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ARC-AGI Leaderboard

ARC-AGI Leaderboard

Article URL: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045040 Points: 164 # Comments: 127…
Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

Don't Take the Black Pill [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLZwpH5lCD4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038298 Points: 227 # Comments: 199…
One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.…
Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees

Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for original…
Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off

Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off

With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie somewhere between musical instrument and modern art. T…
Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle

Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore t…
Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.…
With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience

With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience

Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape.…
Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

Article URL: https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904372…
Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

Article URL: https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4904515…
Why Leatherology Makes Some of the Best Totes for Work (2026)

Why Leatherology Makes Some of the Best Totes for Work (2026)

I packed these Leatherology totes with laptops, chargers, and everything else my workday demands. Months later, they’re still the bags I keep reaching…
3 Clever Things You Can Do With an Old Amazon Kindle

3 Clever Things You Can Do With an Old Amazon Kindle

These e-readers are more useful in their old age than you might think.…
Cricut Explore 5 vs. Siser Romeo: Choosing the Right Smart Cutting Machine (2026)

Cricut Explore 5 vs. Siser Romeo: Choosing the Right Smart Cutting Machine (2026)

Friendly hobby machine or serious production tool? Here’s how to know which one is for you.…
What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles

What Surrounds Us will make you think a lot about circles

What Surrounds Us takes its title literally. You play as a circle surrounding a hole in its middle - it looks like a donut with frosting. You work tog…
Folding and flipping phones are getting seriously good

Folding and flipping phones are getting seriously good

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 137, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy phone season,…
‘The Odyssey’ Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That Way

‘The Odyssey’ Was Made for Imax 70mm. Good Luck Watching It That Way

Over the last several years, the Imax format has taken on a few different forms—but only a few dozen theaters are capable of screening it in its full …
GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: The Best Action Camera You Can Buy

GoPro Mission 1 Pro Review: The Best Action Camera You Can Buy

GoPro’s New Mission 1 cameras bring action cameras to a higher level with a larger sensor and more cinematic footage.…
Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish

Contagious Cancer Found in North American Catfish

Scientists identified the first known cancer transmissible among freshwater fish in a lake that spans the US and Canada.…
How Many Electrolytes Should You Be Taking, and Can You Have Too Many?

How Many Electrolytes Should You Be Taking, and Can You Have Too Many?

Electrolyte powders promise better hydration, energy, and recovery. But unless you’re losing serious fluid, water and food probably have you covered.…
Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741 Points: 268 # Comments: 150…
Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead

Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead

Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life's little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of Anker and Ozlo are a good exam…
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040296 Points: 241 # Co…
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.…
After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly -…
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain

Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain

"Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so."…
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires

One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires

Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips t…
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.…
Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku blames RAM shortage after CEO called it "great" for business in May.…
Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine

Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine

Big Tobacco studied nicotine analogs like 6-methyl-nicotine for decades but never marketed them. Now, Chinese vape makers are using them to sidestep U…