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Show HN: Yap – OSS on-device voice dictation for macOS with no model to download

Hey HN! I wanted to share this OSS project I've been working on.It's called Yap and its a small menu-bar app for macOS that does voice to text for any input. You'll set a hotkey, press it, talk, pres...

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Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a "dead end" for rapid reuse

NASA has not made substantial investments in thermal protection research for decades. ...

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Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new se...

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The Artist Who Colored Ghibli

Article URL: https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-artist-who-colored-ghibli Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

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Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam cost users $1.8M

Apple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fra...

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Exercise works for depression. So why isn't it treated like real medicine?

Article URL: https://bigthink.com/mind-behavior/exercise-works-for-depression-so-why-isnt-it-treated-like-real-medicine...

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Bytecode-to-Source Mapping

Article URL: https://tidefield.dev/bytecode-to-source-mapping/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073...

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Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/27/judge-rejects-googles-attempt-to-dmca-its-way-out-of-being-scraped/ Co...

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Amazon’s new satellite network for mobile phones could turn up the heat on SpaceX

Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.

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Jensen Huang's first-ever post on X is in defense of open access to AI models

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/jensen-huangs-first-ever-post-on-x-is-in-defense-of-open-access-to-ai-...

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Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the U.S. military

Antares has raised $470 million to build small modular reactors — 100 kW to 1 MW — for U.S. Air Force bases.

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Canceling "Hey"

Article URL: https://chadnauseam.com/random/cancelling-my-hey Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=490730...

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OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether inc...

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UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

Article URL: https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072523 Points:...

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I Buy Belgian

Article URL: https://www.ikkoopbelgisch.be/nl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072501 Points: 6 # C...

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Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

Hey HN, I’m Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data.Today, we’re releasing FeyNoB...

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ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style

New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications. ...

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MAI-Cyber 1

Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

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Why China is giving away its best AI models

Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese A...

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Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

Article URL: https://www.sgieurope.com/e-commerce/decathlon-germany-launches-wero-payment-on-its-website/122397.article...

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Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs

Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI as...

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Show HN: Infrawrench – a tool to manage cloud and svcs with workflows and chat

Article URL: https://infrawrench.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071915 Points: 6 # Comments: ...

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YouTube Premium will include Peacock starting next year

YouTube's ad-free Premium subscription is getting another perk: access to Peacock. In an announcement on Monday, NBCUniv...

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Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-27/nvidia-s-750-billion-deals-revive-fear-of-ai-circular-f...

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Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal. ...

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Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows

Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the de...

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Show HN: Let's Seal – Let's Encrypt for document signing, free and self-hosted

TLDR, Let's Seal gives the finger to Adobe and every doc signing tool (docusign, google, etc) who pay to play with the ...

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Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028

Amazon filed an FCC application on Saturday to launch a new Leo satellite constellation that will provide direct-to-devi...

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How real are real numbers? (2004)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071190 Points: 5 #...

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Inside the Wild Rescue Mission That Took 4 Beluga Whales to Chicago

Beluga whales were in danger of getting euthanized after a Canadian theme park went bust. WIRED spoke with some of the s...