Anthropic debuts Opus 5 at half the price of its Fable sibling
Anthropic released its Opus 5 AI model on Friday, claiming that it "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price." That's welcome news for enterprises beset by rising token costs. Fable 5 prices tokens at $10 / MTok input and $50 / MTok...
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]
Article URL: https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042528 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure
The company ticked off a few more boxes on the second Starship V3 flight, but appears to have had another issue re-lighting the booster's rocket engines.
Meta has pulled out of a renewable energy initiative as it relies more on natural gas for data centers
The company has comitted to 10 natural gas plants since last year.
Hands-Free Mouse Uses Eyes And Muscles Instead
The standard computer mouse is a perfectly useful peripheral if your hands work. If you’ve got some trouble in that area, you might appreciate an alternative input solution. To that end, [Varun Adinath Patil] created a neat hands-free solution for moving a cursor...
SpaceX’s 13th Starship flight test launches with Starlink’s next-gen satellites
Starship is carrying 20 V3 Starlink satellites as payload for its 13th test flight.
Trump threatens EU with new tariffs in response to Google fine
The European Commission found Google's search ranking and anti-steering violated the Digital Markets Act.
Pope’s official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users’ info
Click To Pray, a prayer app endorsed by the Pope with hundreds of thousands of users worldwide, has leaked people’s names and email addresses for months - or longer - according to an ethical hacker who said she found and reported the security vulnerability six months...
AMD vibe codes its way past the CUDA moat with ROCm.AI
Even as AMD’s GPUs have grown more competitive, the House of Zen has struggled to shake the perception that its chips are less capable because they don’t run CUDA. At its Advancing AI event in San Francisco this week, AMD unveiled ROCm.AI, which promises to let users...
Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between
Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account. And at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re devoting an entire stage to that progression.
BTCC Exchange Closes World Cup Showdown with Over 80,000 Participants and 22% Trading Volume Surge
George Town, Cayman Islands, July 24th, 2026/Chainwire/--BTCC, the world's longest-serving cryptocurrency exchange and an official regional sponsor of the Argentine Football Association (AFA), marked the close of its 15 Years in the Game: The BTCC World Cup Showdown...
Best User Agents for Web Scraping in 2026
The best user agent for web scraping is a current desktop Chrome 151 string for Windows. Chrome holds around 69% of the global browser market (StatCounter, June 2026), so it is the least conspicuous choice – pair it with current Firefox, Edge, and mobile strings, plus...
220 Blog Posts To Learn About Developer
Let's learn about Developer via these 220 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. “Every great developer you know got there by solving problems...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Real Cost of Microfrontends (7/24/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 24, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apollo 11 Returns to Earth in 1969, Google Launches the Chromecast in 2013, Machu Picchu was Discovered...
Here’s how Meta decides who to lay off—and it claims to not use AI
Twenty-six employees at Meta who were recently laid off made a bold claim in a lawsuit last week: They alleged the company had used AI to select people for layoffs, disproportionately impacting people who had taken leave or those with disabilities. The lawsuit...
Show HN: Max Studio Tools (C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live)
Show HN: Max Studio Tools (C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live) Go to Source Article URL: https://github.com/apresta/max-studio-tools Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041546 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Greenland’s Ice Sheet Was Supposed to Be Rapidly Melting Away. It Hasn’t Been
Article URL: https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/18/579/2022/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041581 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Why 25 states are fighting Trump over $740 million in emergency funding
A coalition of governors and attorneys general is suing the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government wants to strongarm Democratic states into complying with some of its most controversial policy changes yet. The lawsuit, filed in a Rhode Island...
Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here’s a look at growing number of other countries doing the same
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.
Europe’s central bank gets hilarious alternative designs for the euro banknote after asking for feedback
Asking the internet for advice can be a dicey game: Users can either be helpful or take the chance to make a joke of it all—as the European Central Bank (ECB) has come to find out. The financial institution, which oversees banknotes in the European Union, unveiled on...
Europol flags 4,340 ‘horrific’ URLs linked to The Com
Europol and its partners' investigators flagged 4,340 “horrific” URLs for removal over several weeks in June and July as part of an ongoing crackdown on The Com (short for community), a loosely knit network of online groups whose young members participate in a range...
Tech leaders issue letter to train Uncle Sam about value of open weight AI
With the US government scrutinizing AI as much as ever, 25 technology companies, industry organizations, and venture capital firms published an open letter on Friday urging policymakers to support open weight AI models. The missive [PDF] of nearly a thousand words can...
Paramount agrees to delay Warner Bros. merger into 2027
The extended pause will give time to hear cases for blocking the deal from states and the WGA.
Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber
The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.
Jensen Huang has a message about AI doomerism for his fellow tech leaders
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants other AI leaders to quit the doomerism. “The fact that [AI] is going to be the end of humanity—it’s complete nonsense,” Huang told Axios in an interview published Thursday. “The fact that this is going to destroy half of the American jobs...
The ‘Bayou Barbie’ finally has her own Barbie doll. Here’s where to buy it
Barbie has worn a black and white one piece swimsuit, a pink dress, and a silver space suit—and now thanks to a new collaboration, she can wear Reebok Angel Reese 1 too. Mattel unveiled its latest doll inspired by professional basketball player Angel Reese, a forward...
Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-Generated Code Projects
Community-led open source project hosting site Codeberg has formally announced that projects whose code is largely or fully machine-generated through LLMs and other ‘AI’ tools will no longer be welcome. This follows on the heels of a similar ban on...
Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture
The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.