2026-08-31 刊号

Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers? ↗

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination ↗

A Genealogy of Freudenthal's Lincos ↗

Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund ↗

Top Web Design Styles of 1993 ↗

Tmp.0ut Volume 5 ↗

Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf] ↗

a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund ↗

Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys ↗

Run macOS Software on Linux ↗

The Google TV Streamer now costs $50 more

Google raised the price of its 4K streaming box to $149, up $50 from its original $99 price. The new price is currently live at the Google Store and Best Buy, but Amazon appears to still be offering the original price. The price hike comes just a couple of weeks after Google launched its new […]

Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk ↗

How to get a free .arpa domain ↗

A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms ↗

JMGO’s very bright all-in-one projector looks ideal for gamers and sports

JMGO's 4K 120Hz Iris Ultra Max all-in-one Google TV projector is now available outside China. It gets its name from a new dual-iris system that lets it produce an impressive 10,000:1 native contrast, according to JMGO. It boosts the contrast - always an issue with projectors - by placing two separate physical apertures (irises) along […]

FTC lawsuit alleges Amazon has been ‘secretly and systematically’ overcharging for ads

The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon for allegedly using a "secret ad surcharge" to drive up prices for ads on its website and app. FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson claims in a blog post on the lawsuit that the higher advertising prices "were largely passed on to American consumers." According to the […]

Google Maps Now Shows 'Lake America' in US, Not 'Lake Ontario' ↗

I went to the loneliest baseball game on Apple Vision Pro

This weekend, I strapped on an Apple Vision Pro to watch a baseball game in immersive virtual reality for the first time. It was technically impressive, visually pretty remarkable, and also didn't make that much sense. Apple and Major League Baseball chose a classic match-up of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees […]

How we configured OpenTelemetry logs in Rails ↗

Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO ↗

Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor ↗

The river of Apple's interface guidelines ↗

FTC accuses Amazon of running a ‘secret ad surcharge scheme’ in new lawsuit ↗

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok ↗

Apply now to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ↗

Alienware’s budget-friendly QD-OLED is discounted for the first time

While memory and storage prices are still high, there are still good discounts on other gaming-related hardware. Take Alienware’s AW2726DM, for example. Dell is selling it for $319.99, a $30 break from the usual price of $349.99. The 27-inch gaming monitor features an QD-OLED panel for deep, immersive black levels, and quantum dots for full […]

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards ↗

Things I Won't Work With: Straight Dimethyl Zinc ↗

Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles ↗

Fish bad, sugar good, and other medieval ideas about food ↗

Apple’s top App Store exec, Phil Schiller, follows wave of exits as CEO Tim Cook steps down ↗

Microsoft tests fix for latest hours-long Outlook outage ↗

Kalshi bans George Santos for life over State of the Union bets ↗

Harvard Law dropout raises $6M for Blue Voice to build a ‘Harvey for police officers’ ↗

I built a multiplayer version of the 4,500-year-old Royal Game of Ur ↗

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video] ↗

The safest job from AI may be writing ↗

Hackers claim millions of patient records stolen during data breach at healthcare giant McKesson ↗

The Wormhole Hall of Shame ↗

Student teacher arrested for private Snapchat message ↗

Kids These Days ↗

A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's ↗

You Rename My Lake – I Move My Hosting ↗

'Stunning' percolation proof solves decades-old puzzle about phase transitions ↗

How much of a problem is AI's water use? ↗

Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M in pay-to-play bridge funding to save Bolt ↗

Car owners want tech they can ignore

Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge screens and glitchy software. In fact, the features that car owners appreciate the most happen to be the ones they barely notice, according to the latest tech survey from JD Power. The consumer research firm surveyed 68,084 […]

Tim Cook’s parting message: Apple is in the hands of a product builder ↗

Phil Schiller is leaving his biggest jobs at Apple

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller is stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store and Apple events, according to a report from Bloomberg. Following the change, Schiller will keep his Apple Fellow title and continue "working on unspecified initiatives," Bloomberg reports. Schiller initially joined Apple in 1987 and became the company's […]

British Museum hosted Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry ↗

Konrad Zuse Museum shutting down due to lack of funding ↗

Anthropic legal fight with Pentagon shows shifting politics of AI ↗

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system ↗

Mental Health Workers Say Algorithmic Triage Is Hurting Patients ↗

Markiplier is now GoPro’s biggest shareholder

YouTuber Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach has invested enough in GoPro to become its single largest shareholder, with an 8.5 percent stake in the company, Bloomberg reports. Speaking to Bloomberg, Fischbach said he thought GoPro "seems undervalued" and sees his investment as "part of a larger mission to make filmmaking more accessible," following the release of his […]

You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad) ↗

Wildfire Survivors Push Back Against Newsom-Led Utility Bailout ↗

Read Tim Cook’s final message to Apple staff as CEO

Steve Jobs' successor carried the torch of the iPhone and built Apple into a global powerhouse with few rivals. Since becoming CEO in 2011, Tim Cook has led the company to become one of the most dominant forces in the daily lives of billions of people. Today is his last day as CEO. We'll have […]

RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source ↗

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project ↗