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REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500

REO Industries unveils the Runabout, a Texas-made, affordable gas-powered pickup designed for reliability. Key features: body-on-frame, mechanical 4WD, gas I4, 6-spd MT/AT, ~600 mi per tank, 500,000-mile powertrain, built in Texas, sold direct with no dealers. Three variants (T4X, T4C, S4C) starting at $21,500; $25 refundable reservation to reserve. Production timeline: model reveal Q4 2026, pilots 2027, order book 2028, deliveries late 2028/2029. Emphasis on simple, repairable design, open parts catalog and community; owners' club; press coverage; merchandising.

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What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?

Max Woolf surveys a surge in random weekly quota resets for OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code. Quotas (5-hour/weekly) exist to prevent overload, with resets occasionally issued after glitches and sometimes not publicly announced, including banked resets that expire in 30 days. The last two weeks saw frequent resets around GPT‑5.6/Fable 5 launches. He tracks them via codex-resets.com, even upgrading to larger plans to exhaust quotas, and suggests resets may deter power users or competitors, though they may fade as competition heats up.

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The Kimi K3 Moment

Bochinski tests Kimi K3 vs Claude for coding tasks; finds K3 nearly identical in output and token use but cheaper—$3/$15 vs Claude’s $10/$50, plus more generous plans. Claude’s pricing is tightly capped and can drop features; Kimi avoids such limits. He argues US AI policy gating hampers domestic models while open non-US models (GLM 5.2, MIT-licensed) beat Claude and cost less. Predicts subsidies and tariffs to prop up US models, creating a market where Americans pay more for less. He concludes there’s little reason to pay Claude now.

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In Germany if you say a restaurant is just ok they send the gestapo after you

An X post humorously claims that in Germany, calling a restaurant “just ok” would get the Gestapo after you.

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Show HN: Get alerts for good seats at 70mm IMAX showings of The Odyssey

An article about The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX featuring seat alerts.

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If You Build It, They Will Come

The author argues that social groups don’t form automatically; the fastest way to join or strengthen a community is to organize its core activities. There’s high demand for events and limited supply, so organizing or helping with events makes forming friendships easier than just showing up. Many people expect social fabrics to appear on their own, but it takes legwork, and true community leaders are those who organize. To reduce social alienation, focus on creating and sustaining local events rather than waiting for others to do it.

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Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs describe a bioresilience program to prevent misuse, detect outbreaks, and enable rapid AI-driven response. They cite 15+ partnerships with governments and biosafety organizations, using AlphaFold, IsoDDE, AlphaGenome, AlphaEvolve, and Gemini for trusted collaborators. Prevention follows a four-step safety process (threat modeling, evaluations, mitigations, monitoring) plus biology-adapted SynthID. Detection enhances pathogen surveillance via AlphaEvolve for metagenomics and AlphaGenome/Protein Function annotation. In response, trusted researchers gain access to latest AI systems to accelerate vaccines and countermeasures; Isomorphic deploys drug-design tools for novel threats. All align with the Frontier Safety Framework and public collaboration.

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Elixir-lang.org has a new design

Elixir v1.20 builds scalable, reliable systems on the Erlang VM, from solo projects to large teams. It emphasizes immutability, fault tolerance, and a rich ecosystem: Phoenix for web and LiveView for real-time UI; Ecto for data; IEx and Livebook for prototyping; Nx and Bumblebee for GPU-accelerated ML; Broadway and Membrane for backpressure-aware pipelines; Nerves and AtomVM for embedded devices. The platform supports IoT, distributed systems, and data/ML workloads, with Hex as package manager and strong community/trust via the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.

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Gleam Is Now on Tangled

Gleam is an open-source, friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems. The repository shows active development with a Rust-heavy codebase and multiple components (Gleam, compiler, docs, tests), guided by a community-driven approach rather than corporate ownership and supported by sponsors. The project invites contributions and sponsorship, echoing the description: “Gleam is a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale.”

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Engineering Peace

War isn’t inevitable. The development field must treat peace as an engineering problem—using data, scalable trials, and cost transparency to prevent violence. A new wave of conflict research links incident-level data with randomized experiments, but translating individual interventions into reduced large-scale war remains uncertain. Some gains exist, such as cognitive-behavioral therapy plus cash transfers reducing violence among high-risk youths in Liberia; but many studies measure intermediate outcomes. Peace Per Dollar at UC Berkeley aims to prove cost-effective, scalable approaches and fuel large field trials to avert war—like bed nets do for malaria.

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EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application

From 19 July, large EU companies are banned from destroying unsold clothing, accessories and footwear under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR); medium-sized firms follow from 2030. The aim is to curb waste and save resources by prioritising reuse, repair, resale or donation; destruction is allowed only in limited cases (unsafe/damaged items, counterfeits, IP-infringing items, or charity rejections) and must follow the waste hierarchy with recycling prioritized. Firms must prove exemptions, publish annual discard reports, and keep five years of records; fines for non-compliance. Small firms are exempt.

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