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
I built an agentic AI clone of my family to plan our summer travel
Planning summer travel is hard. Planning it for a busy family, visiting multiple destinations with three little kids in tow, can feel downright impossible. I’m a professional news and travel photographer, so I need to plan a lot of trips with my wife and our three...
Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot
Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers. Four of the bugs can crash a device. The other...
Netflix, Paramount, Sony and others are reportedly in talks to buy Letterboxd
The movie-centric social network is said to be seeking new ownership.
Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages
Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project's GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys and mnemonic seed phrases. The compromised version,...
The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history (2017)
Article URL: https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862365 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build US factories.
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth
It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy.
LisaFPGA brings Apple’s magnificent misfire back in programmable logic
Apple Lisas are rare now. Here's a rather cheaper way to build your own – and in theory, it can even use original floppy drives. LisaFPGA does what it says on the GitHub repo: "The Apple Lisa computer implemented inside an FPGA!" It's an open source project that...
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed
HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.
Disney might be planning a free Disney+ tier
Nearly every streaming service has an ad-supported plan, but Disney might take the unusual step of making it free.
Snails’ Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature’s Strongest Material
Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862252 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
AI is stealing all the RAM and storage, and I’m learning to live with it
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In. Recently, I dropped into my local Best Buy to pick up a hard drive. There was just one snag. I couldn’t find the storage department. Discombobulated, I circled the store until I spied two lonely disks sitting...
OpenAI Prepares to Sunset Atlas AI Browser, Asks Users to Switch to Rival Chrome
Or to the ChatGPT app.
Sony 1000X The Collexion vs. Bowers & Wilkins Px8 S2: Both wow, but one is comfier
Sony's and Bowers & Wilkins' premium headphones deliver an elevated experience, but choosing the right pair isn't as cut-and-dry as you'd think.
China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets
China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.
The trophy trap: what’s really driving you?
My ghost hangs out in a recycling bin. In my small family — mom, sister, me — one of my nicknames was “Toter woman.” The Toter was our large blue recycling bin on wheels. I carried it up our hilly driveway every week, without fail. There was no dad or brother to do...
I ditched Google Drive for my own self-hosted storage – and I wish I’d done it sooner
Nextcloud is a free and open-source storage option that offers several advantages. Here's how it works.
Hackaday Podcast Episode Ep 377: Parallel Pixels, Wiggly Consoles, and Seven Segments
This week’s podcast sees Elliot joined by Jenny List, as both suffer silently in the European summer heat because the sound of a desk fan would come over on the recording. A stand-out hack of the week comes from [Bitluni], whose GPU made from thousands of cheap...
Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says
The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.