Malaysia on Thursday moved to bring some of the worldâs biggest social media and messaging platforms under its licensing regime, closing a year-long gap in which several tech giants had operated witho...
A shopping centre in southern China has installed special glass on the doors of menâs toilet cubicles that becomes transparent when people smoke inside, winning applause online. The move involving bat...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk appears to be feeling the joy this holiday season. The Tesla CEO posted to X that he's making an edit to the company's "mission word...
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Contemporary Amperex TechnolÂogy Ltd (CATL), the worldâs biggest maker of electric-vehicle batteries, is set to restart a major lithium mine in eastern China, in a move that could ease raw material co...
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I built an open source web app that generates cover letters using local AI models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, etc.) so your resume and job application data never leaves your machine. No placeholders. No...
Hi HN, Every year, we ask thousands of readers (and authors) to share their 3 favorite reads of the year. Now you can enter a book/author you love and see what books readers loved who also loved that ...
New photos and video seem to confirm previous leaks hinting that the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra will sport a new camera bump. OnLeaks posted images of what look like dummy phones on X, following renders...
Fender Audio , the consumer electronics brand owned by the famous guitar maker, has announced its first pair of wireless headphones at CES 2026. What sets the Mix headphones apart from the competition...
The US Cyber Trust Mark Program, an Energy Star-style certification for smart home security, could be winding down less than a year after it launched. Safety testing company UL Solutions has announced...
Hi HN, I built a small Linux CLI tool called witr (Why Is This Running?). The idea came from a situation most of us have hit: you log into a machine, see a process or port running, and immediately won...
It might be just my type. Clicks is expanding beyond keyboard cases and bringing its QWERTY keys for phones to another format: a magnetic power bank accessory with a slide-out keyboard. The Power Keyb...
The Freestyle Plus still looks like the original 1080p Freestyle projector. | Image: Samsung The Freestyle Plus all-in-one portable projector features 430 ISO Lumens, or "nearly twice the brightness o...
Netflix has had an interesting year. Its ad tier, introduced last year, has grown significantly, and its live TV initiative has expanded to include not only weird one-offs like hot-dog-eating grudge m...
Hi HN, Iâm a solo dev building a clinical search engine to help my wife (a resident physician) and her colleagues. The Problem: Current tools (UpToDate/OpenEvidence) are expensive, slow, or increasing...
I made a web game inspired by Geoguessr and Wordle, where you get shown a 3D model of a random human protein each day, and you have to triangulate its gene name using similarity clues. My background i...
We should get more information about the upcoming 2026 LG Gram Pro series at CES. LG is teasing the 2026 Gram Pro laptops that will be fully unveiled at CES, including what the company claims is the "...
An f/1.2 aperture is a beautiful thing. Canon's new EOS R6 Mark III is an excellent camera . It's not a groundbreaking upgrade to the 3-year-old R6 Mark II, but it takes the same body with great ergon...
Apple Fitness+ is a subscription-based service available to Apple users. Apple Apple teased "big" Apple Fitness+ updates planned for 2026 on Instagram. The service offers instructor-led classe...