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1799 storiesIntroduction to Compilers and Language Design
Article URL: https://dthain.github.io/books/compiler/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793454 Points: 192 # Comments: 26…

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.…

“Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky
Article URL: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2607/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042 Points: 182 # Comments: 290…

Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray
Article URL: https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2026/04/14/scientists-reverse-brain-aging-with-a-nasal-spray/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

Organic Maps
Article URL: https://organicmaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 Points: 278 # Comments: 67…

Where to preorder Grand Theft Auto VI
Rockstar's long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be availabl…
Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
Article URL: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791328 Points: 195 # Comments: 85…

How Keurig saved — and ruined — your coffee
Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by someone who would rather poorly eyeball than properly mea…

The Sourdough Sidekick automates the boring bit of baking
Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff…

Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI
"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines …

The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust
The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior.…
What Are Fish Oil Supplements Good For? Here’s Your Crash Course
A large-scale clinical trial has shown that even long-term consumption of DHA—an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in oily fish—may not lead to im…

Eight Sleep Pod 5 Review: The Smartest, Nosiest Bed You Can Buy
Eight Sleep’s Pod 5 is great at its job, but its job is also watching you sleep.…

How to Avoid Spoilers Online and in Chats
You can minimize the risk of films and shows being spoiled for you by muting comments, conversations, and keywords on various platforms.…
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There’s a Global Network of Fungi Under Your Feet. This Is the First Complete Map
A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate.…
GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/30364 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789428 Points: 209 # Comments: 73…
Africans Are Turning to Starlink
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/07/02/africans-are-turning-to-starlink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-flush-and-closed-loop-discharges-after-met…

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)
Article URL: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4878683…
Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
Article URL: https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788283 Points: 255 # …

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI
Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Go…
Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785485 Points: 230 # Comments…

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Article URL: https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786781 Points: 251 # Comments: 117…

NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth
The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of burning up in Earth's atmospher…

I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
Article URL: https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777728 Points…
Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming
Article URL: https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781196 Points: 224 # Comments: 316…

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
Article URL: https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784777 Points: 239 # Comments: 30…

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI …

Matic’s robot vacuum is getting a $250 price hike in September
The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, you may want to plan on doing i…