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‘Fast Forever’ Is Finally Back on Track
The stars have aligned in Vin Diesel's favor, and now 'Fast Forever' is in production ahead of its expected March 2028 release.
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What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that’s now public
Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.
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Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.
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‘Witch Hat Atelier’ Creator, Coco Star on How the Anime Exceeded Expectations
Creator Kamome Shirahama and Coco's Japanese voice actor Rena Motomura also settle the debate over whether the Brimmed Caps or the Pointed Cap witches have better fashion sense.
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‘Daemons of the Shadow Realm’ Stars Were Just as Shocked as You by the Anime’s Big Twist
Yuru and Asa Japanese voice actors Kensho Ono and Yume Miyamoto talk about how they brought Bones Film and Hiromu Arakawa's latest shonen anime adventure to life.
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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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In 1979, a Harvard psychologist named Ellen Langer took eight men in their late 70s to a retreat house redecorated exactly like 1959 — old magazines, radio broadcasts, and furniture — and asked them to live as their younger selves for a week, and by the end their eyesight, hearing, memory, and grip strength had measurably improved
In September 1979, at an old converted Catholic monastery in the wooded countryside of Peterborough, New Hampshire — approximately 90 kilometres northwest of Boston, and approximately six months before Ellen Jane Langer would become, in the specific spring of 1981, the first fema…
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ByteDance and Alibaba to disable humanlike AI custom agents as new rules loom
Two of China’s major consumer-facing artificial intelligence apps, ByteDance’s Doubao and Alibaba Group Holding’s Qwen, are moving to disable customised agent features, as new rules on humanlike AI interaction services are set to take effect, part of Beijing’s push to build a bro…
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Tsinghua Vehicle School Alums Launch Guangxiang Technology, Raise Hundreds of Millions for Embodied AI in Automotive
Tsinghua-incubated Guangxiang Technology secures hundreds of millions in angel funding for its physics-native embodied AI model targeting automotive manufacturing.
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Peking University and CAS Develop World's First Neurodynamic Chip Based on Phase-Change Memristors
A Peking University and CAS team creates the world's first millisecond-level neurodynamic system chip using phase-change memristors, 50-478x faster than NVIDIA A100 for brain modeling.
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Carl Jung argued we spend the first half of life building a mask and the second deciding what to do with it — whether we keep performing the role we polished for the world, or begin the harder work of integrating the parts it left out
Carl Jung split a human life down the middle and gave each half a different job. The first half, he said, is spent building something the world can see: a role, a reputation, a face that fits. The second half is spent deciding what to do with all of it. Do you keep playing the ..…
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From Models to Workflows: A Review of Image and Video Generation Models in H1 2026
A comprehensive roundup of H1 2026's image and video generation models from Midjourney, Google, ByteDance, Kuaishou, Zhipu AI, Tencent, and more.
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Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
Article URL: https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791328 Points: 244 # Comments: 132
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Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique
For this article we spoke with the team behind World, including Tiago Sada and Lily Gordon at Tools for Humanity, on how they try to solve this problem.
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Introduction to Compilers and Language Design
Article URL: https://dthain.github.io/books/compiler/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793454 Points: 201 # Comments: 27
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2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: A 3D-Printed Raman Spectrometer
When light reflects off a surface, not all of it reflects off at the same wavelength; some photons impart a portion of their energy to raising the vibrational energy of …read more
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Demonstrating LFP Battery Safety in Case of BMS Failure
Generally, LiFePO4 (LFP) batteries are quite safe and stable, but it’s still possible for something to go wrong, even something catastrophic, like the battery management system (BMS) developing a direct …read more
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Homelab Gets Linksys Themed Aesthetic
If you’re building a homelab rig, you could just use off-the-shelf hardware in standard cases and slap it all in a rack like the normies do. Or, you could follow …read more
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Organic Maps
Article URL: https://organicmaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794446 Points: 417 # Comments: 120
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EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track
Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Chat-Control-1-0-EU-Council-forces-messenger-scans-via-fast-track-11353659.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793393 Points: 225 # Comments: 107
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If you're a button, you have one job
Related: https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790689 Points: 477 # Comments: 237
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