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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.

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental cyberattacks by OpenAl and Anthropic models under test GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Claude Opus 5 Kimi K3 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Open letters about Al development A fireside chat and a podcast Reigniting my interest in MCP Other model releases My projects What I'm using at the moment Here's a copy of the June newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy! Tags: newsletter

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2083749667410727319 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140998 Points: 607 # Comments: 420

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NEW YORK, Aug 2 — Recent cyberattacks carried out autonomously by two rogue OpenAI artificial intelligence models...

After dropping clear promo images of the Galaxy Fold 8 lineup ahead of launch, Evan Blass (aka @evleaks) is back with more juicy details of Google’s upcoming smartphones. The Google Pixel 11 series which includes the Pixel 11 Pro Fold will be unveiled during the upcoming Made by Google 2026 event on 12th August and […]

Article URL: https://animeuserinterface.tumblr.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139304 Points: 201 # Comments: 49

Greg Brockman (OpenAI President and Co-Founder) observes that at OpenAI, many people connect ChatGPT to Slack, and coworkers react negatively when a colleague's ChatGPT messages them directly asking for help—even when they'd happily do the same work if asked by the human coworker. He frames this as evidence that people want AI to give time back or enhance collaboration, not insert itself as a separating layer between people.

Article URL: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/ai-financial-advice-surprisingly-good-especially-if-you-ask-right-questions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139102 Points: 348 # Comments: 396

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout .

Article URL: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/one-take-creation-flexible-referencing-introducing-seedance-2-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138302 Points: 437 # Comments: 250

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts that included "again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly hard findings." Now it's OpenAI's turn to flex. They set "an internal version of Astra, our next major model" on finding solutions to ten mathematical problems that "have seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade". They claim to have spent less than $2,000 at GPT-5.6 Sol token prices on each one. (No news on how many problems they spent $2,000 on without reaching a solution though.) The openai/ten-proofs repository has Lean 4 formalizations of their results, and there's also a paper describing the solutions and an additional LLM-generated PDF where the model "reconstructs how the proof came together" based on the unpublished reasoning traces. That's a decent level of transparency, but I want to see the prompts they used! A lot of mathematicians online are experiencing a collective burst of Deep Blue. Mathematician Kirwin Hampshire published an impassioned essay last week, The Dark Night of Mathematics, describing "a profound spiritual crisis" brought on by previous (and less significant) results. OpenAI's results reminds me of what Terence Tao described as "big mathematics" in IEEE Spectrum in June: Unlike some of his peers, Tao is neither dismissive of AI nor fearful. Instead, he sees it as the catalyst for a fundamental shift in the discipline—a transition toward what he calls “big mathematics.” He envisions a future of large-scale, decentralized collaborations between humans and machines, where complex mathematical tasks can be diced and sliced, with humans claiming the creative parts and AI doing the lion’s share of the technical grunt work. Via Hacker News Tags: mathematics, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, deep-blue

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Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

Article URL: https://zaksa.zip/blog/silicon-valley-founder-meat-grinder/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138045 Points: 239 # Comments: 152