Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc
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Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
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Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174369 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
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Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died
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Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
We are Rui and Michael and we’re building EdotEnv (https://edotenv.com): self-improving RL environments from Quant Trading workflows.With all the benchmaxxing around, evals saturate and become meaningless…
Waymo – Dallas Open to All
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836 Points: 72 # Comments: 66
Security Is Hard, Y'all
Article URL: https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172834 Points: 36 # Comments: 6
The Golden Age of British Ice Cream
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The Sound of Inevitability
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