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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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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?

Minnesota’s Nudification Ban Is Now in Effect Despite xAI’s Efforts to Stop It

The creators of Grok didn't want this, but it happened anyway.

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…

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.

Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School

Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...

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Swiggy’s Instamart Turns A Corner

The quick commerce industry in India got a reality check this week as Zepto’s IPO plans were put on hold.…

Tsinghua Team Open-Sources VeriLoop Coder-E1: Evidence-Governed Spiral Drives Verifiable Recursive Self-Improvement for Repository-Level Code Repair

VeriLoop Coder-E1 based on Qwen3.6-27B achieves SWE-bench Verified 85.20, SWE-bench Pro 62.38, Terminal-Bench 2.0 76.40, and DeepSWE 33.63 with narrow-domain PEFT and Self-Harness.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official Version Released and Open-Sourced: 304B Lightweight Model Surpasses V4-Pro Preview and Matches Claude Opus-4.8, Hailed as Third DeepSeek Moment

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 official release outperforms V4-Pro preview with 82.7 performance score at 0.14/0.28 USD pricing, tops VulcanBench, and reaches HuggingFace trending second.

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…

Interview studies of remote workers who travel solo consistently surface loneliness and fear of missing out as recurring themes, while separate research finds solo female travellers rate psychological and physical risk far higher than the financial risk men report worrying about most

The dream of working from anywhere masks a darker reality: constant motion cannot outrun isolation, and women traveling solo face threats men never have to calculate.

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Trillion-Level From Day One: What Kind of Commercial Space Companies Will the Six Networks Infrastructure Plan Encompass as Ground Equipment Orders Arrive First?

The April Politburo meeting launched six networks investment exceeding 7 trillion yuan, with remote sensing, satellite communications, and BeiDou timing ground equipment expected to see first commercial space orders.

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."

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…

The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.

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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: 203 # Comments: 97

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

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built

Article URL: https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140396 Points: 319 # Comments: 102

Karpathy’s Pelican

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140998 Points: 440 # Comments: 340

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

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

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

Article URL: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218 Points: 344 # Comments: 176

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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: 325 # Comments: 308

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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