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Meta is reportedly working on smart glasses that would be recording all the time

Meta might be the next company to make an always-on AI wearable. The company is working on prototype "super sensing" always-aware smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos "ev...

The Verge Jul 8, 2026 Jay Peters
Technology Jul 8, 2026

Rewriting Bun in Rust

Article URL: https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837877 Points: 51 # ...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Open Source Barware: free, local-first bar inventory software (GPLv3)

Article URL: https://opensourcebarware.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837809 Points: 4 # Comm...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

"We cannot choose to become idiots": The AI cheating scandal roiling Brown University

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase Comments...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game

Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditio...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

OpenAI no longer recommends SWE-Bench Pro

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/separating-signal-from-noise-coding-evaluations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Fable is not a useful model

Article URL: https://combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/07/07/fable-is-not-a-useful-model.html Comments URL: https://news....

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

Article URL: https://github.com/linuxrebel/DocuBrowser Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837110 Poin...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic

Earlier this week, a picture that seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in ...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing

The race to produce more chips is on, and Europe is in. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near-monopoly on manufacturin...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

The FTC Settlement With John Deere Is a Huge Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement

After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere ...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding fr

Article URL: https://danluu.com/ai-coding/#llm-variance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836951 Poi...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Multigres Supports Listen/Notify Across Pooled Connections

Article URL: https://multigres.com/blog/listen-notify Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836838 Point...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You

Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Show HN: Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase

Article URL: https://github.com/animesh-94/Onboard-CLI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836813 Poin...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 pe...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

FAANG Simulator

Article URL: https://www.abeyk.com/escape-the-rat-race/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836778 Poi...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Show HN: Hnwork.app – UI for Who is hiring posts

Hey HN, I built a UI on top of the "Who is hiring" posts. Take a look at https://hnwork.app!One of the downsides of uns...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Get a $30 credit when you reserve Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy phones

Even though they haven’t been officially announced yet, Samsung is giving you a chance to save some cash when you preo...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Slughorn, Slug font/glyph render lib for OpenGL/OSG/Vulkan/GPU APIs (MIT lic))

Article URL: https://alphapixeldev.com/slughorn-mit-licensed-gpu-agnostic-slug-font-glyph-rendering-library-for-opengl-...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators. ...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Peter Thiel’s Husband Sued a Flight Attendant Who Says He Assaulted Her on a Private Jet

Matthew Danzeisen’s lawyer says the case is a “shakedown about a bag” that brushed someone’s leg. Stefanie Bojar...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Almost Always Unsigned

Article URL: https://graphitemaster.github.io/aau/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836431 Points: ...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5, which Elon describes as an ‘Opus-class model’

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternati...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260629-new-sweden-the-uss-long-lost-secret-colony Comments URL: https...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon

This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternativ...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, makin...

Technology Jul 8, 2026

Cloudflare Drop

Article URL: https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48836233 Points: 26 # ...