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Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of ...

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Severance

Article URL: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/severance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125971 Point...

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Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device

A whole free daily game served in under 100kb with no ads, lags or logins. The URL will serve a new track every day, fo...

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Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a quirky life sim that’s worth buying at this discount

Looking to start your own island paradise full of Miis based on family, friends, and celebrities, but don’t feel like ...

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Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs

Sony doesn't think the move will hurt it financially.

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Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth's satellite, aerial, and 3D imag...

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Miso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/miso/jobs/g2uAlMG-founding-business-lead-u-s-expansion Comments URL:...

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Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content

Snapchat has adjusted it recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotl...

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The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts

Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have propos...

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The great wealth transfer reality check

Article URL: https://usa.visa.com/partner-with-us/visa-consulting-analytics/economic-insights/great-wealth-transfer-rea...

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Dario Amodei's stance on open weights is self-serving and short-sighted

Article URL: https://janilowski.pl/en/blog/2026/amodei-memo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912518...

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Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.

Filmmaker sues Netflix over stolen screener of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie. ...

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Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio

Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

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Can Republicans Actually Send Anthony Fauci to Jail?

MAGA is loudly calling for the former White House chief medical adviser to end up in prison. WIRED asked legal experts t...

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Siri AI could come with a paywall for power users

Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions...

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Online Friends Are Real Friends

Article URL: https://toska.bearblog.dev/re-online-friends-are-real-friends/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

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Big Food vs. the People

Article URL: https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

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US Government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partner

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50849559 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124...

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Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy

Article URL: https://www.theexamination.org/articles/red-bull-funded-research-energy-drinks-alcohol Comments URL: https...

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Show HN: Shared memory graph for Claude and ChatGPT, over MCP

Article URL: https://uml.gpmai.workers.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124733 Points: 5 # Comm...

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Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion

Article URL: https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/post/datafusion-graphs-cc-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

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GM and Ford are talking less and less about EVs

The leading U.S. automakers are mentioning EVs on their investor calls at pre-pandemic rates, according to new data from...

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The Art of Decision-Making (2019)

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/the-art-of-decision-making Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig

Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-gtk4-ssh-askpass-in-zig/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028

AI data center demand is fueling a multi-year chip shortage, pushing up component costs and retail device prices.

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Make Everything to Markdown

Article URL: https://klartext.it-handwerk-stuttgart.de/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124444 Poi...

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New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/defcon-34-badge-baochip-andrew-bunnie-huang/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

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New York sues Kalshi for allegedly running an ‘illegal gambling operation’

New York is suing Kalshi over claims the prediction market is running "an illegal gambling operation." In the lawsuit, N...

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Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-reasoning-right-for-the-wrong-reasons-20260731/ Comments URL: https:/...

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13 Models and 4 Agents on SWE Tasks: Go, Java, Python, Rust, TS

Article URL: https://swe-rebench.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124336 Points: 4 # Comments: ...