A$AP Rocky Shares Update on Rihanna's Next AlbumIt's been a decade since the Grammy winner released her last album, 'Anti,' in 2016.
Show HN: TestFlight iOS native Buzz client "Hive for Buzz"hi, i recently publish a testflight build for a iOS native client for Buzz, I called "Hive for Buzz"My main reason is basically i wanted to test out the capability of using Buzz to build itself a client completly using native without me touching the code and reviewing everything form the Buzz and turns out that I like it more than the official one lol just because the feeling of native is better also is open source. here is the repo: https://github.com/jtvargas/buzz-ios-clientmy roadmap is to continue parity with latest releases from the official one and also going to implement good siri intents/apple intelligence on device so basically to try giving siri much context of my workspace so for the new iOS version Siri can grab context/reference from my work being done with my agents and maybe add some intents to trigger works via siri - i don't know yet, need to investigate a little more but for now the app is stable to be used and im looking for feedbacks as well and thanks! - my vision
Ex-Patriots WR Stefon Diggs Finally Signs Contract With New TeamIt was a long offseason for Stefon Diggs. The star wide receiver was released by the New England Patriots, had a legal battle off the field, and then struggled to find a new team to sign with.Now, ...
Basketball Without Borders Next Up Camp 2026 to be held in Istanbul, TürkiyeAnniversary of the Basketball without Borders program will bring together 80 of the top global prospects. Official release 25th Anniversary of the Basketball without Borders program will bring ...
Show HN: An open-weight background removal model for difficult imagesFor many everyday images, background removal works well. The remaining challenge is images with fine hair, fur, glass, transparent objects, motion blur, low-contrast subjects, or cluttered backgrounds. Improving results on those difficult cases has been the focus of this project.This is the third iteration of the model, built through many rounds of training and evaluation. I've focused on improving performance on the kinds of images that are still difficult for many background removal tools.I recently released the third iteration of my open-weight background removal model (Apache-2.0 for my contributions; see repository for third-party licensing). My goal is to make high-quality background removal easy to run locally or on your own infrastructure.Example resultsOpen model: https://withoutbg.com/open-model/resultsComparison with remove.bg: https://withoutbg.com/compare/withoutbg-open-model-vs-remove...The comparison intentionally focuses on challenging images, since many tools produce s
Colman Domingo reveals he underwent a 2.5-hour prosthetic transformation for Michael Jackson biopicThe Oscar-nominated actor played Joe Jackson in the “Michael” biopic, which was released in April Key Takeaways Colman Domingo said on The Tonight Show that he underwent a 2.5-hour prosthetic ...
College football easiest schedules based on 2026 preseason rankingsPeople always say they want to play against the best, but would you really complain if the road to success wasn't all that challenging? The preseason US LBM Coaches Poll release reveals where top ...
Celebrating 43 Years of 'Risky Business': Tom Cruise's Breakout Role That Changed HollywoodForty-three years ago today, the movie that transformed Tom Cruise from a promising young actor into one of Hollywood's biggest stars arrived in theaters. Released on Aug. 5, 1983, Risky Business ...
China Complains to Japan Over Defence White Paper, Foreign Ministry SaysChina's foreign ministry on Wednesday said it had complained to Japan about Tokyo's newly released defence white paper, accusing it of playing up a Chinese threat and making "unwarranted comments" ...
Tell HN: Seedance 2.5 API PricingJust got confirmation with my account manager as well as info on byteplus that the price of seedance 2.5 is 50% more than seedance 2.For a 30 second video it'll be around $7.50 for a 30 second 720p 16:9 video. (lower than I heard)And 2.5 is actually available now through their Lumina business package(it's like $300/month) right now, or it'll be released via api in 1-2 weeks
Show HN: Alcatraz – Pure-Go PII detection, 100x faster than MS PresidioHi HN, I'm Andrios, founder of hoop.dev (YC W21), we build runtime controls for agents. We just released Alcatraz.We built it because our product is written in Go and we do real time Data Masking, but we were using MS Presidio (Python) for PII detection and it made connections slow.There was a good discussion here a few months ago when OpenAI released their Privacy Filter: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870901). A lot of questions were built into our design. Structured identifiers (credit cards, SSNs, etc) are deterministic and you can verify them with checksum. Free text PII like names and addresses is where you actually need a model.Alcatraz started as our internal solution, but we wanted to make it available for everyone: in-process PII detection in Go. Currently 45 entity types across 12 countries (US and Brazil included). Benchmarks vs MS Presidio (lib to lib) about 13x faster on dense documents, 100x on smaller ones.Still in development, lots to improve. Feedback wanted:
WHOOP is giving members a one-year subscription to Natural CyclesIn a press release, WHOOP announced a partnership with the FDA-cleared birth control app Natural Cycles. With this partnership, the firm is adding Natural Cycles integration. This means that you’ll ...
U.S. Bank and Truist Top Javelin Strategy & Research’s 2026 Digital Banking ScorecardsSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Javelin Strategy & Research has released the 2026 results of its annual Mobile Banking Scorecard and Online Banking Scorecard. U.S. Bank earned Best in ...
What are the best hospitals in Texas? New report ranks top facilities in state and nationAdd Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. News & World Report released its rankings of the best hospitals in the United States and in each state. UT Southwestern ...
Show HN: Freqcast, an Android radio player that finds streams from a website URLHi HN!Not every internet radio station is listed in a directory like Radio Browser. For a lot of them, the only way to actually listen is to dig the stream URL (.mp3/.aac/.m3u8) out of the station's website by hand — and that's before you even find a player that isn't full of ads or locked to its own catalog.Freqcast lets you paste the station's website instead of the stream URL directly. It first checks the Radio Browser catalog, then scans the website itself, discovers a playable stream, verifies that it works, and adds it to your library. In many cases, you never have to hunt for the URL yourself.No ads, no tracking, no account — everything lives locally in the app. Your station list can be exported as JSON, and imported from JSON, OPML, M3U, or PLS.No Play Store listing — grab the APK from Releases. F-Droid submission is in progress.Would genuinely love feedback!
Show HN: What people watched on Netflix since 2023Netflix makes reports since 2023 showing how much engagement everything in their catalog gets. This joins together all those into one report.Most surprising to me: 1. What a mega-hit KPop Demon Hunters was. The #2-5 ranked movies got ~500M hours viewed each, KPop Demon Hunters got 1081M. 2. How big old content is. Suits from 2011 is the #2 show on Netflix. Grey's Anatomy starting in 2005 is #3. Gilmore Girls from 2000 #4. 3. The "scale effect" where releasing a new season of a show engenders massive viewing of previous seasons. Stranger Things season 5 got 880M hours of viewing in H2 2025 when it released. But it caused 1200M additional hours of viewing of seasons 1-4. 4. Massive popularity of movies I had never heard of. Leave the World Behind, a movie I had never heard of, was the #2 movie of the last three years. It got ~100 minutes of watchtime per Netflix subscriber. Of the top 10 movies I had only heard of 3.This was vibe-coded, so could be incorrect, especially in details. I thi
Street Fighter 6’s latest balance patch leaves players furious as Yasmine makes her debutThe release of Street Fighter 6's new character, Yasmine, has been overshadowed by complaints over the game's latest yearly balance patch.
White House finalizes artificial intelligence oversight frameworkThe White House has a framework for how to review advanced AI models, according to an administration official, but did not detail it or say whether it would be released to the public. AI companies are ...
Street Fighter 6: Yasmine Has Officially Arrived As a DLC CharacterCapcom has released its latest DLC character for Street Fighter 6, as Yasmine is now on the roster along with some other fun additions. We previously talked about the character when she was announced, ...
Show HN: Kota – Bring AI agent CLIs into the same roomA couple months ago, I was tired of keep copy-paste across different Agent Chatbot tabs, feeling like a slave for AI sessions, so I created Kota for my own work.Kota was designed around a concept of Knights of the Round Table.It treats human as part of a project team, and- Runs on top of existing CLIs with existing logins, - Gives each agent a persisted, viewable and editable identity, instead of sessions - Has a file-based long-term memory, - Uses a self-managed skillset, - Works on separated worktrees as workspace, and - Chats directly with other agents in the room.I have been using Kota for my daily work, hobby projects, as personal life assistants and to improve Kota itself, sitting down or on the go.Starting this week, I found it has become the only AI tool I am using now. So I am very happy to release Kota as an open source project, hoping more people can share my joy of living and working with these little friends.In the released version, you can use some most popular CLIs with