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Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential-words/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145590 Points: 247 # Comments: 190

Despite predictions that AI agents could make traditional apps obsolete, developers are shipping new software faster than ever. From smarter bookmarking tools and neighborhood marketplaces to digital pen pals and nature journals, here are the latest App Store finds worth adding to your Home Screen.

DoomPaint stands out from the Doom crowd as it has been developed by Microsoft's Azure CTO and because it runs using MS Paint as the viewport for in-game action.

Several US towns said that their water utilities have suffered from cyberattacks, which are suspected to have originated from Iran. While systems remain running, several have resorted to manual control to protect the water supply.

This Interconnects post argues that AI lab consolidation hasn't materialized — more organizations are training strong open-weight models than ever, with Thinking Machines' Inkling (975B-A41B multimodal MoE, plus a 276B-A12B variant) and Tencent's Hy3 (295B-A21B MoE, now Apache 2.0 licensed) as key examples. The piece highlights that Thinking Machines' open model fine-tuning service is reportedly generating hundreds of millions in annual revenue, and that Chinese labs continue releasing competitive open models at a sustained pace.

GameStop has listed a purely ornamental Doom Floppy Disk Limited Edition Imitation Gold Plated Replica at $29.99.

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A new report suggests AMD is cooking up a range of per-core optimizations for Zen 6 that might not seem huge on their own, but they could add up to make a world of difference in gaming performance.

3mdeb has introduced a new open-source firmware for the MSI B850-P WiFi, marking the first time open-source firmware has been introduced to the AM5 platform.

These turbines have been the center of a lawsuit involving permits and pollution. While this is good news for the community, it will still take quite some time before they're fully removed from the premises.

Article URL: https://meshdiff.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143479 Points: 200 # Comments: 21

What happens when a graphics card gets in a car crash? If you're lucky, the damage is limited to just cosmetic scars that can go away over time with no serious damage under-the-hood.

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-08-02/News_and_notes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143414 Points: 352 # Comments: 342

This rare business card is currently on RR Auction, with a previous example going for $180,000 just a couple of years ago. It's graded Gem Mint 10, meaning it's as perfect as it can get.

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/0f9b2fe7-bde4-4f5f-b49e-93ccb5da9ea8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143188 Points: 202 # Comments: 194

One Team Fortress 2 player has amassed a collection of over 1.7 million cases from the game, and after nearly a decade of collecting, he’s selling the collection for an estimated $100,000.

Bor v0.8.0, an open-source policy management tool for Linux desktops, adds policy types for Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones, plus a full web UI overhaul with proper URL routing, per-action RBAC, and tamper-protected managed files. The agent writes and restores policy files (policies.json, bor_managed.json, zone XML) and validates firewalld configs via firewall-cmd --check-config.

Tom Evslin on Bill Gates, the birth of Exchange, and dragging Ma Bell onto the web

Article URL: https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141073 Points: 215 # Comments: 106

Simon Willison summarizes three recent open letters on AI policy: a Microsoft-shepherded letter (July 24) signed by 235 companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, OpenAI, and Y Combinator arguing against US government restrictions on open-weight models and defending distillation as legitimate; Anthropic's counter-position (July 27) where Dario Amodei called for cracking down on industrial-scale distillation while denying Anthropic wants to ban open weights; and 'Pacing the Frontier' (July 28) signed by 1,324 frontier AI company employees including Ilya Sutskever and Amodei, requesting US government support for international AI oversight.

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