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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.

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A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed

HyperTexting's new app aims to make the open web feel more like social media by turning websites, blogs, newsletters, and podcasts into a scrollable feed, while also making it easier to post to your own website.

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China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets

China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.

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Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says

The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.

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Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune

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Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?

ive been seeing a recurring claim that open (weight) models 6 months behind the frontier are good enough for the majority of ‘work’. if you've had a concrete task in the last month where GLM/DeepSeek/Kimi/Qwen failed and Opus/Fable/GPT succeeded (or

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SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/networking/spacex-wants-to-launch-100000-more-starlink-satellites/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863064 Points: 14 # Comments: 9

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Chat Control 1.0 has been passed

Article URL: https://gerarddupre.dev/en/blog/chat-control-1-passed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862510 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?

Article URL: https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-July/068430.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862467 Points: 29 # Comments: 18

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The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)

Article URL: https://vfxblog.com/2017/08/23/the-tech-of-terminator-2-an-oral-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862365 Points: 51 # Comments: 10

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Snails' Teeth Beats Spider Silk as Nature's Strongest Material (2015)

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spider-silk-loses-top-spot-natures-strongest-material-snails-teeth-180954346/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862252 Points: 57 # Comments: 29

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Hands-On with the AMD Ryzen AI Halo

Article URL: https://www.microcenter.com/site/mc-news/article/amd-ryzen-ai-halo-review.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861833 Points: 19 # Comments: 9

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Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept

Article URL: https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861213 Points: 26 # Comments: 20

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The Annotated JEPA

Article URL: https://elonlit.com/scrivings/the-annotated-jepa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859835 Points: 29 # Comments: 2

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Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone

Dumb Co sells flip phones that sync to your smartphone, bridging the infinite connectivity of the iPhone and the unrealistic limitations of an early 2000s relic.