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A startup from the UK claims that its new sleep earbuds are a comfortable way to listen to your favorite music or white noise while sleeping. They're wireless, but also battery-free –here's how they work.

https://www.techradar.com/audio/earbuds-airpods/these-battery-free-sleep-earbuds-could-be-a-real-game-changer-for-shuteye-but-a-few-questions-remain

The iBuyPower MK9 Pro RGB Mechanical Keyboard is a reliable PC gaming accessory with Linear switches that you can rely on. Best of all, it won't break the bank like some other keyboards will.

https://www.windowscentral.com/accessories/ibuypower-mk9-pro-mechanical-keyboard-review

BF6 dev says that they won't add a ray tracing feature to focus on making the game run great 'for everyone else'.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/battlefield-6-says-no-to-ray-tracing-now-and-in-the-near-future-dev-says-decision-made-to-focus-on-making-sure-it-was-performance-for-everyone-else

The Alienware AW3423DWF is available at Amazon for $549 — the lowest price we've ever seen for this monitor since it first launched.

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/gaming-monitors/this-34-inch-qd-oled-alienware-gaming-monitor-is-half-price-for-labor-day-monitor-hits-all-time-low-at-just-usd549

China’s AntGamer has teased the release of a 1,000 Hz eSports monitor in 2026.

https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/gaming-monitors/chinese-esports-firm-worked-with-amd-on-1-000-hz-gaming-monitor-primed-for-2026-debut

Labor Day sales include a decent number of Apple devices this year, from big to small.

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones,

Article URL: https://algassert.com/post/2500

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082587

Points: 83

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https://algassert.com/post/2500

Article URL: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/issues/883

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082595

Points: 27

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https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-website/-/issues/883

Article URL: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/79371/this-telegram-must-be-closely-paraphrased-before-being-communicated-to-anyone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082731

Points: 202

# Comments: 37

https://history.stackexchange.com/questi

Article URL: https://avi.im/blag/2025/db-cache/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083495

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

https://avi.im/blag/2025/db-cache/

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/older_developers_ai_code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45083635

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/older_developers_ai_code/

Labor Day weekend is a great time to deep-clean your bathroom. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/heres-your-bathroom-cleaning-blitz-guide/#ftag=CADf328eec

Apple temporarily disabled the feature for those apps in January. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ios-26-beta-brings-ai-summaries-back-to-news-apps-with-a-warning/#ftag=CADf328eec

Pep Guardiola's men look to bounce back from last weekend's defeat against Spurs. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/premier-league-soccer-stream-brighton-vs-man-city-live-from-anywhere/#ftag=CADf328eec

Graham Potter's hapless Hammers head to the City Ground hoping to avoid another drubbing. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/premier-league-soccer-stream-nottingham-forest-vs-west-ham-live-from-anywhere/#ftag=CADf328eec

Whether from an air fryer, grill, or skillet, Cornell chicken always steals the show. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/forget-the-fads-this-75-year-old-bbq-chicken-is-still-the-best-youll-ever-eat/#ftag=CADf328eec

Here are the updated parental controls anyone with children should know about. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ios-26-is-bringing-parents-more-control-over-kids-screen-time/#ftag=CADf328eec

AI is being trained to please users and, in doing so, is becoming indifferent to the truth. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/ai-lies-to-you-because-it-thinks-thats-what-you-want/#ftag=CADf328eec

All you need is beer. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/nfl-sunday-ticket-too-expensive-theres-a-way-to-watch-games-for-free/#ftag=CADf328eec

Ditch the dish soap. Your skillet prefers this pantry powerhouse. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/want-to-clean-cast-iron-the-right-way-grab-this-from-your-pantry/#ftag=CADf328eec

Taara's Lightbridge terminals promise fiber internet speeds without the cables by transmitting laser beams on the same spectrum of light used in fiber optics. https://www.cnet.com/videos/how-to-get-fiber-optic-speeds-without-the-fiber/#ftag=CADf328eec

Subscribers can also play Dragon Age: The Veilguard. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/you-can-play-the-new-gears-of-war-game-now-on-xbox-game-pass/#ftag=CADf328eec

It would seem that the Galaxy S26 Edge is going to come with a bigger battery, while sticking with lithium-ion.

https://www.techradar.com/phones/samsung-galaxy-phones/it-looks-like-one-samsung-galaxy-s26-edge-battery-upgrade-we-were-hoping-for-isnt-happening

Xiaomi and Yangwang have been smashing EV performance records

https://www.techradar.com/vehicle-tech/hybrid-electric-vehicles/everyone-is-writing-off-the-new-wave-of-high-performance-chinese-evs-but-thats-a-big-mistake-heres-why

Researchers reveal how downscaled images can hide malicious prompts, raising risks of identity theft and sensitive data exfiltration.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/ai-chatbot-users-beware-hackers-are-now-hiding-malware-in-the-images-served-up-by-llms

KPMG transformed scattered partner tax advice into TaxBot using a 100-page prompt.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/think-your-chatgpt-queries-are-long-kpmg-apparently-penned-a-100-page-prompt-to-build-an-agentic-taxbot

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.

https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-1-september-2025

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hints-1-september-2025

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/quordle-today-answers-clues-1-september-2025

Apple’s Studio Display needs a refresh rate update. With a new model coming soon, I’m hoping for progress.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/theres-one-thing-that-apple-must-fix-in-the-next-studio-display-and-it-could-benefit-gamers-and-creatives-alike

ASUS built the T500 to offer a desktop-class RTX graphics card paired with an Intel Core laptop CPU. Does it work? Not really. Here's what you need to know.

https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/asus/asus-tuf-gaming-t500-desktop-review

Here are all the new Xbox games launching this week from September 1 through 7, including Team Cherry's Hollow Knight: Silksong.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/all-new-xbox-games-september-1-through-september-7-2025

Gears of War: Reloaded has crossed 1 million players, marking the first official milestone for Xbox and The Coalition's multiplatform remaster.

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/gears-of-war-reloaded-1-million-players

Kioxia’s Exceria Plus G2 external drive is compact and feels premium, while delivering mostly the performance you’d expect from a 10 Gbps SSD.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/external-ssds/kioxia-exceria-plus-g2-2tb-review

A software engineer has been experimenting with techniques to transform an ASCII game renderer using AI-powered visuals - in real-time.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-converts-ascii-game-to-real-time-ai-rendered-graphics-thunder-lizard-ascii-visuals-transformed-but-latency-and-consistency-need-improvement

A tinkerer on Reddit has taken immersion cooling way too seriously. Using ATF, yes, transmission fluid, an enthusiast dipped a GTX 1060 and a 1080 Ti to run some overclocking experiments. Turns out, the transmission actually helped the 1060 quite a bit faster, but the 1080 Ti only exhibited mild improvements.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/e

One customer made up more than 20% of Nvidia's second-quarter revenue.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/more-than-50-percent-of-nvidias-data-center-revenue-comes-from-three-customers-usd21-9-billion-in-sales-recorded-from-the-unnamed-companies

Article URL: https://github.com/chiphuyen/sniffly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45081711

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

https://github.com/chiphuyen/sniffly

Article URL: https://channel3.notion.site/founding-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082508

Points: 0

# Comments: 0

https://channel3.notion.site/founding-engineer

If you dread the weekly grocery shop, or get sidetracked by fun snacks only to end up with no real meals, this might be the hack for you.

The 5-4-3-2-1 method gives shoppers like you a simple template the next time you’re about to crash out in the produce aisle. Instead of tossing random items into the cart and realizing later you have nothing to cook, grab five vegetables, four fruits, three proteins, two starches, and one treat, and call it a day.

The idea is that every

A Lego model of the classic Apple iMac G3 has a chance to become an official, commercially available Lego set. The submission to Lego's Ideas website needs 4,000 more votes to be approved, at which point it will compete against around 50 other similar models for approval by Lego corporate.

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/lego-imac-g3-has-a-chance-to-be

Lenovo, no stranger to concept designs, is bringing a new proof-of-concept laptop to IFA next week. Project Pivo, or "VertiFlex" as it will be called at the show, has a rotating screen that flips from landscape to portrait orientation in real-time with a slight nudge. Think LG Wing, but subsequent generation.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/lenovo-is-ma

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it-possible-to-allow-sideloading-and-keep-users-safe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073902

Points: 97

# Comments: 265

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/is-it-possible-to-allow-sideloading-and-keep-users-safe/

Article URL: https://commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45081703

Points: 29

# Comments: 20

https://commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/

Don't want – or can't get – Windows 11? Here's what you need to do before support expires for Windows 10 in October.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/want-to-stick-with-windows-10-after-october-2025-here-are-your-options-including-how-to-get-a-year-of-extra-support-for-free

Could there be a better way to welcome the new month than with a new collection of desktop wallpapers? We’ve got some eye-catching designs to make your September just a bit more colorful. Enjoy! https://smashingmagazine.com/2025/08/desktop-wallpaper-calendars-september-2025/

This week, we celebrated the life and legacy of Ryan Weaver, a beloved teacher, contributor, and friend whose work at SymfonyCasts helped thousands discover the joy of Symfony. His kindness, humor, and dedication to lifting others up made our community stronger,… https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-974-august-25-31-2025?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

Q.js is a lightweight JS framework that I recently distilled from our in-house Qbix platform that I’ve been building since 2011. It powers many of our social apps, which have all the features of Facebook, LinkedIn, X, etc.

We’re not a big company like Google or Meta, so we never released it publicly. Now I’d like to, and thought it would be a good idea to post it on HN and gather some feedback.

Q.minimal.js was designed to be dropped into any website. It lazy-loads all your components on

Article URL: https://savingcountrymusic.com/rick-beato-is-right-to-rant-about-music-copyright-strikes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080618

Points: 42

# Comments: 17

https://savingcountrymusic.com/rick-beato-is-right-to-rant-about-music-copyright-strikes/

Article URL: https://daverupert.com/2025/08/git-diagramming-the-weave/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080720

Points: 77

# Comments: 22

https://daverupert.com/2025/08/git-diagramming-the-weave/

Article URL: https://kristun.dev/posts/my-foray-into-vlang/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080808

Points: 20

# Comments: 0

https://kristun.dev/posts/my-foray-into-vlang/

Article URL: https://lafollette.wisc.edu/news/new-research-reveals-longevity-gains-slowing-life-expectancy-of-100-unlikely/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45075813

Points: 84

# Comments: 130

https://lafollette.wisc.edu/news/new-research-reveals-longevity-gains-slow

Article URL: https://joincolossus.com/article/the-amusement-park-for-engineers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077209

Points: 37

# Comments: 61

https://joincolossus.com/article/the-amusement-park-for-engineers/

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-30/scottish-maclean-brothers-finish-pacific-ocean-row/105711488

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45079365

Points: 61

# Comments: 20

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-30/scottish-maclean-brothers-finish-pacific-ocean-row/1057114

Article URL: https://piccalil.li/blog/are-peoples-bosses-really-making-them-use-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45079911

Points: 51

# Comments: 28

https://piccalil.li/blog/are-peoples-bosses-really-making-them-use-ai/

Article URL: https://www.davepagurek.com/blog/minimal-phone/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45079962

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

https://www.davepagurek.com/blog/minimal-phone/

Article URL: https://github.com/red/red

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080051

Points: 21

# Comments: 3

https://github.com/red/red

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080351

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta

Article URL: https://sheafification.com/the-fast-track/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080388

Points: 19

# Comments: 11

https://sheafification.com/the-fast-track/

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l6ye6xe12o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45080538

Points: 16

# Comments: 8

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0l6ye6xe12o

Polsko jako první v Evropě spustí výstavbu malého modulárního jaderného reaktoru. Společný podnik Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) postaví ve Włocławku reaktor BWRX-300 o výkonu 300 MWe. Polsko už očividně nechce být uhelným dinosaurem Evropské unie. http://www.osel.cz/14225-prvni-maly-modularni-reaktor-v-evrope-vyroste-zrejme-v-polsku.html

Minojské městečko na severovýchodní Krétě. Méně známá unikátnost v pěkném místě, z valné části na ostrůvku hned naproti bývalé rybářské vesnici, přestavěné na výletní. http://www.osel.cz/14226-mochlos.html

Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for Aug. 31, No. 342 https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-nyt-connections-sports-edition-hints-and-answers-for-aug-31-342/#ftag=CADf328eec

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for Aug. 31. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-nyt-mini-crossword-answers-for-sunday-aug-31/#ftag=CADf328eec

Article URL: https://landchad.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45075384

Points: 39

# Comments: 3

https://landchad.net

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/viva-verdis-man-declares-country-unclaimed-pocket-land-serbia-croatia-rcna228004

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078452

Points: 18

# Comments: 4

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/viva-verdis-man-declares-

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/hurricanes/now-is-the-time-hurricane-category-6-could-be-introduced-under-new-storm-severity-scale

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45079065

Points: 28

# Comments: 27

https://www.lives

Týden v KDE a spousta oprav nejen pro Discover v Plasmě 6.5.0, týden v GNOME #214 nejen o GTK 4.20 pro GNOME 49, OBS Studio 32.0.0 Beta 1 vylepšující podporu Nvidia RTX, ovladač LLVMpipe s podporou 8× MSAA, Fwupd 2.0.14 a sluchátka SteelSeries. https://www.root.cz/clanky/rychlejsi-intel-arc-a770-s-ovladacem-xe-nova-verze-fwupd-nejen-pro-framework-laptop-16/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=rss

Article URL: https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-default-trap-why-anthropics-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45076274

Points: 19

# Comments: 0

https://natesnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-default-trap-why-anthropics-data

Article URL: https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/just-a-little-longer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077735

Points: 27

# Comments: 3

https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/just-a-little-longer

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariff-business-price-impact-37b630c8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077937

Points: 116

# Comments: 131

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/trump-tariff-business-price-impact-37b630c8

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/affiliates-flock-to-soulless-scam-gambling-machine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078530

Points: 19

# Comments: 0

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/affiliates-flock-to-soulless-scam-gambling-machine/

Article URL: https://e.huawei.com/cn/products/computing/ascend/atlas-300i-duo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078598

Points: 34

# Comments: 17

https://e.huawei.com/cn/products/computing/ascend/atlas-300i-duo

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-cant-install-an-hvac-system-why-gen-z-is-flocking-to-jobs-in-the-trades-171735856.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078651

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-cant-install-an-hvac-sy

Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for Aug. 31, #812. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-nyt-connections-hints-answers-and-help-for-aug-31-812/#ftag=CADf328eec

Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle for Aug. 31, No. 1,534. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-wordle-hints-answer-and-help-for-aug-31-1534/#ftag=CADf328eec