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Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

All the EVs that were discontinued or killed off in the U.S. this year

Th Honda Prologue will no longer be sold in the U.S., joining a growing list of EV models to exit the market this year.

‘My Soul Left My Body’: Amazon Accidentally Bills Users Billions of Times What They Owe

If your AWS bill was $200 last month, and this month it's $1,499,659,180,107, that's probably an error.

‘Magic: The Gathering’ Will Embrace the Multiverse in 2027

Mechs, monsters, the deep blue sea, and afrofantasy await 'Magic: The Gathering' players when next year rolls around.

Waymo says San Francisco service has resumed after one-hour pause

This isn’t the first time power outages have caused issues for Waymo.

Apple Sends Letters to Dozens of Former Employees Now at OpenAI

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco: About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sent letters directing them to preserve documents and communications and demanding meetings with Apple’s lawyers, according to multiple people familiar w…

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Hong Kong Cyberport Is Becoming the Springboard for Chinese AI Going Global: From Computing Power to Standards to Markets

Hong Kong Cyberport emerges as China AI globalization hub: 3000 PFLOPS AI supercomputing center, 30B HKD funding program, and three-board strategy connecting mainland AI to Southeast Asia and Middle East.

New-Age Tech Stocks: Fino Payments Bank Surges 29%, Go Digit Leads Weekly Losers

As the June quarter earnings season gathered pace, investors remained largely cautious on listed new-age tech stocks this week despite…

Retirees who move overseas often report being happy with their new lives while also feeling lonelier — because paradise cannot automatically replace the relationships left behind

A retirement move can succeed on nearly every term used to justify it. The home may cost less, the weather may be kinder and the days may feel less hurried. A person can be pleased with all of that and still miss the wider circle of people who once made ordinary life feel inhabit…

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The art of small talk: 10 subtle phrases that make people light up when you first meet them

For years my actual job was to make strangers feel like regulars before the bread hit the table. Restaurants run on it. A guest walks in cold, slightly on guard, half-convinced they’ve overdressed, and you’ve got about ninety seconds to melt all that. You don’t do it with a scrip…

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Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack

Alibaba Group Holding’s chip design unit, T-Head, has announced that it will open-source its proprietary software stack, marking its latest effort to streamline developer operations and challenge the dominance of American chip giant Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem. At the World AI Confer…

China MAZU AI Weather System to Reach 30 Countries: Fengyun Satellites, AI Models, and Radar Unite as Meteorological Infrastructure Goes Global

President Xi announces MAZU intelligent early warning system deployment to 30 countries at WAIC 2026 as China exports integrated meteorological infrastructure combining Fengyun satellites, AI, and radar.

If You’re a Federal Employee, You May Now Install TikTok on Your Work Phone Even Though It’s Illegal

Did you even remember there was a ban?

A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore

A recent road trip in an EV revealed just how much faster and more reliable DC Fast charging has become in the U.S.

‘Backrooms’ Almost Got Trapped In Copyright Hell

A24 and Kane Parsons nearly stepped in it in a way that would've hurt the film's goodwill and their current creative partnership.

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MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other

Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.

Your AI Ham Radio Buddy

AI chatbots are everywhere these days, and they seem to “know” about everything. But while that is a strength, it can sometimes be a weakness because it isn’t laser-focused on …read more

Write 2D and 3D Games in Modern MoonBASIC

One of the major strengths of the BASIC programming languages has always been their no-fuss setup and rich set of commands for operations that would take considerably more work in …read more

A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges

In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.

Open-Source Mid-Drive e-Bike Motor Has Lots of Promise, and Hyphens

[Pedro Neves] has a mid-drive e-bike, but he doesn’t own it — not truly, since he can’t repair the motor unit. For a hacker to be in that position, there …read more

A Pop-Up Truck Camper for Less

We live in a veritable Cambrian Explosion of camping options, ranging from a tarp on the ground to multi-million dollar RVs. Somewhere around the middle is the pop-up truck camper, …read more

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

Article URL: https://github.com/stupside/castor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964015 Points: 202 # Comments: 51

The Kimi K3 Moment

Article URL: https://stephen.bochinski.dev/blog/2026/07/18/the-kimi-k3-moment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960218 Points: 412 # Comments: 439

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Calculator UI Is More Complex Than You Might Think

Calculators are so ubiquitous and so familiar that they are easy to take for granted in many different ways. [lcamtuf] points out one that has probably never occurred to many …read more