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The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

Article URL: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928234 Points: 9 # Comments: 0

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HP’s OLED-equipped 2-in-1 laptop is a solid back-to-school deal

With storage and memory prices still at an all-time high, we’re happy to tell you about a solid deal on a good laptop ...

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SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

Article URL: https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135 Poin...

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Apple’s reportedly raising the price for AppleCare Plus on Macs and iPads

An AppleCare Plus subscription for a Mac or iPad will cost more soon, with prices going up by $0.50 per month or $5 per ...

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Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Union wants to halt a "perpetual cycle" of layoffs, get back to contract bargaining. ...

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LLM Networking with MikroTik

Article URL: https://blog.greg.technology/2026/07/14/llm-networking-with-mikrotik.html Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

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P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC

Article URL: https://pairdrop.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927900 Points: 4 # Comments: 3

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Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all

Valve has been incredibly friendly to customers who need repairs - which is why it was so surprising to hear that Valve ...

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Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

While an impressive sale, the pen and switch did not break records.

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Sheetz moves 838 stores off VMware: Broadcom created “too much uncertainty"

The conveneince store chain will use StorMagic instead.

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Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]

Article URL: https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2026-07/speculative_growth_AI_public.pdf Comments URL: https...

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We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

Article URL: https://mass-driver.com/article/from-human-hands Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489273...

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xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’

The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child...

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Brendan Carr plans to let broadcast giants dominate the airwaves

The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month on whether a single company can own broadcast stations that r...

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Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation

Disinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations. ...

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The End of Creativity

Article URL: https://hugodaniel.com/posts/the-end-of-creativity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489...

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Must actively fund open source AI [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf Comment...

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Engineer identifies and explains every '90s computer seen in Jurassic Park

Yes, it was, in fact, a Unix system.

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine ar...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Intel Officials Predict the Pentagon’s Bill for the Iran War Will Exceed $100 Billion

The Trump administration has not disclosed its cost estimates for the Iran war.

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Grok Build

Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590 Points: ...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms

The safety board confirmed Tesla's account of the crash, which the company shared days after it happened last month.

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Roblox is shutting down its video chat service

Roblox will be shutting down Roblox Connect, its video calling service introduced in 2023. Roblox Connect let you video ...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs

This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's ...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions. ...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Daniel Ek’s body-scanning startup Neko Health raises another $700M

Neko Health has developed proprietary body-scanning technology, which it couples with bloodwork, to assess a person's he...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

Article URL: https://brainless.swerdlow.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926085 Points: 11 # Co...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light...

Technology Jul 15, 2026

Voxatron

Article URL: https://www.lexaloffle.com/voxatron.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926053 Points...