Best Gaming Laptops (2026): Razer, Asus, Dell, and More
You don’t want any old gaming laptop. Here’s my take on which to get based on hundreds of hours of testing.
Save $500 on Lenovo's Legion 5i gaming laptop at only $1,599 — bright OLED display, 32GB of RAM, and powerful RTX 5070 GPU
A powerful RTX 5070 GPU, 32GB of RAM, and a crisp OLED display are highlights of this $1599 Lenovo Legion 5i deal at B&H Photo
Tim Cook retirement ‘leak’ worked perfectly in predicting reactions
A supposed Tim Cook retirement leak late last year indicated that hardware head John Ternus was Apple’s planned successor and that the announcement would be made ahead of WWDC 2026 in June. I wrote at the time that this was very clearly a trial balloon by the company in order to test reaction to ...
Scientists solve decades-old 2D physics puzzle — Chaotic growth in a 2D quantum system obeys statistical laws
Physicists have confirmed for the first time that chaotic growth in a 2D quantum system follows precise statistical rules, validating a 40-year-old mathematical model that describes how random, uneven surfaces evolve over time.
Actively exploited Apache ActiveMQ flaw impacts 6,400 servers
Nonprofit security organization Shadowserver found that over 6,400 Apache ActiveMQ servers exposed online are vulnerable to ongoing attacks exploiting a high-severity code injection vulnerability. [...]
The Morning After: The next CEO of Apple will be hardware exec John Ternus
Apple’s current SVP of hardware engineering John Ternus will take over as the new CEO when Tim Cook steps down this September. Cook said in a statement: “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company.” Following...
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