Kaiser nurses say AI is changing their jobs—for the worse
In 2024, hundreds of nurses gathered outside a Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Francisco, carrying signs that read: “Trust nurses, not AI.” As the nurses union started contract negotiations last year, the nonprofit health system’s adoption of artificial intelligence...
OpenAI’s browser isn’t dead, it just moved to the ChatGPT app
Let's be real, OpenAI isn't giving up on the browser market, it is just changing its strategy.
Capitalism Gone Wrong
Article URL: https://kasperjunge.com/blog/capitalism-gone-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864233 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark “Click-to-Cancel” Consumer Protection Rules
Article URL: https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani-announces-landmark--click-to-cancel--consumer-prot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864158 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
How To Use Those Cute But Slightly Odd 7-Segment LCDs
If you’re not aware, there is such a thing as adorable little three digit LCD 7-segment displays. They come in a ten-pin DIP package and are just begging to be integrated into a project. The catch is they are just a tiny bit weird. Luckily for us all, [Nagy Krisztián]...
Materials innovation has a scale-up problem, not discovery
Article URL: https://www.atomscale.ai/updates/our-thesis-atom-to-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863849 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Would you eat Pickle Pie? The Minnesota State Fair’s new foods are turning heads
State fairs are famous for iconic foods like funnel cakes, corn dogs, and just about anything that can be deep fried. But when it comes to over-the-top fair food, few events have a reputation quite like the Minnesota State Fair. Dubbed the “Great Minnesota...
LinkedIn is the ‘most AI-saturated platform,’ new study suggests
The amount of AI-generated content you scroll through might be far greater than you think, according to a new study by AI detection platform, Pangram. Pangram asked users of its Chrome extension to opt into sharing their browsing results with the platform. From those...
Why are healthy young adults getting colon cancer? Researchers may finally have a lead
One of the biggest mysteries cancer researchers are trying to solve is why colorectal cancer rates are soaring among young adults. Now the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men and women under the age of 50, colorectal cancer has become an alarming outlier...
The Meta Glasses backlash is changing how (or if) people use them
Backlash online is changing how (or if) people wear Meta's smart glasses.
StubHub CEO is helping fund mass scalpers on his own platform
Stubhub CEO Eric Baker is pouring millions of dollars into the ticket-scalping market, CBC reports.
How the Terrorist Group Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI
Article URL: https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863707 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
How leaders must upgrade their talents for the AI Age
The emergence of AI in corporate life has made almost every professional question what their role will look like—or whether it will even be there—in the next few years. For now, senior leaders may be more insulated from disruption than less experienced colleagues,...
FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that’s been widely criticized by astronomers
Reflect Orbital wants to direct sunlight at night with a network of satellites.
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
Article URL: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98d31/cdc_proof.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
URGENT – Progress Tells ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers Over Security Threat
Progress Software has told ShareFile customers to shut down the Windows servers running their Storage Zone Controllers, confirming to The Hacker News that it is responding to a "credible external security threat." The company has temporarily disabled access to the...
War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
Article URL: https://waratlas.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863080 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Robot Dog in Browser
You’ve doubtlessly seen the current crop of robot dogs and, if you are like us, thought about getting one to play with. The problem is that the cheap ones are toys, and the serious ones cost serious money. But now you can experiment with a mid-range cost one for free...
Metal balls from space are popping up on Australia’s beaches
Sadly, we don't think aliens were involved in this particular space balls incident.
A key federal election agency suddenly has no commissioners. Here’s why that matters.
A key federal election agency suddenly has no commissioners. Here’s why that matters. Go to Source The Trump administration gutted a bipartisan federal agency that oversees elections on Thursday, a worrying decision with midterms just...
New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices
New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices Go to Source Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/new-york-city-deceptive-subscriptions-ban Comments URL:...
Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?
ive been seeing a recurring claim that open (weight) models 6 months behind the frontier are good enough for the majority of ‘work’. if you've had a concrete task in the last month where GLM/DeepSeek/Kimi/Qwen failed and Opus/Fable/GPT succeeded (or vice versa!),...
OpenAI’s Latest Voice Model Won’t Interrupt You When You Pause to Think
No need to add deliberate filters like "um," "hmm," and so on.
Is our whole model of leadership wrong?
My husband and I stumbled into Imago therapy early in our marriage. We were both open to therapy because we knew enough to know what we didn’t know. He came from a divorce, and I came from witnessing parents who were married for 48 years but continually had the same...
SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth
Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863064 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Chat Control 1.0 has been passed
Article URL: https://gerarddupre.dev/en/blog/chat-control-1-passed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862510 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat
Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained during a fundraising meeting with the competing startup.
Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package
A newly identified destructive Windows backdoor combines ransomware-like encryption with multiple data-wiping features, according to Microsoft. Last October, the Redmond threat-hunting team first spotted attacks using the Golang-based implant they've named GigaWiper....
You’re Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand
Article URL: https://www.minid.net/2026/7/10/ai-works-for-me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862506 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?
Article URL: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-July/068430.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862467 Points: 3 # Comments: 1