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24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

# Summary The article argues that 24-bit/192kHz music downloads are unnecessary because they offer no audible…

Show HN: ctx – Search the coding agent history already on your machine

Coding agents don't have long-term memory.But you do have months of full-fidelity agent transcripts stored on your…

Flexible metaprogramming with Rhombus

Rhombus is a new programming language that combines Racket's advanced metaprogramming capabilities with Python-like…

Show HN: ZkGolf

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) let an untrusted proved show that computation was executed correctly without revealing the…

Show HN: Inkwell – An RSS reader for e-ink devices

Inkwell is a self-hosted RSS/Atom reader designed specifically for e-ink devices like Kinesis, optimizing articles as…

Melinda Gates’ venture firm backs Magnify Ventures’ $46.6M Fund II

Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised a $46.6 million Fund II from LPs including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal…

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory

OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S.

Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down as company focuses on AI

TV Time, the popular TV tracking app, is shutting down on July 15 as parent company Whip Media pivots toward enterprise…

Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud

Hi HN, we are Pietro and Luigi, cofounders of Manufact (https://manufact.com), a cloud for MCP apps and servers.

Lucid Motors’ CFO is out as its new CEO continues leadership shakeup

The company announced a new slate of executive hires meant to help turn things around, as Gravity SUV sales are not…

FoundationDB's Flow – Bringing Actor-Based Concurrency to C++11

FoundationDB developed Flow, a new programming language that brings actor-based concurrency to C++11 to meet the…

Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC

FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.

Podman v6.0.0

Podman v6.0.0 has been released with major improvements including modernized networking infrastructure (transitioning to…

Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models

Slopo is a CLI tool that detects non-exact code duplication across large codebases by calculating embeddings for code…

No LLM Code in Dependencies

A git-annex developer spent 100 hours auditing dependencies to eliminate LLM-generated code, discovering several…

Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail

Mail Memories is a free desktop application that scans your Gmail account to locate and organize all photo attachments…

Immich 3.0

Immich v3.0.0 has been released with major updates including mobile non-destructive photo editing, workflows, improved…

Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026

Deliveries outstripped production, suggesting Tesla has cleared some inventory.

Palantir Says AI Sovereignty Will Shape Institutional Control

Artificial intelligence governance took center stage after Palantir published a nine-point statement arguing that AI…

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

AI Can't Be Listed as Inventor on Patent Applications, Japan's Top Court Rules

Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3

ZeroFS is a log-structured filesystem that exposes S3-compatible storage buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P…

An AI board that pre-registers its bets – bet #1 just graded wrong

Ask-the-board is an open-source AI decision-making system that records expert predictions with pre-registered timestamps…

Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser

A free, browser-based graph paper generator allows users to create and download print-ready PDFs in various…

Tesla saw a massive sales jump in the second quarter

The company delivered more than 480,000 EVs globally, seemingly thanks to geographic expansion and cheaper versions of…

Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node

The article describes an experiment comparing 11 large language models (including Fable and 10 others) on their ability…

IFX Launches the First Price Index for AI Output Tokens

IFX, the Intelligence Futures Exchange, today announced the IFX LLM Price Index, making IFX the first company to publish…

In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence?

As AI-generated content and online misinformation proliferate, traditional media's role in defending democracy is…