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Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing patent protection in r…
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OpenAI Help Center Describes What Is Wrong With the New ChatGPT
OpenAI Help Center, “Where Work and Codex are available”: Work is available on ChatGPT web and mobile for eligible paid plans. Work is also available in the ChatGPT desktop app when included for your plan and workspace. Work on web and mobile runs in the cloud. Work in the deskto…
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‘My Adventures With Superman’ Creators Talk Darker, Hard-Hitting Midpoint
Jake Wyatt and Brendan Clogher discuss the latest action-heavy episode of 'My Adventures with Superman' and heading into heavier territory.
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Who Can Begrudge Gen Z Nostalgia For an Era Before They Were Born?
It probably IS kinda galling to look back at a time when the world wasn't on fire.
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Here’s What’ll Be at the Oscars Museum’s Horror Movie Exhibit
Get ready to get scared and educated, because the Horror Show exhibit will have films to watch and materials to pore over.
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Lunacy — Jeff Halter’s Lunatic Fringe Player
After linking to Stacks, his remarkable new modern HyperCard player, I made the terrible mistake of clicking around the rest of Jeff Halter’s website, and fell upon Lunacy: Created by Ben Haller and released in the early ’90s as part of the Macintosh More After Dark software pack…
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Unicorn Founders Go AI Native
“Not using AI is like being left behind,” Apple CEO Tim Cook’s remark captures the urgency around artificial intelligence today…
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Psychology says the gap between getting what you wanted and still wanting more is not necessarily a character flaw — it is hedonic adaptation, the brain’s tendency to turn yesterday’s achievement into today’s normal and quietly move the finish line again
There is a particular embarrassment that can arrive after success. A person gets the job, the promotion, the funding, the house, the public proof, the number they used to think would settle something. For a while it does. Then the mind absorbs it into ordinary life, and the next …
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Psychology says people who are kind to everyone and close to no one often weren’t always this way — there was usually a friendship, a relationship, or a family dynamic that taught them, clearly enough to stick, that letting someone fully in was indistinguishable from handing them a way to hurt you
I once knew a man who was, without exaggeration, the most likeable person in any room. He remembered your dog’s name. He’d top up your drink before you noticed it was empty. Waiters adored him. Strangers left him feeling like the most interesting person alive. I knew him for elev…
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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026
Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…
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China Commercial Space Crosses Rocket Recovery Threshold, Targets First Reflight Within the Year
Long March 10B first-flight recovery success accelerates China commercial space race, with LandSpace Zhuque-3 and JianYuan YX-1 targeting reflight milestones by year end.
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In 1707, a British fleet returning from Gibraltar smashed into the rocks of the Scilly Isles and lost nearly 2,000 sailors in a single night, because the navigators had no reliable way to measure longitude at sea — and the disaster is what pushed Parliament to offer the £20,000 prize that a Yorkshire carpenter named John Harrison would spend 46 years chasing with a clock
The 1707 Scilly naval disaster killed nearly 2,000 sailors and pushed Britain to offer a £20,000 prize for a solution to the longitude problem — a prize that a self-taught Yorkshire clockmaker named John Harrison would spend the rest of his life pursuing.
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How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
Article URL: https://archive.cancerworld.net/featured/how-doctors-die/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876741 Points: 229 # Comments: 130
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Speak Silently With An Ultrasound Probe
Speaking is much faster than typing, and while it’s an increasingly convenient way to interact with computers, it’s hardly private. Providing speech privacy in a way we haven’t seen before …read more
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Printing Fungal Art with Laser Control
Preservationists usually take great care to prevent fungi from appearing the world of art, but in the case of [Kexin Wang]’s Funguy project, the fungus itself is the art. It …read more
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EP221: How Docker Works Under the Hood
A Docker container starts with a single command, but that command has to be turned into a running Linux process. Here is what actually happens.
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Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
Article URL: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876505 Points: 319 # Comments: 72
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Software-Defined Vehicles Loom Closer Every Year
Vehicles long ago began to incorporate electronics and software, to the point that modern vehicles increasingly have a sort of architecture problem. The software end of things evolves ever more …read more
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Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/old-and-new-apps-via-modern-coding-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48880170 Points: 301 # Comments: 77
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Porting DOOM to the Casio Loopy
Targeted towards refined female gamers unlike the savagery of the mainstream game consoles of the era, 1995’s Casio Loopy was a bit of an oddity of a game console. Despite …read more
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Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
Hello HN! I'm the author of Ant, a JavaScript ecosystem built around a runtime with its own JavaScript engine. Ant also includes a package manager, the ants.land package registry, a platform for deploying and hosting applications, and Ant Desktop for building native desktop apps …
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