Technology

The Sourdough Sidekick automates the boring bit of baking

Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff…

2026-07-05

Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines …

2026-07-05

The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust

The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior.…

2026-07-05

What Are Fish Oil Supplements Good For? Here’s Your Crash Course

A large-scale clinical trial has shown that even long-term consumption of DHA—an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in oily fish—may not lead to im…

2026-07-05

Eight Sleep Pod 5 Review: The Smartest, Nosiest Bed You Can Buy

Eight Sleep’s Pod 5 is great at its job, but its job is also watching you sleep.…

2026-07-05

How to Avoid Spoilers Online and in Chats

You can minimize the risk of films and shows being spoiled for you by muting comments, conversations, and keywords on various platforms.…

2026-07-05

There’s a Global Network of Fungi Under Your Feet. This Is the First Complete Map

A new study has succeeded in mapping, on a global scale, the fungal network that supports plant life and helps regulate our planet’s climate.…

2026-07-05

GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/30364 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789428 Points: 209 # Comments: 73…

2026-07-05

Africans Are Turning to Starlink

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/07/02/africans-are-turning-to-starlink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

2026-07-05

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

2026-07-05

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-flush-and-closed-loop-discharges-after-met…

2026-07-05

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

Article URL: https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4878683…

2026-07-05

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

Article URL: https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788283 Points: 255 # …

2026-07-05

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Go…

2026-07-04

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785485 Points: 230 # Comments…

2026-07-04

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

Article URL: https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48786781 Points: 251 # Comments: 117…

2026-07-04

NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth

The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of burning up in Earth's atmospher…

2026-07-04

I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)

Article URL: https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777728 Points…

2026-07-04

Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

Article URL: https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781196 Points: 224 # Comments: 316…

2026-07-04

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

Article URL: https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784777 Points: 239 # Comments: 30…

2026-07-04

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI …

2026-07-04

Matic’s robot vacuum is getting a $250 price hike in September

The Matic is our favorite robot vacuum by a pretty comfortable margin. If you’ve been thinking about buying one, you may want to plan on doing i…

2026-07-04

Please stop the AI confidence theater

Article URL: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774414 Points: 23…

2026-07-04

Holes

Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3266/large/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777832 Points: 231 # Comments: 39…

2026-07-04

Maybe you should learn something

Article URL: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782435 Points: 236 # Comments: 117…

2026-07-04

Flatbush Zombies’ Erick the Architect misses his BlackBerry keyboard

Erick the Architect is a founding member of, and the primary producer for, the legendary Flatbush Zombies. He's toured the world, performed on Kimmel …

2026-07-04

Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

The Yahoo Boys author Carlos Barragán will join Kate Knibbs to answer your questions about Nigeria's romance scammers.…

2026-07-04

Hey number pad lovers, this is a keyboard we can finally agree on

I know a vocal group of people who swear by the number pad on their keyboard. And yet, for years I haven't cared about using one - until I put my hand…

2026-07-04

The square-ish phone that I wanted to love

The Ikko MindOne Pro is delightfully small. I keep calling it a square phone, which isn't quite right; the screen is square, but the phone itself is s…

2026-07-04

A martian rock has lots of carbon on it, and it's not clear why

Biology could explain the find, but there are other potential explanations.…

2026-07-04