Innovation, AI & Digital Frontier
Bags weighed down by a Microsoft license key
There are both cheaper and more powerful entry-level gaming laptops out there, but the Alienware 15 walks that tightrope between price and quality.
Article URL:https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132468Points: 11# Comments: 4
[Gil Yankovitch] noted that playing games on a touchscreen phone gave up a certain something in terms of the tactile feedback one gets from real buttons. To that end, he…read more
"Space.com and The Guardian are reporting that the Falcon 9 upper stage leftover from the launch of the Firefly Blue Ghost-1 lander on Jan. 15, 2025 is due to impact the Moon on Aug. 5, 2026," writes ...
88 custom cores, 176 funky threads, 1.5 TB of laptop RAM, and 1.8 TB/s of NVLink connectivity — this isn't your typical datacenter chip
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?
Article URL:https://ramen.haus/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132460Points: 33# Comments: 5
Recently [Drygol] had an Amiga 1000 system over for some repairs as well as maintenance and general TLC. This is a Motorola 68000-based home computer from 1985 that also has…read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking inci...
Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
A discovery in a solar system 73 light-years from Earth is challenging definitions and “blurring the lines between stars, planets, and moons.”
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Article URL:https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132130Points: 14# Comments: 3
Article URL:https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132058Points: 16# Comments: 1
Article URL:https://openai-git-upstream.openai.chatgpt.site/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131737Points: 6# Comments: 0
Article URL:https://nascompares.com/2026/07/31/the-10-ways-nas-is-getting-enshitified/Comments URL:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131367Points: 14# Comments: 2
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