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US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

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RWE will abandon its US offshore wind projects after a $1.2bn payout deal with the Trump administration and reinvest in conventional gas projects. The company will invest $19.6bn in the US over six years to grow its generation capacity.

Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language

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Wyzer is a statically typed, compiled language with integrated distributed safety via choreographic programming and a perceus memory model. It uses a single ownership rule to manage memory, threads, and networks safely without a garbage collector or complex borrow checker.

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

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A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567m into a fund to address mental health impacts from its platforms. The ruling brings the total amount Meta is responsible for to $942m, with $420m going towards treatment services for young people in New Mexico.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

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AMD acquired AI chip company Taalas, which etches model weights into silicon for faster inference performance. The deal aims to boost AI hardware and compete with Nvidia's dominance in the market.

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

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The US economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, with economists expecting 83,000 added roles, and the labor market showing signs of stalling. The job losses were led by local government education, retail, and financial industries, while healthcare added 22,000 jobs.

Thoroughly Understanding C++ ABI

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The Application Binary Interface (ABI) is a concept that affects the compatibility and stability of binary program modules, and its stability is influenced by factors such as CPU instruction sets, operating system, and compiler implementations. The C++ standard does not explicitly specify an ABI, but it has some requirements for compiler implementations, and the Itanium ABI has become a ...

Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]

Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates

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Cloudflare has developed a new browser called Kitesurf, designed specifically for AI agents and automation tasks, which is more efficient in CPU and memory consumption than Chromium. Kitesurf is built on top of Cloudflare Workers and uses AI to accelerate the development process, with a focus on scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.

Software is about people, not code

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The author initially focused on code, but learned that people are more important for software project success due to their needs and purposes. Code is a tool that must solve real world problems of real people, making it useless if it does the wrong thing.

Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS

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Textlog is a simple social platform for short notes, following people and hashtags, and joining conversations without performance pressure. It's free, public, and easy to use, with a focus on straightforward sharing and community respect.

U.S. Lost 23,000 Jobs in July, While Unemployment Ticked Lower

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Taste Is All That's Left

The author argues that the value of human judgement, or "taste," has become more important in software development now that machines can generate code quickly and efficiently. However, this judgement is difficult to measure and is often overlooked in favor of productivity and efficiency, leading to a flood of mediocre software that lacks quality and purpose.

US's largest newspaper chain partners with Palantir to analyze audience data

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

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The pgrust query engine is 10x faster than the previous version and outperforms Postgres by 30% on OLTP benchmarks and 300x on Clickbench. Optimizations such as batching, operator fusion, and SIMD enabled pgrust to achieve these performance gains, with the goal of further improving performance through JIT compilation.

São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

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Hélio Silva transformed an abandoned lawn in São Paulo's East Zone into the Tiquatira Linear Park, a 320,000 square meter green space with 32,000 trees. His initiative, which began with 200 seedlings in 2003, inspired the city to create São Paulo's first linear park in 2007.

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

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Scientists using the U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the Sun's surface. This finding could help explain explosive solar activity and other solar phenomena, and may be a key reason why the Sun's outer atmosphere gets hot.

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

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Researchers developed a bioengineered chewing gum that reduced HPV by 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The gum preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy for head and neck cancer.

A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video]

TypeStax: A type scale generator with vintage audio hardware interface

Build harmonious type scales on a skeuomorphic analog control panel. Per-element editing, Google Fonts, live previews, and Figma export.

Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer

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← Home Go to beats.bitwrap.io. Pick a genre — techno, jazz, ambient, drum & bass, 19 in total. Hit Generate. You'll hear a full track: drums, bass, melody, arpeggios. Change the seed, get a different track. Replay the same seed, get the exact same one. There's no piano roll behind this. No timeline grid, no DAW. The whole thing runs on Petri nets — circles connected by arrows, ...

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Nepal's National Cyber Security Centre has joined Have I Been Pwned's free gov service to monitor government domains against data breaches. This will help Nepal identify and respond to exposed government email addresses and compromised credentials.

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

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We build PCBs in the US, delivering boards to drone and defense teams within 7 days. Our domestic build process ensures on-time shipping and complete audit trails for every order.

The BBC Tetris Companion

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The author created a game called Bridgetris for the BBC Bridge Companion, a 1985 game console that teaches bridge on a TV. The game is a Tetris-like puzzle game written in Z80 assembly language.

Why Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer

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In Estonia, residents turn their private gardens, courtyards, and garages into temporary cafes for one day in July, a tradition known as Kodukohvikute Päev. This event allows visitors to experience everyday Estonian life and taste homemade food and drinks.

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Can, the Herdr creator, realized he was the bottleneck and built a runtime to manage agents and development style. He wants to keep the runtime free and open, and is joining Y Combinator to build a team and expand Herdr's features.

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

As of a recent update, my phone has started detecting me going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off". This insta-locks the screen and kicks me out of the app I use to pace my runs. gaaaaah

Mario Meets Pareto

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To find the best Mario Kart 8 build, use the Pareto front to eliminate dominated options and focus on the efficient drivers that balance speed and acceleration. This objective criteria helps filter out suboptimal choices, but you still need to make a final decision based on your play style and preferences.