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How Alberta Eradicated Rats

Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/albertas-war-on-rats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584709 Points: 82 # Comments: 76
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Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants

Article URL: https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/switzerland/parliament-lifts-ban-on-new-nuclear-power-plants-3257535.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585746 Points: 484 # Comments: 302
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Launch HN: TesterArmy (YC P26) – Agents that test web and mobile apps

Hey HN - we’re Oskar, Szymon, and Piotr, and we’re building TesterArmy ( https://tester.army ). TesterArmy is an agentic testing platform that runs end-to-end checks before deployment and in production. Instead of wasting hours on manual testing or maintaining static scripts, we let you specify your tests in natural language and handle everything in between. We've built the platform fully around agents. Our agent will reliably execute the tests, but your coding agent can manage everything in our...
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The Harajuku Moment (2024)

Article URL: https://tim.blog/2024/02/09/harajuku-moment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587527 Points: 58 # Comments: 34
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Integer Quantization: Deep Dive

Article URL: https://hello-fri-end.github.io/2026/06/integer-quantization-deep-dive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590280 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
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This Ghost in the Shell keyboard makes me want to activate the hundred spidery robot fingers inside my regular fingers

Anime collaborations are everywhere, from Gundam watches and Naruto nights at Major League ballparks to just about anything Evangelion. But these Ghost in the Shell keyboards from Iqunix are some of the coolest examples I've seen of anime-inspired everyday tech. They look sick and they type and play great. At $249 they're a hefty upcharge […]
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Adobe’s redesigned AI studio remembers what your creations look like

Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface. The new Firefly experience launching today in private beta is designed to give you "persistent context, reusable assets, and organized workflows" across your projects, according to Adobe, […]
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Photoshop and Premiere now have AI assistants

Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps. As part of a public beta launching today, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io now each have a bespoke AI Assistant that can be used […]
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Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft bundle is almost half off for Prime Day

Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Essentials Bundle is on sale for $182.97 (originally $334.97) as an early Prime Day deal, the lowest price we’ve seen for the combo. Unlike other Kindles, the Colorsoft’s color E Ink screen is great for comic books and graphics novels, illustrated books, or just perusing book covers while deciding what to read […]
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Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5.  […]
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The best robot vacuum deals available ahead of Prime Day

If you’ve been wanting to buy a robot vacuum but have been put off by how much it can cost to get a good one, now is not a bad time to start looking. Prime Day is next week, but many retailers are offering early deals on several models we’ve tested from brands like Roborock, […]
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The Verge’s guide to Amazon Prime Day 2026

Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet. As usual, expect to see price […]
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The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare

One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even more at risk of intimidation or data breaches, in the name of solving a problem that barely exists. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, election and privacy experts are sounding alarms about the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic […]
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Google Calendar finally has more color options for events

Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn't be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11 predefined colors has now been expanded to give users access to up to 200 custom colors for individual events across the native Calendar web and mobile apps, and the Calendar API. This started rolling […]
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No more lightbulbs, much more sports: Five predictions for Roku’s future

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When Fox announced its acquisition of Roku earlier this week, executives of both companies were quick to promise that not much would change in the near future. Sure, getting its […]