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After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big…

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

Google has open-sourced its Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries to enable privacy-preserving age verification and…

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

ZCode is a lightweight coding tool built for GLM that enables efficient iteration on small repositories, priced at…

WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags

Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.

Chip Off the Old Block

# Summary Scott Alexander reflects on how having children has given him unexpected appreciation for poetry,…

T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

Qualcomm Linux 2.0

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

Proliferate, a YC S25-backed startup founded by Pablo Hansen, is hiring a Product Engineer to build an open platform for…

OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

OpenWiki is a CLI tool that uses AI agents to automatically generate and maintain documentation wikis for codebases,…

Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

One KW wind turbine without civil engineering

Venice AI Valued at $1 Billion as Erik Voorhees Makes the Case for Private ChatGPT Rivals

Venice reached a $1 billion valuation as founder Erik Voorhees argued AI companies should protect users' conversations.

LongCat-2.0: The Stealth AI Model That Was Quietly Topping OpenRouter All Along

The 1.6 trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model spent two months disguised as "Owl Alpha" before Meituan claimed…

NASA chief praises progress Blue Origin is making after launch failure

"We've got time into 2027 before we're getting nervous."

Dragonfly Leads $65M Bet on Erik Voorhees’ Venice AI as Startup Reaches Unicorn Status

Venice AI, the privacy-focused artificial intelligence (AI) platform founded by bitcoin advocate Erik Voorhees, closed a…

Fable 5 Is Back

Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access

Starting July 20, 2026, Claude Fable 5 will transition from promotional access to a paid model with different pricing…

Show HN: Z-Jail – A 130 KB Linux sandbox-C99 with 7 defense layers and zero deps

Z-Jail is a lightweight Linux sandbox (~81 KB) that provides seven ordered isolation layers for executing untrusted…

Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims

Research appears to reveal a bug that could render the feature effectively useless.

ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM

ZCode demonstrates Claude's code generation capabilities by creating a fully functional browser-based Gomoku…

US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs

Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.

UN's First AI Safety Panel Says Scientists Can't Rule Out 'Catastrophic Harm'

A 40-scientist panel found that AI capabilities are outrunning both scientific understanding and government oversight.

SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public.

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

The actor and investor is joining forces with Morgan Beller, who was previously a GP at NFX, to invest in early-stage…

Sony will stop making physical copies of PlayStation games in 2028

“We will own nothing, it's truly sad.”

Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation

The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in…

A good little EV you won't be able to buy soon: The Volvo EX30 Cross Country

Tariffs and anti-China policies killed this little Volvo in the United States.

Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with fall 2026 deliveries

Weave Robotics launched Isaac 1, a mobile home robot priced at $7,999 or $449/month, with California deliveries…

Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business

# Summary The article argues that most code rewrites prioritize engineer preferences over business needs, with the…