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Top science & technology news, July 25, 2026
- Using Git Add -p for Staging Patches
The 'git add -p' command allows you to interactively stage files or just parts of them, providing greater control over your git commit process. This is especially useful for catching bugs and typos during the initial coding or content creation stages.
- RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
We doubled the RTX 2080 Ti's VRAM capacity by replacing all original GDDR6 memory modules with higher-density parts. With 22 GB available, your card handles ultra-high-resolution textures, heavy creative workloads, and memory-intensive AI applications more efficiently.
- Targeting Ligand Shape While Preserving a Warhead through Guided Diffusion and Adaptive Staged Growth
The researchers proposed a method to target the shape of ligands while preserving the warhead, using guided diffusion and adaptive staged growth at different stages.
- Canadian Legislator Reads Out Apparent LLM Prompt in Floor Speech
Bill Oliver, a Progressive Conservative Party member of the legislative assembly of New Brunswick, noted in a speech last month that 'One of the dangers associated with creating advocacy offices is that citizens often develop expectations that cannot be met.'
- Wildfire Forces Evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network Complex in Spain
A fast-moving wildfire forced the evacuation and temporary suspension of operations at one of NASA’s most important tracking stations in Madrid, part of the agency’s global Deep Space Network. The network supports over 40 missions from the Moon to the edge of the Solar System.
- TAXISCAN: Optimizing throughput and behavioral depth in standard C. elegans chemotaxis assays
The study aimed to develop methods for optimizing the performance of chemotaxis assays on C. elegans, reducing both time and effort required for these experiments.
- Locus-Scale Massively Parallel Reporter Assays
The authors presented a method for conducting massively parallel reporter assays at the locus scale, using combinatorial cloning and long-read and short-read sequencing to measure interactions among cis-regulatory elements (CREs).
- IEEE Spectrum: Poetry for Engineers: Mars Rover Sends Home Postcard
The Curiosity rover, which has almost forgotten about rain, sends a postcard home from the land without leaves, fronds or spines. It is a place where plants are small and flat, hidden under dust.
- 2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
In this article, we discuss the current and potential future role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software development. We argue that while LLMs have already surpassed a certain threshold of usefulness, they are still limited in their ability to perform complex tasks such as woodworking.
- Some combinatorial applications of spacefilling curves
Space-filling curves have a useful property: they tend to visit all points in a region once they enter that region. This heuristic is used by L. Platzman and the author to produce reasonable approximations.
- Show HN: Scala Tutorials – Interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser
This tutorial offers interactive, bite-sized Scala 3 lessons directly in your browser. No installation needed and no account required for free and open-source learning.
- Ars Technica: SpaceX Sees Tower Catch for Next Starship After Auspicious End to 13th Flight
SpaceX successfully completed its 13th full-scale Starship test flight, which landed intact in the Indian Ocean near Australia.
- London’s Most Equidistant Pub
The Greene Man at 383 Euston Road is the most equidistant pub in London. It's located on the corner of Great Portland Street and takes an average commute time of 47 minutes to reach from any borough, with no borough needing more than a one-hour journey.
- Dolmenwood: Fantasy RPG Built Around Old-School Essentials Rules
HackerNews front published information about the new fantasy role-playing game Dolmenwood, based on the acclaimed Old-School Essentials rules. The game offers players a familiar gaming system with a lavishly detailed world inspired by British fairy tales and eerie folklore.
- Go's New Garbage Collector Moves Through the Heap
In Go 1.26, Green Tea became the default garbage collector. We observe its cache-friendliness with perf and visualize heap allocation in Go to understand how it works.
- Paramount/WBD Merger Delayed for Months Due to State Lawsuit
Paramount Skydance agreed to a longer-term delay of its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, preventing the companies from combining until after a judge rules on the merits of a case in which a dozen states challenged the legality of the merger.
- Big Tech Accused of Stonewalling European Social Media Researchers
In the final weeks before Romania's presidential vote, TikTok accounts promoting manicures or fashion suddenly started promoting a little-known politician named Calin Georgescu. His posts won him 23% of the vote.
- IMAX vs IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats
You've likely heard, ad nauseum even, that Christopher Nolan's epic The Odyssey is the first feature film fully shot in the awesome IMAX 70mm film format. With all that publicity, many cinema fans want to see it projected that way as well. However, they may get confused, as The Odyssey is available in both IMAX 70mm film and the IMAX digital format. Both are excellent, but one is definitely a bit better. Let's break down the differences between these two.
- Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60%
Roku raised the prices for its streaming sticks and boxes by up to 60%. The new prices are: Stick-Player - $40 (formerly $30), Plus-Player - $60 (formerly $40), 4K-Player - $80 (formerly $50).
- RFK Jr.'s committee approves peptide manufacturing
Committee organized by RFK Jr. has approved the manufacture of peptides for human use. This was expected given that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is a member of the committee and Secretary of Health and Human Services, had taken steps to ensure this outcome.
