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Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024)

Article URL: https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/static-search-tree/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951898 Points: 190 # Comments: 15…
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

Article URL: https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48942454 Poin…
CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026

Article URL: https://consequence.net/2026/07/the-cd-revival-is-getting-hard-to-ignore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48937398 Poi…
A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Article URL: https://scotto.me/blog/2026-07-17-which-lisp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947455 Points: 191 # Comments: 150…
The Best Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras

The Best Motion Sensors and Home Security Gadgets Without Cameras

If you prefer not to have cameras in and around your home, try one of these more private, WIRED-tested security devices.…
Mathematics of Data Science

Mathematics of Data Science

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11938 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939896 Points: 205 # Comments: 14…
The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning

Article URL: https://github.com/alxndrTL/little-book-rl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941104 Points: 204 # Comments: 26…
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943745…
Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them

Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI models on creators’ content without p…
Florida man arrested for allegedly stealing over $200,000 in crypto using Steam game malware

Florida man arrested for allegedly stealing over $200,000 in crypto using Steam game malware

Federal authorities have arrested a Florida man suspected of stealing at least $220,000 in crypto through malware-infected Steam games, as reported ea…
Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs

Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs

Xbox is currently in a "reset" period that includes laying off around 3,200 employees over the next year, involving deep cuts at beloved studios like …
San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are ov…
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials

Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half …
Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

Third-party app stores coming to Google Play next week as Epic settlement withdrawn

With the settlement withdrawn, Google is now bound by the court's full antitrust remedies.…
Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.…
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs

Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs

A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as report…
The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893639 Points: 247 # Comments: 51…
A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

A "disaster waiting to happen"? Industry officials worry about Crew Dragon availability.

"It's very clear that in the United States there is a big need for an additional crew vehicle."…
Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"

Hackers quickly prove that Neo Geo Doom ports are not "impossible"

Clever coding and graphical compromises get a classic game on more classic hardware.…
Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows

Apple and Samsung benefit as memory shortage pushes smartphone shipments to historic lows

The biggest smartphone makers keep on trucking in the face of component shortages and economic uncertainty.…
Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

"homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."…
VW Group and unions disagree on plan to streamline the automaker

VW Group and unions disagree on plan to streamline the automaker

VW's plan calls for half as many models but didn't mention closures or job cuts.…
GPT‑Live

GPT‑Live

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834405 Points: 300 # Comments: 220…
Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed

Microsoft’s Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed

As part of Microsoft's big Xbox "reset," which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to focus on "h…
Xbox’s bold plan for the future sounds nearly impossible

Xbox’s bold plan for the future sounds nearly impossible

It's another bad week for the video game industry. Microsoft outlined a series of layoffs on Monday that Xbox CEO Asha Sharma described as "the most s…
You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

You can now customize Siri’s pace and expressivity in the latest iOS 27 beta

The new controls let you control how quickly Siri speaks and expressive its voice is.…
Inside the big business of the creator economy, with the agents making it happen

Inside the big business of the creator economy, with the agents making it happen

We’ve got another special episode of Decoder today, recorded at the Cannes Lions advertising festival in the South of France. I’m talking with Ali Ber…
Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts

Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 employees today, and more than 30 percent of the job losses are in the company's Xbox division. The significant gaming c…
The fall of the theorem economy

The fall of the theorem economy

Article URL: https://davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-the-theorem-economy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758048 Points: 27…
Jon Prosser responds to Apple lawsuit by blaming the other guy

Jon Prosser responds to Apple lawsuit by blaming the other guy

YouTuber Jon Prosser has finally filed a formal response to Apple's lawsuit made against him and another defendant over allegedly stealing iOS secrets…