Robot Sourcing Index (Page 152)

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Best External Hard Drives (2026): SSD to Store Data, Video, and More

Need an ultrafast drive for video editing or a rugged option to back up your photos in the field? We’ve got a solution…

Jul 12, 2026

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Scientists’ Side Hustle? Using AI and Quantum Computing to Generate New Peptides

Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to…

Jul 12, 2026

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Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh

Article URL: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/mesh-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876505…

Jul 12, 2026

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What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547 Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

Article URL: https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

Hello HN!I'm the author of Ant, a JavaScript ecosystem built around a runtime with its own JavaScript engine. Ant also…

Jul 12, 2026

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We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgres Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-invented-180961368/ Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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Prefer strict tables in SQLite

Article URL: https://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/ Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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After years of teasing, the viral Nopia synth is ‘basically finished’

After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia, creators…

Jul 12, 2026

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GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/gpt-5.6-build-off-12-models Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870381 Points: 156…

Jul 12, 2026

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Oregon’s Attorney General withdraws effort to delay Paramount and Warner Bros. merger

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield had been seeking documents from Paramount related to its takeover of Warner Bros.…

Jul 12, 2026

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War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history

Article URL: https://waratlas.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863080 Points: 178 # Comments: 69

Jul 12, 2026

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The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)

Article URL: https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms/ Comments URL:…

Jul 12, 2026

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Networking and the Internet, from First Principles

Article URL: https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48871470…

Jul 12, 2026

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Mayor Mamdani announces "Click-to-Cancel" rules

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Jul 12, 2026

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FL Studio head Constantin Koehncke turns to Reddit for feedback and fun

If you're a music maker of a certain age, then you probably once dabbled with a pirated copy of a little app called…

Jul 12, 2026

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Nintendo’s Talking Flower got a small price cut

If you’re the type of person who could always use a little extra positive affirmation, or you have a weakness for weird…

Jul 12, 2026

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Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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Jul 12, 2026

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How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI

Article URL: https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863707…

Jul 12, 2026

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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults,…

Jul 12, 2026

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White House taps the guy who keeps crying ‘aliens’ to run UFO group

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the…

Jul 12, 2026