VLC crosses 7 billion downloadshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/vlc-crosses-7-billion-downloads
In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion downloads.
🏠 Frontpage
‘Superhuman’ AI tool spots heart disease in less than 2 secondshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/31/superhuman-ai-tool-spots-heart-disease
Technology trained on millions of routine ECGs could fast-track high-risk patients for treatment Doctors have developed a “superhuman” AI tool that can spot heart disease in less than two seconds. The groundbreaking technology has been trained on millions of patients and works by extracting more information from a routine electrocardiogram (ECG) than the human eye can typically see. Continue reading...
How to add and remove cards from Apple Wallethttps://www.engadget.com/2246404/how-to-add-remove-cards-from-apple-wallet
It's easy to add all your various cards and passes to Apple Wallet, and they don't have to stick around once you're done using them.
LIVE: Aston Villa vs Arsenal – Premier Leaguehttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/liveblog/2026/8/31/live-aston-villa-vs-arsenal-premier-league
As Villa host Arsenal, follow updates, including the build-up, analysis and live text commentary, of the game.
Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250Mhttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/three-year-old-ai-media-search-startup-clipto-hits-a-250m-valuation
The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
Argentina legend Lionel Messi retires from international footballhttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/8/31/argentina-legend-lionel-messi-retires-from-international-football
Messi led Argentina to World Cup glory in 2022, but his side lost 1-0 to Spain in the 2026 final.
Is it possible to program an app for F1 My Team on Assetto Corsa?https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w3hbkt/is_it_possible_to_program_an_app_for_f1_my_team
Hello everyone, I have a question. I myself really cannot code (I made a website with school once but that's it), but I am curious. For those who know the Codemasters F1 games AND Assetto Corsa (if you don't know them you absolutely do not have to read on, but if you want I'm not stopping you): do you think it is possible, in any way, to create an app or website that has Codemasters' F1 games' My Team Career Mode that works with Assetto Corsa? I really want to be able to do this with the Formula RSS 2013 cars. As I said, I cannot code and do not know anyone who can, and I am not asking anyone…
Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distributionhttps://www.theverge.com/tech/986789/linux-debian-generative-ai-policy
Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible" use of AI can improve developers' productivity, and goes on to say, "generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules beyond the standards already […]
Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your companyhttps://usealmanac.com
Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company. We started our journey with setting up Hermes for our company, thinking it must be easy. We wanted an agent that would know every context about our company, so we could ask questions and get context-appropriate responses to. This started a very annoying and difficult journey. Setting up Hermes, getting it to talk right, building OAuth apps for every connector myself, then feeding it context myself, and ultimately struggling with Hermes's default memory. At the same time, we s…
Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US governmenthttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/google-maps-renames-lake-ontario-to-lake-america-even-faster-than-us-government
Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.
Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to their lowest pricehttps://www.theverge.com/gadgets/986647/sony-wh1000xm5-headphones-nintendo-switch-2-matic-sonos-deal-sale
Sony is one of many companies offering Labor Day discounts on tech products, though its week-long sale on the last-gen WH-1000XM5 is one of the most attractive deals I found upon logging in this morning. The comfy over-ear headphones offer some of the best sound quality and active noise cancelling, and are down to $198 […]
John Galliano exhibition at New York Met cancelled after backlashhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gkp6pgy03o
The exhibition faced criticism over the British fashion designer's conviction for making antisemitic remarks in 2011.
How to disable your digital wallet if you lose your phonehttps://www.engadget.com/2243701/how-to-disable-digital-wallet-lose-phone
Digital wallets are secure, since even if you lose your phone, they're protected by your lock screen. But you can disable your wallet to be safe.
George Santos Just Got Hit With Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Banhttps://www.wired.com/story/george-santos-gets-a-lifetime-ban-from-kalshi
The former US representative was also fined more than $71,000 for allegedly attempting to manipulate the prediction market.
I attended a conference recently and AI use by academics was absurdhttps://lobste.rs/s/qn7jtv/i_attended_conference_recently_ai_use_by
As we listened to talks most people were stuck doing pointless tasks on their phones and computers. Less than 10%, likely 5%, were listening attentively. This was quite sad for me. The thing I would like to share the most, that shocked me more than any AI use I've seen ever—when I was on stage receiving QA post talk among the fellow panelists, everyone but me used AI on their laptops to record their questions and then come up with a response they could use. IDK about others, but I spent a lot of time on my talk and slideshow. The professor who served as the respondent listened for two hours…
Israeli strikes kill at least five Palestinians in Gaza Cityhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/31/israeli-strikes-kill-at-least-five-palestinians-in-gaza-city
At least five Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli attacks in Gaza City.
How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking toolshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/how-ai-could-make-it-harder-for-governments-to-use-hacking-tools
AI is proving effective at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Some say this will make it harder for governments to use hacking tools and spyware and could reignite calls to backdoor devices.
Messi retires from international footballhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ceq89y38elro
Argentina great Lionel Messi announces his retirement from international football, saying it was a decision that "hurt" but he understands "the time has come".
Firms including Chevron, ONGC, GE Vernova on track to sign final pacts in Venezuela, sources say - Reutershttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMizAFBVV95cUxNeU9rbWNtaGZPdW1MLW1mdzVaZHRqZzVLMEladlhHVFgtQkx3Y2VhRWpxNzNhMlpKMVNTcFBvWS0tUXd3cnB3UllpVFRIT2YtZzktOG1qY2tCNTBEdHJzcWlDZkNrUjhiZnlVWm9rMnQyLUhudVNTeEUycWRob2xvVnFUbzhtNWtlZ3VwSjVDZkp2OUV6R0RVejVhaU1la25zdmMydF8zZmY2OVM4aVU4Um4tNzI3aXJTZGdKb2s2RnpiVUl5TUxYb1loRGI
Firms including Chevron, ONGC, GE Vernova on track to sign final pacts in Venezuela, sources say Reuters
Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildouthttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/nvidias-3-5b-mediatek-bet-reveals-its-plan-for-tackling-big-techs-ai-chip-buildout
Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI infrastructure as Big Tech begins to build its own AI chips.
Show HN: Scoring 4,811 job tasks against machine capability, 1970–2041https://largelabormodel.com/mirror
Article URL: https://largelabormodel.com/mirror Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510775 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Preview Postgres writes from AI agents with xmin checks (pg-dry-run)https://github.com/polycore/pg-dry-run
Article URL: https://github.com/polycore/pg-dry-run Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510746 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Trump says Iran is ‘dead’, vows to respond after renewed clasheshttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/trump-says-iran-is-dead-vows-to-respond-after-renewed-clashes
US president promises to hit Iran and calls for the country's leaders to be prosecuted for killing protesters.
Study: Passenger Screens Are Barely Ever Used In Vehicles Equipped With Themhttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w3gl9y/study_passenger_screens_are_barely_ever_used_in
submitted by /u/TripleShotPls [link] [comments]
A Self-Baked Async FFI Framework for Rust C# Interophttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w3gj0n/a_selfbaked_async_ffi_framework_for_rust_c_interop
Getting tokio and .NET’s async runtime talking to each other, over the C ABI submitted by /u/swdevtest [link] [comments]
Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelineshttps://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow
Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow ( https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow ), an SDK that turns multimodal recordings from robots and human operators into standardized, quality-checked episodes and queryable dataset manifests. A recording can contain synchronized video, joint states, actions, timestamps, and metadata, and HFlow processes those streams together. Here’s a demo of HFlow in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xni0GwV-xAw Robotics data pipelines often begin as scripts: one transcodes video, another checks timestamps, ano…
I Expected Tech Fatalism. Americans Are Putting Up a Remarkable Fight Instead.https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w3gcz7/i_expected_tech_fatalism_americans_are_putting_up
submitted by /u/Just-Grocery-2229 [link] [comments]
Is Trump testing the limits of US power?https://www.aljazeera.com/video/the-bottom-line/2026/8/31/is-trump-testing-the-limits-of-us-power
With weeks to go before US midterm elections, are President Trump's policies helping or hurting his Republican Party?
Agentic Trust Controlshttps://trustcontrols.ai
Article URL: https://trustcontrols.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510612 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliamenthttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/01/how-misinformation-ai-hallucinations-infiltrating-australian-parliament
Exclusive : Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australia’s government inquiry process is supposed to help parliament make better decisions, hearing from experts and constituents alike. But Guardian Australia can reveal that the system is being flooded with AI-generated material, which is inventing studies and attributing nonexistent research to real academics and authors. In some cases, committee repor…
Honor Robot Phone hands-on: A gimbal phone experiment with promising resultshttps://www.engadget.com/2247473/honor-robot-phone-hands-on
Honor crammed a gimbal camera into a phone in a promising hardware experiment.
Show HN: 2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and researchhttps://www.coralbricks.ai
Inference for Kimi and GLM. Built for research and coding agents that plan, call tools for hours, and reason over large contexts. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510600 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Show HN: 2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and researchhttps://www.coralbricks.ai
Inference for Kimi and GLM. Built for research and coding agents that plan, call tools for hours, and reason over large contexts. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510600 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Why has Greece signed a $3.5bn missile deal with Israel?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/why-has-greece-signed-a-3-5bn-missile-deal-with-israel
Analysts say Greece is concerned about threats posed by the US-Israel war on Iran and Turkiye's growing capabilities.
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform ruleshttps://www.engadget.com/2247513/chatgpt-reddit-and-roblox-to-face-the-eus-strictest-platform-rules
ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules.
MapQuest's app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontariohttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w3g785/mapquests_app_surges_to_no_1_in_navigation_after
submitted by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136 [link] [comments]
Show HN: What Happens When You Give Your AI Agents a Voice and an Attitudehttps://fellowgeek.github.io/mcp-speak
Article URL: https://fellowgeek.github.io/mcp-speak/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510547 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLPhttps://iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/08/24/apache-iggy-top-level-project-tlp-graduation
Article URL: https://iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/08/24/apache-iggy-top-level-project-tlp-graduation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510540 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Doubling of Kobo's U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer basehttps://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/1w20azv/the_doubling_of_kobos_us_sales_in_both_2025_and
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/1w20azv/the_doubling_of_kobos_us_sales_in_both_2025_and/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510532 Points: 18 # Comments: 5
ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EUhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986682/openai-chatgpt-eu-dsa
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986682/openai-chatgpt-eu-dsa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510517 Points: 10 # Comments: 4
Jason Arday mural displayed at London’s Notting Hill Carnivalhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/31/jason-arday-mural-displayed-at-londons-notting-hill-carnival
A mural commemorating late Cambridge professor Jason Arday is displayed at London’s Notting Hill Carnival.
On End-to-End Tests During Redesignhttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1w3g3vi/on_endtoend_tests_during_redesign
submitted by /u/radekmie [link] [comments]
Playa Phonehttps://playaphone.com
Article URL: https://playaphone.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510514 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experimentshttps://www.cppstories.com/2026/hardening-experiments
Article URL: https://www.cppstories.com/2026/hardening-experiments/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510511 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontariohttps://techcrunch.com/2026/08/31/mapquests-app-surges-to-no-1-in-navigation-after-refusing-to-rename-lake-ontario
MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.
Culture Clashhttps://aeon.co/essays/at-the-heart-of-the-snow-leavis-two-cultures-clash
Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/at-the-heart-of-the-snow-leavis-two-cultures-clash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510489 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
'It's an unknown' - Capsey takes England gloves for first timehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/crl6kz8ggypo
Alice Capsey will keep wicket for England this week despite having only done it once in her career, but remains confident of successfully doing the job.
Show HN: Slotstream, run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit on a low-memory Machttps://github.com/carloslfu/slotstream
I built slotstream, a way to run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 4-bit on a low-memory mac starting from 16GB, a 125B parameter model that would need 100GB+ memory/RAM, thanks to expert-offloading/ssd-streaming. Easy to install/update, and mac-native using MLX and Swift. It ships with auto-mode, which makes a good tradeoff between memory usage and speed. I'll be implementing and porting the MTP module for speculative decoding next Local models really are the future of computing! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510441 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
#hackernews #showhn #projects #4bit #8flashnext #qwen3 #run #slotstream
War and heat: Why are wheat prices soaring?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/war-and-heat-why-are-wheat-prices-soaring
Russia and Ukraine have stepped up attacks on their respective grain terminals in the Black Sea.
Show HN: WOML – an HTML-like language for building workflowshttps://woml.org
Article URL: https://woml.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510333 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Pointhttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/nuance-for-me-none-for-you
Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/nuance-for-me-none-for-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510320 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Show HN: License Detector – the fastest, most accurate license detection toolhttps://github.com/licensedetector/cli
Years ago when I worked for Shogun, I was handed a compliance task: gather up all the LICENSE files from our codebase, so we could make sure all our products were legally compliant. It was not as easy as it sounded -- I had to use multiple different command line tools, merge all the results from the disparate tools together, and then manually verify that the data was correct. I made a mental note at the time that I should build something that made this easier one day. Years later, I'm making good on that promise: introducing License Detector ( https://licensedetector.com ) -- a license detect…
How to disable absolute Bluetooth volume on Android (and why you might want to)https://www.engadget.com/2240704/android-disable-absolute-bluetooth-volume-how-to-guide
Sometimes the volume control on a Bluetooth device behaves unpredictably. This quick fix in your Android phone's settings is a good troubleshooting step.
Newcastle close in on £55m deal for Fernandez-Pardohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5ylv97mn58o
Newcastle United are closing in on the signing of Lille forward Matias Fernandez-Pardo in a deal worth up to £55m.
Show HN: Actionful – strongly typed workflows via native HTTP endpointshttps://app.mquark.com/start
Article URL: https://app.mquark.com/start Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510162 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: PNG Binder – convert PNG images to PDF in the browserhttps://pngbinder.com
Article URL: https://pngbinder.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510151 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
New York governor to 3D printed gun leader: ‘tell Cody I will get ahead of him’https://www.theverge.com/policy/986733/kathy-hochul-3d-printed-guns-cody-wilson-response
Cody Wilson, the creator of the first 3D printed gun, announced a tool last week aimed at skirting a New York law that prevents 3D printers from making firearms - and taunting governor Kathy Hochul in the process. But Hochul isn't having it. In this week's episode of Decoder, Hochul responded to Wilson's "Hochulization" tool, […]
Show HN: Annotate Anything in the Terminalhttps://plannotator.ai/tui-annotate
Article URL: https://plannotator.ai/tui-annotate/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510102 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
I've tested dozens of items to perfect my work-from-home setup. These 13 make all the differencehttps://www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us/2026/aug/31/best-work-from-home-office-setup-upgrades
Build a home office you’ll actually enjoying working from with tried-and-true upgrades – from inexpensive speakers to a stand that can turn an iPad into a second monitor The best wireless earbuds in the US – tested Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things If you work from home , even just a few days a week, you need more than a laptop perched on a sticky kitchen table. A dedicated desk setup allows you to step away from distractions, plop in your office chair and get to work. It also creates a vital separation between your personal and profe…
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Referencehttps://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site
Article URL: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510000 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
What are you doing this week?https://lobste.rs/s/vb1jgu/what_are_you_doing_this_week
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.
Show HN: AI Tattoo Design and Planning Tools – TattooIdeashttps://tattooideas.app
Article URL: https://tattooideas.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509984 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Sleeping in on weekends is good for the heart: What research has shownhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/sleeping-in-on-weekends-is-good-for-the-heart-what-research-has-shown
Study finds that catching up on sleep at weekends is linked to a lower risk of hypertension.
Garmin Cirqa review: A fine but utterly inessential smart bandhttps://www.engadget.com/2246325/garmin-cirqa-review
Garmin's Cirqa band lacks the software and AI insights to make it a true Whoop rival.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’https://www.theverge.com/podcast/986661/ny-gov-kathy-hochul-ai-data-centers-ban-3d-printed-guns-flock-cameras
Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. It’s an election year, after all, with a shocking amount of tech policy at stake, and Governor Hochul has taken strong positions on almost every major tech issue there is. For example, Meta just reached […]
Show HN: A file-based router for Cloudflare Workershttps://github.com/yusuke99/vite-plugin-cloudflare-router
Article URL: https://github.com/yusuke99/vite-plugin-cloudflare-router Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509922 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Clicking a React element shouldn't stop at the first componenthttps://blog.crossui.com/2026/08/drill-down-all-the-way
Article URL: https://blog.crossui.com/2026/08/drill-down-all-the-way Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509914 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
A PlayStation State of Play double bill is set for September 3https://www.engadget.com/2247424/a-playstation-state-of-play-double-bill-is-set-for-september-3
A PlayStation State of Play double bill is set for September 3.
Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patronshttps://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/1password-and-37signals-become-distinguished-corporate-patrons
Article URL: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/1password-and-37signals-become-distinguished-corporate-patrons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509876 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
#hackernews #tech #startup #corporate #distinguished #patrons #1password #37signals
Greece signs $3.5bn air defence deal with Israelhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/greece-signs-3-5bn-air-defence-deal-with-israel
Greece signs $3.5bn deal with Israel to acquire its first multi-layered air defence network by 2029.
Why is piracy picking up off Somalia’s coast again?https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/31/why-is-piracy-picking-up-off-somalias-coast-again
Piracy is surging back off Somalia's coast, though not yet at the scale of its 2011 peak.
Transfer day: What and when is the deadline for club football signings?https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/8/31/transfer-deadline-day-2026-football-summer-signing-window-barcola-gakpo-alvarez
Which players will Man United, Man City, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Barcelona sign and for how much? Al Jazeera explains.
⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and Morehttps://thehackernews.com/2026/08/weekly-recap-chinese-spy-proxy-ai.html
The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional. Elsewhere, fake apps, helpful support calls, cheap banking kits, exposed systems, and weak defaults kept
Show HN: iOS App for creating PDF's from photoshttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/photos-to-pdf-tornadopdf/id6784230187
Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photos-to-pdf-tornadopdf/id6784230187 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509776 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Any user process can escalate to roothttps://www.vesto.me/2026/08/31/any-process-escalate-root.html
Comments
Show HN: Cool Conceptshttps://mkornreich.me/projects/coolconcepts
Article URL: https://mkornreich.me/projects/coolconcepts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509756 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Assemble context for analytics agents from schemas, SQL and docshttps://github.com/GetCassis/ontology-bootstrap
Article URL: https://github.com/GetCassis/ontology-bootstrap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509733 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
South Korea court gives church leader two years in jail for briberyhttps://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/31/south-korea-court-gives-church-leader-two-years-in-jail-for-bribery
South Korea court gives church leader two years in jail for bribery
ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety ruleshttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/chatgtp-and-reddit-now-face-eus-toughest-online-safety-rules
Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.
EU Designates ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as Major Digital Services. They now have until January 2027 to perform annual risk assessments, curb illegal content, protect minors, and boost transparency through audits and data access.https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w3e673/eu_designates_chatgpt_reddit_and_roblox_as_major
submitted by /u/RadiantTrailblazer [link] [comments]
Liverpool sign Bradley Barcola from Paris Saint-Germainhttps://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/8/31/liverpool-sign-bradley-barcola-from-paris-saint-germain
Barcola's move comes as Liverpool seek to reinforce their forward line after Mohamed Salah's departure.
Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Taurihttps://serverbox.stupidlabs.lol
Article URL: https://serverbox.stupidlabs.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509679 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Taurihttps://serverbox.stupidlabs.lol
Article URL: https://serverbox.stupidlabs.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509679 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Show HN: DogLM – Can you pet the dog in an AI-generated game?https://mikeushakov.github.io/doglm
Article URL: https://mikeushakov.github.io/doglm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509649 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: KanVibe – Git worktree and tmux Kanban board for AI CLIs, now Electronhttps://github.com/rookedsysc/kanvibe
Article URL: https://github.com/rookedsysc/kanvibe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509626 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Cut List Studio – A fast, private, client-side 2D/1D sheet optimizerhttps://www.s0lve.it/tools/cutlist.html
Article URL: https://www.s0lve.it/tools/cutlist.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509619 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The upside of a laptop having two charging ports (and why some don't)https://www.engadget.com/2243628/laptop-having-two-charging-ports-pro-why-some-dont
There are some good reasons you might want to look for a laptop with multiple USB-C ports next time you upgrade.
Show HN: That works Find a time that works for the whole grouphttps://thatworks.ca
Article URL: https://thatworks.ca Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509567 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EUhttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986682/openai-chatgpt-eu-dsa
OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is now considered a Very Large Online Search Engine under the EU's Digital Services Act, a set of laws regulating major online services and […]
Show HN: Hijack this domain and redirect all traffic for $5https://stealmytraffic.lol
Article URL: https://stealmytraffic.lol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509486 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Chinese Companies Clone Actors' Faces with AI, Fire the Humans—95% of Short Dramas Now AI-Producedhttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w3dpu9/chinese_companies_clone_actors_faces_with_ai_fire
submitted by /u/Just-Grocery-2229 [link] [comments]
Show HN: TinyGit – a simple macOS Git clienthttps://tinygit.app
Been a minute since I showed anything on HN, but I find myself back. I finally got around to scratching an itch I've had for a very long time: making a simple, clean, easy-to-use macOS Git client that "just makes sense." With that, I present: TinyGit!!! I've tried so many UI-based Git clients over the years, and none of them ever felt "good" to me, so I created TinyGit with my vision for a super-clean, super-intuitive experience: no crazy Git graphs, easy-to-understand upstreams/commits, super-easy squash-and-merge locally before pushing. Anyhow — it's a paid app on the App Store, but I'll…
Anthropic sued over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songshttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w3dko0/anthropic_sued_over_alleged_theft_of_tens_of
submitted by /u/tw1st3d_m3nt4t [link] [comments]
Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over privacy rightshttps://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1w3dkio/man_uses_robot_vacuum_to_covertly_record_his
submitted by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136 [link] [comments]
