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

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

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

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…
Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

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…
Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

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

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

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…
Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming

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

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

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

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…
Please stop the AI confidence theater

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…
Holes

Holes

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

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…
Flatbush Zombies’ Erick the Architect misses his BlackBerry keyboard

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 …
Submit Your Questions: Inside The World of Online Romance Scams

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

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…
The square-ish phone that I wanted to love

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

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.…
When the ability to smell goes away

When the ability to smell goes away

Disturbances in this critical sense are often linked to problems with brain health.…
Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780801 Points: 249 # Comments: 74…
The bottleneck might be the air in the room

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

Article URL: https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783117 Points: 304 # …
This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone

This Buried Apple Feature Turns an iPhone Into the Perfect Kids’ Dumb Phone

Apple built a tool for people with cognitive disabilities, but I accidentally discovered it’s also the best kids’ phone setup no one is talking about—…
Food Preservatives May Increase the Risk of High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease

Food Preservatives May Increase the Risk of High Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease

Aa large-scale study demonstrates that preservatives widely used in everyday processed foods may exacerbate common health risks.…
Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

Plus: Alleged Scattered Spider hacking member extradited, dozens of license plate reader errors, and Indian officials are concerned about WhatsApp’s u…
Qi fan fan

Qi fan fan

Despite my initial skepticism, I'm now sold on wireless Qi chargers that add integrated fans to keep your phone cool while charging. I figured they'd …
Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

Article URL: https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775921 Points: 256 # Comments: 121…
Costco is the anti-Amazon

Costco is the anti-Amazon

Article URL: https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776044 Points: 260 # Comments:…
The Safari MCP server for web developers

The Safari MCP server for web developers

Article URL: https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-server-for-web-developers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48…
Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

Article URL: https://wordgard.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772573 Points: 247 # Comments: 90…