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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call
When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.
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US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own
$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.
Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
Article URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162086 Points: 38 # Comments: 9
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ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode
Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/zx-spectrum-system-tour-text-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161801 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
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What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
Article URL: https://epoch.ai/MirrorCode Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157786 Points: 62 # Comments: 68
Twenty Years of Pandoc
Article URL: https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156750 Points: 85 # Comments: 10
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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs pre-order questions on Q2 earnings call
When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.
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Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models
Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.
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WhatsApp says it is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts
Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app.
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Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model
The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.
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An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Top scores increased by 5x.
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LLMs reward expertise
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 134 # Comments: 46
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The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
Article URL: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160437 Points: 79 # Comments: 89