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Wednesday, 19 August 2026 Ā· Global Edition Ā· Updated 07:25 CST
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Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels

Article URL: https://phulin.me/blog/poker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111523 Points: 9 # Comments: 1

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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ā€˜slop’

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a ā€œseems like AI slopā€ reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

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Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile

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Spotify launches ā€˜User notes’ to let users add memories to songs

Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or when they first discovered it

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Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust

Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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: 15 # Comments: 6

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Toot.community is shutting down

Article URL: https://social.jorijn.com/@jorijn/statuses/01KYN00AP3NCZXCFB96KQB8GN2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112327 Points: 30 # Comments: 31

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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232 Points: 57 # Comments: 15

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Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis

Article URL: https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/research/recovering-abstraction.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110624 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109193 Points: 118 # Comments: 147

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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

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