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Wednesday, 12 August 2026
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Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.
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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.
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As they got close to the Moon, Artemis II astronauts were eager to land
"If you had given us the keys to the lander, we would have taken it down."
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Mozilla launches Thunderbolt AI client with focus on self-hosted infrastructure
New tool builds on deepset’s Haystack toward a “decentralized open source AI ecosystem.”
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Guy builds AI driven hardware hacker arm from duct tape, old cam and CNC machine
Article URL: https://github.com/gainsec/autoprober Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800033 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
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A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
Article URL: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/02/tree-sitter-overview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799573 Points: 25 # Comments: 0
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The Beginning of Scarcity in AI
Article URL: https://tomtunguz.com/ai-compute-crisis-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799322 Points: 27 # Comments: 32
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Sir-Bench – benchmark for security incident response agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12040 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798875 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
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Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
Article URL: https://clojure.org/about/documentary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798345 Points: 34 # Comments: 3
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GPT‑Rosalind for life sciences research
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-rosalind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798244 Points: 27 # Comments: 3
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A Tiny Yellow Handheld Changed How Duke University Teaches Game Design
Article URL: https://news.play.date/news/duke-playdate-education/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798176 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/build-android-apps-3x-faster-using-any-agent.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47797665 Points: 49 # Comments: 12
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Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding
Hey HN, In this age of agentic coding I've found myself spending a lot of time reviewing markdown files. Whether it's plans or documentation that I've asked my agent to generate for me, it seems that I spend more time reading markdown than code. I've
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From the Startup Battlefield stage to the International Space Station: geCKo Materials built a sticky product
This week on Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen speaks with Capella Kerst, founder and CEO of geCKo Materials.
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Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation
Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.