Laws of Software Engineering
Article URL: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847179 Points: 775 # Comments: 392
Apple’s Pippin console launched 30 years ago today — shunned by the public as too expensive and too slow, only 42,000 units were sold
Apple’s Pippin was plucked from the tree 30 years ago today but would soon go past its sell-by date.
Global growth in solar "the largest ever observed for any source"
The International Energy Agency says we've entered the Age of Electricity.
Yelp's AI chatbot can now make your dinner reservation
Every business seems to think that its customers want more AI. Yelp is the latest to add more artificial intelligence tools. The review site has upgraded its Yelp Assistant, an agentic AI chatbot, to work across all of Yelp's categories. Yelp Assistant was initially launched in 2024 with a limite...
Polymega Remix can digitize retro games for Windows 11 PCs and handhelds, USB peripheral accepts games CDs, cartridges — $199 units finally ship next month following years of production delays
Playmaji has opened pre-orders for its $199 USB peripheral that lets owners digitize and play physical retro games on Windows 11 PCs, laptops, and PC gaming handhelds
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation
With its latest update, Yelp is letting people ask questions, get restaurant reservations, order food delivery, and book service professionals, all through its updated AI assistant.
Met police trials snoop tech platform in push to cuff more London shoplifters
No facial recognition privacy intrusions either! Well, maybe a little London's Metropolitan Police is trialing new retail technology to help curtail the city's pervasive shoplifting problem… and it doesn't rely on live facial recognition (LFR).…
Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violation
Anthropic nukes a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks on the back of a "usage policy violation."
A type-safe, realtime collaborative Graph Database in a CRDT
Article URL: https://codemix.com/graph Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846946 Points: 138 # Comments: 42
The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’
Devin Stone turned punchy legal explainers into a YouTube empire. Now he’s warning that the sheer volume of Trump administration scandals is distorting reality itself.
H2O Audio Tri Run Workout Headphones Review: A Little Underwhelming
H2O Audio’s stab at a sub-$100 pair of bone-conduction workout headphones just misses the mark.
Biohacker claims to have sequenced their own genome at the kitchen table with M3 Ultra Mac Studio, Claude, and a $3,200 sequencer — DIY project requires 100GB of data storage per run, oodles of RAM
A tinkerer has sequenced their own genome at home, hoping to uncover secrets behind a family history of autoimmune disease.
Diverse organic molecules on Mars revealed by the first SAM TMAH experiment
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70656-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846861 Points: 23 # Comments: 0
Apple @ Work Podcast: The world runs on spreadsheets
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organi...
England's school phone ban gets teeth, just in time to bite no one
90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there's paperwork Ministers are moving to turn England's patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in a Monday vote.…
Former ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to BlackCat attacks
41-year-old Angelo Martino, a former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks in 2023. [...]
Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past
In the past, even with an icebreaker and during peak melt season, getting to the North Pole wasn’t a sure bet. It took favorable winds to crack the frozen ocean surface, and ships had to fight through ice that had grown many meters thick over several winters. In the summer of 2025, though, Jochen...
Enthusiasts build an interactive online ‘Listening Museum’ of iconic mechanical keyboard audio samples — 36 mechanical masterpieces available for you to audibly try out
The Listening Museum presents a collection of 36 iconic to modern classic keyboards that have been multisampled and uploaded into an interactive site.
They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.