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EverQuest’s biggest fans are leading its revival

EverQuest’s biggest fans are leading its revival

Live-service games and the companies that run them are in big trouble. Games and their developers are getting shut down and gutted, and publishers' hu…
The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models

The Download: Claude’s inner workings, and the future of world models

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …
The US Approves the Launch of a Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night

The US Approves the Launch of a Mirror Satellite That Can Reflect Sunlight and Illuminate the Earth at Night

The FCC authorized Reflect Orbital to launch the mirror satellite Eärendil-1. “For optical astronomy, this poses an existential threat,” the European …
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models

Experts explain how they work, what they can do, and what's still unsettled.…
A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

Article URL: https://jivx.com/densha Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890959 Points: 233 # Comments: 35…
Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2076598897779020159 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468 Points: 260 # Comments: 101…
The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI

The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI

When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components…
Tesla Says It’s Building a Wheelchair-Accessible Robotaxi

Tesla Says It’s Building a Wheelchair-Accessible Robotaxi

A Tesla representative at a DC hearing said the vehicle is “an active product being built.” But its timeline isn’t clear.…
The Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet with 64GB RAM is down to $2,100

The Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming tablet with 64GB RAM is down to $2,100

Almost all gaming laptops have gone up in price over the past year. Curiously, the surprisingly fast Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop/tablet combo has …
Even Nvidia’s head of automotive fights with Nvidia for compute

Even Nvidia’s head of automotive fights with Nvidia for compute

Today, I’m talking with Xinzhou Wu, who is the head of automotive at Nvidia.  Nvidia is obviously in the news constantly because of the AI boom —…
This free Mac app reveals the truth about your mystery USB-C cables

This free Mac app reveals the truth about your mystery USB-C cables

Nearly three years ago, I showed you an awesome $8 cable tester that quickly tells you if your USB-C cable is likely fast, slow, powerful, or weak. Sa…
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

Article URL: https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882716 Points: 190 #…
Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds

Hey HN! We've spent the good part of this past year building an AI tutor that teaches kids ages 4-9 reading, math, ESL and more. Getting an AI tutor t…
Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

Computation as a universal and fundamental concept

Article URL: https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861213 P…
Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond

Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond

Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1766665/full Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
A love letter to flashcards

A love letter to flashcards

Article URL: https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861319 Points: 177 # Comments: 101…
Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/03/punk-or-why-i-dont-stream.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell

Article URL: https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html Comments URL: https://n…
AI 2040: Plan A

AI 2040: Plan A

Article URL: https://ai-2040.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848425 Points: 220 # Comments: 225…
GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

Article URL: https://toot-books.com/blog/glm-5-2-vat-benchmark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850414 Points: 220 # Comments: 118…
AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

Article URL: https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847940 Points: 236 # Comments: 213…
EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA

Article URL: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/home/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858292 Points: 236 # Comments: 1…
Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck

Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck

The Quest shipwreck is in worse shape than expected, but it has turned into a thriving marine ecosystem.…
Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets

Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets

The iPhone-maker claims OpenAI encouraged poached employees to bring over confidential presentations, secret prototypes, and key supplier details.…
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’

Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’

Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you d…
I’m filling in at The Verge for 6 weeks. Ask me anything!

I’m filling in at The Verge for 6 weeks. Ask me anything!

Hello my friends! My protocol pals! My computational compadres! I'm David, a technology reporter and co-host of the Waveform Podcast. I'll be hosting …
Empathy for the optimizers

Empathy for the optimizers

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that sw…
Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to pu…
Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Article URL: https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-mitchell-hashimoto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849292 Poin…
Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning

Like a cheat code for your car: We investigate ECU tuning

Now it's an arms race between OEMs locking down chips and tuners trying to crack them.…