2026-08-21 刊号

HN: The Good Parts (2016) ↗

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools ↗

Paul Atkins misreads Adam Smith and the American founding ↗

Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha ↗

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team ↗

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine ↗

Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after opposition to interference ↗

I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned ↗

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf ↗

Three important steps in my maturation process ↗

'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them ↗

HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted in the US

I am so sorry, fellow US gadget fans: the FCC's drone ban appears to have struck again. The HoverAir Versa - a baby steadycam with snap-on propeller wings that transform it into a drone - has already stopped taking US orders just three days after its Indiegogo debut, and may be forced to abandon shipping […]

TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit

The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2024 over allegedly violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). In the lawsuit, the DOJ alleged that TikTok collected data from children without notifying parents or obtaining consent and did not delete the accounts […]

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours ↗

Run 290B+ frontier MoE models locally on your gaming PC ↗

Remotely unlocking electric scooters ↗

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a […]

Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams ↗

The Creation of Abulafia ↗

TikTok reaches $400M settlement over children’s privacy lawsuit ↗

The $225 Pebble Time 2 is a refreshingly fun smartwatch ↗

Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM ↗

A week of using Codex more than Claude ↗

Apple is laying off staffers working on the Vision Pro and Siri

Apple is laying off staff on the Siri and the Vision Pro teams, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include "largely shutting down" a Vision Pro gaming team and "reducing the size" of the team that makes Vision Pro immersive content, the publication says. More than 200 jobs were cut. Apple said in a statement to […]

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero ↗

Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism ↗

Show HN: Zcomplete – Shell Typo Correction ↗

Rust Glancer ↗

One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential? ↗

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler (2023) ↗

Death to the Self-Playing Game ↗

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders ↗

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe ↗

How Thailand Resisted Colonization ↗

Tesla’s solar roof is dead — here’s what went wrong ↗

$100 Best Buy gift cards will be $60 at stores Saturday

The best gift card deal we’ve spotted this year is happening Saturday, August 22nd, at Best Buy stores for one day only. In celebration of the retailer’s 60th anniversary, you can purchase a $100 Best Buy gift card for $60. The deal is only good for as long as supplies last at your local store, […]

Optimizing meshoptimizer to process billions of triangles in minutes (2025) ↗

Waymo hands over documents in NHTSA’s child collision probe ↗

OTel isn’t going well ↗

Show HN: Declarative-forms – await an object the way prompt() awaits a string ↗

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift ↗

When the shortage is the strategy ↗

Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality mode ↗

Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him ↗

Show HN: Rotation via Double Reflection ↗

Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour ↗

Walmart is finally adding Apple Pay and Google Pay

Walmart will soon allow you to pay for your items with Google Pay or Apple Pay. In an announcement on Friday, Walmart says it's going to bring tap-to-pay capabilities to "select" Walmart and Sam's Club locations starting August 24th, before rolling out support to all US stores by the end of 2026 and gas stations […]

Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats? ↗

Microsoft and Discord subpoenaed over GTA VI gameplay leaks

Following several apparent video leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI, Take-Two Interactive has subpoenaed Microsoft and Discord over content that "infringes copyrights" held for the game, Kotaku reports. In the subpoenas, filed on Thursday, Take-Two says copyrighted material includes "audiovisual content, artwork, images, dialogue, or other creative elements" and it is looking to identify "alleged […]

Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing ↗

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent ↗

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory ↗

Pixel 11 gets in on the digicam trend

I recently looked back at a photo I'd taken on a smartphone in 2014, and I was struck by just how good it looked. The details were soft, the shadows were dark. It was the kind of photo I felt like I hadn't seen out of a phone in years. That might be changing, though. […]

Kobo can run apps now ↗

geek-five-layer-throttling-stack ↗

What happens when a GPU reads memory ↗

Three ways to smuggle SQLite into Nix ↗

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it ↗

Omacom Foundation launches with $8M ↗

US government lab is probing Chinese lidar for security vulnerabilities ↗