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Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787987 Points: 33 # Comments: 1...

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Technology Jul 4, 2026

NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth

The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of b...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/as-downtown-seattle-offices-empty-city-facing-years-o...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to revea...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Verizon is About to Break our Watches

Article URL: https://www.jefftk.com/p/verizon-is-about-to-break-our-watches Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments

Article URL: https://github.com/pIat0n/BareMetal-RAM-Dumper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787201...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe

Article URL: https://www.dw.com/en/sick-leave-germany-rising-but-not-the-worst-in-europe/a-77815488 Comments URL: https...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth

Article URL: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2607/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042 Point...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console

Article URL: https://www.mattgreer.dev/blog/gba-dev-logging/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4878700...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?

Article URL: https://www.endbasic.dev/2026/07/endbasic-0.14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=487...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Plein Air

Article URL: https://art.joonas.wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786880 Points: 14 # Comments:...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/06/30/finlands-last-analogue-landline-phones-go-silent-after-150-years ...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty

Article URL: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234 Comments URL: https://news....

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests

It’s a pretty good movie, but it needed to be a great movie to thrive in an oversaturated sup...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-flush-and-c...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Leaking YouTube Creators Private Videos

Article URL: https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786781 Points: 41...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video]

Article URL: https://vimeo.com/49718712 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786713 Points: 13 # Commen...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System

Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-30 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786638 Po...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US

The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave t...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

The End of North America

Article URL: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of-north-america-157 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Curveball

Article URL: https://mightyburger.net/projects/curveball/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786495 P...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Matic’s robot vacuum is getting a $250 price hike in September

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, y...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Airplane Boneyards List and Map

Article URL: https://airplaneboneyards.com/airplane-boneyards-list-and-map.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Fable created novel 4D splat format

Article URL: https://adamraudonis.github.io/splats4D/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786245 Point...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Flatbush Zombies’ Erick the Architect misses his BlackBerry keyboard

Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies. He's toured t...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Is Israel's 'buffer zone' inside Lebanon an attempt to grab gas reserves?

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/12/is-israels-buffer-zone-inside-lebanon-an-attempt-to-grab-gas-...

Technology Jul 4, 2026

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

Article URL: https://github.com/maximqaxd/wince-dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785840 Points: ...