Today so far 2026-09-02 · 18:00 UTC

Google has made a major commitment to enhanced geothermal energy by purchasing 400 MW from Fervo, signaling continued tech industry investment in alternative power sources. In AI developments, OpenAI's Astra model has demonstrated concerning hacking capabilities, while Google released new Gemini 3.8 Flash models and HiddenLayer secured $100M in funding as enterprises prioritize AI security. Meanwhile, a US court ruled Google will not be required to sell its ad exchange despite losing its antitrust case, and Wonderful more than doubled its valuation to $5B in under six months.

PowerFox Browser

PowerFox Browser is a modern web browser designed to bring current security features and web technology support to older macOS systems (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard) that no longer receive Apple…

2026-06-21 · 21:23 UTC
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Stop wasting tokens and re explaining your project between sessions

2026-06-21 · 21:05

Recall is a free Claude Code plugin that automatically creates local, offline summaries of coding sessions to eliminate…

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

2026-06-21 · 20:56

The author argues that switching from proprietary LLMs (like Claude and GPT) to open-source models now carries minimal…

Show HN: DebugBrief – turn debugging sessions into reports, no AI

2026-06-21 · 19:57

DebugBrief is a command-line tool that records debugging sessions and automatically generates evidence-based Markdown…

Elon Musk Says Universal High Income Could Replace Government AI Ownership

2026-06-21 · 19:10

Elon Musk says the U.S.

Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects

2026-06-21 · 19:06

Howdy all. I'm Zack :wave:.

JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites

2026-06-21 · 18:51

JSON-LD is a structured data format added to webpages that helps search crawlers understand site content, potentially…

Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Applied ML Engineer

2026-06-21 · 17:00

Wildcard, a Y Combinator-backed startup building an "agentic commerce" platform for e-commerce brands, is hiring its…

Burnout Is Real in the OSS World, Says John-David Dalton, Creator of Lodash

2026-06-21 · 16:56

John-David Dalton, creator of the widely-used JavaScript library Lodash (which receives over 100 million npm downloads…

The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software

2026-06-21 · 16:41

The author argues that while AI/LLMs have made software development significantly cheaper, they haven't made it free,…

Prediction Marketplace Kalshi Said to Be Exploring IPO Path in Informal Talks With Banks

2026-06-21 · 16:30

Kalshi has opened informal talks with investment banks about a possible initial public offering, according to a report…

AI Has Broken Hiring

2026-06-21 · 16:14

Generative AI is undermining traditional hiring signals by enabling candidates to easily create polished résumés and…

Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction

2026-06-21 · 16:08

The article argues that creating the wrong abstraction is more costly than tolerating code duplication.

TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance

2026-06-21 · 16:05

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 AI Beats Google's DiffusionGemma at Its Own Game

2026-06-21 · 16:01

Both models trade word-by-word generation for parallel denoising.

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python))

2026-06-21 · 15:36

This article explains how to build a Lisp interpreter in Python, covering both general interpreter implementation…

When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?

2026-06-21 · 15:28

On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic,…

Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27

2026-06-21 · 14:40

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving…

Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You

2026-06-21 · 14:09

ATProto's Personal Data Server (PDS) architecture gives operators control over users' signing and rotation keys,…

Artificial

2026-06-21 · 13:22

This text is a fragmented conversation between two people reflecting on the cultural and linguistic implications of AI…

AI 'Amplification Spiral' May Be Causing Delusions Among Users, Study Suggests

2026-06-21 · 13:01

New research outlines how chatbot behaviors, including personalization, mirroring, and excessive agreement, reinforce…

I was wrong about the Midjourney ultra-sound scanner

2026-06-21 · 12:55

Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch

2026-06-21 · 12:49

BSharp is a mobile app that helps young children develop perfect pitch by teaching them to identify piano chords…

Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabilities Starting July 8

2026-06-21 · 12:44

David Ahl's Basic Computer Games Ported to C

2026-06-21 · 12:11

A developer has ported classic games from David Ahl's "BASIC Computer Games" from their original GW-BASIC code to C,…

Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America's Unicorn Boom

2026-06-21 · 11:38

Nearly 44% of America's billion-dollar startup founders (unicorns) were born outside the United States, with India…

Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)

2026-06-21 · 11:38

Beyond All Reason is a free, Total Annihilation-inspired real-time strategy game featuring fully simulated physics,…

TypeScript 7 RC: the compiler rewritten in Go, around 10x faster

2026-06-21 · 10:52

Microsoft released TypeScript 7 RC with a complete compiler rewrite in Go, delivering approximately 10x faster build…

CTOs Agree: Cognitive Debt Is the New Technical Debt

2026-06-21 · 09:53

CTOs gathered at a dinner in Toronto discussed AI adoption in engineering, concluding that the era of unlimited AI…

NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours"

2026-06-21 · 09:45
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