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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on …
Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real t…
Show HN: ssh ssh.place

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

Article URL: https://ssh.place Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149805 Points: 173 # Comments: 106…
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, …
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open vs. closed source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot lo…
New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

Plus, a new deprecation policy ensures features aren't removed suddenly.…
Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.…
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions,…
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the con…
Agent swarms and the new model economics

Agent swarms and the new model economics

Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982535 Points: 236 # Comments: 1…
The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun

The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun

The FDA could decide whether to loosen rules around peptide production this week. Some telehealth players are already seeing dollar signs.…
8 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Google, and Hybrid Watches

8 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Google, and Hybrid Watches

These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.…
Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster

Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster

Michigan has been at the epicenter of the wildfire smoke and explosive diarrhea outbreaks. The progressive Democrat talks to WIRED about how he would …
Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

Article URL: https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524 Points: 224…
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

Article URL: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662 Points: 218 # Comments:…
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

Article URL: https://www.theocharis.dev/blog/llm-critics-are-right-i-use-llms-anyway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933310 Poin…
Towards a harness that can do anything

Towards a harness that can do anything

Article URL: https://eardatasci.github.io/c/ambiance/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921077 Points: 209 # Comments: 10…
Ente – Opening Our Books

Ente – Opening Our Books

Article URL: https://ente.com/open/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932697 Points: 220 # Comments: 86…
1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/07/explore-1300-beautiful-wildlife-illustrations-from-the-19th-century.html Comments URL: https://news.y…
If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

Article URL: https://madcampos.dev/blog/2026/07/accessibility-from-scratch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930136 Points: 213 # …
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster

Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster

The company endorsed landmark AI transparency laws in California and New York last year, but its head of US state and local policy says they may alrea…
Everyone Thinks They Have the Diarrhea Parasite

Everyone Thinks They Have the Diarrhea Parasite

Cyclosporiasis isn’t the only thing spreading across the US. So is anxiety about getting hit with it.…
Kalshi says it caught Trump’s teleprompter operator insider trading

Kalshi says it caught Trump’s teleprompter operator insider trading

Kalshi users betting on what President Donald Trump would say during his speeches were reportedly up against tough competition: the president's telepr…
New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology her…
‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trust

‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trust

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the com…
I also filed the corners off my MacBook

I also filed the corners off my MacBook

Article URL: https://www.brt.fyi/posts/mac-book-filing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911803 Points: 230 # Comments: 123…
SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

Article URL: https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135 Points: 216 # Comments: 79…
Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/stripe-advent-offer-buy-paypal-more-than-53-billion-sources-say-2026-07-15/ Comments URL: https:…