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Playa Phone

A working phone booth on a dusty street corner at Burning Man.

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Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

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GPU World

Imagine the future, evenly distributed: a world with one GPU per person.

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Tmp.0ut Volume 5

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Fastpotify

A fast, native Spotify client for Linux, macOS, and Windows, written in Rust.

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Show HN: Laser Graffiti

Point a projector and a webcam at a wall, draw with a laser pointer, and the projector paints your strokes. Open source, runs in the browser.

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Polishing Cloth Updated

Apple’s Polishing Cloth is now just $9. It is unclear if this cloth is in any way different from what debuted five years ago for $19. According to Apple, it is compatible with these products: iPhones: iPhone Air iPhone 17 Pro iPhone 17 Pro Max iPhone 17 iPhone 17e iPhone 16 Pro iPhone 16 Pro Max iPhone 16 iPhone 16 Plus iPhone 16e iPhone 15 Pro iPhone 15 Pro Max iPhone 15 iPhone 15 Plus iPhone 14 Pro iPhone 14 Pro Max iPhone 14 iPhone 14 Plus iPhone 13 Pro iPhone 13 Pro Max iPhone 13 mini iPhone 13 iPhone SE (3rd generation) iPhone 12 Pro iPhone 12 Pro Max iPhone 12 mini iPhone 12 iPhone 11 Pro iPhone 11 Pro Max iPhone 11 iPhone SE (2nd generation) iPhone XS iPhone XS Max iPhone XR iPhone X iPhone 8 iPhone 8 Plus iPhone 7 iPhone 7 Plus iP

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44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents

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American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career

American Airlines legend Al Blackman has died aged 100 after an unmatched 80-year career, leaving behind a remarkable aviation maintenance legacy.

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Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Apple's unusually timed announcement of new Mac mini and Mac Studio models this week was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise appetite for AI hardware, according to The Information. Apple normally releases new Mac models in the autumn, closer to October or November, making this week's announcement unusually early, falling just before the anticipated arrival of new iPhone models. The Information says that the AI-driven boom in Mac Studio and Mac mini sales is behind the early launch.

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CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

About Us CollectWise is a fast growing and well funded Y Combinator-backed startup. We’re using generative AI to automate debt collection, a $35B market in the US alone. Our AI agents are already outperforming human collectors by 2X, and we’re doing so at a fraction of the cost. With a small team, we scaled to a $3M annualized revenue run rate in just over a year, and we’re now hiring a Founding Customer Success Engineer to help us reach $10M+ over the next year. The Role We’re looking for a Founding Customer Success Engineer to own customer relationships after launch and ensure customers are successful with CollectWise. You’ll work at the intersection of customer success, engineering, and operations, managing customer communication, r

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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.

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Restroom Archive

The Restroom Archive is an ongoing repository of publicly accessible restrooms.

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Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

Infamously simulation-heavy colony builder Dwarf Fortress is getting a Myth and Magic update later in 2026 that generates a sorcery system to fit your world.

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RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

A portable, battery-powered cellular conversion for classic rotary telephones—fully reversible, with no modification to the original phone. - fregacmols/RotaryCell

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AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

Last updated: 2026-08-29; Google Ticket Number: #9-2777000041594 TL;DR: What we need From Google: clarification on whether an IRS 501(c)(6) determination satisfies "tax exempt donations". From readers: please share this post, especially ...

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I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour

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A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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On this day

Iraq War: The United States Armed Forces transfers control of Anbar Province to the Iraqi Armed Forces.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Playa Phone

Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones

GPU World

Tmp.0ut Volume 5

Fastpotify

Show HN: Laser Graffiti

Polishing Cloth Updated

44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents

American Airlines' Legendary Mechanic Passes Away at 100 After 80-Year Career

Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system

Restroom Archive

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates

RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked

A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

On this day

Iraq War: The United States Armed Forces transfers control of Anbar Province to the Iraqi Armed Forces.

The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege, three days later, more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists).

The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel.

Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the commercial aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.

The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.

Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba.

The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).

A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea resulted in the Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.

A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.

Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".

TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.

World War II: Launch of Operation Ratweek, complicating German retreat.

World War II: Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.

J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop.

The Great Kantō Earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.

The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.

Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.

The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.

American Civil War: The Battle of Jonesborough, alongside the overall Atlanta campaign, culminates in a Union victory for General William T. Sherman as Confederate General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta.

American Civil War: Confederate forces under General Stonewall Jackson inflict heavy casualties in the Battle of Chantilly during the Union withdrawal from the Northern Virginia campaign.

Carrington Event started - the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history.

Saint Andrew's Scots School, the oldest school of British origin in South America, is established.

Narcissa Whitman, one of the first English-speaking white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

The Order of St. Gregory the Great is established by Pope Gregory XVI of the Vatican State to recognize high support for the Vatican or for the Pope, by a man or a woman, and not necessarily a Roman Catholic.

3 Juno, one of the largest asteroids in the Main Belt, is discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.

Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.

The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.

At the age of five, Louis XV becomes king of France in succession to his great-grandfather, King Louis XIV.

English Civil War. Scottish Covenanter forces abandon their month-long Siege of Hereford, a Cavalier stronghold, on news of Royalist victories in Scotland.

Battle of Tippermuir: James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats the Earl of Wemyss's Covenanters, reviving the Royalist cause.

Claudio Monteverdi's musical work Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) is first published, printed in Venice and dedicated to Pope Paul V.

Adi Granth, now known as Guru Granth Sahib, the holy scripture of Sikhs, is first installed at Harmandir Sahib.

Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.

The Spanish fort of Sancti Spiritu, the first one built in modern Argentina, is destroyed by indigenous people.

Tumu Crisis: The Mongols capture the Emperor of China.

King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.

Election of pope Gregory X following the death of Clement IV three years prior.

Election of pope Lucius III following the death of pope Alexander III in the previous month.

The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona by the forces of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time the seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated.

Byzantine general Isaak Komnenos is crowned Byzantine Emperor by patriarch Cerularius at the Hagia Sophia.

The Temple of Juno Regina (Aventine) is dedicated in Rome by Marcus Furius Camillus.

On this day

Iraq War: The United States Armed Forces transfers control of Anbar Province to the Iraqi Armed Forces.

The Beslan school siege begins when armed terrorists take schoolchildren and school staff hostage in North Ossetia, Russia; by the end of the siege, three days later, more than 385 people are dead (including hostages, other civilians, security personnel and terrorists).

The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by an American-French expedition led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel.

Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter after the commercial aircraft strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.

The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.

Central African President David Dacko is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General André Kolingba.

The SR-71 Blackbird sets (and holds) the record for flying from New York to London in the time of one hour, 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds at a speed of 1,435.587 miles per hour (2,310.353 km/h).

A 76-hour multinational rescue effort in the Celtic Sea resulted in the Rescue of Roger Mallinson and Roger Chapman.

A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.

Six-Day War: The Khartoum Resolution is issued at the Arab Summit, and eight countries adopt the "three 'no's against Israel".

TWA Flight 529 crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport in Chicago, killing all 78 people on board. At the time, it was the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history.