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5 great Netflix sci-fi movies to watch this weekend (September 25-27)
Netflix's U.S. movie chart seems like it's gone into full recruitment mode, with Guy Ritchie's WWII caper flick The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare perched atop the pile at No. 1 and Top Gun: Maverick on loan from Paramount sitting pretty in the third spot.
Lenovo Yoga All-in-One i 32 Gen 11 Aura Edition review: So good, I may never go back to my desktop
A full-sized 45L gaming desktop and a 32-inch 4K OLED monitor — that's been my go-to setup for a long time, and the one I always return to between reviews. With the Lenovo Yoga All-in-One i 32 Gen 11 Aura Edition (my goodness, what a name, Lenovo), I feel the desire to return to my trustworthy gaming desktop less than ever. This may be the hero All-in-One PCs should
F-Droid isn't ugly anymore: The open-source app store gets its biggest update in a decade
The great thing about Android is how many choices it provides. You can swap out the home screen, dialer, keyboard, and even app stores. F-Droid is one of our favorite alternatives to the Play Store, but it's never been very pretty to look at. That's finally changing.
Your old phone number may still unlock your accounts — audit it before it gets recycled
Every year, millions of phone numbers get reassigned to strangers, and the accounts tied to them often stay behind. If you're switching numbers or carriers, a short audit now can save you from handing someone the keys to your email, bank, and messaging apps.
Your Galaxy's hidden maintenance mode keeps repair technicians out of your personal data
Handing your phone over to a repair technician can be surprisingly uncomfortable. Even if you trust the person working on it, your Galaxy probably contains years' worth of photos, messages, accounts, documents, and other personal information that you don't want a stranger casually browsing. The problem is that a repair technician may need access to the device to dia
I automated my entire Linux desktop with 4 bash scripts—and reclaimed hours every week
The more you get into using Linux, the more likely you are to start using the Terminal for various tasks. Now, I'll admit that you don't need to do everything in the Terminal. But I truly believe knowing your way around it is pretty vital to the Linux experience (for me, anyway), whether it's learning basic short commands or playing video through the Terminal. Somet
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
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Sourcehut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html)
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I built my own Android Auto alternative using Samsung Galaxy routines
Some of us are still driving around in vehicles without fancy infotainment displays. There are several methods for bringing Android Auto into a car, but what if you just want to use your phone? I came up with a way to optimize my phone for the car without custom launchers or emulators.
Good news for people whose jobs are being reshaped by AI
AI-exposed jobs have seen skyrocketing pay growth since 2021, compared to those less ripe for tech transformation.<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1671726203399-f8e364d7c6e0?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTR8fEpvYnN8ZW58MHx8Mnx8MTY3MzM5MzI0Mg&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
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Access points vs. Wi-Fi extenders: One of these "solutions" just makes the problem worse
<p>Lots of people use Wi-Fi extenders, but is that truly the right thing to do? It's the easy way, that's for sure, but whether it's the right way is debatable.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/06/a-wi-fi-extender-01.jpg' />
Stable (YC W20) Is Hiring Product Engineers
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Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
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Components in React
What is a Component?A component is simply a JavaScript function that returns JSX.Example:function Welcome() { return <h1>Hello World</h1>;}Here:Welcome is a component.It returns an <h1> element.React renders the returned JSX on the screen. Why Do We Need Components?Without components, we would have to write the same code repeatedly. Components help us:Reuse codeKeep code organizedImprove maintainabilityBuild complex UIs easily Types of Components1. Functional C
Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering
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Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
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Launch HN: Coverage Cat (YC S22) – Umbrella insurance via your personal agent
Hey HN! We’re Max and Gabriel the co-founders of Coverage Cat. We’ve been friends for over a decade, met in college then hung out mostly on the internet. We love building products that help people optimize the crufty corners of their lives. Max is a former Google/Microsoft/Two Sigma PM and Gabriel has been working in startups for over a decade.We’re building Coverage Cat: a licensed insurance brokerage that helps you compare umbrella and home coverage side by side — with straight prici
Show HN: Nanosamur.ai – Ollama for Voice Models (STT)
nanosamur.ai is a speech-to-tech platform that supports different models for realtime, semi-realtime, and batch transcription and provides a unified stack for robust speech processing, agentic workflows, and webhooks.You can run it locally on your computer via electron app + docker compose, but you can take the same stack and run it in cloud/k8s and/or on prem as it is built with scale in mind (it also has an observability stack built in). So in that sense it is more like Ollama + Olla
AI startups with hyper ARR growth – what's happening inside these companies?
Seeing more and more people leave great big tech jobs or very smart new grads start AI companies that seem to hit $10m, $50m, $100m ARR incredibly quickly.What’s actually going on inside these companies?Are they profitable? How much are they burning? Are they really growing that fast? And are founders/employees building for the long term or basically aiming for an acquisition?Would be interested to hear from anyone who’s worked at one of these companies.Does it give you FOMO?I'm starti