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Identifying the Root Cause of Electronics Failures With Simulation Apps

This article is brought to you by COMSOL. In pursuit of improved range, greater reliability, and faster charging, electric vehicles are driving the demand for high-voltage electronics. Other applications driving this demand include wind farms, data centers, and server farms, to n…

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Hollywood Sets Its Sights On an ‘Action Man’ Movie

Still with toys on the brain, Hasbro's snagged a pair of Marvel vets to bring its UK-specific 'Action Man' toy line to the cinemas.

My thanks to Agent Fone for sponsoring last week at DF. Agent Fone is a crazily ambitious new smartphone that doesn’t merely ship with a built-in AI assistant. Instead, the entire concept is that it enables you to create custom software, right on the phone itself. Ideas for new a…

Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else.

Why The Product Manager To CEO Pipeline Is The Underrated Crash Course For Leadership In Tech

By Ben Chisell The road to the top rarely runs in a straight line, but there are less circuitous routes to becoming CEO. According to one of the largest ongoing studies analyzing every CEO succession in the S&P 500 since 2000, there are four feeder roles: COOs, divisional CEOs, C…

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Already a Pretty Big Hit

Oh, so *that's* what's a spider can do when he's got a Brand New Day.

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How did a treaty agreed in 1987 and eventually ratified by every nation shrink a hole in the atmosphere the size of North America back toward 1980 levels?

The 1987 Montreal Protocol, the only UN treaty ratified by every country on Earth, eliminated 99 percent of ozone-depleting chemicals and quietly became the most successful climate treaty in history — by accident.

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IPO-Bound Imarticus Learning Acquires Singapore’s BELLS Institute For ₹800 Cr

IPO-bound edtech startup Imarticus Learning has acquired Singapore-based BELLS Institute of Higher Learning for ₹800 Cr as it gears up…

Anthropic Brings Claude Inference To India As Sovereign AI Race Heats Up

Anthropic is bringing in-country inference for its AI platform Claude to India via Amazon Bedrock, AWS’ managed service for building…

Chery Automobile to acquire 10% stake in South Korea’s KG Mobility through $75M investment

Chery Automobile has agreed to invest $75 million in South Korea’s KG Mobility (KGM) through convertible bonds. If the bonds are fully converted into shares, Chery will hold around 10% of KGM’s equity. The move marks a significant step in Chery’s efforts to strengthen its oversea…

Alibaba launches Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters

Alibaba has launched Qwen3.8, a new foundation model with 2.4 trillion total parameters. The model is focused on coding and professional office tasks, with its API already available on Alibaba’s Qwen AI platform. Qwen3.8 has also been integrated into Alibaba’s newly launched Qwen…

Chinese Agent Tops OSWorld With 90.2% Success Rate: InAgent Crosses the 90% Threshold for Computer-Use Agents, Surpassing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Records

InAgent achieves 90.2% task success on OSWorld, the first Computer-Use Agent above 90%, with 100% on system-level tasks, as Harness engineering becomes the new AI competition frontier.

Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pentesting.

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler.

Worried About Water Bills? Here’s What You’re Doing Wrong in the Shower

In a new study, scientists have identified some of the biggest factors linked to longer, more wasteful showers.

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Easy Theremin Uses ESP32

The Theremin is that classic electronic musical instrument that makes those weeee-ohhhhh noises which were so popular in mid-century science fiction movies. Mid-last-century, that is, because this century is just …read more

Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

Article URL: https://research.jfrog.com/post/sqlite-critical-cves-or-llm-slops/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154332 Points: 233 # Comments: 74

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Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

Article URL: https://sf.isopolis.city/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149966 Points: 261 # Comments: 59

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Spotting Emacs in the Wild

Emacs is one of the big classic text editors, right up there next to vi. It’s famous for its interface and its ubiquity across the *nix world. It’s such a …read more

Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026

About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were …read more

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150470 Points: 758 # Comments: 374

Get a Remote Terminal With One Binary, One URL, and Zero Config

Launch a single static binary executable, send someone a QR code or URL (or failing that, text a numerical code or shout it across a room), and they’ll get an …read more

Don't be a meat proxy

Article URL: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933 Points: 973 # Comments: 414

Making a Retro(ish) Game Console From Scratch

As easy as it is to make a late 1980s-style game console using a modern microcontroller, there’s arguably more fun in doing things the traditional way. This is the challenge …read more