OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe

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OnePlus ends new product rollouts in Europe/North America but maintains device support via OPPO, including updates and repairs. Users may opt to upgrade to ColorOS 17 or retain current systems with rollback options.

Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode

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published: Thursday, July 16, 2026 01:59 UTC

Let's Build PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure

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Homescale uses Ceph RBD snapshots and Kubernetes to create writable database clones and branches without full data copies, leveraging copy-on-write for efficient storage. It abstracts storage from compute, enabling scalable, database-agnostic workflows with Postgres as the initial engine.

Show HN: AI Law Tracker – one audited API for US, EU and global AI law

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Track AI laws (US/EU/global) via free assessment and JSON API with changelogs/webhooks. Data includes obligations, penalties, and risk factors, licensed CC BY 4.0 (not legal advice).

Ente – Opening Our Books

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The data includes USD revenue ($780,996 monthly, $1.18M annual), paying customers (12,018 monthly, 18,455 annual), and registered accounts (290,703 monthly, 439,046 annual) for January 2026.

Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly

Counting each YC chapter by batch year shows when these founders came through. A founder with two YC startups appears in both years. Startups don't work for a range of reasons, including timing. Explore the database to find already validated ideas that are ready for another shot.Explore Startups.RIP→
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Hilo is a daily 7-letter word puzzle using hi/lo clues to deduce letters through logic, not obscure vocabulary. Play solo, track streaks, or compete in private groups to solve the shared daily challenge.

Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them

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Sony's PlayStation Store repeatedly removes purchased content due to licensing changes, leaving users without refunds, highlighting a systemic issue where consumers are misled into thinking they own digital purchases rather than temporary licenses. Despite public frustration and legal loopholes, companies exploit vague terms and conditions to avoid accountability, demanding clearer ...

Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed

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Two teenagers, Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, were sentenced to five years and six months for a 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London, which stole millions of users' data and disrupted services. Part of the Scattered Spider group, their hack highlighted rising youth cybercrime threats in the UK, with authorities warning of online radicalization risks.

The lost joy of music piracy

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What.CD, a private music tracker with invite-only tiers and strict rules to avoid legal risks, fostered a dedicated community but shut down in 2016 after a Salinger manuscript leak and server seizure, leaving users in mourning.

Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

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The company released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, supporting text, images, audio, and video, alongside Inkling-Small (12B active) for efficient customization via Tinker. Trained on 45T tokens, Inkling offers controllable reasoning, safety features, and is available on platforms like Hugging Face and Tinker, with partnerships for deployment and ...

The Act and the Outcome of Creation

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Creation connects us to ourselves and others through subconscious expression, offering joy and flow by transforming thoughts into meaningful, shared gifts. It prioritizes the authentic creative journey over outcomes, fostering growth and lasting impact through intentional, empathetic artistry.

How to spend 15 years perfecting a product

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In 2023, an indie dev educator faced AI-driven market shifts and personal challenges while pivoting from web-based to IDE-integrated educational tools, leveraging VS Code's accessibility and SEO for distribution amid uncertain product-market fit.

A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data

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The study rejects Coase's conjecture by showing e-book prices don't fall to marginal cost, with sales persisting over time. Authors propose commitment to pricing or consumer outside options as alternative explanations.

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored

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The Victorian-era *Naturalist’s Library* democratized access to natural history through illustrated books, now digitally restored by Nicholas Rougeux using AI, offering free online and affordable print/poster versions to inspire future naturalists.

Track your workout from the iPhone Lock Screen

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Musklr displays current sets, last lifts, and rest countdowns on iPhone Lock Screen/Dynamic Island via iOS Live Activities, updating in real time without opening the app. It includes rest controls, Watch heart rate sync, and works on iOS 16.2+ with Lock Screen cards or Dynamic Island on newer models.

Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't

Purchased a low-cost USB 3.0 hub that's mostly USB 2.0 with flimsy build and safety risks, leading to buyer's remorse due to deceptive ads and return complications.

The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway

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The author experiences dissonance using LLMs despite agreeing with critics, noting widespread tension at tech conferences where developers auto-close LLM-generated PRs to combat trust issues. They advocate for structured workflows and human oversight to harness LLMs' benefits while mitigating their flaws.

Panel meter calculator with floating point

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A DIY calculator project uses electromechanical displays with acrylic panels, voltmeters, and a custom keypad, driven by an AVR128DA28 MCU for fixed-point arithmetic. The design combines vintage components, CNC-milled enclosures, and tactile switches, emphasizing practicality over analog complexity.

Grok Build is open source

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Grok Build is SpaceXAI's terminal-based AI coding agent with a TUI for codebase interaction, file editing, shell commands, and task management, supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows. It uses Rust, offers CLI installation, and is Apache 2.0 licensed with third-party notices.

Introduction to KizunaShelf: A shelf for everything you love

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KizunaShelf is a customizable, cross-platform media tracker using Markdown files, offering dynamic schema control and integration with external metadata sources to avoid reliance on proprietary apps. Built with Rust and SwiftUI, it emphasizes personal data ownership, connects media to life moments, and ensures longevity with plain-text storage and open-source design.

Let's build a simple interpreter for APL – part 1

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The author builds an APL interpreter in Python, inspired by Ruslan Spivak's Pascal interpreter series, focusing on tokenizing APL code right-to-left, parsing into an AST, and handling unique APL features like negation (¯) and operators. The project includes a GitHub repo for collaboration and aims to demonstrate interpreter construction through practical examples and incremental development.

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

The article reflects on the 1980s shift from proprietary to open-source software, crediting Richard Stallman's advocacy for free knowledge-sharing as foundational to tech progress. It warns that AI's increasing closure risks stifling innovation and transparency, urging open access to models and data to preserve scientific and societal advancement.

How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

The Roc compiler team completed a 1.5-year rewrite from Rust to Zig, achieving feature parity and enhancing performance with faster builds, memory efficiency, and zero-heap allocation features like hot code loading. While Zig's ReleaseFast improved memory safety and speed, Rust's ecosystem and incremental build improvements were noted, but Zig's flexibility and control better suited Roc's ...

If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe

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The article argues that recreating native HTML elements like buttons from scratch is a Sisyphean task due to their complex accessibility requirements, such as keyboard navigation and ARIA roles, which are inherently handled by native elements. It emphasizes using semantic HTML to avoid maintenance burdens and ensure user expectations are met.

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

SQLite is praised for its embedded use and self-contained design but faces challenges with ROWID reuse, flexible typing leading to data validation issues, and concurrency limitations. Solutions like strict tables, WAL mode, and an edition system for updated defaults are proposed to address these issues while maintaining compatibility.

Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

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Bluesky acquired the "ATPROTOCOL" trademark to protect the atproto community from legal threats, ensuring free use while defending against misuse. Licensing is optional for most, mandatory for branding, and future ownership may shift to an independent governance body.

Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later

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Reynard is an iOS browser using Gecko (Firefox's engine) to bypass outdated WebKit on older iOS versions, enabling modern website compatibility. It's experimental, requires sideloading via TrollStore/AltStore, and relies on community contributions for development.

I also filed the corners off my MacBook

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Upgraded from an 8-year-old Thinkpad to a MacBook for better battery and screen, but found its sharp edges uncomfortable. Modified the edges with a metal file and sandpaper, avoiding complex tools, to improve usability without noticeable wear.

World-War-Ⅱ-era telephone line still in use in Upper Tanana Valley Alaska (2021)

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The Alaska Highway, built in 1942, was not the only World War II-era construction project linking Alaska with the rest of North America. The Alaska Military Telephone Line (AMTL), stretching 2,020 miles from Edmonton, Alberta, to Fairbanks was also built during that period. According to the book U.S. Army In World War II; The Signal Corps, The Test, three communications technologies were ...