From special door locks and adaptable classrooms to routine drills, schools across the country continue to adapt to new tools and procedures to protect students from mass shootings. But the latest high-tech tool to combat shooters is moving beyond the hallway floors...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

Article URL: https://firstprinciples.com/blog-article/ai-system-theo-conjecture-solves-35-year-old-math-conjecture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102525 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

AI companies claim their assistants can do just about anything these days. But when it comes to dating, the technology has stayed somewhat on the sidelines—mostly helping to shape algorithms for dating apps or providing generic advice to users. Now, one AI startup is...

This is precisely what we didn't want to happen.

Article URL: https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102774 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

The company is pushing its new vinyl player just weeks after announcing it will cancel game discs in 2028.

[Hans Scharler] came into a neat find recently—the playfield from a 1970s Atari Superman game. It’s the sort of thing that’s too nice to throw away, but isn’t really enough to reassemble into a viable full machine without a great deal of effort. Thus, [Hans] went a...

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/q2kg8n613kr3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102150 Points: 35 # Comments: 9

Leading a company can pose many challenges. The reality is that many businesses don’t stick around for long. Rather than finding a way to transition leadership and grow from decade to decade, they get caught up in the present moment, never stopping to think about—or...

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

Are free streaming services that bad? I swapped my paid subscriptions for free ones to see.

Article URL: https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/agent-autonomy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101655 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

A cheap treatment at the dentist’s office that only takes seconds may offer a viable alternative to drilling out cavities — even in babies. New research published in JAMA Pediatrics found that the topical substance known as silver diamine fluoride can stop cavities...

According to a recent FlexJobs survey of 1,700 U.S. workers, women place more value on remote work, flexible schedules and work-life balance when thinking about applying for a job. Men, on the other hand, are more likely to prioritize compensation.  The survey,...

Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101852 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

To say it’s been an eventful couple of weeks for the world-famous bald eagles of Big Bear Valley, California, would be a drastic understatement. The news surrounding these beloved birds has soared both high and low. Fundraising was secured to preserve their habitat...

The US government has signed a letter of intent to provide GlobalFoundries with $300 million in CHIPS Act funding and, at the same time, receive a one percent stake in the company worth roughly $269 million. The money's supposedly not a tit-for-tat, but an investment...