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We're Squandering LEDs' Potential to Save Our Night Skies
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/led-light-pollution
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978350
Points: 1
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Landmark Science Report Confirms Big Oil's Fingerprints on Extreme Weather
DWCS: Why I Open-Sourced My Game Infrastructure Early
Extinction Rebellion pelt Microsoft Dutch data center site with acid balloons
Marvell Brings Radix, Low Latency, and Bandwidth to Bear with Teralynx T100
Wharton and Harvard Business School: LLMs on business decisions and tasks
Article URL: https://business-ai-benchmark.github.io/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977309
Points: 1
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Show HN: RefundHalt, contest App Store and Google Play refunds automatically
Hi HN, I'm the founder of RefundHalt.
When a user of your app asks Apple or Google for a refund, it almost always gets granted because you never contest it with consumption and usage data. You bear the full loss.
From August 3, 2026, Google also starts billing developers the purchase price plus bank fees on chargebacks; this means not only will you lose the original purchase price, but the bank also charges you extra money for this as well, about ~$15-30 dollars per chargeback (or even more)
RefundHalt contests these refunds for you automatically, with your app user's real usage evidence.
Setting up ALL your IOS and Android apps for automatic refund protection is extremely easy; it takes less than 3 minutes, you only need to copy and paste some values. No SDK installation is required.
Refund rates across my apps and some test users went from about 9% to ~1.9%, early data shows.
What would stop you from using this?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977293
Points: 1
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Major AI models are likely to refuse criticizing restrictive leaders or govts
Why is it so hard for the U.S. to win wars?
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/18/g-s1-134037/why-is-it-so-hard-for-the-u-s-to-win-wars
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977270
Points: 2
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India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977247
Points: 1
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Show HN: I built a pinball repair tool grounded in the real service manuals
Article URL: https://joinflipside.com.au/repair/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977229
Points: 1
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Understanding Go AI Inference: What Is Inference?
Article URL: https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-ai-inference-what-is-inference/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977228
Points: 1
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Commission fines AliExpress €550M for breaching the Digital Services Act
Show HN: Diagraw-draw AWS/GCP/IBM archs with icons, arrows that stay attached
Article URL: https://diagraw.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977193
Points: 1
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Alibaba Fined Record €550M by EU for Illegal Sales
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/alibaba-fined-550-million-for-illegal-sales-in-biggest-dsa-case
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977185
Points: 3
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Ask HN: What would a Python-first web look like?
The modern web is built on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Web browsers are essentially sandboxed JavaScript interpreters with rendering engines.
What do you think the web would look like if it were built from the ground up in Python?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977182
Points: 1
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DeepWaiting mindfulness while you wait
Article URL: https://deepwaiting.xyz
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977181
Points: 1
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Coercion and Deception in AI-to-AI Management: An Agentic Benchmark
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15434
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977134
Points: 1
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Lāhainā Noon in HawaiʻI: When and Where to See IT
Article URL: https://www.lovebigisland.com/hawaii-blog/lahaina-noon-when-and-where/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977130
Points: 1
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Who's Afraid of Chinese Models?
Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48977128
Points: 2
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