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Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

Article URL: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/ Comments URL: https:...

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Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5910660/big-oil-earnings-q2-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

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Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search

Not just HN the site, everyone’s fuzzy search sucks. Let me do exact match search. Even if it’s an option I have to...

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Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets

Article URL: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/scanning-7-6-petabytes-of-ai-training-data-for-secrets Comments URL: http...

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Here's how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA's Swift mission

"We believe that a capture of Swift, an attempted capture of Swift, is very much in the cards."...

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Is this Billboard Hot 100 hit AI slop?

Fenix Flexin is best known as a member of Shoreline Mafia, a rap duo from Los Angeles. But he's recently found solo succ...

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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

Article URL: https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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NetBSD 11.0 Released

Article URL: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

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Assessment of open AI math results

Article URL: https://twitter.com/stalkermustang/status/2083485500250198453 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

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Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day leak racks up millions of views

A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day was up on X for over seven hours before eventually being pulled. During that time...

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Tesla Spyware

Article URL: https://ma.tt/2026/07/tesla-spyware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136134 Points: 7...

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Floundering A.I. 'Nostradamus' Hedge Fund Is Rescued by Rival

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/artificial-intelligence-situational-awareness-citadel.html Com...

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I ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS

Article URL: https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491360...

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Twelve Years Without a VPN

Article URL: https://khessin.de/twelve-years-without-a-vpn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136061...

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Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

Article URL: https://kaisel.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135985 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken

Article URL: https://franken.domains/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135975 Points: 10 # Comments...

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I Fired My AI Assitant

Article URL: https://chreke.com/posts/i-fired-my-ai-assistant Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491359...

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Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

Article URL: https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135546 Points:...

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BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat

Article URL: https://www.theautopian.com/bmw-is-showing-commercials-on-their-cars-dash-screens-and-they-want-you-to-thi...

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Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/us/politics/iran-cyberattack-water-systems.html Comments URL: https://n...

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Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga

Article URL: https://www.seriouseats.com/30-minute-pressure-cooker-pho-ga-recipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

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Indexing the Data Lake for Online Point Queries

Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/7/indexing-the-data-lake-for-online-point-queries Comments URL: htt...

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GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement

Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/github-alternatives/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135365 P...

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Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/usage-page-to-token-amount-what/167153 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

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Trump blames Tim Walz for water hacks even though it’s probably Iran

The FBI, the EPA, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have stopped short of officially blami...

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Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

Article URL: https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2026/explorative_modeling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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Review: Yes, we're still arguing about Nolan's The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan's impressionistic remix of Homer's epic poem finds the man behind the myth. ...

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Toast IDE Gets Markdown Spell Checking

Article URL: https://github.com/paradise-runner/toast Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135184 Point...