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Fire inflict first defeat on leaders Brave

Welsh Fire condemn Southern Brave to their first defeat of this season's Hundred as they post a dramatic four-wicket victory in Cardiff.

2026-08-03 · 17:25 UTC
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Haugset takes shock Tour stage win after huge break

2026-08-03 · 17:25

Norway's Sigrid Haugset wins stage three of the Tour de France Femmes Avec Zwift following a 68km solo breakaway.

Tech

The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

2026-08-03 · 17:18

Cloudflare has launched a new Billable Usage API that provides programmatic access to account usage and costs broken…

Crypto

Bitget Quits Japan, Forces Traders to Exit by Year’s End

2026-08-03 · 17:18

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget announced this week that it will stop serving customers in Japan, setting a Dec.

Tech

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

2026-08-03 · 17:16

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Sports

Ireland 'laser-focused' on World Cup qualification

2026-08-03 · 17:15

Ireland's five-game ODI series against Afghanistan this week marks the start of their preparations for next year's World…

Crypto

Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits Jackpot, Scoring $200K BTC Reward

2026-08-03 · 17:12

CKPool's developer put the winner's hashrate at a “wildly variable” peak of 100 PH, noting that it was probably rented.

Crypto

TRON DAO Joins Blockchain Application Stanford Summit at the Science of Blockchain Conference as a Sponsor

2026-08-03 · 17:09

Geneva, Switzerland, August 3, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the…

Tech

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

2026-08-03 · 17:08

Cloudflare uses three optimization techniques—KV cache quantization, model weight compression, and shared cache…

Tech

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

2026-08-03 · 17:02

C-Kermit, a file transfer protocol created in 1981 to enable communication between incompatible computer systems, has…

Crypto

BlockDAG Locks Payments Giant RedotPay for Super App as XRP Stalls, Pi Network Craters to $0.08

2026-08-03 · 17:00

Current xrp price levels sit stuck below $1.10, with the CLARITY Act vote pushed to September and a weak August adding…

Crypto

It’s Official! BlockDAG & RedotPay Launch a Super App for Everyday Crypto Spending While WTH & WLD Prices Hit Critical Levels

2026-08-03 · 17:00

Recent price action shows several major cryptocurrencies testing critical support and resistance levels.

Tech

Why winner of biggest prize in maths has decided to work on AI instead

2026-08-03 · 17:00

Jacob Tsimerman won a Fields medal last month – now he is leaving mathematics to work on AI safety

Tech

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

2026-08-03 · 16:54

Swiftlet is a Swift + Metal runtime that enables running large Qwen AI models on Apple devices by streaming…

Crypto

XRP Lending Proposal Still Remains Far From Activation

2026-08-03 · 16:52

XRPL lending remains a proposal rather than a live network feature, with validator support just around 20%.

Tech

Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

2026-08-03 · 16:51

Software developers working across multiple repositories with different tech stacks can use task runners—simple tools…

Tech

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

2026-08-03 · 16:46

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

Crypto

Kenya moves 30 million academic credentials onto Avalanche blockchain

2026-08-03 · 16:46

A new digital verification platform aims to reduce forged certificates by allowing employers and universities to…

Tech

SearXNG in Rust

2026-08-03 · 16:41

A developer has created a metasearch engine in Rust that aggregates results from multiple search engines (DuckDuckGo,…

Tech

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

2026-08-03 · 16:40

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying…

Tech

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

2026-08-03 · 16:32

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite (https://hoplite.sh).

Crypto

Bitcoin ETF Flows Face Key Institutional Test

2026-08-03 · 16:30

Bitcoin ETF Flows remain under focus after BlackRock reported a $122.7 million Bitcoin sale during the latest trading…

Tech

Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

2026-08-03 · 16:29

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action…

Crypto

Trump Family’s American Bitcoin Tops 8,000 BTC After Record Mining Quarter

2026-08-03 · 16:29

The Hut 8 subsidiary increased its Bitcoin holdings by 14% in the second quarter even as Bitcoin’s price fell.