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...

Agentic AI systems threaten cybersecurity as we know it. A new generation of cyber-capable models, including Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT 5.6, can find and exploit vulnerabilities in computer systems far faster than human hackers. The technology is so powerful...

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

The guardrails that prevent closed-source, frontier models from aiding threat actors have turned into handcuffs that prevent those bots from helping to find and fix serious vulns. Daniel Fox Franke, principal security researcher at Akamai Technologies, was recently...

It’s been hotly debated across the internet, from Reddit threads to LinkedIn posts: Could using hidden prompts on your resume help you get hired in the age of AI? If a hiring manager outsources their work to an AI scanner, which you’ve covertly told to advance your...

Ruby on Rails has released fixes for a critical Active Storage vulnerability that could let unauthenticated attackers read arbitrary files from application servers through crafted image uploads. Tracked as CVE-2026-66066 (CVSS score: 9.5), the flaw can expose the...