The Aliro standard will launch this year. The long-delayed smart lock standard Aliro is finally launching. The first specification, which standardizes NFC-based tap-to-unlock and UWB hands-free unlock...
Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability to creep on your friends' listening habits - but you could mostly only uncover those guilty pleasures on the desktop app. The company experimented...
Netshort's micro dramas revolve around soapy themes. NetShort TikTok is jumping into buzzy micro dramas and has introduced a section featuring them in its app. Short-drama apps typically use a freemiu...
Smart whiteboard manufacturer Vibe is expanding further into hybrid work hardware with the Vibe Bot, a physical AI device that can serve as a voice assistant, a smart webcam, and an AI note-taker, des...
i've been a big fan of fedora's atomic distros and i decided to make my own but arch based to get the best of both worlds, which is kind of funny now because it looks exactly like silverblue. is it wo...
Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so: Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people w...
Hi, I'm the author of The Program audio series, a fairly successful fiction podcast that launched on HackerNews in 2018. Seven years later, this little sci-fi anthology is still ongoing, having releas...
The author says that parenting middle schoolers can be hard. VISION4RY-L4NGU4GE/Getty Images/iStockphoto Parenting middle schoolers can be challenging, but key lessons can make it more manageable. Avo...
CES serves a few different purposes - to give us the sense of what's to come during the year, to introduce strange devices , and for companies to show off the newest technology. While there wasn't as ...
Valve has announced the winners of the 2025 Steam Awards and, unsurprisingly, Hollow Knight: Silksong , took home the Game of the Year honors. It was also given the "Best Game You Suck At" award, whic...
LG unveiled a whole new line of gaming monitors ahead of CES on Friday. The UltraGear evo line are all high-end monitors covering a range of technologies, but united by 5K resolution and AI upscaling....
Hi HN, I made OSS Sustain Guard. After every high-profile OSS incident, I wonder about the packages I rely on right now. I can skim issues/PRs and activity on GitHub, but that doesn’t scale when you h...
I took a cruise to Alaska and had an incredible time. Jacqueline Dole I've been on lots of cruises, but my sailing to Alaska on the Disney Wonder really stands out. From the exciting excursions to the...
It has a magnetized ring that lets MagSafe devices, as well as other magnet-equipped phones or cases, snap on with ease. When the Nintendo Switch 2 launched in June, AR glasses brand Viture beat Xreal...
Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, is about to kick off season 2 of "Beast Games." Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Prime Video MrBeast is making the first episode of "Beast Games" Season ...
The author's kids (not pictured) don't live near their cousins. Sam Edwards/Getty Images When my family moved in 2017, we moved away from my kids' only cousins. Their childhood looks different from mi...
Student-loan borrowers who receive debt relief in 2026 could face a big tax bill. d3sign/Getty Images A 2021 provision that made student-loan forgiveness tax-free expired on January 1. Borrowers who b...
China's DeepSeek has published a new AI training method that can scale models more easily and shape "the evolution of foundational models." credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty...
I thought it would be interesting to have ID style hover docs outside the IDE. Hover is a Chrome extension that gives you IDE style hover tooltips on any webpage: documentation sites, ChatGPT, Claude,...
The American economy is tipping away from low-wage workers once again. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images The K-shaped economy has returned, with gaps widening between high and low-income American...