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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

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Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how mu...

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The colorful, unique Hyte X50 PC case is $50 off

The Hyte X50 is a PC case that really stands out from the typical black box design, and it’s $50 off at the company’...

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Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now

Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their ...

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Agreement between the USA and Denmark (1951,2004) [pdf]

Article URL: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/04-806-Denmark-Defense.done_.pdf Comments URL: https://ne...

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Brood War Bench

Article URL: https://bw.swerdlow.dev/report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766966 Points: 23 # Co...

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AI Safety Is Mostly a Sex Cult

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/segyges.bsky.social/post/3mvom4b4dn22q Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

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Learning Another Language May Be One of the Best Ways to Keep Your Brain Healthy

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/learning-another-language-may-be-one-of-the-best-ways-to-keep-your-brain-healt...

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A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

Article URL: https://github.com/mindbox77/zxdesk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766676 Points: 13...

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So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

Article URL: https://dexteroot.net/posts/2026/07/so-i-have-a-weatherman-which-also-tells-me-the-news-part-1/ Comments U...

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Prices go up in 7 days. Get your Disrupt ticket now.

Current ticket pricing ends Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and ...

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Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonat...

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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

Article URL: https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

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Tin: full-text search for Postgres

Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-tin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766611 P...

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Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking

Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by A...

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The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the we...

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It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you

The TV world has been a pot of controversy thanks to a two-hour-and-15-minute video from Gamers Nexus claiming LG TVs ar...

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FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

Article URL: https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

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Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

Research suggests that bilingualism can offer cognitive benefits.

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Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already h...

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Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

Hello HN. I built this mostly to monitor the things I host myself. I know it's nothing too exciting.Anyway, the TL;DR i...

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Laya the open source version of Jev

Article URL: https://laya.convaiinnovations.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765348 Points: 12...

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Tired of Cluttered Productivity Apps? This One’s Just a Text Document

The totally free macOS app Tasks.txt makes up for missing features with sheer elegance.

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Samsung Galaxy Watch9 Review: I Don’t Need Another Health Score

Samsung’s latest smartwatch offers useful health tracking alongside a growing pile of metrics you may never use.

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Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing. ...

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Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because t...

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Cube

Article URL: https://www.cube-motion.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764981 Points: 6 # Comme...

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Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law

While lawmakers iron out the details, advocates hope this approach could serve as a model for addressing histories of en...

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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

Article URL: https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

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Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4

For one day only, WIRED is bringing the technologies, people, and cultural forces transforming our world off the page an...