Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager
Gen Xers who feel triggered by this should remember to unplug the network cable and call the cops
Aug 9, 2026 ·The Register
Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation
Airy Studio — Turn lines into speech. Choose a voice and export audio.
Aug 9, 2026 ·
Hacker News
There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
What is so special about the number 19?
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port
Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64 with extra features for research purposes. - jmarshall23/msword
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)
Bet 601
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age
The Children's Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology app.
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents
Trust layer for agent commerce. 9,248 MCP servers, Sentinel L2.5 gVisor sandbox audits, x402+USDC payments, AP2 mandates. 9,248 free. AliceLabs LLC Proprietary.
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
"Coding is solved" misses the point
Every few weeks, someone declares that coding is solved. If they mean turning a well-specified problem into runnable code, they're increasingly right. But was writing runnable code ever the whole problem?
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics
A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit.
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults
Aug 9, 2026 ·Hacker News
New leak may reveal the iPhone Ultra’s two launch colors
Apple is set to announce the first-ever foldable iPhone next month. A new rumor today suggests that the iPhone Ultra might be available in two colors: silver and dark blue.
Aug 9, 2026 ·9to5Mac
Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386
A Macintosh System 1-style graphical OS for the Intel 8086/8088. Real-mode assembly, boots from floppy, runs in 256KB. Free to download.
Aug 8, 2026 ·Hacker News
My server is a phone now
rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.
Aug 8, 2026 ·Hacker News
Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled
How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.
Aug 8, 2026 ·Hacker News
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
As part of a planned Texas data center, Amazon is investing in an on-site power plant that could reportedly become the largest source of climate pollution in the United States.
Aug 8, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
iOS 27: The easiest beta to forget about
We’ve had iOS 27 in our hands for about two months now. Of course, it’s a beta – and the public release won’t be hitting for another 4-6 weeks. That said, despite the fact that I’ve been running a beta on my phone for the past two months, I can’t say I’ve really thought much about it. It just… works.
Aug 8, 2026 ·9to5Mac
