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Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating

Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294 Points: 272 # Com…
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49…
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide

NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.…
Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/7/openai-timeline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220609 Points: 214 # Comments:…
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 Points: 228 # Co…
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

Musician and entrepreneur Tom Vek is building a digital music player, but don’t call it retro

Tom Vek burst onto the scene in 2005 with his album We Have Sound, which garnered a solid 7.6 from the tastemakers of the day over at Pitchfork. His u…
Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business

Buc-ee’s dodges John Oliver to sue another small business

Buc-ee's became something of a viral sensation during the World Cup, but it has a troubling history of suing small gas stations and convenience stores…
Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/rosenbridge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219508 Points: 208 # Comments: 60…
Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation

Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation

A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar que…
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.…
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success

About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.…
The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today

The Excellent HP OmniBook 5 Is $550 Off Its Retail Price Today

My favorite budget laptop, the HP OmniBook 5, has an OLED screen and gets great battery life, despite being just $750 right now.…
Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That…
My favorite feel-good show is back

My favorite feel-good show is back

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and…
Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket

Here Are the First Images of the Crater Left on the Moon by SpaceX’s Rocket

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared images that show the gash on the surface. It’s pretty small.…
Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited

Xteink X4 Pro Pocket E-Reader Review (2026): Fun but Limited

Xteink’s new X4 Pro e-reader is its best yet, but the lack of an ebook store can be limiting.…
Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

Article URL: https://ancientlibrary.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214770 Points: 206 # Comments: 65…
Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

Two security researchers bought cheap domains—including noreply.net and deleteduser.com—and set up email listening services. Hundreds of companies are…
How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs

How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to tu…
WhatsApp Gets a Handy @all Feature for Group Chats

WhatsApp Gets a Handy @all Feature for Group Chats

A new software update builds on WhatsApp’s group chat chops by adding anonymous polls and introducing an easier way to start a smaller private chat aw…
Best Solar Generators for Off-Grid Trips, RVs, and Home Backup

Best Solar Generators for Off-Grid Trips, RVs, and Home Backup

If you want to capture the sun’s power with solar panels, these are the best solar generators I’ve tested.…
Spokane Shows What the New Era of Wildfires Looks Like

Spokane Shows What the New Era of Wildfires Looks Like

With rising temperatures and drier conditions, fires are more likely to explode. And with more people living next to forests, the results can be catas…
Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots

Hairmax LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex Review: Putting Down New Roots

Hairmax’s LaserBand 82 ComfortFlex took only 90 seconds per treatment, and it produced visible results along my widening part.…
NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/voyager/nasa-figured-out-how-to-keep-its-48-year-old-voyager-2-probe-running-for-yet-another-year…
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 194 # Comments: 66…
Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

There's two things you should know about me, your intrepid reviewer: I hate the feature creep associated with modern power banks, and I love shaving g…
The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

Article URL: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixpkgs-core-team-has-disbanded/79413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217993 Point…
Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

Article URL: https://www.databricks.com/blog/managing-ai-coding-costs-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214468 Points: 196 # …
Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

Article URL: https://malisper.me/how-we-made-postgres-hundreds-of-times-faster-the-query-engine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49…