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Kalshi says it caught Trump’s teleprompter operator insider trading

Kalshi users betting on what President Donald Trump would say during his speeches were reportedly up against tough compe...

The Verge Mia Sato

Technology 4w ago

Everyone Thinks They Have the Diarrhea Parasite

Cyclosporiasis isn’t the only thing spreading across the US. So is anxiety about getting hit with it.

Wired Emily Mullin, Kate Taylor, Leah Feiger

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Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster

The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and lo...

Wired Maxwell Zeff

Technology 4w ago

AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes

Article URL: https://nicholas-afk.github.io/AttoChess/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938372 Poin...

Hacker News SeenNotHeard

Technology 4w ago

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, ...

TechCrunch Sarah Perez

Technology 4w ago

Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.

TechCrunch Lauren Forristal

Technology 4w ago

SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock

Article URL: https://invezz.com/news/2026/07/16/the-worlds-most-valuable-ipo-spcx-is-now-wall-streets-most-shorted-new-...

Hacker News lbrito

Technology 4w ago

We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere

If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind. ...

Ars Technica John Timmer

Technology 4w ago

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not ag...

The Verge Emma Roth

Technology 4w ago

Ecovacs’ self-cleaning Deebot X11 has hit a new low price

Sometimes it feels like keeping your floors clean is one of those never-ending chores, which is why it's nice to have a ...

The Verge Sheena Vasani

Technology 4w ago

German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks

Article URL: https://the-decoder.com/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in-bo...

Hacker News amai

Technology 4w ago

Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years

BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20 year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.

TechCrunch Tim De Chant

Technology 4w ago

CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026

Article URL: https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Hacker News speckx

Technology 4w ago

Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint

Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s glob...

TechCrunch Kirsten Korosec

Technology 4w ago

42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/42percent-of-adults-rely-on-their-parents-for-financial-supportthere-are-n...

Hacker News root-parent

Technology 4w ago

Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adaptional/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Hacker News acesohc

Technology 4w ago

Newsletter platform Beehiiv’s now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI

Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics

TechCrunch Ivan Mehta

Technology 4w ago

Google is better at playing this game

Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating syst...

The Verge Robert Hart

Technology 4w ago

Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps

Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce (https://www.traceforce.ai/). Traceforce provides visibility ...

Hacker News XiaHua

Technology 4w ago

Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html Comments URL: https://ne...

Hacker News igonvalue

Technology 4w ago

Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone

Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that's already...

The Verge Jay Peters

Technology 4w ago

Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning

Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489368...

Hacker News uneven9434

Technology 4w ago

X cracks down on creators who steal content

X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement ...

TechCrunch Sarah Perez

Technology 4w ago

Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/cmk/connections Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936803 Points: 4 #...

Hacker News partialsolve

Technology 4w ago

OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice

OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it's already released.

Ars Technica Ryan Whitwam

Technology 4w ago

56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up

Article URL: https://betlang.dev/about/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936657 Points: 11 # Commen...

Hacker News ghuntley

Technology 4w ago

Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes

Article URL: https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936654 Points...

Hacker News uneven9434

Technology 4w ago

Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.

"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like const...

Ars Technica Stephen Clark

Technology 4w ago

Decoy Font

Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584...

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