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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.
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The Robot Revolution Gets Its Own Juicero
Finally, an expensive and elaborate way to do a notoriously cheap and simple thing.
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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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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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Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
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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.
gizmodo.com
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In a 2020 analysis of 43 datasets and more than 11,000 couples, individual traits explained at most 21 percent of relationship satisfaction, and even the strongest relationship-specific predictors failed to forecast whether couples happiness would rise or fall
The science of predicting relationship success just hit a wall: even with thousands of couples and mountains of data, the strongest predictors barely move the needle.
siliconcanals.com
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
Kissht’s Next Growth Play: Better Borrowers, Lower Costs & Loan Against Property
Recently listed NBFC Kissht is entering its “quality over quantity” phase, as it looks to build a more sustainable lending…
inc42.com
ByteDance Grows More Adaptable: Feishu Product Team Merges Into Doubao and GTM Shifts to Volcano Engine as ByteDance Reorganizes Around AI
ByteDance restructures its B-end AI business: Feishu product and Doubao teams merge under Zhao Qi, GTM consolidates into Volcano Engine, ending Feishu independent BU status.
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From Freehand To Sid’s Farms — Indian Startups Raised $142 Mn This Week
Indian startup funding cooled in the final week of July. Between July 27 and 31, Indian startups cumulatively raised about…
inc42.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…
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How to Exist
Article URL: https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129990 Points: 251 # Comments: 144
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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
Article URL: https://weeraman.com/the-prototype-isnt-the-product/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132130 Points: 205 # Comments: 186
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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: 563 # Comments: 211
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Testing a 3D Printed Cycloidal Gearbox Design
Cycloidal gearboxes are a recurring theme in the hobbyist space due to the performance their promise in a compact package. They are capable of taking in a high-speed input and …read more
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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
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Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.
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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.
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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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
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