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Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.25B

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260730994716/en/Bending-Spoons-has-entered-into-a-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-Airtable-for-$1.285-billion
8•TWDan•50m ago

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chermanowicz•27m ago
Was great... how did so many things go wrong over the last few years? Sorry for the employees, equity worth 0 and probably being laid off by Bending Spoons
spaniard89277•24m ago
Exit strategies produce this kind of dead bodies. Bending Spoons is just an Italian Dr Frankenstein.

Grow first profit later is likely to end like this.

Snowflake Volunteer, an Android app to help people bypass censorship

https://blog.torproject.org/snowflake-volunteer-standalone-app-to-help-people-bypass-censorship/
1•Sami_Lehtinen•31s ago•0 comments

How dementia is being defeated

https://economist.com/briefing/2026/07/09/how-dementia-is-being-defeated
1•andsoitis•1m ago•0 comments

Neural Coding as Software Engineering Augmentation, Not Abdication

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/neural-coding-as-software-engineering-augmentation-not-abdication/
1•champagnepapi•1m ago•0 comments

iOS 27 New Apple Map and Google Earth Comparison

https://www.reddit.com/r/applemaps/comments/1ve75td/ios_27_new_apple_map_google_earth_comparison/
1•Congeec•2m ago•0 comments

The hidden logic behind #, @, & and §

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSsyG2pE-GY
1•CharlesW•3m ago•0 comments

Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/04/investors-in-situational-awareness-des...
5•Anon84•5m ago•2 comments

New Node.js API Documentation

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/announcements/new-api-docs-beta
1•araujogui•5m ago•0 comments

Agentic Minimalism: The Human Control Loop

https://leverageloops.substack.com/p/agentic-minimalism-the-human-control
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

F*Ex: Frams' Fast File EXchange

https://fex.belwue.de/index.html
2•marvinborner•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TormentNexus – Local-first Go control plane with persistent memory

https://tormentnexus.site
1•TormentNexusAI•6m ago•0 comments

The CPU Cost of Protobuf Varints in Go

https://kmcd.dev/posts/protobuf-varint-vs-fixed/
1•ingve•8m ago•0 comments

Mixture-of-Kittens: An MoE training megakernel for NVL72

https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/2084670806613737919
1•OsamaJaber•8m ago•0 comments

Airtable hides a recap in plain sight

https://www.marginpoints.com/issues/2026-08-04-airtable-hides-a-recap-in-plain-sight
1•historian1066•9m ago•0 comments

White House plans to keep AI framework under wraps

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/04/white-house-ai-framework-under-wraps
2•thm•10m ago•1 comments

The Nodebook

https://www.thenodebook.com
2•handfuloflight•11m ago•0 comments

Southern California Edison equipment blamed for 2025 Eaton fire in Los Angeles

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/us/california-eaton-wildfire
1•rawgabbit•11m ago•0 comments

AI-generated websites converge on each other more than human designs do

https://ai-design-convergence.vercel.app
1•Stackrift•12m ago•0 comments

Nuclear Safety Authority supports spent nuclear fuel final disposal facility

https://stuk.fi/en/-/the-radiation-and-nuclear-safety-authority-supports-the-licence-for-a-spent-...
2•iljah•13m ago•1 comments

Agentic Coding in the Wild: Characterizing GitHub Copilot Traces at Production

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00101
1•matt_d•14m ago•0 comments

Code Like a Pirate with AI

https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/code-like-pirate
1•ingve•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SindriCAD – open-source parametric CAD for Linux, Windows and macOS

https://github.com/MakerViking/sindricad
1•muninworks•14m ago•0 comments

People are mysteriously disappearing off WhatsApp

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/whatsapp-account-removed-deleted-rules-b3027160.html
2•Markoff•15m ago•1 comments

The session that synced itself

https://github.com/craigstoller/claude-code-sessions/blob/main/docs/the-session-that-synced-itsel...
2•craigstoller•18m ago•0 comments

Design by Contract and Effects for LLMs

https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/design-by-contract-and-effects-for-llms
2•caminanteblanco•19m ago•1 comments

A peculiar way to install apps

https://unsung.aresluna.org/as-a-windows-user-its-a-very-surreal-way-to-install-a-program/
2•colinprince•21m ago•0 comments

Surveillance-based advertising: why ad AI economics always demand more data

https://www.adreva.ai/learn/ai-in-advertising
1•abasicodes•22m ago•0 comments

Asana's Tab Shortcuts

https://unsung.aresluna.org/asanas-fascinating-tab-shortcuts/
1•speckx•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: And now for a break: The Swimmer (1968) in Frogger Form

https://fun-things.vercel.app/the-swimmer/
1•bethanyhunt•25m ago•0 comments

Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/24/why-germany-is-building-risk-into-its-playgrounds
2•downbad_•25m ago•0 comments

New unlimited use coding agent (Standard Code)

https://standardcode.ai/
3•jpschroeder•25m ago•0 comments