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The Pixel colors might rule this year

This year's Google Pixel 11 lineup might come in a bunch of funky colors. A series of now-deleted Amazon listings spotted by 9to5Google show what appe…

2026-07-13

The Shokz OpenRun Pro are the cheapest they’ve been since January

Noise-canceling earbuds are great for flights and focusing, but they're not always ideal for outdoor workouts. The last-gen Shokz OpenRun Pro's open-e…

2026-07-13

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

In a surprising blog post on Monday, Microsoft CEO is warning enterprises of the dangers of using proprietary models like Anthropic's and OpenAI's.…

2026-07-13

A two-pack of DJI’s most capable wireless mics just got its first price cut

Smartphones these days have incredible cameras that are capable of taking smooth, sharp video, but the microphones are often lacking, to say the least…

2026-07-13

Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor

Article URL: https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752 Points: 280 # C…

2026-07-13

The Problem With VAR at the 2026 World Cup Isn’t the Technology—It’s Who Interprets It

The video assistant referee system, or VAR, has led to some controversial calls at the 2026 World Cup. Here’s why.…

2026-07-13

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884984 Points: 219 # Comments:…

2026-07-13

Backtrack-Free Cursive

Article URL: https://mmapped.blog/posts/52-backtrack-free-cursive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888518 Points: 228 # Comments: …

2026-07-13

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-an…

2026-07-13

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?…

2026-07-13

The Download: a donor conception cap and world models for AI

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. …

2026-07-13

Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features

Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personali…

2026-07-13

Count Binface

Article URL: https://countbinface.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887753 Points: 221 # Comments: 104…

2026-07-13

Understanding the Odin programming language

Article URL: https://odinbook.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880499 Points: 147 # Comments: 87…

2026-07-13

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/07/11/irish-datacenters-now-guzzle-23-of-the-countrys-electricity/5270013 Comments URL: https://…

2026-07-13

Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS

Article URL: https://scrapfly.dev/posts/browser-math-os-fingerprint/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48884853 Points: 198 # Comment…

2026-07-13

Weightlifting beats running for blood sugar control, researchers find (2025)

Article URL: https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/11/research_fralinbiomed_yanweightlifting.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876…

2026-07-13

Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

Article URL: https://github.com/cosmtrek/mindwalk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878682 Points: 144 # Comments: 62…

2026-07-13

Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family

Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-07-10/woman-rescued-in-brazil-after-being-enslaved-for-55-years-by-three-generations-of-the…

2026-07-12

The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia

https://archive.ph/PzPop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881874 Points: 161 # Comments: 119…

2026-07-12

How to Read More Books

Article URL: https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-12-how-to-read-more-books/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882056 Points: 153 # Comme…

2026-07-12

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

This started based off of a hunch. We usually use OpenCode, but were 'forced' to use Claude Code for a while due to issues with Meridian. In that time…

2026-07-12

I love LLMs, I hate hype

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883343 Poin…

2026-07-12

Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? is hypnotic, healing, and hopeful

Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production class…

2026-07-12

Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’

Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn…

2026-07-12

Under federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5835631/turner-camhi-do-no-harm-college-loans Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488…

2026-07-12

Ghostel.el: Terminal emulator powered by libghostty

Article URL: https://dakra.github.io/ghostel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48879504 Points: 190 # Comments: 30…

2026-07-12

RISCBoy is an open-source portable games console, designed from scratch

Article URL: https://github.com/Wren6991/RISCBoy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876245 Points: 186 # Comments: 26…

2026-07-12

Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

2026-07-12

Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they a…

2026-07-12