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Apple’s selling refurbished MacBook Neos with a $100 discount

Apple’s most affordable laptop, the MacBook Neo, is available once again at its pre-price hike price. All four colors are currently discounted and available refurbished through the company, with the...

The Verge • Aug 5, 2026 • Brad Bourque
Technology Aug 5, 2026

I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words

Article URL: https://dylan.blog/2026/08/03/im-scared-a-stranger-will.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Sure seems like Fenix Flexin used AI music generator Treblo

We were pretty sure that Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" was made using AI, but musician Medasin was confident that it was made...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Your model already knows the answer: how benchmark answers leak into LLMs

Article URL: https://elman.ai/news/your-model-already-knows-the-answer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Article URL: https://github.com/denoland/celld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185430 Points: 18 #...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership

Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassab...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod

Hi HN, this is Shailendra and Karan here. We are building a fast and safe way for coding agents to debug issues live in...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

Article URL: https://naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepathy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185370 Po...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Stop sending me your errors

Article URL: https://kramkow.ski/article/2026/08/05/stop_sending_me_your_errors.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Something is changing in the unit economics of software

Article URL: https://nicolo.xyz/something-is-changing-in-the-unit-economics-of-software/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according t...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Discovery Loop

Article URL: https://www.discoveryloop.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 Points: 4 # Com...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Jeff Dean Leaving Google

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The next chapter of our AI momentum

Article URL: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/ Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Google’s Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop

Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop, a startup that will seek AI-powered brea...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing aut...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Tiny Black Holes May Be Exploding Stars Across the Milky Way

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051515.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and order...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36d4376nd2o, https://archive.is/YDn6S Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

MAGA Is In Turmoil Over Tucker Carlson’s Possible 2028 Presidential Bid

Joe Kent says that he and other anti–Donald Trump MAGA figures have formed a new movement. They want Tucker Carlson to...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks. ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Fed's Kashkari says 'now is the time to start slowly moving' rates up

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/feds-kashkari-says-now-is-the-time-to-start-slowly-moving-rates-up.html Co...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

The Valley of Webhooks

Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184216 ...

Technology Aug 5, 2026

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-...