F-Droid 2.0
Article URL: https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49831968 Points: 893 # Comments: 255
Friday, September 25, 2026
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Two-tier encryption in the UK
Article URL: https://macanorak.com/two-tier-encryption-in-the-uk/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828731 Points: 370 # Comments: 367
Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
Article URL: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-think-ai-critics-are-foreign Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824686 Points: 372 # Comments: 408
Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/1wotwrk/meta_takes_down_a_critical_video_about_meta_ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49827794 Points: 596 # Comments: 357
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1095425/2d9f411252325784/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825642 Points: 379 # Comments: 483
Meta VR Glasses
Article URL: https://www.meta.com/vr-glasses/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824268 Points: 478 # Comments: 456
California is chasing wealth that has feet
Article URL: https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/california-is-chasing-wealth-that Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836419 Points: 106 # Comments: 308
Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
Article URL: https://launchvideo.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836374 Points: 117 # Comments: 82
Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design
Hello! We’re Sid, Alex, Ketan, and Milan. We’re building Whiteboard ( https://whiteboard.dev.fast/ ), an open-source desktop app where humans and agents can architect software together in a common workspace. Here’s our repo: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard . We were miss
CDC opens state ordering for COVID-19 vaccines after unexplained delay
After a nearly monthlong delay, states are now able to order this season's COVID-19 vaccines through a federal program that provides free immunizations to low-income children, the US health department says. Trump officials have still not provided a clear explanation for the delay
Donald Duck's uncle was partly based on Wernher von Braun
Did you know that the first character that Walt Disney created to specifically appear on television was inspired, in part, by early Space Age rocket scientists? On this day 65 years ago (September 24, 1961), Disney introduced the "renowned scientist, lecturer, psychologist [and]
Show HN: Koi.rest – watch some fish and regain your balance
Hi there. My name is Paul. I’m a developer, an explorer and I’ve got ADHD. As of the beginning of August, I’m also unemployed. This last part, along with everything else this past year, has caused me a great deal of stress. While our balcony zen garden project is yet to be comple
STAT+: FDA commissioner nominee Heidi Overton keeps opinions to herself in Senate hearing
WASHINGTON — Heidi Overton , President Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration, was grilled by senators on hot button topics like China, vaccines, and abortion access in her hearing before the committee that will decide whether to send her nomination for a vote o
The FDA’s Overton era, and dispatches from Shanghai
“The Readout LOUD” is going international this week. STAT’s Jason Mast joins the podcast from Shanghai, where he’s digging into what the rise of Chinese drug development means for the biotech industry. The hosts also speak to colleague Margaret Manto about Heidi Overton, the pres
Senate finance committee backs Chris Klomp, advancing him to full Senate vote
WASHINGTON — A key Senate committee on Thursday approved the nomination of top federal health official Chris Klomp to be deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, clearing the way for him to be confirmed by the full Senate. Klomp is currently senior adviser
STAT+: Indonesian ruling against ‘patent evergreening’ by pharma industry sends critical message, patient advocates say
In the latest battle over access to medicines, an Indonesian court recently struck down a provision in a law that allowed “patent evergreening,” a tactic used by drugmakers to file additional patents containing minor tweaks to existing medicines and, ultimately, forestall competi