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After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of a poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.

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Why I'm building a note taking app without AI

Article URL: https://withdocket.com/blog/why-im-building-a-note-taking-app-without-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18250 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014537 Points: 4 # C...

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Show HN: ValuePair – a friendship app that cares about values first

Hey,I would like to show you my project, but it's difficult because it only works with a registration, so I explain the...

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Fretboard Memorisation with Modular Arithmetic

Article URL: https://ohaodha.ie/blog/fretboard-memorisation-with-modular-arithmetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

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Meta won’t have to face the next planned social media addiction trial

Less than a week before Meta's lawyers were set to return to a Los Angeles courtroom, the plaintiff accusing the platfor...

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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to ...

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Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html Comments URL: https://...

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Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores

Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/ Comments URL: https://news.y...

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All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized

Article URL: https://claytondorge.com/patterns-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013924 Points:...

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Why Lettuce Is Always Making People Sick

The cyclospora diarrhea outbreak isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a pattern of leafy greens wreaking digestive h...

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Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

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Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending

Q2 2026 was profitable, but barely.

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Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

Article URL: https://webkit.org/blog/18162/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-248/ Comments URL: https://news....

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The White House Is Trying to Figure Out What to Do About Chinese AI

There’s a debate going on in the Trump administration over how to handle increasingly powerful Chinese AI models.

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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned the U.S. government could sanction Chinese AI companies after White House offici...

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Tesla spending skyrockets as Cybercab, Semi, Megapack production timeline slips

Tesla's 26% boost in revenue wasn't enough to offset rising operating expenses and capital expenditures as it pushes to ...

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Top Red-Light Therapy Deals at Nordstrom’s Anniversary Sale (2026)

Save on WIRED-tested LED therapy devices from TheraFace, HigherDose, and more.

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Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta is dropped

A closely watched social media addiction lawsuit that had been set to go to trial next week has been dropped after the p...

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Microsoft brings original Xbox backward compatibility to Windows PCs

First four compatible titles can be run with an 11-year-old graphics card.

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I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

Article URL: https://citizendot.github.io/articles/fake-job-interview-git-hook-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

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Tesla’s revenues are bouncing back after a dismal two years

After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk's political activities...

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ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard. ...

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Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

Article URL: https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

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Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots

Article URL: https://www.bookcorners.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012604 Points: 39 # Comme...

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SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown

SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut dow...

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Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)

Article URL: https://www.hakstuff.net/blog/teardown-the-bmw-idc23h-infotainment-unit Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

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‘The Odyssey’ Is Inspiring Unprecedented Levels of Cope

Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. ...

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John C. Dvorak has died

Article URL: https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...