Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years
BP Ventures is shutting down, ending a nearly 20 year run that was marked by reportedly lackluster returns.
A growing number of homeowners are avoiding foreclosure with one little-known option
According to a new report from Realtor.com, short sales are gaining ground as an option for homeowners who might otherwise be headed for foreclosure. In a short sale, a homeowner who owes more on their mortgage than their home is worth works with their lender to sell...
We let job candidates use AI. It made hiring better
When AI started becoming mainstream, many companies reacted by trying to keep them out of the interview process. Particularly in engineering, candidates were warned not to use Cursor or Claude Code. Some companies looked for ways to detect AI-generated work or...
This Meta study shows AI chatbots could be spreading restrictions on free expression
Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of President Donald Trump or Britain’s King Charles III, and Anthropic’s chatbot would oblige. Prompted to do the same for Thailand’s king, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince or China’s leader, and the artificial intelligence model...
The Hinge founder’s new dating app lets AI be your matchmaker. There’s already a waitlist
Nearly 15 years ago, Justin McLeod founded Hinge, now known as “the dating app designed to be deleted.” Hinge stands out in the dating app landscape for prioritizing long-term connections over superficial snap decisions—but ultimately, it still relies on users...
Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/adaptional/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937125 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint
Uber has agreed to acquire Delivery Hero in a $14.8 billion all-stock deal that would nearly double the company’s global footprint and create one of the world’s largest food delivery platforms outside China.
Zero trust must now move at agent speed
Presented by Ping Identity Enterprises need to treat zero trust security architecture as an immediate requirement for AI agents rather than a long-term goal, says Andre Durand, CEO and founder of Ping Identity. Zero trust, the security model built on the assumption...
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
Article URL: https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/llm-classifier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936880 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up
Article URL: https://betlang.dev/about/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936657 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Building scalable AI agents with modular prompt transpilation
Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/building-scalable-ai-agents-with-modular-prompt-transpilation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936621 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Article URL: https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936654 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like plants in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out that even at an atomic scale its effects can be measured. These are the...
Newsletter platform Beehiiv’s now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI
Beehiiv is launching an AI Copilot to help publishers with user growth and analytics
Launch HN: Traceforce (YC S26) – Secure AI apps, one device at a time
Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce (https://www.traceforce.ai/). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices (laptops, sandboxes, virtual machines) by discovering not just which apps...
‘We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction’
Article URL: https://techwerkers.nl/en/posts/aanval-microsoft-ai-datacentrum/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936982 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Decoy Font
Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
X cracks down on creators who steal content
X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.
Kick your mouse out of the house with this AI-assisted keyboard utility
Imagine never having to reach for your mouse to navigate around Windows again. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well wake up: We have some peripherals to burn. Neverclick, from developer Lazo Velko, was published recently with the promise to allow users to perform...
C’mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it’ll fix your computer, honest
Threat intel outfit Group-IB has detailed a previously undocumented macOS information stealer that doesn't bother hunting for software bugs. Instead, it persuades users to pwn themselves by pasting a command into Terminal, after which it helps itself to passwords,...
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 Points: 13 # Comments: 4
Satya Nadella makes the case for AI independence
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter breaking down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company covering emerging technology, AI, and tech policy. This week, I examine Satya Nadella’s argument that...
Google AI Mode now integrates with Canva, YouTube Music and Instacart
You can now make playlists, design flyers and compile shopping lists using AI in Search.
AI vendors have found someone to pay their infrastructure bills: You
Forrester warns that customers should brace for bigger software bills next year as software and AI vendors raise prices and pile on usage charges. Working from a survey of more than 2,600 business and technology decision-makers, the tech research company said software...
An OLED iPad mini could finally arrive this year
Apple will reportedly refresh the iPad mini this fall and the rest of its iPad lineup in the first half of 2027.
How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
Article URL: https://www.zhinit.dev/blog/training-a-kick-drum-diffusion-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935687 Points: 7 # Comments: 3
Pixel 11 Amazon Listings Vanish After Leaking US Prices and Specs
Could this mean the Pixel 11 won't cost more than its predecessor?
$100 billion will go to U.S. chip manufacturing in TSMC’s latest pledge
Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States.The latest commitment appears to bring the company’s total pledges for investment in U.S. chipmaking to $265 billion....
AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M
AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M Go to Source Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.
Something Important to Always Remember: You Are Not the Player
Even now, I see that disdain around — for mobile games, casual puzzle mechanics, anything that isn’t ‘hardcore’ enough. The attitude is: ”That’s not a real game. A real game is something I would actually want to play.” I held that view for a while, too. Turns out it’s...