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Tuesday, 11 August 2026 · Global Edition · Updated 09:25 CST
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Flighty Airports

Article URL: https://flighty.com/airports Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511589 Points: 72 # Comments: 18

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Goodbye to Sora

https://xcancel.com/soraofficialapp/status/20365327959847158... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-sh... , https://archive.ph/ABkeI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508246 Points: 389 # Comments: 302

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New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching

The dollar amount isn’t as important as the fact that this is the first jury verdict of its kind against Meta over harm to young people.

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Lululemon bets Epoch Biodesign can eat its shorts, literally

Startup Epoch Biodesign uses enzymes to break plastic waste down into monomers, the chemical building blocks that can be used to make new plastic.

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OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down

Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.

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Accel, Prosus pick six ‘off-the-map’ startups for inaugural India cohort

The six startups were selected from over 2,000 applications and will receive $500,000 to $2 million each.

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Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center

A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.

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Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk

Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.

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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features

Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."

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Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI

There are major problems to be solved before it can be adopted, though.

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OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator

Move comes amid a reported plan to refocus on business and productivity use cases.

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A Compiler Writing Journey

Article URL: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/acwj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511208 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/24/tech/meta-new-mexico-trial-jury-deliberation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509984 Points: 100 # Comments: 35

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We’re saying goodbye to Sora

https://xcancel.com/soraofficialapp/status/20365327959847158... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-sh... , https://archive.ph/ABkeI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508246 Points: 221 # Comments: 176

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Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

What do you do when private equity buys your old company and fires the maintainers of the popular open source project you started over a decade ago? You reboot it, and bring along some new friends to do it. Video.js is used by billions of people ever

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