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Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick

(krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/)

255 points by speckx 3 hours ago | loading comments

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

(deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/)

352 points by ai2027 5 hours ago | loading comments

Making Postgres queues scale

(www.dbos.dev/blog/making-postgres-queues-scale)

54 points by KraftyOne 2 hours ago | loading comments

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

(github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/)

204 points by tomzorz 4 hours ago | loading comments

2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026

(obryant.dev/p/2x-not-10x/)

73 points by tnisonoff 5 days ago | loading comments

So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

(dynomight.net/plants/)

46 points by surprisetalk 2 hours ago | loading comments

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

(www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/)

311 points by dickfickling 2 hours ago | loading comments

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

(openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/)

368 points by tedsanders 3 hours ago | loading comments

CodePen 2.0

(chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/)

55 points by robin_reala 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

(www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/)

120 points by ibobev 5 hours ago | loading comments

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We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

(www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses)

181 points by Areibman 3 hours ago | loading comments

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Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

(www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer)

1 points by george_rose25 3 hours ago | loading comments

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

(martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/refactoring-economic-benefit.html)

141 points by javaeeeee 5 hours ago | loading comments

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Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year

(android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/google-play-age-signals-api-safer-experiences.html)

290 points by dmantis 10 hours ago | loading comments

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Memo-1: A 6502 computer built from scratch, using a Minitel as its terminal

(github.com/MemoireMorte/Memo-1)

8 points by sciences44 2 days ago | loading comments

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Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

(phulin.me/blog/poker/)

9 points by patrickhulin 5 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

(www.ctgt.ai/research/distillation-censorship-transfer)

20 points by cgorlla 2 hours ago | loading comments

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Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

(prized.dev)

59 points by marinoseliades 7 hours ago | loading comments

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Hacker Public Radio

(hackerpublicradio.org/)

102 points by bmacho 6 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost

(github.com/experientiallabs/world-model-optimizer)

50 points by SilenN 4 days ago | loading comments

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Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

(www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a)

134 points by crescit_eundo 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Show HN: Supapool – a Supabase per coding agent in ~400 ms

(supapool.io/)

13 points by kevo1ution a day ago | loading comments

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GCC steering committee announces AI policy

(lwn.net/Articles/1086041/)

173 points by arto 8 hours ago | loading comments

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Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

(www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm)

122 points by ryannevius 7 hours ago | loading comments

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How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality

(spectrum.ieee.org/mexico-olinia-car-electric-vehicle)

29 points by rbanffy 4 hours ago | loading comments

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RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

(mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users)

106 points by notarobot123 7 hours ago | loading comments

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How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)

(solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/07/how-to-mount-a-balcony-awning/)

42 points by karakoram 5 days ago | loading comments

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The lost civic life of movie rental stores

(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/)

62 points by facundo_olano 6 hours ago | loading comments

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Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others

(www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cause-cancer-in-some-people-but-not-others)