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The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired

Article URL: https://pydantic.dev/articles/the-human-in-the-loop-is-tired Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942000 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

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Technology Jul 17, 2026

Lingbot-map: A 3D foundation model for reconstructing scenes from streaming data

Article URL: https://github.com/Robbyant/lingbot-map Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941908 Points...

Technology Jul 17, 2026

SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start

"Now offloading propellant. Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days."

Technology Jul 16, 2026

San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco

In the wake of a massive hours-long gridlock event, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has told state regulators its time ...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition

The company didn't immediately say what went wrong. SpaceX's stock plunged more than 4% in after-hours trading before pa...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Two Trump health nominees crash and burn in tense Senate hearing

Both nominees flailed in their own unique ways as senators sought answers.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software

Article URL: https://imdanielkendall.com/the-great-software-regress-how-move-fast-and-break-things-broke-our-lives/ Com...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Show HN: Mojibake – a low-level Unicode library written in C

I've written Mojibake because I don't like the other Unicode libraries for Unicode support.It consists of only two amal...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

Article URL: https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941104 Po...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

FIFA World Cup 2026 Data Portraits

Article URL: https://wc26.bogachev.fr/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941056 Points: 4 ...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Show HN: ReasonGate- An explainable gate that blocks LLM prompt injection

Article URL: https://github.com/cgrtml/reasongate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941051 Points: 5...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we unpack OpenAI’s ongoing drama, both legal and reputational, and whether these developm...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV

Article URL: https://hellorecon.com/blog/cve-2026-25089 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940895 Poi...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs

Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin

Article URL: https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/meet-likweli-new-monkey-species-discovered-congo-basin Comments URL: http...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Just Do Things

Article URL: https://ray.zo.space/blog/just-do-things Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940801 Point...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12395 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48940603 Points: 3 # C...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Fortnite is getting a bunch of AI-powered ‘personas’

Get ready for more AI characters in Fortnite. Developer Epic Games is going to let Fortnite creators publish experiences...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack

Coca Cola said dairy production at its Fairlife unit will "remain suspended" in the United States following a hack.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Salad Chains Are Seeing Foot Traffic Drop Over Cyclosporiasis Fears

Foot traffic to leafy green chains is falling, data shows. Still, a few brave souls who spoke to WIRED were determined t...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Scaling to 1M concurrent sandboxes in seconds

Article URL: https://modal.com/blog/scaling-to-1-million-concurrent-sandboxes-in-seconds Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

T-Mobile bungled forced plan migration, canceling some users' free lines

T-Mobile to restore free lines lost during plan migration, but price hikes remain. ...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Samsung’s 55-inch Frame art TV is $200 cheaper than usual

Samsung’s Frame is different from your average 4K TV. Its biggest selling point involves what it does when you aren’...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Do Face Masks Help With Wildfire Smoke? Yes, But More Is Needed

As wildfire smoke threatens air quality and safety for millions, here’s your playbook to keep your family safe from th...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Mathematics of Data Science

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939896 Points: 4 # C...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Netflix says around 300 titles used generative AI

Netflix says roughly 300 titles on its platform used generative AI, most of which occurred in post-production. The strea...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

Elon Musk's xAI files first lawsuit against Grok user accused of making child sex images. ...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos

Article URL: https://timelinescan.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939764 Points: 4 # Comments...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea9708 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489...