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Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Giri Nathan | tags: fish sauce, newfoundland and labrador, st. mary's

1592.

The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing a Small Canadian Town (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Giri Nathan | tags: fish sauce, newfoundland and labrador, fish sludge

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Hack Urgently Needs Federal Investigation, AI Safety Researchers Warn (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: openai, ai safety, federal investigation

1594.

Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk. (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: netflix, nic cage, op-fortitude

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Exxon and Chevron are having a ‘very good crisis’ reaping massive profits during the Iran war (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: exxon mobil, iran war, strait of hormuz

1596.

Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Ettore Di Giacinto | tags: c++, vllm, ggml

1597.

Sony Is Paying Out $7.85M in PlayStation Store Credit. Here’s How to Claim Part of the Settlement (cnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tyler Graham | tags: playstation store, sony interactive entertainment, the last of us

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Chrome Is Using AI To Fix Hundreds of Bugs, Eliminate Full Browser Restarts (slashdot.org)

2026-07-31 | tags: chrome, google, dynamic patching

1599.

Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: red bull, joris verster, energy drinks

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Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map (futurism.com)

2026-07-31 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: amazon, irgc, sentinel-2

1601.

America’s blood supply is so low the Red Cross is calling it a crisis (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: red cross, blood supply, type o blood

1602.

Here’s an early look at Lenovo’s inaugural Googlebooks (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: googlebooks, lenovo, android

1603.

A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: gtk4, zig, ssh-askpass

1604.

New York Sues Kalshi After Talks to Rein In Prediction Market Break Down (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-31 | tags: new york, kalshi, prediction market

1605.

Australia's social media ban for under-16s has had limited impact so far (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kris Holt | tags: social media ban, esafety commissioner, threads app

1606.

New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Kim Zetter | tags: defcon, baochip, open-source

1607.

Is AI reasoning right for the wrong reasons? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by John Pavlus | tags: large reasoning models, openai, apple

1608.

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by John Pavlus | tags: large reasoning models, openai, apple

1609.

Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Stephen Prager | tags: medicaid, cms, terminal illness

1610.

Where .env Went Wrong (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: dotenv, environment variables, secret management

1611.

I built a f.lux alternative because the M5 Max firmware broke existing solutions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: f.lux, m5 max, firmware

1612.

30 years of CPUs at Tom’s Hardware — looking back on three decades of processors, from the Pentium II to Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd, intel, ryzen

1613.

Data Byte: This router's signal strength beat most competitors in our lab test (zdnet.com)

2026-07-31 | by Allison Murray | tags: router, signal strength, zdnet

1614.

A big win for Android interoperability (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: android, open home foundation, digital markets act

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The most official water costs $120k a gallon (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by .Wp-Block-Post-Author Box-Sizing Border-Box Display Flex Flex-Wrap Wrap .Wp-Block-Post-Author__Byline Font-Size Margin-Bottom Margin-Top Width | tags: water isotopes, deuterium, oxygen-18

1616.

AI Slop Melodramas Are Taking Over X—and Their Creators Are Cashing In (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Steven Levy | tags: twitter, creative revenue sharing, melodramas

1617.

OpenAI says its new GPT 5.6 models are becoming more cost-efficient (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: openai, gpt-5.6, luna

1618.

This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend’s Incompetence (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jason Parham | tags: orchid, weaponized incompetence, ai assistant

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This AI Assistant Wants to Make Up for Your Boyfriend's Incompetence (wired.com)

2026-07-31 | by Jason Parham | tags: orchid, weaponized incompetence, ai assistant

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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-31 | by Marina Temkin | tags: smallest.ai, voice ai, human conversation