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Sam Altman on AGI, Compute, and Human Agency [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDB5beon4DY
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090711
Points: 2
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Workplaces look for cheaper AI as 'tokenmaxxing' fades as a corporate fad
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/ai-token-openai-anthropic-corporate-31bb80ac1cd7862d05f6397177d826b1
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090703
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Show HN: A tool to privately timestamp a claim and reveal it on schedule
I built my first startup around an optimistic but extremely naive idea: if you get scientists to timestamp their work on a blockchain, and then couple that timestamp with a protective license, you would stop IP theft. This would then allow scientists to collaboratively share data or inventions without fear of being undercut, and thereby usher in a golden age of science.
prove-yourself is a tool that extracts of some of what we built into a simple CLI and web app that lets you:
- Write a statement (a prediction, a claim, a hash of a file) and sign it with a local Ed25519 key - Tie the signing key to your accounts (GitHub, Twitter, HN, etc.) by posting a signed statement - Encrypt the signed statement to a future round of drand, so the decryption key doesn't exist anywhere until the time you picked, using timelock encryption - Anchor the commitment in an Ethereum transaction and on IPFS, so there's a public record it existed by that date - Let anyone decrypt and verify it after the reveal, without you (or any server of mine) being involved
prove-yourself runs as a CLI or in the browser via WASM. Nothing leaves your machine, although if you use the hosted playground, your private attestation will be posted to IPFS and the Ethereum Sepolia testnet through my server.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090702
Points: 1
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NIH Will End Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jay-bhattacharya-how-nih-will-end-dangerous-gain-of-function-research-547eaa9b
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090699
Points: 1
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New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/new-york-school-artificial-intelligence-robot-teacher-c2126c704104c4eb68b79738630b07df
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090690
Points: 2
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Dice: Detailed Inter-Chiplet End-to-End PHY Modeling for Chiplet Simulation
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24221
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090650
Points: 1
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Substackers Say New AI Detection Tool Is a 'Witch Hunt'
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/substackers-say-new-ai-detection-tool-is-a-witch-hunt/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090647
Points: 2
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Poolside Desktop Assistant – multi harness ACP app for macOS
Article URL: https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-poolside-desktop-assistant
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090620
Points: 1
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eBay Reaches $56 Million Settlement With E-Commerce Newsletter Writers It Terrorized In 2019
China's reported chip breakthrough comes with some big caveats
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/china-chipmaking-duv-tool-asml-explained.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089435
Points: 1
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Beacon – an open-source platform for comparing NASA/JPL and ESA NEO data
Article URL: https://github.com/NovaCoding-G/B.E.A.C.O.N
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089419
Points: 1
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Trump administration to ban new Chinese humanoid robots
Show HN: Learning Mode – Claude refuses to write code
Article URL: https://github.com/melsayedx/learning-mode
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089416
Points: 1
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Google Cloud page describes Gemini distillation service?
Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/google-cloud-page-describes-gemini-distillation-service-but-its-release-status-i
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089408
Points: 1
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ClickBench Playground – Test 110 Database Systems
Article URL: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/playground/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089407
Points: 1
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Recursion Is Lying to You
Article URL: https://blog.gaborkoos.com/posts/2026-05-09-Your-Recursion-Is-Lying-to-You/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089406
Points: 1
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Approximating the Position of Space Probes with Minimal Code
Article URL: https://webb.is-a.dev/articles/spapprox/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089397
Points: 1
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The IRS Is Imploding
Article URL: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/the-irs-is-imploding/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089363
Points: 3
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