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Why the Legendary Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-legendary-erdos-problems-are-falling-to-ai-20260803/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181519 Points: 48 # Comments: 23

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Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups

Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by backing Y Combinator startups.

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Indian EV startup River raises $120M Series C to scale production, launch more models

River plans to build a new factory, launch additional models from 2027, and target profitability as it scales production.

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Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient

Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agricultural data business.

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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

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Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle

Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.

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Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)

Article URL: https://divingintheshallowend.com/three-six-mafia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181678 Points: 25 # Comments: 5

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Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psilocybin-could-kick-start-anorexia-recovery-early-results-suggest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181419 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/21/poll-data-centers-democrats-moratorium-01001799 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181191 Points: 11 # Comments: 23

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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 95 # Comments: 31

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Position: LLMs Can't Jump

Article URL: https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181083 Points: 46 # Comments: 20

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The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180535 Points: 16 # Comments: 7

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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/helsinki-hn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180407 Points: 5 # Comments: 1

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Wispr Flow launches a Granola-styled meeting notetaker

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

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Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179039 Points: 51 # Comments: 30