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Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

Article URL: https://tracewayapp.com/blog/sqlite-vs-duckdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097730 Points: 16 # Comments: 1

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Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

Article URL: https://github.com/hongnoul/hwatu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097727 Points: 4 # ...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

AI in Linux

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097649 Poin...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value ...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Sponsors-RADV-Windows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

X Says Australia’s Under-16s Social Media Ban Risks Interfering With Foreign Law

Elon Musk's platform hit out at the country's “invasive” information-gathering powers as it demands the government d...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Kalshi attacks a Wisconsin law banning election bets as 'voter suppression'

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5905360/kalshi-wisconsin-election-betting-prediction-markets Comments...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.

Technology Jul 29, 2026

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work

Article URL: https://laurentiugabriel.github.io/token-town/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097003...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096969 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

After the AI Crash

Article URL: https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2026/07/29/after-the-ai-crash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Spotify adds a running mode to its app

Running Mode will be available to Premium users on iOS in select countries

Technology Jul 29, 2026

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

Technology Jul 29, 2026

DoorDash is going airborne with new drone delivery division

DoorDash is launching a new drone delivery program called DoorDash Air. The largest food delivery app in the US said tha...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

Article URL: https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/san-francisco-dont-fall-industry-defense-surveillance-pricing Commen...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

Article URL: https://www.claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/07/shipping-godot-vr-and-porting-to-psvr2-a-partial-post-mortem...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself

I have tried journaling many times but nothing stuck. So I decided to make my own app for myself with these features:* ...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

Article URL: https://jcgt.org/published/0015/02/01/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096742 Points:...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Darktable

Article URL: https://www.darktable.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096654 Points: 19 # Commen...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Festival Must-Haves, Field-Tested at Lost Lands and Electric Forest

Our field-tested gear includes power banks, electrolytes, outdoor blankets, earplugs, and more.

Technology Jul 29, 2026

The Nothing Ear 3A deliver great, but sometimes buggy, performance for the price

Nothing has had a strong visual identity since the Ear 1 were released in 2021 for $99 and challenged the notion that a ...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels like the future

Is this the future of foldable phones? Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the "Z Fol...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Pulse Path – a browser puzzle where placement is the only decision

Article URL: https://pulsepathgame.netlify.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096493 Points: 3 #...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Disrupting supply chain attacks on NPM and GitHub Actions

Article URL: https://github.blog/security/supply-chain-security/disrupting-supply-chain-attacks-on-npm-and-github-actio...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Love It or Hate It, the Ferrari Luce Is a Thrilling Drive

WIRED test-drove a preproduction version of the Luce, the storied Italian automaker’s controversial electric car, and ...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Fast Metals is treating waste with more waste to extract critical minerals

Aluminum production has saddled the world with billions of tons of caustic waste. One startup has a plan to clean it up ...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists,...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

French musician Kavinsky found dead

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/29/dj-kavinsky-known-for-his-track-nightcall-found-dead-at-his-pa...

Technology Jul 29, 2026

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenA...