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How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source

Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.

Ars Technica 3d ago Jacek Krywko
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Alienware 15 Gaming Laptop Review: Hedging Its Bets

There are both cheaper and more powerful entry-level gaming laptops out there, but the Alienware 15 walks that tightrope...

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Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI Hacking Sprees Are Illegal

Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had do...

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Astronomers Have Detected an Exomoon for the First Time

A discovery in a solar system 73 light-years from Earth is challenging definitions and “blurring the lines between sta...

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Simon Willison on DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

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RamenHaus

Article URL: https://ramen.haus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132460 Points: 33 # Comments: 5

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EU will mandate labels on authentic-looking AI content starting August 2

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/2227966/eu-mandate-labels-on-authentic-looking-ai-content/ Comments URL: https://...

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How to Do Great Work

Article URL: https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132289 Points: ...

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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job

Article URL: https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers

Article URL: https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/releases/tag/v1.6.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

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A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies

Article URL: https://economist.com/europe/2026/07/31/a-migrant-surge-tests-spains-open-policies Comments URL: https://n...

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OpenAI's work on Git for large repositories

Article URL: https://openai-git-upstream.openai.chatgpt.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=491317...

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Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified

Article URL: https://nascompares.com/2026/07/31/the-10-ways-nas-is-getting-enshitified/ Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

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What Liberal Arts Education Is for (2024)

Article URL: https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131...

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About 100 firefighters are convicted of arson, every year

Article URL: https://www.firerescue1.com/arson-investigation/articles/expert-firefighter-arson-a-long-standing-issue-xH...

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BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising

Article URL: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/BMW_Spider-Man_in-car_advertising Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

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The development pipeline is a production system

Article URL: https://sundry.jerryorr.com/2026/07/31/development-pipeline-is-a-production-system Comments URL: https://n...

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What Is MiniMax H3? Everything You Need to Know About the Hailuo 3.0 Video Model

Article URL: https://minimaxh3.art/blog/what-is-minimax-h3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130723 ...

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Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era

Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/flint-chart/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130604 Point...

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A Week in Matrix

Article URL: https://piegames.de/dumps/a-week-in-matrix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130295 Po...

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How to Exist

Article URL: https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912999...

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon—and It Could Be Visible From Earth

The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, it’ll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will b...

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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hu...

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Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA

Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.

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With Switch 2, iPhone, and laptop tricks, the Sharge Disk Pro 2 is finally a worthy EDC

Sharge, the company that makes delightful retro Mac-shaped chargers and see-inside batteries, is finally impressing me w...

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Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays

Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company, and has plans to make fo...

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Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing

The term "Milwaukee Should Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women. ...

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Show HN: I worked on a new browser for 2 years, today it passed Acid 3

Article URL: https://code.intellios.ai/cwbrowser/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128826 Points: 5...

Technology 3d ago

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer...