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Show HN: Teach your kids perfect pitch

Score: 165 | Comments: 110

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Printing Gaussian Splats

Score: 338 | Comments: 39

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Identity verification on Claude

Score: 809 | Comments: 680

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How Roomba started a robot revolution

If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, unt

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Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepbac

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Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans

The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's flagship phone line. Not only has it had an aesthetic overhaul, but Sony has also revamped the camera system, dropping the continuous opt

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Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

Score: 351 | Comments: 113

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Improvements to Std:Format in C++26

Score: 31 | Comments: 16

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Giant Banana Pulled Over: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s of Times

Score: 81 | Comments: 10

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François Englert (1932 – 2026)

Score: 21 | Comments: 3

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 mill

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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

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Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite

Score: 189 | Comments: 80

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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

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Epidurals are a miracle technology

Score: 14 | Comments: 3

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22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

Score: 108 | Comments: 27

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Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives

Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments.

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Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.

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