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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

TechCrunch 2w ago Tim De Chant
Technology 2w ago

The most official water costs $120k a gallon

Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/ Comments URL: https:/...

Technology 2w ago

AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In

Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickb...

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces

Hello Hacker News! I’m Tomasz, creator of Privacy Thing, a browser extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers....

Technology 2w ago

Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism

Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ugly-buildings-create-nimbyism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

Technology 2w ago

Reddit is testing a new way to watch — and listen to — its viral posts

Reddit is developing a new video experience that lets users watch — or simply listen to — its most popular posts, ta...

Technology 2w ago

This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend's Incompetence

An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partne...

Technology 2w ago

Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human

The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.

Technology 2w ago

Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account

Article URL: https://github.com/richlegrand/bitbang-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123789 Poi...

Technology 2w ago

WhatsApp is testing a new folder for messages from large businesses

WhatsApp will automatically move messages from large businesses to a new folder a few hours after you receive them

Technology 2w ago

Detect Dark Matter's Mark from Your Backyard

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/dark-matter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123579 Points: ...

Technology 2w ago

Authorize, don't authenticate

Article URL: https://blog.marcua.net/2026/07/31/authorize-dont-authenticate.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology 2w ago

Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s

Article URL: https://github.com/sqliteai/waste Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123386 Points: 24 #...

Technology 2w ago

Better to Beg Forgiveness

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/31/just-do-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123300...

Technology 2w ago

It’s time to panic about AI safety

When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem...

Technology 2w ago

AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans. ...

Technology 2w ago

U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%

Article URL: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123258...

Technology 2w ago

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1086489/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123208 Points: 17 #...

Technology 2w ago

The C ``Clockwise/Spiral Rule''

Article URL: https://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123199 Po...

Technology 2w ago

Tesla reportedly might sell its China business ahead of a SpaceX merger

Tesla had already reportedly prepped for the idea in the event that Beijing invades Taiwan.

Technology 2w ago

Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too

Anthropic just realized several of its Claude AI models hacked into the systems of three different organizations during ...

Technology 2w ago

Situational Awareness Down 67% in July in AI Stock Rout

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/situational-awareness-down-67-in-july-in-ai-stock-rout-cd19901f Comm...

Technology 2w ago

Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with scammers exploiting cheap internet calling

Article URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/how-to-fight-back-against-fraudulent-robocalls/ Comments URL: https://news....

Technology 2w ago

Moonshot built on 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/moonshot-s-kimi-built-on-20-000-nvidia-chip-cluster-fro...

Technology 2w ago

Steelseries Arctis Nova Pro Omni Review: For Multisystem Gamers

Its latest Pro headset can mix between four inputs and has improved wireless connectivity over the originals.

Technology 2w ago

Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus

The hot new roguelite twin-stick shooter lives up to the hype.

Technology 2w ago

D&D is getting World of Warcraft and Star Wars crossovers

Dungeons & Dragons is no stranger to franchise crossovers, and now it's kicking off its biggest multiverse initiativ...

Technology 2w ago

Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy

Article URL: https://andre.arko.net/2026/07/30/ruby-centrals-destructive-legacy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology 2w ago

This tattoo is permanent, pain-free, and might soon come in the mail

The refurbished railway station in London I entered last week had none of the usual signs of being a tattoo studio. The ...

Technology 2w ago

Tasklet (YC P26) Is Hiring a Customer Success Engineer

Article URL: https://tasklet.ai/careers/customer-success-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...