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A London Startup Is Selling Permanent Stick-On Tattoos—and It Wants to Do Mail Order

Concerned parents of the world, unite.

Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors

Raimi and King will team up for the first time on an adaptation of King's 1996 novel 'Desperation.'

The Talk Show: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’

Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion: The collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents work side by side, with a Develop…

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India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them

India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays

Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon.

Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.

International tech

CXMT LPDDR6 Hits Key Breakthrough: Research Validation Nearing Completion as ChangXin Memory Technologies Closes In on Mass Production of 12,800 Mbps Mobile DRAM

CXMT LPDDR6 development validation nearing completion, 12,800 Mbps design rate, 16Gb density, positioning for H2 2026 mass production against SK Hynix as Apple evaluates CXMT DRAM.

Smartphone Batteries Enter the Silicon-Carbon 10,000mAh Era in 2026: OPPO, Honor, and vivo Lead Capacity Race as AI Power Consumption Drives Energy Density Breakthroughs

OPPO A7 Pro Max joins the 10,000mAh club with spherically structured silicon-carbon, as mainstream Chinese brands race into the 10K era driven by AI inference power and 35% share for 6000mAh-plus phones.

Bharat Mandot Of Stelcore Group On The Hidden Costs Of Taking Indian Brands Global

What’s driving the next phase of India’s export story? It’s no longer just manufacturing capacity or shipping lanes, but the…

Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?

Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.

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Psychology says the reason the most generous person you know goes home to a silent phone isn’t bad luck — it’s that giving without ever asking for anything back reads to other people as self-sufficiency, and nobody reaches out to someone who seems fine

The most giving people often end up isolated not because others are ungrateful, but because their relentless availability teaches everyone around them that help isn't needed.

siliconcanals.com

UPI Transactions Rise 4% MoM To 23.7 Bn In July

UPI transaction volume rose 4% to 23.66 Bn in July from 22.72 Bn in June, according to data released by…

These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year

We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.

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How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud

The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing…

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OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

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Article URL: https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129990 Points: 205 # Comments: 116

Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar

One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot …read more

qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work

Article URL: https://github.com/yc-software/qm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604 Points: 574 # Comments: 119

A Complex Way to Push a Button

We’ve likely all looked at a simple problem in our lives and thought that it would be an easy fix, only to realize that the project is enormously more complicated …read more

A Compact Game Controller For Your Phone

[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

How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference

To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion

Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 551 # Comments: 204

Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI

We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.

Casual Repair and Maintenance on an Amiga 1000

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