The most interesting story at this year's CES was just a little tiny bundle of technology. One way to look at Lego's new Smart Brick is as something like a Raspberry Pi, an endlessly remixable gizmo w...
While playing Big Hops , a new 3D platformer starring an adorable frog, I kept feeling like I was breaking the game - and, like with The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom , breaking it is kind of ...
Hi HN -- I built HTTP:COLON, a small, open-source web tool for quickly checking a site’s HTTP response headers and learning what they mean as you go. Link: https://httpcolon.dev/ What it does - Enter ...
An internal product strategy document outlined Grindr's plans to expand its direct-to-consumer businesses. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Grindr aims to establish four successful direct-to-consumer busine...
During a recent subway outage in San Francisco I decided to build a webapp in the spirit of "Do I Need an Umbrella," basically to answer the question "Should I take the subway or a bus?" In the intere...
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI tool, which has launched as a research preview this week. Anthropic Anthropic employees used Claude to build Cowork, its new agentic tool launched this week. The AI startu...
The Stream Deck Plus is on sale for $159.99. If you’re looking for a simple way to streamline your workflow, the Elgato Stream Deck Plus is a handy productivity tool for automating everyday tasks. Rig...
Producer Rick Rubin DPA / Picture Alliance A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here . In Silicon Valley, AI is fu...
Most people in the U.S. needed to subscribe to Amazon Prime in order to watch the Chicago Bears/Green Bay Packers wild card playoff game. Cooper Neill/Getty Images For lots of people, NFL games are th...
Hi HN, I have been working with regulation-heavy documents lately, and one thing kept bothering me. Flat RAG pipelines often fail to retrieve related articles together, even when they are clearly conn...
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War has been in hibernation since 2017, and its most recent installment was far from universally well-received. So when King Art Games was handed the task of bringing it back...
Elon Musk (L) and Sam Altman Getty/BI composite A trial date has been set in Elon Musk's fraud case against Sam Altman. The case is set to go before an Oakland federal jury in April and is expected to...
Shopify CEO says companies often undervalue founders and put them in a corner. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke said companies undervalue founders' experience and leadership. Lütke sa...
Hey Hacker News The ones that know me here know that I am a productivity geek. After DockFlow to manage my Dock and ExtraDock, which gives me more space to manage my apps and files, I decided to tackl...
Verizon was down for tens of thousands of customers for most of the day on January 14, 2026. Paul Squire/Business Insider Over 170,000 Verizon customers reported a service outage on Wednesday. The out...
Hi HN, we're Sam, Shane, and Abhi. Almost a year ago, we first shared Mastra here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43103073 ). It’s kind of fun looking back since we were only a few months into ...
Alexis Ohanian said he doesn't miss Reddit. Amal Alhasan/Getty Images for Fortune Media Reddit's cofounder, Alexis Ohanian, said he does not miss being in leadership at the company. He conducted an &#...
Hi Everyone, Digital Carrot is a programmable and pluggable app blocker. It lets you block websites and apps on iOS, Mac and Windows until a set of conditions or goal is met. For example you can block...
After about 10 hours in Hytale, the new survival crafter from some former Minecraft modders, there really isn't a better way I could describe it other than to say it's basically Minecraft 2. From the ...
OpenAI executives including CEO Sam Altman (left) published a blog post containing emails that suggest Elon Musk (right) believed the AI company should have attached itself to Tesla for funding. Getty...