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A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/california-aquifer-may-have-crossed-point-no-return Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118663 Points: 70 # Comments: 36

Jimmc414 4 weeks ago

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"the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"

Article URL: https://twitter.com/lemire/status/2082851447499088173 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118474 Points: 15 # Comments: 1

telotortium 4 weeks ago

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The Religion of Speed

Article URL: https://graybeard.ing/the-religion-of-speed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117284 Points: 7 # Comments: 2

MobiusHorizons 4 weeks ago

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Premier league bans gambling sponsors

Article URL: https://www.footyheadlines.com/2646571793/betting-ban-takes-effect-no-more-gambling-sponsors-in-the-premier-league.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117266 Points: 53 # Comments: 8

paoliniluis 4 weeks ago

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The AI Aesthetic

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099 Points: 20 # Comments: 8

montroser 4 weeks ago

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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116922 Points: 11 # Comments: 2

surprisetalk 4 weeks ago

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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals

Article URL: https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116721 Points: 17 # Comments: 1

volumes94 4 weeks ago

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Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free

Article URL: https://rune.build/blog/rune-1-1-release Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116272 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

ernestrc 4 weeks ago

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Saber-toothed cats became inbred–and struggled to move–before they went extinct

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/saber-toothed-cats-became-inbred-and-struggled-move-they-went-extinct Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116074 Points: 11 # Comments: 1

gmays 4 weeks ago

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Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident

Article URL: https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/072926_melendez_swatting/man-seeks-millions-after-being-shot-by-pima-deputies-swatting-incident/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115506 Points: 17 # Comments: 4

anigbrowl 4 weeks ago

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Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English

Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639 Points: 20 # Comments: 6

navs 4 weeks ago

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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

Article URL: https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113929 Points: 91 # Comments: 27

dickfickling 4 weeks ago

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Postgres Queues Actually Scale

Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/making-postgres-queues-scale Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113913 Points: 18 # Comments: 1

KraftyOne 4 weeks ago

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What would it mean to see a new color?

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/03/what-would-it-mean-to-see-a-new-color Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113864 Points: 9 # Comments: 2

fortran77 4 weeks ago

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So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/plants/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113801 Points: 16 # Comments: 5

surprisetalk 4 weeks ago

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Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. W...

cgorlla 4 weeks ago

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Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents

Article URL: https://github.com/yashmahajan10/llm-differential-privacy-gateway Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113543 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

yashmahajan10 4 weeks ago

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Show HN: Tally – check a spreadsheet's numbers against their source, in-browser

Article URL: https://tally.jiegou.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113381 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

smperng 4 weeks ago

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CodePen 2.0

Article URL: https://chriscoyier.net/2026/07/30/codepen-2-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113338 Points: 23 # Comments: 5

robin_reala 4 weeks ago

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We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

Article URL: https://www.bottlenecklabs.com/blog/autonomously-run-businesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113059 Points: 46 # Comments: 20

Areibman 4 weeks ago

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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867 Points: 165 # Comments: 83

tedsanders 4 weeks ago

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Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744 Points: 103 # Comments: 35

speckx 4 weeks ago

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Rise Reforming (YC S26) Is Hiring

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/rise-reforming/jobs/wJ9Q9nv-senior-chemical-process-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112683 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

george_rose25 4 weeks ago

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How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/mexico-olinia-car-electric-vehicle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112368 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

rbanffy 4 weeks ago

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