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Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490763...

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Hard Road – A beautiful procedural post-apocalyptic game

Article URL: https://hardroad.xyz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076382 Points: 12 # Comments: 0...

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X Money is launching in the US starting today

X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac r...

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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/...

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Our position on open-weights models

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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Microsoft unveils AI security tools it says outperform competing platforms

Microsoft says tools cost less than competing ones and outperform them, too. ...

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Trump admin exempts SpaceX's Starlink from FCC ban on foreign-made routers

Starlink has a Texas factory but also makes routers in Vietnam.

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Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off

Gaming keyboards have evolved over the years to add RGB LEDs, extra knobs, and buttons with screens, but one feature has...

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Satya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive

Businesses that rely wholly on the major AI labs ultimately won't survive, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predicts.

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New Firefighting Technologies Could Help Battle Blazes Like Those in France and Spain

Climate change is upping the odds of major wildfires, creating a need for new tools to combat them.

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Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/games/967174/steam-game-malware-cryptostealer-arrest Comments URL: https://news.y...

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US DOT deleting bike lane references

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/23/nx-s1-5900901/bike-lanes-dot-websites Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

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Epic diarrhea outbreak has 40% of Americans avoiding fruits and veggies

Kennedy has focused on nutrition but has neglected food safety, critics say. ...

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Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors

Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature sup...

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As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube

The deal means content will be integrated into the YouTube experience, allowing viewers to discover and watch Peacock co...

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DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to sp...

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iOS and macOS 26.6 arrive today, paving the way for iOS and macOS 27

These are likely the last updates of note before Apple's bigger fall updates. ...

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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.

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PSA: your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and documents users can build inside Claude...

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Forth

Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3277/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074991 Points: 18 # Comments: ...

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“Google and Reddit do not own the Internet," web scraper says after court win

Google's and Reddit's use of DMCA to fight web scraper is bizarre, expert says. ...

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Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbot...

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Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

Hi HN! This is George, Lucas, and Jona from Rise Reforming (https://www.rise-reforming.com/). We’re developing a proc...

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Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn't just caused issues for people trying to play digital games - it...

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The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code

Tweet URL: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2080257779395154409?s=20Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code, tweeted...

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Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI

Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/113243-professor-invisible-prompt-trap-catches-32-students-cheating.html Com...

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Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off

Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and sto...

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5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter "harmful" speech

Age verification is okay, but filtering is preempted by Section 230, judges find. ...

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Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many

Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers. ...

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Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

Article URL: https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...