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The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.

As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. …

The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain

Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/115096720350507897 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759870 Points: 329 # Comments: 164…

Tesla driver faces manslaughter charges over Texas crash that killed a woman inside her home

The man whose Tesla struck and killed a woman inside her Texas home last month is now facing manslaughter charges, as reported earlier by The Wall Str…

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

Article URL: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759634 Points: 304 # Comments: 117…

The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing

Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761229 Points: …

Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses

https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-re..., https://archive.vn/mCbBw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744606 …

Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?

Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between frontier AI labs.…

Weber marks down grills and griddles to their best prices ever for July 4th

If our recent Decoder interview with Weber Blackstone CEO Roger Dahle has you craving freshly grilled meats or veggies, Weber just so happens to have …

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.…

Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026

Deliveries outstripped production, suggesting Tesla has cleared some inventory.…

Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC

FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.…

The DEA Plans to Ban Opioid-Like Kratom Compound 7-OH: What It Means for the Kratom Industry

The federal agency says it will temporarily schedule the drug, which has been called "gas station heroin," as a controlled substance—a boon for MAHA a…

The video game disc is dead

For decades, to be a gamer was to accumulate a lot of stuff. Consoles, controllers, accessories, weird VR gloves that never worked properly, but mostl…

Godox’s feature-packed key light is down to its best price yet

If you don’t want to spend $180 on the Elgato Key Light, the Godox ES45 Desktop LED Key Light is a more affordable option that offers nearly as much b…

Achieving operational excellence with AI

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way…

Influencer screenings aren’t going away

For a few days, it seemed like Universal decided that there would be no advanced screenings of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey for influencers. But on…

Woman's puzzling decline turns out to be cobalt poisoning from hip replacement

Doctors find grey fluid and dead, metallic flesh inside poisoned woman's hip.…

Tesla’s Q2 sales jump 25 percent

Tesla just released its second-quarter delivery and production report, showing that the automaker is starting to recover after a particularly brutal s…

Bring back crappy forums

Article URL: https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755731 Points: 308 # C…

Bublue BuVortex V5 Pool Skimmer Review: An Impractical Cleaner

The Bublue BuVortex V5 ditches conventional skimming for a vortex-powered design that’s fascinating to watch, even if it’s severely impractical.…

Heat Domes Are Dangerous. July Fourth Activities Will Make Things Worse

Long hours outdoors, day drinking, and World Cup matches are among the factors raising the risks of heat-related illness, as hot weather spreads acros…

What to learn to be a graphics programmer

Article URL: https://blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/what-to-learn-to-be-a-graphics-programmer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4875071…

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

Article URL: https://zcode.z.ai/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753715 Points: 289 # Comments: 242…

Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise

Article URL: https://news.ubc.ca/2026/06/mrna-vaccines-are-safe-effective-and-full-of-promise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4875…

Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office, Google Apps with AI.…

Warehouse AMR Cost Breakdown: Price Ranges, TCO, and ROI by Robot Type (2026)

Robot Arm Cost Per Payload Kilogram: Ranked $/kg Table for 15 Collaborative and Industrial Arms (2026)

Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

Article URL: https://www.workerowned.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752905 Points: 266 # Comments: 55…

Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746914 Points: 253 # Comments: 172…

7 Lesser-Known Google Account Settings You Should Change (2026 Guide)

Adjust your options for things like account recovery, ad personalization, and which parts of your Google profile are shared publicly.…