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Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always openi…
Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.…
Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away

Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away

Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.…
AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from th…
Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises

Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises

Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates a…
Hacker News Best 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Hacker News Best 7.1 Earthquake in Japan

Article URL: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?

Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sul…
A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life

A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life

Beeeep. Beeeep. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.…
Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them

Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them

Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit lea…
An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined

An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined

Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and t…
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

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…
Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Article URL: https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078583 Po…
Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/netflix-company-retreat-sp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076923 Points: 242 # Comments: 19…
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show…
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072361 Points:…
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.…
Ray-Ban Promo Codes: Save 50% in July 2026

Ray-Ban Promo Codes: Save 50% in July 2026

Upgrade your frames with major savings on classic shapes, custom designs, and prescription lenses using these verified Ray-Ban discounts.…
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

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

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL v…
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many

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.…
Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion brea…
How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

Article URL: https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067854 …
AI companies are shredding rare books

AI companies are shredding rare books

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738 Points: 357 # Co…
Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

Enigma raises $70M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume

The massive seed round was led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Sarah Guo's Conviction Partners.…
Chinese RAM company CXMT makes a $484 billion stock market debut

Chinese RAM company CXMT makes a $484 billion stock market debut

The China-based memory firm ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) had a massive first day on the Shanghai stock exchange after its shares surged 466 per…
Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia as it prepares to scale to its next phase.…
Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance – without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic

Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance – without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic

Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The…
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.…
Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-discloses-94-1-billion-in-spacex-stock-marking-6-stake-91655d7c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]

Article URL: https://github.com/demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-2026-7-22/blob/master/%E6%A2%81%E6%96%87%E9%94%8B%E6%8A%95%E8%B5%84%E8%80%8…
Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial

Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states' lawsuit moves toward trial

“Halting this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory," NY AG said.…