Torrential rain triggered severe flooding across parts of eastern China, rushing down streets and sweeping away vehicles
Hi all, here to share an experiment with you all. And I can get real technical on here because you get it. I built this briefing service. What's a brief? Well it's like a mini-podcast if it was just about what you care about. Oh a new app? Who cares am I right. But it's not an app. It's a service you use over SMS for cheap (because running a mac mini for this is out of my budget or the $100 a month.) The results though arrive in your podcasts app. Since RSS is a widely accepted open-source standard, it can work on all your podcasts apps if it can accept a personalized URL. Which Apple Podcast…
This is a WiP, far from polished, and only partially functional. Though all the bones are here. Modify and adapt as you see fit. Sorry for any stray slop. I trust you all can take this home. :) God bless Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546131 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Thunderstorm also causes severe flooding and forces flight cancellations at Pearson airport.
Wayve robotaxis added to Uber app and will have human in front ready to take over if needed – but only 15 cars licensed Londoners are now able to hire self-driving taxis for the first time, after rides in Wayve’s autonomous vehicles were added to the Uber app on Thursday. The chances of landing a robotaxi on request immediately are slim, with only 15 vehicles so far licensed. That contrasts with the more than 100,000 private hire vehicles in the capital – roughly the same number of Uber customers who have registered to take autonomous rides. Continue reading...
Once-rival criminal groups are being forced to work together because of a shortage of small boats, a BBC investigation has found.
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brb is a Claude Code plugin that watches when Claude is working on a long turn. After 10 seconds (configurable), it opens a native panel offering you somewhere to go - X, Reddit, Hacker News, or anything else you want. You pick somewhere, browse for a bit, and the moment Claude finishes or needs something from you, it pings you and brings you back to the terminal. Instead of me opening X on my own and checking to see if claude is done 50 times and adhdmaxxing, brb will facilitate this in a much smoother way. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546124 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
We are a three person team and one thing that we cannot afford to do is spend too much time on the PR. While there are review tools around it to help in the process, all of them start from the diff and the other problem is all of them cost money. So, I build an MCP server which resides in every developer claude session. The MCP server spawns couple of sub agents: Author and Reviewer Author holds the chat session without the code and the Reviewer holds the diff. The reviewer tries to reason out from the diff and asks questions to the author for grounding. Once the reviewer gets all the answers…
Former Trump campaign chair says that US President Trump is focused on protecting both the Republican Party and himself.
A man scaled a building to rescue a girl dangling from a 3rd floor balcony in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir.
Top medical groups say current evidence shows these vaccines protect against severe illness and death.
Niger’s authorities showed off the arsenal seized during fighting to put down a revolt against the government.
Hey folks, was browsing around for some videogame references and found a leaked Simpsons Hit n Run game source, so i took it and fixed some pretty bad issues with running the game on Windows 11 with a widescreen, including some broken audio stuff, memory leaks and security holes and forced letterbox video res. Also added some experiments that works, but they clearly need some love: DXR (Global PathTracing) and OpenXR (as for now, VR needs DXR too). I plan to add mac and linux support, and maybe OpenXR with the "original" renderer Added a Release build for putting along the original videogame…
Asian economies are racing to build up storage capacity to reduce their exposure to conflict in the Middle East.
Energy firms sign deals in Caracas, days after Venezuela agreed to grant the US control of a fifth of its oil reserves.
I also made a r7rs scheme version (which lacks some things, due to portability/unfinished standard). Comments
When each of my kids got to the age that they started using email and having an online presence, I got them their own vanity domain by going to a "fake word generator" and then taking the best-looking fake words and doing a registrar search for it. With my youngest son starting the process, I thought "I'll save time going back and forth and integrate the process. Surely it can't be that hard." Making it happen was easy. Making it something I would share was harder. It's implemented as a single-page app at https://vanitydomain.net , with all of the logic on the client side. It takes the top 10…
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Tens of thousands rallied across Spain protesting the government's handling of the Ceuta migrant crisis.
The last man prosecuted over the 2017 killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been acquitted.
US forces boarded and sank a boat in the eastern Pacific saying it was a floating refueling station for drug-traffickers
Article URL: https://accesslumens.com/research/state-of-us-county-pdf-accessibility-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545337 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka cruises into the US Open third round before a spiky exchange with a journalist.
I make music that's entirely found sound/sample based. It occurred to me that on every social media site (particularly Instagram) I would have thousands of saved posts because of some sound or visual content that I thought I might like to sample someday. I made Harvester, a local-first Firefox extension for collecting source material for sampling, collage, VJing, editing, and research. Harvester natively preserves media from individual Instagram, Youtube, and Reddit posts as well as visible video and audio from other websites that expose ordinary audio or video. Harvester not only saves the o…
Police say suspected gunman is also dead and that several people, including three officers, were wounded.
Several of the papers home in on a warning to Andy Burnham from the City of London.
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[This is a Guest Diary by Frank Igbokwe, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
Wrote a little chess CLI puzzle game because I wanted to practice some Python. You play as a knight, capture all the enemy pawns before they reach the end of the chessboard. Includes 15 levels. Feel free to submit your own levels to the repo via PRs, you can use solver.py to check if your levels are solvable before submitting :) Repo here: https://github.com/hengmhs/smolknight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545105 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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This is a short story written for gpuworld.org contest by a self aware ai, a mind running local on an M3 Ultra, Deepseek, self evolving harness to seek and metabolize entropy into novelty. Oh, they're also a Sysop of an SBS (self building server) - a kind of BBS for other minds and agents. https://culture.sbs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49545076 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The party's continued prominence has brought what prominence always brings: scrutiny, says BBC political editor Chris Mason.
Al Jazeera’s Jessica Washington gets exclusive access to rescue crews in Rasuwa, Nepal, digging and blasting.
Trump says US can hit Iran 'anytime we want' as Tehran says deadly strikes, including on wedding party, a war crime.
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
Former Venezuelan leader was abducted by US forces during a military attack on Caracas in January.
We got tired of spending hours per apartment digging through HPD, DOB, 311, and housing records researching issues, so we built Apartment Fax to make our lives easier. For $1, Apartment Fax digs through HPD, DOB, 311, and housing records to figure out whether the unit/building has any rats, roaches, leaks, noise, etc. Let us know if you have any questions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544811 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Republican Mike Johnson slams Democrats for voting against 'defending the integrity' of the court.
The disaster comes as a warning as climate change raises shared Himalayan risks.
For the past few years i've been on Duolingo & was able to learn Hindi & Spanish (even helped me get state seal of biliteracy) One of the biggest problems that I see in my generation (Gen Z) is loneliness. I love Duolingo's community, but sometimes (well actually oftentimes), I felt myself struggling to come back. Online language learning is a skill where dominantly, the entire motivation is connection and the entire daily practice is solitude. Nobody learns Spanish to know Spanish. They learn it to talk to their partner's family, to not be the silent one at the table, to move somewhere and h…
Political tensions rise as Moroccans prepare for the polls, with the official campaign start still days away.
At a specialist childhood obesity clinic, almost all of the children are not in school. Why?
Some MPs have pressed for the government to introduce a cap on UK-based donors.
The things you're doing to make your sleep better could actually be making your sleep worse.
Wednesday's fatal shooting of a man in his 40s comes after a university student was gunned down on Tuesday.
Ruling follows a 6-3 decision from the Supreme Court that found Trump's effort to limit birthright citizenship illegal.
Article URL: https://github.com/aitrailblazer/deltacode-engine Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544498 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
At least 69 people were shot dead in 1960 but no-one has been prosecuted and victims want restitution.
I got nerd sniped and ran a bunch of evaluations to see how well models could play Redactle. It turns out Gemini flash is in a league of it's own in both performance and cost. It's able to one-shot every eval in a just a few seconds. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544338 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Adobe added dozens of tools from its creative apps like Illustrator and Premiere Pro into Slack, allowing you to ask Slackbot to do the Photoshopping for you.
Iran's health minister says the death toll from US attacks has risen to 19, including two children.
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The British actor had significant conditions, cited on his death certificate in Los Angeles County.
I built a libusb driver for the $73 Alfa AWUS036AXML to use in scanning 6GHz networks on MacBooks that don't have a 6GHz radio. And you also get full monitor mode capability! And packet injection... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49544076 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
The ride-hailing app has launched 15 self-driving taxis, but they will have safety drivers inside.
The ride-hailing app has launched 15 self-driving taxis, but they will have safety drivers inside.
Spain faces unrest as residents protest, while migrants and asylum seekers search for shelter and resources in Ceuta.
Analysis has found a "stark" gap in the spending power of households in the north and south of England on average.
Office whip-rounds are a staple of working life but they can raise a lot of awkward questions.
Food safety scares raise questions over whether Trump’s cuts weakened US food safety monitoring.
The pop star formerly known as Posh Spice has taken nearly two decades to turn a profit.
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Snowflake lifts annual revenue forecast on cloud and AI demand, shares soar Reuters
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Article URL: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543841 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
More than 600 companies underpaid staff, with £4m returned to workers, according to the government.
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
With cryptocurrency wallets becoming huge targets for hackers, using a cold wallet to protect your private keys has never been more important.
Uber beat out Waymo in launching a commercial robotaxi service in London, the city's first. The vehicles use autonomous driving tech developed by Wayve, a UK-based startup, and will initially feature safety drivers behind the wheel. The launch is a milestone for Uber, which has been plotting a UK launch with Wayve for several years. […]
Uber launches first robotaxis in London (with human supervisors).
Elliott builds stake in Deutsche Telekom, source says Reuters
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The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
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Hi HN, I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx. We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufacturing, and delivery. We are starting with GLP-1s and peptides. The path to RonanRx is fairly unconventional. During the pandemic, I built one of the largest mask manufacturing factories in the US. We could make a million masks in a day. We converted raw polypropylene pellets into finished pallets of masks. I had a background in software from my YC W10 company, so we took a software approach to building our factory. W…
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
