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An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921 Points: 73 # Comments: 21
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Möbius-Strip Crosswords
Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211660 Points: 21 # Comments: 2
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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents mo
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Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.
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Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
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Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms
The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.
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You put together the concept — from a founder mixer, an after-hours panel, a themed party, a morning run, whatever fits your goal — and the TechCrunch team helps put it in front of the attendees already in town for Disrupt.
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Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.
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Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.
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AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211438 Points: 91 # Comments: 28
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Software is about people, not code (2020)
Article URL: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/01/27/software-is-about-people-not-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211437 Points: 30 # Comments: 27
99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
Article URL: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386 Points: 165 # Comments: 144
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210589 Points: 104 # Comments: 43
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Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Article URL: https://textlog.cc/about Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208458 Points: 46 # Comments: 10