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We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere
If the large, rocky planet is losing helium, then we can infer what is left behind.
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Jul 16, 2026
New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state
New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not ag...
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Jul 16, 2026
Ecovacs’ self-cleaning Deebot X11 has hit a new low price
Sometimes it feels like keeping your floors clean is one of those never-ending chores, which is why it's nice to have a ...
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Jul 16, 2026
German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks
Article URL: https://the-decoder.com/german-ai-consortium-releases-soofi-s-an-open-30b-model-that-tops-benchmarks-in-bo...
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Jul 16, 2026
Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years
BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20 year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.
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Jul 16, 2026
CD Sales Growth Outpaced Vinyl in the First Half of 2026
Article URL: https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...
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Jul 16, 2026
Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint
Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s glob...
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Jul 16, 2026
42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/42percent-of-adults-rely-on-their-parents-for-financial-supportthere-are-n...
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Jul 16, 2026
Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adaptional/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...
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Jul 16, 2026
Newsletter platform Beehiiv’s now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI
Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics
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Jul 16, 2026
Google is better at playing this game
Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating syst...
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Jul 16, 2026
Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Company-wide security monitoring for AI apps
Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce (https://www.traceforce.ai/). Traceforce provides visibility ...
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Jul 16, 2026
Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html Comments URL: https://ne...
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Jul 16, 2026
Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone
Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that's already...
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Jul 16, 2026
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with "Classical" Machine Learning
Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489368...
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Jul 16, 2026
X cracks down on creators who steal content
X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement ...
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Jul 16, 2026
Show HN: Galois connections for composable numeric casts in Rust
Article URL: https://github.com/cmk/connections Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936803 Points: 4 #...
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Jul 16, 2026
OnePlus ends phone releases in US and Europe, further reducing smartphone choice
OnePlus promises to continue supporting the phones it's already released.
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Jul 16, 2026
56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up
Article URL: https://betlang.dev/about/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936657 Points: 11 # Commen...
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Jul 16, 2026
Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Article URL: https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936654 Points...
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Jul 16, 2026
Could China and Russia really destroy Starlink? Only with a boomerang.
"We will likely have similar concerns and discussions when China fields its Starlink-like const...
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Jul 16, 2026
Decoy Font
Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584...
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Jul 16, 2026
Show HN: A modern port of Linux to a ten-year-old QWERTY phone
I ported modern Linux to a ten-year-old HTC QWERTY phone as a handheld terminal.I wrote it up here: https://tmzt.github...
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Jul 16, 2026
Agent-talk: Enabling coding agents to work together
Article URL: https://github.com/xhluca/agent-talk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936534 Points: 9...
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Jul 16, 2026
AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M
Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at...
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Jul 16, 2026
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/ Comments URL: h...
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Jul 16, 2026
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: ht...
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Jul 16, 2026
Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer
GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive.On containers or remote serve...
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Jul 16, 2026
Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.
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Jul 16, 2026
Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps
With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps t...