The most official water costs $120k a gallon
Article URL: https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124042 Points: 37 # Comments: 10
AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In
Viral tales of good triumphing over evil are racking up millions of views. They’re almost entirely AI-generated clickbait.
Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces
Hello Hacker News! I’m Tomasz, creator of Privacy Thing, a browser extension for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers. I’ve just released its Preview version. Privacy Thing aims to reduce browser fingerprinting—the tracking of users without cookies. It began as an internal project: a simple locati...
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is fighting 'a hundred-year flood' on memory pricing — expects to pay even more for memory in September following recent price hikes
Apple will pay even more for memory in the September quarter than it did in the June quarter, CEO Tim Cook told analysts on the company's earnings call.
Reddit is testing a new way to watch — and listen to — its viral posts
Reddit is developing a new video experience that lets users watch — or simply listen to — its most popular posts, taking inspiration from the viral TikTok videos that pair Reddit stories with gameplay or other footage. CEO Steve Huffman said the feature is already in the works and could begin tes...
This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence
An ad for Orchid suggests the AI agent can fix relationship problems by simply doing everything for inconsiderate partners.
Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human
The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.
iOS 27 adds new reason to upgrade your iPhone screen size
iOS 27 includes lots of hints that the iPhone Ultra is coming, and one such hint—expanded landscape support—offers a new reason to upgrade your iPhone screen size, even if you’re not getting the foldable.
Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account
Article URL: https://github.com/richlegrand/bitbang-cli Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123789 Points: 27 # Comments: 2
WhatsApp is testing a new folder for messages from large businesses
WhatsApp will automatically move messages from large businesses to a new folder a few hours after you receive them.
How do you plan on buying your next iPhone? [Poll]
Apple made a big change to iPhone purchasing options this week. Not only did it launch the Apple Upgrade leasing program, but it also killed the iPhone Upgrade Program. With the iPhone 18 lineup just over a month away, I’m curious: how do you plan to buy your next iPhone?
Update Teams mobile app by October or lose your calendar
A nice little summer job for someone
Authorize, don't authenticate
Article URL: https://blog.marcua.net/2026/07/31/authorize-dont-authenticate.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123468 Points: 42 # Comments: 8
Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s
Article URL: https://github.com/sqliteai/waste Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123386 Points: 24 # Comments: 4
It’s time to panic about AI safety
When the phrase "OpenAI hacked Hugging Face" has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI's agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the web, including a bunch of other supposedly secure web service...
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
ESET tracks rise in malicious AI skills and adaptable malware
Attackers are adapting established techniques to AI platforms, emerging technologies, and changing user behavior. ESET's new threat report examines the rise of malicious AI skills, AI-assisted malware, ClickFix attacks, record quishing activity, and ransomware tools designed to disable security s...
How to fight a data center
If you're worried about noise, utility costs, or pollution: here's how to fight against a data center.
Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1086489/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123208 Points: 70 # Comments: 37
The C ``Clockwise/Spiral Rule''
Article URL: https://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123199 Points: 37 # Comments: 11