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Review: Xgimi Titan Noir Max Home Projector (2026)

This remarkably vivid home projector has deep inky blacks, without a five-figure price tag.…

2026-07-16

Why are CD sales suddenly growing again?

CD sales are apparently going up, reportedly thanks to fans realizing they're an affordable way to support their favorite artists. According to a new …

2026-07-16

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

Article URL: https://rtfeldman.com/rust-to-zig Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933149 Points: 237 # Comments: 128…

2026-07-16

Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app

Roblox's new "Build" feature lets users generate basic games using a single text prompt.…

2026-07-16

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered …

2026-07-16

Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly

Article URL: https://joinedanthropic.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931588 Points: 281 # Comments: 186…

2026-07-16

The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway

Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have …

2026-07-16

Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone

Roblox is about to let people make games with AI right inside its mobile app, which could make a platform that's already filled with content of questi…

2026-07-16

Google is better at playing this game

Today, the European Union ordered Google to give its AI rivals greater access to Android, the open-source operating system that powers billions of dev…

2026-07-16

The AI context gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a trust problem, not a retrieval problem — and most are still building the fix

Across 101 enterprises, the infrastructure that feeds AI agents their business context is being built faster than it can be trusted. Retrieval-augment…

2026-07-16

Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

NTSB findings back Elon Musk's claim that driver manually overrode FSD.…

2026-07-16

Swatch’s New Gold MoonSwatch Solves the Problem of the Nightmare Royal Pop Launch

Swatch’s latest MoonSwatch is the Mission to the Moon 1969, a limited-edition model with components crafted from Omega’s 18K Moonshine Gold. To get on…

2026-07-16

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from…

2026-07-16

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash overrode FSD by pressing accelerator ‘100 percent,’ investigators confirm

The Tesla driver who fatally struck a woman after crashing into her home "manually overrode" the vehicle's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology by press…

2026-07-16

Time’s running out to save $10 on Splatoon Raiders physical preorders

Splatoon Raiders’ July 23rd launch day is almost here, so your window to preorder the physical version at a $10 discount is about to close. The digita…

2026-07-16

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.…

2026-07-16

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a s…

2026-07-16

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the developm…

2026-07-16

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.…

2026-07-16

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.…

2026-07-16

Apple’s OLED iPad Mini upgrade is on the way as prices continue to rise

The iPad Mini could get an OLED display upgrade as soon as October, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. It would be the most significant refresh for…

2026-07-16

OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

Article URL: https://community.oneplus.com/thread/2170715118587871237 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932539 Points: 248 # Commen…

2026-07-16

Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion.…

2026-07-16

OnePlus never had a chance in the US

After an eight-year run, OnePlus announced today that it has exited the United States. It's bittersweet, as the brand has been on a comeback tour of s…

2026-07-16

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 8 leaks a week before launch event

Samsung's next flip phone might be tough to tell apart from last year's Galaxy Z Flip 7. As 9to5Google points out, leaked images and specs for the upc…

2026-07-16

Ninja’s microwave air fryer could be the fix for soggy reheated pizza

Ninja has added everything from ice cream makers to double-decker toaster ovens to its extensive lineup of counter-clogging appliances, but it's only …

2026-07-16

The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …

2026-07-16

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

This is the entire Firefox browser rendering to a element. Gecko, all UI components, and the Spidermonkey JS engine are all compiled and running in We…

2026-07-16

Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback

Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as a GPS alternative.…

2026-07-16

11 Best Sleeping Bags (2026): Ultralight, Warm Weather, for Kids

Whether you’re climbing peaks or taking the family to the local park, we’ve found the best sleeping bags for every temperature, budget, and camping ex…

2026-07-16