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Open Channel: What’d You Think of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day?’
Stay a while and share with us your thoughts of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' won't you?
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TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
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These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era
Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding t…
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Stop graphing everything: When GraphRAG actually beats vector RAG
If you have built anything with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in the last two years, you have lived its central frustration: You chop your documents into chunks, embed them, retrieve the top few that look similar to the question, and hand them to the model. For “What was o…
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‘Wonder Man’ Showrunner Discusses Show’s Sudden Cancellation
Thankful for the fans and the show's success, Andrew Guest sheds a little bit of light on why 'Wonder Man' won't return.
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Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video, he briefly discussed directing Claude to perform difficult tasks: Cherny: I think the skill nowadays is less a…
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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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A New Zealand cohort tracked from birth to age 32 found that childhood self-control predicted adult health, wealth, and criminal record along a gradient, though a 2018 marshmallow test replication found family background explained much of what looked like individual willpower
The case for willpower's outsized importance in life outcomes is shakier than a viral study suggested—and class may matter far more than character.
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Sarvam’s AI Arsenal
In June, Sarvam AI entered India’s unicorn club, raising $234 Mn (about ₹2,210 Cr) in a $300 Mn Series B…
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First impressions count as Chinese buyers open their homes to UBTech’s consumer humanoids
When 39-year-old Beijing investor Song shelled out 159,800 yuan (US$23,680) for a companion robot, he knew it would not be cooking meals or scrubbing floors. For him, becoming one of China’s first owners of a consumer humanoid was more about embracing the cutting edge. “The happi…
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A 25-year Northwestern study of people over 80 with memory as sharp as adults decades younger found that diet and exercise habits varied widely among them, but strong social connection was the one trait they consistently shared
What keeps a mind sharp into old age may matter less than who keeps you sharp.
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Claims that emotionally intelligent women have a specific reaction to gaslighting rest on two separate bodies of research that were never combined: a 2019 sociological definition of gaslighting as a power-based pattern, and a study on how emotional intelligence shapes general conflict responses
A viral claim about emotionally intelligent women links two separate research fields that were never actually studied together.
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An Automated Water Tank Controller
[Jumpor] lives in a part of India where the water infrastructure is a little frustrating to use. Water gets delivered to underground tanks outside of homes, and must then be …read more
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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
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A KVM Without the V (Or the M)
Many of us will be used to the idea of a KVM, a device that pipes keyboard, video, and mouse over the network from a remote machine to your own. …read more
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Architectural LED Install Shows How To Do It With Style
Anyone can string up some LED string lights in a space with mixed results. However, if you want to create a lighting environment that’s classy and stylish, it takes a …read more
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Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
Article URL: https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141073 Points: 202 # Comments: 96
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Turning Fruits Into Ethylene and Ethane Refrigerant
One of the best parts about DIY chemistry and physics projects is that you get to decide how early in the supply chain you want to begin, such as with …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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Karpathy’s Pelican
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140998 Points: 399 # Comments: 310
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Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-08-02/News_and_notes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143414 Points: 319 # Comments: 299
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