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India moves to give its instant payments network a business model

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020.

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Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod.

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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

Article URL: https://nelson.cloud/ai-generated-images-discourage-me-from-reading-your-blog/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167113 Points: 435 # Comments: 254

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Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

Article URL: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166874 Points: 54 # Comments: 10

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Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic

Article URL: https://ekxide.io/blog/byte-wise-atomic-wrapper-to-prevent-ub/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166672 Points: 8 # Comments: 5

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EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

Article URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/xbox-goes-down-you-cant-play-games-you-own-on-disc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167448 Points: 14 # Comments: 1

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Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roame/jobs/mqqfa38-lead-full-stack-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167444 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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Buckminster Fuller: everything I know

Article URL: https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/everything-i-know/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167147 Points: 11 # Comments: 6

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Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

Article URL: https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166984 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Nobel Disease

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166918 Points: 13 # Comments: 2

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Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/mini-retirements/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166749 Points: 20 # Comments: 23

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Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04)

Article URL: https://short-stories.co/@raybradbury/there-will-come-soft-rains-6k8vr4xxlnmj Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166491 Points: 24 # Comments: 3

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Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02412 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166442 Points: 6 # Comments: 1