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I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel

https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768, https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768https://gwern.net/guardian-angel Com…
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038 Points: 293 # Comm…
The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings

The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings

Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a growing wave of AI notetakers…
Ted Lasso returns at an important time for Apple TV

Ted Lasso returns at an important time for Apple TV

2026 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Apple TV. Apple's streaming service has built out an impressive slate that spans returning favorites li…
Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, b…
Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Meet Wrinkles, an app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.…
All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Article URL: https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/ Comments URL: https://ne…
Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.…
Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

Hello HN!I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got c…
Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

Article URL: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491…
Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448…
OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"

OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.…
2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

Chevy's 721-hp hybrid ups the ante with few compromises, but at a steep cost.…
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

Article URL: https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653 Points: 211 # Com…
AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4916711…
Nothing CMF is launching its first open earbuds

Nothing CMF is launching its first open earbuds

Open earbuds are having a bit of a moment right now, and Nothing is the latest company jumping on the trend. Its budget sub-brand has introduced the C…
Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.…
Peak Design’s latest bags have clever integrated hooks

Peak Design’s latest bags have clever integrated hooks

Peak Design's new City Line collection includes six lightweight bags designed for everyday carry. There's a 15-liter and 22L City Backpack, 15L City T…
OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion

Apple's legal battle against OpenAI just got messier now that the ChatGPT-maker has publicly aired receipts to counter Apple's version of events. In a…
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Article URL: https://github.com/leonickson1/Swiftlet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158333 Points: 186 # Comments: 80…
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood

‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood

Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who…
Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that c…
Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Can Reddit fend off a new wave of AI SEO spam?

Earlier this year, a Reddit user had asked members of a skincare-focused subreddit if anyone had tried a specific hypochlorous acid spray, a product o…
How Data Centers Broke American Politics

How Data Centers Broke American Politics

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.…
Twenty Years of Pandoc

Twenty Years of Pandoc

Article URL: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750 Points: 190 # Comments: 22…
Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158581 Points: 184 # Commen…
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

Article URL: https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154228 Points: 185 # Comments: 75…
LLMs reward expertise

LLMs reward expertise

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 252 # Comments: 1…
The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation

You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adventures with a machinelike pr…
Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?

Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?

Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine made, but will a…