The signal in the feed.

I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)

Article URL: https://gauthier-lechevalier.com/radar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736137 Points: 105 # Comments: 30

Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fictional torture scenarios. While the sets seen in the trailer are real and not some Glasgow-style AI fakes, the voiceover is AI-generated. Deadline reports that Netflix worked with AI audio company ElevenLabs with consent from Wilder's family, after working on productions re-creating the voice of Mich

Claude Science

Article URL: https://claude.com/product/claude-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735770 Points: 113 # Comments: 51

Threads adds new features to Live Chats as it expands access

The updates include translations, new tools for hosts, and more.

Rebuilding the Windows 98 Defrag Simulator

There's a specific kind of satisfaction that comes from watching the Windows 98 defrag screen do its thing. Clusters shuffling around. That progress bar crawling. The sense that your computer was doing something important, even if you had no idea what. That's the feeling I wanted to bottle when I built the first version of defrag98.com back in 2024. The project took off beyond anything I'd expected. It got picked up by Hacker News and The Verge, and people from all over the world spent time star

Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.

Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.

We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works

I Built an Open-Source Canny Alternative Using Spec-First AI Development. Here's the Methodology.

OpenCan v2.0.0 is out — an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Canny. AGPL-3.0, deploys with a single Docker Compose file. This post covers what it does, the stack, and — what I think is the more interesting part — the development methodology I used to build it: spec-first, AI-assisted, with mandatory review passes before anything shipped. Repo: https://github.com/sriramgopalan/opencan https://demo.opencan.dev https://opencan.dev/docs The core loop: customers submit and vote on feature req

Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/flash-lite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735444 Points: 117 # Comments: 36

Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says