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Pixel Watch 4 Launches with Satellite SOS: Hands-On

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/08/google-pixel-watch-4-everything-you-need-to-know.html
1•nradov•2m ago•0 comments

Serbian scientists experiment with mealworms to degrade polystyrene

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/serbian-scientists-experiment-with-mealworms-degrade-polystyrene-2025-08-20/
1•petethomas•3m ago•0 comments

HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to "MadeYouReset" DoS attack

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/767506
1•karussell•3m ago•0 comments

Tim O'Reilly – Is AI a "Normal Technology"?

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/is-ai-a-normal-technology/
1•rmason•7m ago•0 comments

Vikings were captivated by silver – analysis reveals how far they travelled

https://theconversation.com/vikings-were-captivated-by-silver-our-new-analysis-of-their-precious-loot-reveals-how-far-they-travelled-to-get-it-263222
1•zeristor•8m ago•0 comments

Recreationally overengineering my Location History

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2025/08/19/overengineering-location-history/
1•kickofline•8m ago•0 comments

What Happens When a Generation of Scientists Changes Its Mind

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-happens-when-an-entire-scientific-field-changes-its-mind/
1•CharlesW•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 1999date – Dating Like It's 1999

https://1999date.com
2•DavCreator•10m ago•0 comments

New zero-day startup offers $20M for tools that can hack any smartphone

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/new-zero-day-startup-offers-20-million-for-tools-that-can-hack-any-smartphone/
2•kingforaday•10m ago•0 comments

Pope Leo to share papal apartments with 'flatmates'

https://thecatholicherald.com/article/pope-leo-to-share-papal-apartments-with-flatmates
1•Michelangelo11•11m ago•0 comments

Wavacity – Online Audio Editor Based on Audacity

https://wavacity.com/
1•janandonly•12m ago•0 comments

Vienna has been declared a renters' utopia – here's why

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/housing-crisis-in-europe-vienna-renters-social-housing
1•drankl•14m ago•0 comments

Moving Money Isn't the Same as Building a Business

https://www.anildash.com/2025/08/20/moving_money_ain%E2%80%99t_building_a_business/
3•sealeck•15m ago•0 comments

Stephanie Shirley, Who Created a Tech World for Women, Dies at 91

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/business/stephanie-shirley-dead.html
2•donohoe•15m ago•0 comments

Let `jj absorb` help you keep a clean commit history

https://www.pauladamsmith.com/blog/2025/08/jj-absorb.html
3•todsacerdoti•16m ago•0 comments

The CodeRabbit exploit: proof that "boring mistakes" cause big security failures

https://railsfever.com/blog/security-best-practices-web-apps-lessons-coderabbit-exploit/
1•quantum_mech•16m ago•1 comments

Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors [pdf]

https://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/courses/fall07/papers/disco.pdf
1•rbanffy•18m ago•0 comments

Oregon Man Accused of Operating One of Most Powerful Attack 'Botnets' Ever Seen

https://www.wsj.com/tech/oregon-man-accused-of-operating-one-of-most-powerful-attack-botnets-ever-seen-380b2caf
2•voxadam•20m ago•1 comments

iOS/iPadOS/macOS updates fix actively exploited ImageIO memory corruption

https://support.apple.com/en-us/124925
2•tech234a•20m ago•0 comments

In defence of the Online Safety Act

https://thecritic.co.uk/in-defence-of-the-online-safety-act/
2•drankl•20m ago•0 comments

Becoming Capable

1•JosephForesight•22m ago•0 comments

Cycle-Accurate 8088 Emulation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qatzd0niz9A
1•matt_d•22m ago•0 comments

UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEb_YL1K1Qg
2•matt_d•25m ago•0 comments

Why American painter Lois Dodd is finally getting her dues at 98

https://www.ft.com/content/705c3cbf-b5f6-4bb5-bca3-893236505353
2•drankl•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to convert WhatsApp chats to PDF

https://chattopdf.app
1•gprogrammer1•27m ago•0 comments

Nuclear can dial down/up 80% on hourly basis

https://www.ft.com/content/22a594a0-39a4-4f4e-9f4f-e32c4905119d
2•julcol•30m ago•3 comments

Record Label Is Trying to Silence Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBq_krhKbW4
2•belter•33m ago•2 comments

The Four Dimensions of Tone of Voice

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/tone-of-voice-dimensions/
1•handfuloflight•33m ago•0 comments

Learn the Basics of Synthesizers

https://learningsynths.ableton.com/en/get-started
1•interweb•34m ago•0 comments

Stop Fighting Housing Development vs. Flood Control: Houston vs. Jersey City

https://www.governance.fyi/p/stop-fighting-housing-development
2•guardianbob•34m ago•1 comments
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Tech, chip stock sell-off continues as AI bubble fears mount

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-chip-stock-sell-off-continues-as-ai-bubble-fears-mount-184837135.html
26•pera•2h ago

Comments

mgh2•1h ago
The unpredictable thing about bubbles is that you never know when it is gonna pop or the irrationality of the masses, until then it is a hot potato game.
supportengineer•55m ago
ABS

Always Be Selling

AIPedant•54m ago
This is true - the most compelling evidence we are in a bubble is not the content of this story (maybe it's just a day in the markets) but the triviality of the cause for hand-wringing. A somewhat disappointing product release from a single company should not strike investor dread across the entire sector. The tenor of the conversation changed dramatically over the weekend because bubbles are very thin and pop quickly.

That said, "GPT-5 will not be any better than competitors' products, demonstrating OpenAI was bluffing about AGI and destroying investor exuberance" was a very specific prediction made by (for example) Gary Marcus.

s1mplicissimus•28m ago
which makes it really annoying in the sense that I cannot simply short the company, because I don't know when their pants will drop :/
zappb•1h ago
Easy come, easy go!
kylehotchkiss•59m ago
Benefits: Software companies will get back to that feature request board and stop just duck taping AI to everything with little tangible benefit to end users.
asdff•36m ago
Weird how people are saying bubble now and not when there was a far larger selloff between feb-april this year.
s1mplicissimus•29m ago
I said bubble since gpt4 was hyped like the invention of bread, but I guess I'm not important enough
strange_quark•29m ago
People were definitely saying bubble earlier this year, but I think the market could excuse the selloff by attributing it to DeepSeek and "Liberation Day"; the AI hype machine was still in overdrive. For some reason the market has decided not to care about tariffs anymore, but GPT-5 being mid has really put the kabosh on the whole AGI schtick.
nomel•14m ago
> but GPT-5 being mid has really put the kabosh on the whole AGI schtick.

I don't think any significant conclusion, for the future of AI/possibility of AGI, should be made by looking at a single model/company.

strange_quark•4m ago
I'm not even making predictions on whether AGI is possible or not, but the valuations of these companies hinges on AI being able to replace a large portion of human labor. I think we are teetering on the edge of a huge bubble pop unless some other company releases something that's not just another chatbot that does slightly better on some benchmarks that nobody outside of the industry has ever heard of.

What I'm trying to say is that the stock market mostly runs on vibes at this point. And when you have the CEO of the leading model company hyping up a release people have been anticipating for 2 years by tweeting out images of the death star, saying that it made him feel useless, etc. etc., and then it turns out to be a cost-cutting exercise and causes a massive uproar amongst its most loyal users, I think the market is going to adjust to reflect the bad vibes.

mgh2•31m ago
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963715
nomel•24m ago
Is this driven by AI bubble fear, or of an awareness that compute needs are finally being met, after an insanely rapid ramp?