Playa Phone(playaphone.com)
724 points by cutoff | 224 comments
Page for Playa Phone, a free public phone booth at Burning Man that lets anyone make 5-minute calls worldwide or receive calls from the public.
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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO(webiterate.dev)
606 points by twapi | 459 comments
Blog post reporting that Google removed all remaining Manifest V2 extensions, including uBlock Origin, from the Chrome Web Store.
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system(jasontucker.blog)
604 points by speckx | 162 comments
Blog post describing how the author used BirdNet-Go with three security cameras' audio streams to automatically identify and track bird species in his yard.
OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor(openshot.org)
522 points by metrofun | 121 comments
OpenShot blog post announcing the 4.0 release of the open-source video editor, highlighting new recording, editing, and color tools.
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio(macrumors.com)
475 points by thm | 555 comments
MacRumors article reporting that Apple's new Mac mini and Mac Studio launch was driven by unexpectedly strong enterprise demand for AI hardware, citing The Information.
![Screenshot of youtube.com: A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2026/8/31/71242a14-9dcc-4066-b2d2-286e6be2e374.jpg)
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video](youtube.com)
381 points by keithcarolus | 58 comments
YouTube video from Grow Now! Games showing a walkable ASCII-rendered cyberpunk city built in a single HTML file.
I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked(signalandsilence.substack.com)
380 points by jcurbo | 212 comments
A Substack post arguing that widespread refrigeration failures at U.S. military DeCA commissaries may have been caused by hacking of the freezer systems.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode(embracethered.com)
335 points by Recursing | 112 comments
Blog post on Embrace The Red showing how a website summary request can hijack Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode to achieve code execution via prompt injection.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history(arstechnica.com)
328 points by WithinReason | 61 comments
Ars Technica article on a 12TB leak of Steam data revealing over a decade of unreleased PC game content, including cut Portal 2 material and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 hints.
Understanding ChatGPT Work(simonwillison.net)
281 points by gmays | 149 comments
Run macOS Software on Linux(darlinghq.org)
230 points by Bluestein | 72 comments
Holden's Lightning Flight(en.wikipedia.org)
217 points by ColinWright | 47 comments
Tmp.0ut Volume 5(tmpout.sh)
183 points by ghuntley | 37 comments
Agent memory as a file format(calpaterson.com)
141 points by ingve | 73 comments
A CVE Dispute(daniel.haxx.se)
134 points by theanonymousone | 31 comments
How to get a free .arpa domain(hawksley.dev)
130 points by ethanhawksley | 14 comments
ReactOS 0.4.16(reactos.org)
121 points by marttt | 29 comments
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally(openclaw.ai)
114 points by doppp | 120 comments
We are rebuilding Monica(monicahq.com)
91 points by robinhood | 61 comments
The Snow/Leavis ‘two cultures’ clash(aeon.co)
59 points by Hooke | 34 comments
Salad Theory(saladtheory.github.io)
48 points by colinprince | 34 comments
Marx, Keynes, and AI(unpopularfront.news)
46 points by speckx | 38 comments