: https://airplane-ai.franzai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551815 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
How much oil is going through Hormuz? How data doesnβt match US claimshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/how-much-oil-is-going-through-hormuz-how-data-doesnt-match-us-claims
Trump says the US is helping around 30 ships cross the waterway daily, but ship-tracking data suggests it's fewer.
Show HN: I made a CLI that finds CVEs in your running Kubernetes podshttps://github.com/lockdep/stackradar-cli
Article URL: https://github.com/lockdep/stackradar-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551789 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Openhttps://ifm.ai/blog/k2
Article URL: https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Panama Canal restricts traffic amid Hormuz crisis: Why this mattershttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/panama-canal-restricts-traffic-amid-hormuz-crisis-why-this-matters
Limits on the number of vessels in the canal could create shipping delays and increase freight costs.
ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same timehttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/989503/chatgpt-grok-claude-outage-down
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude are all experiencing issues. At around 11AM ET, ChatGPT started returning error messages for users trying to use the chatbot, with its status page saying there are currently "elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codex." Users began experiencing problems with Claude around the same time. While Anthropic's status page [β¦]
Jerusalem Daily: Students sing βErase Palestineβhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/3/jerusalem-daily-students-sing-erase
Two Palestinian teens were killed in the occupied West Bank as Israeli settlers and snipers surround a village.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Downhttps://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/03/chatgpt-claude-and-grok-are-down
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/03/chatgpt-claude-and-grok-are-down/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551658 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
Grok Outagehttps://status.x.ai
Article URL: https://status.x.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551589 Points: 19 # Comments: 11
Wong takes first ODI five-wicket haul for Englandhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/videos/c86xj331nexo
An excellent performance from Issy Wong sees her get a five-wicket haul - her first for England in ODI cricket - during the second One Day International in Derby.
Final Fantasy VII Revelation launches on April 8, 2027https://www.engadget.com/2250355/final-fantasy-vii-revelation-launches-on-april-8-2027
Final Fantasy VII Revelation is the third in a trilogy of remakes that each cover a portion of the original PS1 game.
Anatomy of a Browserhttps://medium.com/@Koukyosyumei/anatomy-of-a-browser-95014ab378f8
Article URL: https://medium.com/@Koukyosyumei/anatomy-of-a-browser-95014ab378f8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551293 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Kin Form, framework-agnostic form state for React and Lithttps://kintools.dev/form
Article URL: https://kintools.dev/form Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551275 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: EvidSeek β Analyze online discussions with traceable evidencehttps://evidseek.com
Article URL: https://evidseek.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551215 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Four imprisoned Palestine Action activists appeal βterrorismβ sentenceshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/four-imprisoned-palestine-action-activists-appeal-terrorism-sentences
Supporters of those who participated in a raid on an Israeli weapons maker say the sentences set a dangerous precedent.
ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outagehttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w6a3m7/chatgpt_down_openai_chatbot_not_working_in_major
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Sarr 'needs time' to process collapse of Liverpool movehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/czdz349nyl7o
Crystal Palace forward Ismaila Sarr will need time to process the collapse of his proposed move to Liverpool, says Eagles head coach Pierre Sage.
How the brain of a fly may help explain human behaviourhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjkd2ylq1yo
Comparing the brains of male and female flies may transform our understanding of how genes shape behaviour, including ours.
Show HN: Ardent, a code-first agent for non-engineering workhttps://ardent.ai
Iβm Nate, the founder of Ardent. We just shipped our public beta, and weβd love your thoughts! Ardent is an agent running in a desktop (Electron) app built to help with knowledge work, designed for less-technical people outside engineering. Think Codex or Claude Cowork, but built around collaboration and customization. I know, I know, itβs yet another agent harness! Ardent is a little different β it leans heavily on codegen to solve problems. Most agents are basically just a bag of tools and a while loop, but Ardent writes code to complete tasks, making it much faster and more token-eβ¦
Five killed, dozens more feared dead in boat adrift off Canary Islandshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/five-killed-dozens-more-feared-dead-in-boat-adrift-off-canary-islands
Spanish migrant NGO says more than 80 people likely perished on the boat that left The Gambia 27 days ago.
Show HN: Mainly β Self-hosted mail client built for multiple domainshttps://mainly.crnst8.com
Hey all, I built this mail client to manage my self-hosted mail across multiple domains, and it's ended up being my daily driver (i.e. it gets patched quick) and thought I'd share it again here. I wanted something that was fast to parse visually, easy to manage & customize, self-host and easily deploy, so it does all of the above. I'm an inpatient fella, so it also allows you to do things like bulk onboard domains, sort addresses into folders for visual sorting, adjust custom sender images & tags, has MCP integration and has a settings page for adjusting your search queries. Additionally if yβ¦
Google says its AI weather model is getting betterhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/988921/weather-forecast-ai-model-google-satellite-update
Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that's supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and snowfall. In the announcement today, the company says it's now able to make forecasts with "unprecedented resolution" using its new WeatherNext 3 AI model. It can produce a global picture that's five [β¦]
Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEMhttps://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/03/sponsored-drowning-in-cves-and-thirsty-for-answers-try-ctem/5293906
Boards want to know if they're less exposed than last quarter. Patching metrics aren't the solution
Dyson's new gigantic air purifier looks like a sandworm from Dunehttps://www.engadget.com/2250186/dyson-air-purifier-robovac-launch-late-2026
Dyson just announced three new robovacs, but the most eye-catching launch is the giant air purifier.
Dysonβs new straightener has liquid cooling pipes to reduce hair damagehttps://www.theverge.com/tech/989293/dyson-corrale-coolshine-hair-straightener-airsmooth-dryer-brush-styling
After expanding its health and beauty lineup earlier this week with a camera-equipped electric toothbrush, Dyson is also introducing two new hair care products this month. The $329 Corrale CoolShine straightener upgrades the original Corrale that launched in 2020 with active cooling technology designed to "reduce residual heatexposure" so hair feels smoother, softer, and cooler [β¦]
Googleβs latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrellahttps://techcrunch.com/2026/09/03/googles-latest-ai-weather-model-gives-you-no-excuse-to-forget-your-umbrella
Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often. WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques, and Google says it will start feeding [β¦]
Elevated errors across ChatGPT and Codexhttps://status.openai.com/incidents/01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR
Article URL: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M1KWEDH417T2CF44YYHZDFCR Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550886 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Cross-service consistency verification for autonomous agent decisionshttps://github.com/Jason-Doyle/WorldCut
Article URL: https://github.com/Jason-Doyle/WorldCut Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550872 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Productivity Protocolshttps://github.com/aescle/productivity-protocols
A collection of practices for doing better work. Ranges from psychological to scheduling and physical, sourced from peer-reviewed studies as well as founder anecdotes. For anyone else that wants the actionable takeaways, rather than the mechanism or storytelling, behind how great work gets done. Agent-friendly. Stop burning tokens on rediscovering the top protocols, and reference a stable vetted bank. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550859 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Almost 70% of voters in Missouri city vote to recall council member who said yes to AI data center tax breakshttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w69rae/almost_70_of_voters_in_missouri_city_vote_to
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.name Terminationhttps://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03
Article URL: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550772 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
Codex Is Downhttps://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28756
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28756 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550769 Points: 28 # Comments: 12
PayPal cuts 220 India jobs as part of previously announced restructuring plan, source says - Reutershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixAFBVV95cUxQY2EweVk2RTgtZ1BKNXQycXVORVhieEZyLW1oRUdYUC1lVzQ1U1p1a09ETnVZaFRRajFibU5wcGRNWEV4a0lQYjVjWjVxX003b1BOTF9Nak9McnFZN290dUxfSVJpbGZRNUloZEFPc2xwYjZLSG5KZWtmVlZLUlk0UzV0YmUwN2JGSWlJcDdSX09scndvaE40YmtNWFlXLWZ4SkY0R1h3RzZ3MU1TR3NNXzJoeVBMSDJpWUlUVUJnWjg0MG1l
PayPal cuts 220 India jobs as part of previously announced restructuring plan, source says Β Β Reuters
Show HN: Tech career roadmaps where every salary figure cites its sourcehttps://skillpilot.app
Article URL: https://skillpilot.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550747 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Any Human Ever β One life, drawn at random from all who have ever livedhttps://anyhumanever.com
Article URL: https://anyhumanever.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550698 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
ChatGPT and Codex Is Downhttps://chatgpt.com/codex
Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/codex/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550640 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
Iranian drone damages residential building in Kuwait Cityhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/3/03-09-iranian-drone-kuwait-building-clip
An Iranian drone attack damaged a residential building in Kuwait, authorities say, with no casualties reported.
ChatGPT Is Throwing 404https://chatgpt.com
Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614 Points: 125 # Comments: 60
Show HN: Real-time notifications for Hacker News replieshttps://hcker.news/notifications
Hello folks, I built a service to provide you with real-time push notifications whenever someone replies to you on Hacker News, served right through your browser: https://hcker.news/notifications It has always been difficult to keep track of replies here, especially across long threads (purposefully so[0]). What makes this different from other implementations (notable prior art: hnreplies.com by @dangrossman): 1. It's real-time. You get notified within ~20 seconds. 2. Full coverage: You get notified of replies to your comments and your submissions. 3. Private: You don't have to provide an emaβ¦
Schools to close early for A66 crash funeral amid safety concernshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kwv0dypnwo
The funeral of one of five young men killed in the crash with a police car is due to take place.
Salesforce blames its Claude addiction for denting profit margin guidancehttps://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/03/salesforce-blames-its-claude-addiction-for-denting-profit-margin-guidance/5294219
But investors hear CRM giant is now in 'refinement mode,' picking models more carefully
Show HN: A searchable, timestamped index of 1,124 AI Engineer talkshttps://aietalks.com
I love the videos and talks that appear on my feed ever day from the AI Engineer conferences. Unfortunately, there are so many of them it's often hard to find the time to keep up, or to watch what I'd like. So I built aietalks.com, a searchable written index and archive of all the talks on the AI Engineer Youtube channel. We currently cover 1,124 talks. The individual talk pages offer tl;dr summaries, key quotes and other summarised information from the videos. Search and packs allow you to find the talks that matter for your particular interest or use case. All the pages are accessible for aβ¦
Show HN: Yan β In-browser glitch art and texture lab without server uploadshttps://yan.yichenlab.com/textures
Article URL: https://yan.yichenlab.com/textures/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550531 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digesthttps://aibriefs.news
Article URL: https://aibriefs.news Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550515 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
AI 'Machine Speed' Cuts 2-Week Attack Down to 10 Hourshttps://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ai-machine-speed-2-week-attack-10-hours
The incident demonstrates how frontier AI agents can dramatically compress an attack timeline and coordinate a large-scale breach, according to researchers.
The six best e-readers in the US, for every kind of book loverhttps://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2025/oct/23/best-e-readers-kindle-kobo
Whether youβre on a budget, looking for an easy way to read when you travel, or want one for kids, here are our picks for the best ebook readers In the UK? Check out our top-rated UK e-readers here. Bookworms may still cherish the feel of leafing through pages, the whiff of new-book smell, and stacking their shelves with beloved tomes, but nothing beats an e-reader (ebook reader) for convenience. You can bring your entire library on vacation without an extra suitcase. If youβre working through a 1,349-page novel such as Vikram Sethβs A Suitable Boy, your wrists will thank you. And unlikβ¦
Show HN: ForkForensics β recovers a deleted GitHub repo's history from forkshttps://github.com/siris9476/forkforensics
Article URL: https://github.com/siris9476/forkforensics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550460 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Mu β an agent with actual command line experiencehttps://github.com/ylxdzsw/mu
I'm an old school user that finds the AI agent TUIs too magical, so I experimented with a new agent UX. I implement mu as a shell plugin (zsh and fish for now). Pressing Tab enters agent mode, where 1. the command line prompt is changed to displays model name and context usage, and 2. a preexec hook sends commands to an agent instead of interpreting them as shell script. Thats it. Each LLM prompt starts a regular process that reads stdin and writes stdout, with no terminal magics. The actually executed commands appear literally in zsh_history, just like other shell commands. This allows a seaβ¦
Show HN: The courtroom inside our AIhttps://simple.dev/blog/simple-ai-v2-answers-that-carry-their-own-proof
Article URL: https://simple.dev/blog/simple-ai-v2-answers-that-carry-their-own-proof/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550397 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
They were raised on Drag Race UK - but can they snatch the crown?https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lr18ll1k3o
A new wave of queens raised on the hit reality show are among the 12 contestants set to compete for the series eight crown.
Show HN: A headless Synergy server setup for niche use caseshttps://github.com/hishamk/headlesssynergysetup
For someone with a bunch of retro machines that do not have a Synergy server port (and may not be near a machine that does or near one that I'd rather not run a Synergy server on) but do have a Synergy client port, using a headless Synergy server on a tiny SBC like the OrangePiZero makes for a slick, no frills setup to share a single mouse and keyboard among them. How do I use this? I've currently got it connect across my Amiga 1000, Pegasos II running AmigaOS 4.1 FE and Pegasos II running MorphOS. A bit more info For headless Synergy, we can't use xvfb (a virtual framebuffer) since it doesn'β¦
Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pondhttps://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-year-old-walk-to-the-pond
Article URL: https://reason.com/2026/09/02/virginia-mom-gets-6-month-suspended-jail-sentence-for-letting-5-year-old-walk-to-the-pond/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550174 Points: 17 # Comments: 2
Lego's near 1:1 PlayStation set launches on October 1https://www.engadget.com/2250292/lego-playstation-set-launches-on-october-1
The detailed Lego replica of the first PlayStation console also features two miniature dioramas of classic PlayStation games.
Show HN: Instantly get the transcript from the agent that wrote any line of codehttps://github.com/ctxrs/ctx/blob/main/README.md
This is basically "git blame but for agent sessions". In the olden days, we would use git blame (or gitlens extension) to see what body of work a certain line range or file was a part of. We would look back at the PR to see why something was done a certain way. While agents can still do this part well, we can now take it a step further: we can surface the entire agent session from when the code was originally committed! You (or rather your agent) can go back and read the entire original transcript from when it was done. This is very helpful for figuring out why something was done wrong. Maybeβ¦
Show HN: Keydris - Check what an agent is allowed to do before it runshttps://keydris.com
Article URL: https://keydris.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550126 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: VT Code β My attempt at building a coding-agent harnesshttps://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode
Article URL: https://github.com/vinhnx/VTCode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550066 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
The best fans to keep you cool in 2026 β tried and testedhttps://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/jun/17/best-fans-uk
Missed out on a fan this summer? Chill your space with our pick of the best still in stock, including tower and misting models β’ The best portable neck and handheld fans β’ Dyson HushJet Mini Cool fan review Our world is getting hotter . Summer heatwaves are so frequent, theyβre stretching the bounds of what we think of as summer. Hot-and-bothered home working and sweaty, sleepless nights are now alarmingly common. Get a good fan and you can dodge the temptation of air conditioning. Aircon is incredibly effective, but it uses a lot of electricity β¦ and burning fossil fuels is how we goβ¦
How Sonos rebooted itselfhttps://www.theverge.com/podcast/988368/sonos-ceo-tom-conrad-ai-smart-home-fabric-app-redesign
Today, Iβm talking with Tom Conrad, the CEO of Sonos. Tom and I have known each other for a long time β he was the chief technology officer of Pandora, VP of product at Snap, and the chief product officer of Quibi. He was also on the board at Sonos during its disastrous 2024 app [β¦]
SwitchBotβs retrofit door lock offers 19 ways to unlock ithttps://www.theverge.com/tech/989246/switchbot-lock-ultra-max-retrofit-smartlock-ifa-launch
SwitchBot has launched a new retrofit smart lock that gives owners multiple ways to enter European homes without a traditional key. Announced at IFA today, the SwitchBot Lock Ultra Max Vision Pro Combo provides multi-user entry and up to 19 ways to unlock doors, including, fingerprint scans, passcodes, NFC card access, contactless authentication via facial [β¦]
Final Fantasy Resonance hands-on: A love letter to classic 2D turn-based RPGshttps://www.engadget.com/2249943/final-fantasy-resonance-hands-on-a-love-letter-to-classic-2d-turn-based-rpgs
The story might be loosely based on the mobile game Brave Exvius, but it's so much bigger than that.
Hohem's Eyepic gimbal camera has a detachable camerahttps://www.engadget.com/2248387/hohems-eyepic-gimbal-camera-has-a-detachable-camera-ifa-2026
Hohem has combined its gimbal tech with a wearable camera unit.
Hohemβs tiny steadycam has a removable action camhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/987776/hohems-tiny-steadicam-has-a-removable-action-cam
Hohem is trying something new with its Eyepic handheld stabilized camera to differentiate it from existing offerings from companies like DJI and Insta360. At its core, the camera is functionally similar to devices like the Osmo Pocket 4 and Insta360 Luna Ultra with a rotating preview screen and a small camera module stabilized by a [β¦]
