Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded
About Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared. Look up a carrier‘s APNs, VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling and 5G on each phone. Pick the features you need and see which carriers have them. Compare any two versions or carriers, and see what each build changed. Get it all as JSON from the […]
TypeSafe a Raises $870M at a $7.5B
TL;DR we raised $$$ and we’re going to make sure it shows up as benefits to y’all 🫶 We’ve raised a really big series A¹ led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia Capital, existing investor DCVC, and the tech illuminati (aka a bunch of the best angel investors). We find fundraising announcements incredibly boring, […]
Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe’s largest lake landscape
A decades-long project to transform Germany’s former coal mines into a massive lake complex will reach completion this April – creating a watery landscape almost as large as Italy’s Lake Como. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Lake Sedlitz – the final addition to the 14,000 hectare Lusatian Lakeland – will be open for swimming and boating for the […]
Germany turning abandoned coal mines into 23 lakes, becoming artificial wetland
In eastern Germany, enormous pits carved into the landscape by decades of lignite mining are being transformed into a vast network of lakes, wetlands and restored land. The Lusatian Lakeland, spread across Brandenburg and Saxony between Berlin and Dresden, is being created by flooding former open-cast mines and reshaping their surroundings. The tourist destination now […]
Python 3.15.0
Release date: Oct. 9, 2026 This is the stable release of Python 3.15.0 Python 3.15.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.14, in 5,643 commits from 1,012 contributors. Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Some of […]
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
A drone attack struck a major Yandex data center in Russia’s Kaluga region, knocking several modules completely out of service, according to Russian state media TASS on October 9. We bring you stories from the ground. Your support keeps our team in the field. DONATE NOW “Several modules of the Yandex data center in Kaluga have been completely taken out of operation as a result of a UAV attack, […]
Court throws out killer’s sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim
The family of a road rage victim in Arizona used his likeness to create a posthumous AI video played at his killer’s sentencing last year. Now, an appeals court has vacated the sentence, calling the decision to allow the video a “fundamental error.” Last May, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Todd Lang gave Gabriel Paul […]
Our $445M Series D
In the spring, we hit a pretty wild milestone: Oxide paid income tax. And not because of some unusual transaction or one-time event, but because our ordinary operations (selling computers!) generated taxable income after accounting for the costs of components, manufacturing, salaries, and running the rest of the business. Of course, we each individually pay […]
Deno Is Joining Cloudflare
For years, we’ve been working to make building server software simpler. We questioned how modules could be distributed, what security guarantees a JavaScript runtime could provide, what belonged in a complete toolchain, and how easily an application could be distributed as a standalone executable. Compatibility with Node.js became an important part of that work too: […]
I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteorites and More
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. Last week, on October 1st, 2026, the historian Benjamin Breen published a post called Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness account of the dodo. He used AI to search digitized […]