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The New Friend AI Pendant Can Now Talk Back to You

Avi Schiffmann has a new version of his controversial AI companion. It’s more expensive, and you can’t change its personality.

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Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

Article URL: https://phulin.me/blog/poker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111523 Points: 7 # Comm...

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Netflix lands global streaming deal for ‘The Walking Dead’

Netflix just signed a massive new licensing agreement worth $500 million to bring The Walking Dead Universe to internati...

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Show HN: I think I made my own web version of minimalistic audacity

Article URL: https://github.com/askpext/HERTZ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111312 Points: 4 # C...

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/ Comme...

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Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack

British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across da...

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Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B

Commonwealth Fusion Systems raised $1 billion as the startup moves toward its first commercial fusion power plant.

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/ Comments URL: htt...

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html Comments URL: https:/...

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Xiaomi’s SkyNomad N90 Max is an extended-range EV with a transforming interior

The SkyNomad N90 Max is the latest electric SUV from Xiaomi and its first extended-range EV, with a claimed range of ove...

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Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World

The latest version of Google DeepMind's AI model includes a significant jump into “physical AGI.” But plopping AI in...

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Razer Huntsman V3 HE Review: Jumping on the Bandwagon

Razer has finally caved and made its first Hall Effect gaming keyboard. I dug into its switches, features, and gaming pe...

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Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to ...

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Razer’s new keyboards drop the price on powerful gaming features

Razer has insisted that optical keyboard switches are the best choice for competitive esports stars and the sweatiest of...

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Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

I use separate Claude Code accounts for work and personal projects. Having to log out and go through the login flow eve...

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Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset?

Article URL: https://rusty.today/blog/paging-parquet-duckdb-file-row-number-vs-offset/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

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New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

Plus, a new deprecation policy ensures features aren't removed suddenly.

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In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against HuggingFa...

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SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

Article URL: https://github.com/n67094/sdl_gp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110655 Points: 3 # C...

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Zoox can now charge for rides in its steering-wheel-free robotaxis

Zoox just got permission to charge for robotaxi rides in its boxy, steering-wheel-less vehicles. On Thursday, the Nation...

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Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis

Article URL: https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/research/recovering-abstraction.html Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

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Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures

Article URL: https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/trusted-urls-via-cryptographic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

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Hacker Public Radio

Article URL: https://hackerpublicradio.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110547 Points: 5 # Com...

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Microsoft’s latest Surface Laptop is hundreds off at Best Buy

If you’re keen on getting a laptop that looks fantastic, feels great to use, and doesn’t cost too much, well, pickin...

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Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents

Article URL: https://fletch.sh/blog/git-worktrees-vs-clones-for-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

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Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others

Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cause-cancer...

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The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores

Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/ Comments URL: https://news....

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Show HN: I audited my AI leaderboard scale – every score dropped 6-15 points

Article URL: https://agiranker.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110215 Points: 4 # Comments: 1...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come 

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for...

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Europe's fires are just the start

Article URL: https://economist.com/leaders/2026/07/28/europes-fires-are-just-the-start Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...