Tech News

Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works

This came from an idea that had been knocking around in my head for several years.

I'm a USB-C Maximalist

A traveler describes the benefits of adopting USB-C as a universal charging standard, demonstrating how a single power…

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

As AI tools become increasingly capable of handling research, reasoning, and decision-making, people are outsourcing…

New York State halts construction of all new data centers

New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov.

I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)

The RingConn 3 actually looks like real jewelry, not a wearable -- but its fitness tracking and headache detection…

The Agentic Loop: Three loops in a trench coat

Autonomous agent systems are built on three interconnected loops rather than a single simplified loop.

IBM Stock has worst day

IBM stock plunged 24% in premarket trading on July 14, 2026, on pace for its worst day in the company's 115-year…

Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius's compute.

The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says enterprises increasingly want open models, due to cost, accessibility, and ownership.

New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium

OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members

OpenAI is requiring all Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) members to use hardware-backed passkeys for ChatGPT account…

Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov confirmed an outage in a tweet, saying that short-links to the messaging app had "stopped…

Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant

Spotify is rolling out a new AI-powered conversational feature that lets Premium subscribers chat with the app to…

Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies

Superhuman’s latest AI email drafting feature is its most convincing yet, generating replies that often required little…

OpenAI quietly adds Kalshi World Cup odds to ChatGPT: Report

OpenAI’s ChatGPT now displays Kalshi’s World Cup prediction market odds in search results, marking the AI firm’s first…

DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng Becomes World’s Richest AI Founder 

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng added roughly $19 billion to his net worth in a single day after a July 13 valuation…

Proof of Care in the Age of A.I

As AI makes it effortless to generate written content, the author argues that demonstrating genuine effort and care in…

Tensor Is the Might

Tensors are fundamental abstractions in neural networks that represent multidimensional data as flat arrays of numbers…

Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security

The article proposes "Guardian Angels"—personalized large language models designed to emulate individual users' values,…

Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)

A developer created a system where an AI agent uses reinforcement learning to write and submit training jobs that teach…

Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection

C++26's new reflection capabilities enable the `rjk::duck` library to simplify type erasure by allowing developers to…

Coding agents think ahead of time

Researchers discovered that language models used in coding agents internally represent program properties—such as…

Differentiable Fortran with LFortran and Enzyme

Researchers have developed a method to automatically generate gradients from legacy Fortran, C, and C++ simulation code…

David Beckham’s health drink startup IM8 takes $1B from General Catalyst’s unusual CVF fund

General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund doesn't make equity investments.

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

The article provides a technical guide to customizing Claude's message output by creating a MessageDisplay hook that…

Punch Yourself in the Face with Reality

The article argues that AI's true value lies not in enabling faster building, but in forcing entrepreneurs to confront…

Show HN: Beautiful QR Codes

Scanwayy is an AI-powered tool that generates visually distinctive, branded QR codes by combining logos and style…

Codex starts encrypting prompts, uses ciphertext for inference instead

Codex has implemented encryption for multi-agent prompts and messages, storing only ciphertext for inter-agent…

Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps

Rejourney is an open-source tool that detects revenue leaks in web and mobile apps by identifying product failures in…