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The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor
Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)
techcrunch.com
Finger Sweat Could Be the Huge Health Upgrade Smart Rings Need
UCSD researchers created a ring that can passively sample and analyze your sweat to track nutrition and insulin response.
gizmodo.com
AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public admi…
spectrum.ieee.org
Waymo robotaxis are starting to return to freeways
Waymo robotaxis are now using freeways in Phoenix with more cities to follow in the coming days.
techcrunch.com
How a Single Typo in a Username Cost an Innocent Man 18 Months of His Life
A trial and conviction that’d give Franz Kafka nightmares.
gizmodo.com
Target SVP says its real AI moat isn't the models — it's everything built around them
Target SVP Siobhán Mc Feeney says the AI models her company runs aren't what gives Target its edge — everything built around them is. "There's a lot in it. That to us is the moat," Mc Feeney said at VB Transform 2026. "The models are great, and they're important. They're just not…
venturebeat.com
International tech
BYD AI Team Revealed for First Time: HyWorldVLA Hybrid World Model Achieves SOTA on NAVSIM v1 With 90.59 PDMS Marking BYD Entry Into Autonomous Driving Foundation Models
BYD AI team publishes HyWorldVLA with hybrid pixel-latent world modeling and VLA architecture, scoring 90.59 PDMS on NAVSIM benchmark, from team including HIT robotics researchers.
pandaily.com
Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors
Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system.
restofworld.org
Peak XV Partners Again Dumps Go Digit Shares Worth ₹139 Cr
For the second time in two months, early backer and VC giant Peak XV Partners has offloaded shares worth nearly…
inc42.com
Tata Communications Amps Up Voice AI Play For India’s SMBs
Tata Communications is betting that India’s 63 Mn-odd micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and early-stage startups will become the…
inc42.com
Psychology says the people who never forget a face but always lose the name aren’t bad with names at all — a face connects to everything the brain knows about a person, while the name is the one detail attached to nothing, a sound with no meaning to hold onto
Your brain remembers the person—their quirks, their history, their opinions—but treats their name as an orphaned detail with nothing to cling to.
siliconcanals.com
BlueStone, SafeGold Partner To Convert Household Gold Into Digital Gold
Omnichannel jewellery retailer BlueStone has partnered with digital gold platform SafeGold to launch a gold-monetisation initiative that converts offline household…
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Darktable
Article URL: https://www.darktable.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096654 Points: 230 # Comments: 114
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The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser
At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display …read more
hackaday.com
Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet
[Kevin Kelm] created something wondrous: Halcyon Dawn, an utterly unique and desperately challenging game that is equal parts intricate starship simulator, imposing hardware console, video game, and love letter to …read more
hackaday.com
Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks
I recently found myself in the market for a few IP cameras to keep an eye on my Prusa 3D printers, and quickly found that the options on the market …read more
hackaday.com
Scrap Pinball Parts Become Beautiful Wall Art
[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 …read more
hackaday.com
Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096969 Points: 257 # Comments: 162
arxiv.org
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
Hi HN, I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called TurboFieldfare and is written in Swift and Metal. I have always adored on-device AI. It feels like magic that you can run a powerful NN on …
github.com
Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
bytebytego.com
French musician Kavinsky found dead
Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/29/dj-kavinsky-known-for-his-track-nightcall-found-dead-at-his-paris-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096290 Points: 305 # Comments: 71
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