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Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research

We are Rui and Michael and we’re building EdotEnv ( https://edotenv.com ): self-improving RL environments from Quant Trading workflows. With all the benchmaxxing around, evals saturate and become meaningless for model comparison. Useful benchmarks sh

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Waymo – Dallas Open to All

Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836 Points: 86 # Comments: 75

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Web security is too hard

Article URL: https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172834 Points: 123 # Comments: 48

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Blackmail Fail (2013)

Article URL: https://gwern.net/blackmail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172597 Points: 14 # Comments: 1

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Why some people mow a lawn better than others

Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172550 Points: 91 # Comments: 84

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What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?

Article URL: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2026/aug/what-is-behind-sharp-drop-labor-force-participation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172159 Points: 24 # Comments: 33

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Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268 Points: 97 # Comments: 29

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When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16763 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170915 Points: 49 # Comments: 56

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Perspec 1.0

Article URL: https://adriansieber.com/announcing-perspec-1-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170508 Points: 36 # Comments: 9

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Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe.

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Take an extra $100 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only!

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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TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app

Bingers is a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved with TV Time, while adding support for importing their viewing history.

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Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.

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China is Tesla's cash cow, but for how much longer?

Tesla's Shanghai factory is busier than ever but might be cut loose.

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The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does

The camera flash will evolve into a multicolor LED that illuminates when your phone is face down.