The wire
Every item from all 26 sources, deduplicated across outlets. Use “GCC only” to narrow to the region.
| Score | Headline | Company | Source | Published |
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| –– | Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175461 Points: 19 # Comments: 1 globalhackernews · 15h | — — | hackernews | 15h |
| –– | Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models Article URL: https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175248 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 globalhackernews · 15h | — — | hackernews | 15h |
| –– | Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175192 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 globalhackernews · 15h | — — | hackernews | 15h |
| –– | I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768 , https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768 https://gwern.net/guardian-angel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 Points: 81 # Comments: 32 globalhackernews · 15h | — — | hackernews | 15h |
| –– | Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2084739205071343837 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 Points: 51 # Comments: 19 globalhackernews · 15h | — — | hackernews | 15h |
| –– | Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D) Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174407 Points: 38 # Comments: 12 fundingglobalhackernews · 16h | — — | hackernews | 16h |
| –– | 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: 23 # Comments: 32 globalhackernews · 16h | — — | hackernews | 16h |
| –– | Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone Article URL: https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173984 Points: 19 # Comments: 4 globalhackernews · 16h | — — | hackernews | 16h |
| –– | Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/04/investors-in-situational-awareness-deserved-to-lose-their-shirts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173576 Points: 32 # Comments: 34 globalhackernews · 17h | — — | hackernews | 17h |
| –– | Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 98 # Comments: 6 globalhackernews · 17h | — — | hackernews | 17h |
| –– | 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 for model comparison. Useful benchmarks should increase in difficulty as models advance. Back in our Quant jobs, Michael and I saw that the market has exactly this property: markets became more efficient as people profited from trading inefficiencies, making new profitable strategies harder to find and old ones decay over time. This makes markets an ideal, continuously evolving benchmark for LLM training. The hard part is to turn professional quant workflows into reliable training envs, as this is a very niche expertise. In our environments, we give LLMs a quant trading workflow and ev… globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | 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: 45 # Comments: 35 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | 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 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | The Golden Age of British Ice Cream Article URL: https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-golden-age-of-british-ice-cream Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172784 Points: 18 # Comments: 4 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | The Sound of Inevitability Article URL: https://www.panoptica.com/the-sound-of-inevitability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172609 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | Blackmail Fail (2013) Article URL: https://gwern.net/blackmail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172597 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | Gaza's Deadly Soil Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/07/22/gazas-deadly-soil/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172567 Points: 3 # Comments: 1 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | Why some people mow a lawn better than others Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172550 Points: 17 # Comments: 7 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt Article URL: https://github.com/agentrust-io/cmcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172545 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |
| –– | The Judgment Reservoir Article URL: https://shannph.com/writing/the-judgment-reservoir/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172540 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 globalhackernews · 18h | — — | hackernews | 18h |