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YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing

The change comes a year after YouTube applied the same approach to counting views on Shorts videos.

Meta faces 'astronomical' consequences as legal fight reaches critical moment

Llama.cpp v0.1.0

Llama.cpp released version 0.1.0 on August 17, marking an official release of the project with 124k stars and 21.8k…

We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng

SecretSpec has released dotenv-ng 1.0, a fork of the unmaintained dotenvy library that fixes critical parsing bugs where…

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

Researchers have developed a GPU programming framework integrated into the Rust compiler that enables safe, portable,…

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices

Memory prices have surged 500% over the past 12 months, reaching levels up to 10 times higher than the lowest prices…

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B, an open-weight model released in August 2026, scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence…

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

After switching from Gmail to Fastmail several months ago, the author reports being satisfied with the choice, praising…

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot

Feedly says a bug is behind the performance issues that have made its web app nearly "unusable" for some users, while…

Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

Cursor has launched Origin, a GitHub alternative that allows users to host code directly on Cursor's platform while…

Buy Your Friends Batteries

Home batteries make excellent group birthday gifts, with a 5 kWh battery costing around €1,600 that can be split among…

Amazon, once an online bookseller, is destroying rare books to train AI models

Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available…

Sun Clock

Sun Clock is a free, JavaScript-based 24-hour clock that displays the sun's position, sunrise/sunset times, and lunar…

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and…

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

What Stripe's $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Actually Means for AI

Stripe just bought the layer that decides which AI model answers your prompt—and it was already collecting the money for…

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

Speko, a Y Combinator-backed startup, launches as an "OpenRouter for Voice AI," providing a unified API that benchmarks…

Ahmad on X: "Anthropic's War on open source AI" / X

Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?

A Hacker News user asks GitHub employees to explain recurring platform issues.

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South

African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to…

This sub-$7,000 sportscar might be just what the future needs

The Gasolini AR1 uses 2-cylinder Honda bike engine, and an EV is underway, too.

WordPress.com targets the next generation of web creators with a free student plan

WordPress.com Education lets teachers offer their students free domains, plugin support and professional…

Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules

A federal judge ruled that a state court judge is protected by judicial immunity even if she relied entirely on…

Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP

A researcher successfully ran Qwen3.8's 27B model with a full 256K token context on a single 24GB GPU, achieving 50.44…

Show HN: Eve Software Factory

Eve Software Factory is a GitHub template that deploys "Foreman," an AI agent system that automates software development…

Show HN: Saggar, a Mac terminal that keeps sessions and your attention organized

Saggar is a native Mac terminal application designed to organize and track multiple development sessions across…

Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX

Filing comes after Elon Musk announced exclusive arrangement to kit out its data centers.

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Wiz Research's AI-powered security tool discovered a critical vulnerability in Snowflake's GitHub Actions workflow that…