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OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Me...

TechCrunch • Jul 24, 2026 • Theresa Loconsolo
Technology Jul 24, 2026

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038298 Po...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages

Article URL: https://hopl.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038276 Points: 10 # Comments: 1

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Cloning Mifare Classic Cards via Proxmark3

Article URL: https://blog.muffn.io/posts/cloning-mifare-cards-proxmark3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Apple won't let me show my app

Article URL: https://wisedayplanner.com/blog/apple-wont-let-me-show-my-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx4343 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Drone-Bench: Tracking simple drone surveillance capabilities of frontier models

Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/evals/drone-bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038078 Points...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Proving a Human Wrote Something

Article URL: https://gjtorikian.online/posts/proving-a-human-wrote-something/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Unitree As2-W

Article URL: https://www.unitree.com/As2-W/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038045 Points: 12 # Co...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

Article URL: https://adriengonin.com/writing/service-with-a-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5 million via crypto sale

Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers —...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Wash...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what?

Article URL: https://tyrandus.dev/2026/07/23/marc-andreessen-venture-capitalist-married-to-wait-what/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm

Article URL: https://foldkit.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037031 Points: 6 # Comments: 2

Technology Jul 24, 2026

This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about

"These are things that tend to be really hard."

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs

The carmaker has said it's owed a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Tesla’s car door defect could lead to tougher rules for everyone

Tesla's electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entir...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

Technology Jul 24, 2026

One of the best 2-in-1 Chromebooks is almost $200 off for today only

Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaske...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Codeberg Divides

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/24/codeberg-divides/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Boox is taking on Xteink with its own tiny e-reader

Boox's new Tile lineup will take on Xteink's popular e-readers that are small enough to stick on the back of an iPhone w...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI

The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a tot...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

The tech-broification of American science has officially begun

The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds o...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Article URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/government-orders-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck

Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida....

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Co-Opting Linux Processes for High-Performance Network Simulation (2022)

Article URL: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/jansen Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)

Article URL: https://magworld.pw/episodes/computer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036182 Points:...

Technology Jul 24, 2026

3GPP Version 19

Article URL: https://www.3gpp.org/specifications-technologies/releases/release-19 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...