1. Here at HN HQ we've been wondering: if Hacker News could fund startups, what startups would it fund? Hacker News users have many diverse perspectives on technology and business. Perhaps if HN picked startups, it would…

  2. With the recent thread on privacy in Chrome, I'm thinking of switching off Gmail. What email service is best for privacy? Or if you self-host, what email client do you like best?

  3. https://vercel.com/kb/bulletin/vercel-april-2026-security-in...

  4. SMS is not 2FA-secure (issms2fasecure.com)
  5. Build Your Own X (github.com)
  6. Identity verification on Claude (support.claude.com)

    https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ubm53n/official_...

  7. Statement on New York Times Article (astralcodexten.substack.com)
  8. After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days (observationalhazard.com)
  9. DBRX: A new open LLM (databricks.com)
  10. https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa... https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders... https://www.discoveryloop.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960…