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OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a blog post published overnight titled "Apple is ge...

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Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat compute...

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The next Xbox could play every Xbox game ever made

The next Xbox, Project Helix, could theoretically have the largest library of any home console. Not only will it play PC...

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U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/us-has-used-virtually-all-of-its-long-range-precision-missiles-report.html...

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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trum...

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‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood

Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywoo...

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DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

Article URL: https://github.com/ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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How Data Centers Broke American Politics

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026...

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Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypoch...

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The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)

Article URL: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-democracy-but-an-oligarchy-study-concludes/2761...

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FFmpeg 9.0

Article URL: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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The Real Story Behind the 2018 Google Walkout

In 2018, more than 20,000 employees walked out to protest how Google handled allegations of sexual harassment. Here’s ...

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Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

Article URL: https://live.euronext.com/en/financial-news/bending-spoons-makes-first-post-ipo-acquisition-13-billion-air...

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Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, th...

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Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang

So I'm a junior Go dev and I made a small site that allows me to share images with someone privately and securely, and ...

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You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

Article URL: https://pedroth.github.io/?p=post/NoNeedReact Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165665 ...

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CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/oEAfzBS-ai-agent-engineer Comments URL: https://new...

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Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

Article URL: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-07-04-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

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Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

Article URL: https://ing.dk/artikel/ny-rekord-maaned-elbilsalget-private-koeb-ligger-paa-97-procent Comments URL: https...

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Apple is getting this wrong

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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The Myth, the Mythos, and the Man

Article URL: https://om.co/2026/06/07/the-myth-the-mythos-and-the-man/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

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Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible

Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/ Comments URL: https://new...

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The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon ad...

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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)

Article URL: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

Article URL: https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier...

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Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?

Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have...

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US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities. ...

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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs pre-order questions on Q2 earnings call

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of...

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Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

Article URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/ Comments URL: https://...