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The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism

Article URL: https://www.scottrlarson.com/presentations/overcoming-surveillance-capitalism-with-awareness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984231 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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The PlayStation replica ornament is an homage to a great, yet fragile console

You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's t...

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Fans Flocked to World Cup Host Cities—Causing 80 Percent of the Tournament’s Emissions

The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World...

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X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

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AT&T loses key ruling in bid to stop offering basic phone service in California

AT&T suffers setback but will keep asking court and FCC to preempt state rules. ...

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Ford’s $30,000 electric truck: all the news about the company’s big EV re-do

The end of the Ford F-150 Lightning was also the start of a new era for the automaker. After failing to capture the mark...

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Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

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Even Mild Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Weight Gain

A recent study suggests that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of weight gain, and thus of conditions like hea...

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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/ Comments U...

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Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

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Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Article URL: https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681 Points: 21 # ...

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An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement

Article URL: https://eunomia.dev/blog/2026/07/15/ebpf-ai-agent-policy-enforcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

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The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800646.3800650 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982578...

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Agent swarms and the new model economics

Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489...

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RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan

Used discs are often cheaper than even deep digital discounts.

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Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros merger

The lawsuit from the states alleges that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.

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That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing

Article URL: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/05/05/404/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982374 P...

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Judge pauses Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery

A judge partially granted the request from a dozen state attorneys general to temporarily place the $110 billion merger ...

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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files

Article URL: https://hypr.land/news/update55/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982011 Points: 18 # ...

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Kimi Work

Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981703 Points...

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Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

Article URL: https://jelly-ui.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981620 Points: 25 # Comments: 6...

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My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry

Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/07/20/psychiatric-insurance-coverage-suicide-denial-personal-essay/ Comments...

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Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written

Article URL: https://unslop.run/blog/measuring-ai-writing-on-arxiv Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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LG’s glossy OLED gaming monitor is rare to find under $400

If you’ve been thinking about upgrading your gaming monitor, LG’s 27-inch 27GX704A-B pairs a glossy WOLED pa...

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Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

Hi HN, I’m Alex Southmayd, the founder of Bloomy (https://bloomylearning.com) – an AI-powered mastery-learning plat...

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LG’s monitors come with an unwanted addition for Windows: McAfee pop-up ads

A video from Gamers Nexus explains how, after connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor to a PC running Windows 11 for the f...

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Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027

Article URL: https://www.expats.cz/czech-news/article/czech-news-in-brief-for-july-20-2026-monday-top-afternoon-headlin...

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Adobe’s ‘natural look’ camera app embraces generative AI

Adobe's experimental camera app has taken an unexpected turn. After Project Indigo was launched last year to provide a "...

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F1 in Belgium: The 2026 cars look pathetic on all the best racetracks

Many will say Spa is the best racetrack on earth, but not for these F1 cars. ...