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European Investor Seedcamp Closes On $320M Across Two Funds To Back Seed Startups And Reaches $1B AUM

Seedcamp, one of Europe’s earliest seed investors, has closed on its 7th fund of $220 million and a select fund 2 of $100 million to invest in winners from the core fund.

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Toyota Is Being Sued For Allegedly Stealing the Recipe For African E-Trikes

One of the biggest fish in the mobility world allegedly screwed over one of the tiniest.

Stressed? Nuropod Says It Can Fix That—by Hacking Your Brain

A new wearable claims to unlock more sleep, more focus, and more energy.

This Necklace Could Protect Your Skin From Aging

The90 Gem can track your sunscreen timing and daily UV load.

Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once

Mach's approach differs sharply from some of its peers.

Infamous Front-Running Crypto Bot ‘Jaredfromsubway’ Gets Tricked and Drained for $7.5M

Amid the wider chaos of DeFi, someone made a killing from Jaredfromsubway's notorious "sandwich attacks."

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YMTC NAND market share climbs to 13% as global competition intensifies

Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC) has increased its global NAND flash memory market share from 8% in the same period in 2025 to 13%. Major Korean players such as Samsung and SK Hynix said that the pace of Chinese memory chipmakers’ catch-up has exceeded expectations.…

JD.com founder says delivery workers will no longer be needed in future

At the 2026 APEC China CEO Forum held on Sunday, JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong revealed that the company has launched an internal Nirvana Plan aimed at helping its 700,000 delivery workers and other frontline employees adapt to the impact of AI and automation. Liu said he believes…

Zhipu AI Breaches Trillion Yuan Market Cap: What Is Driving the Surge?

Zhipu AI's Hong Kong-listed shares surged past HKD 2,380, pushing its market capitalization beyond HKD 1 trillion. A deep dive into the fundamentals, market dynamics, and risks behind the stunning valuation.

Claude Fable 5 Blocked for Non-US Users: Why Domestic AI Is the Only Safe Bet for China

The US government's sudden order blocking foreign access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 signals a new era of AI export control, reinforcing the strategic importance of China's domestically developed AI models.

Adults who keep one drawer perfectly organised while the rest of the house drifts aren’t inconsistent, they learned early that having one square foot of the world that obeys you is sometimes the whole difference between coping and not

The maintained drawer in an otherwise drifting house isn't inconsistency. It's a small, intelligent act of self-regulation built in childhood and quietly load-bearing ever since.

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Delhivery Shares Hit 52-Week High As Brokerages See Up To 32% Upside

Shares of logistics major Delhivery surged 6.6% during the intraday trading to hit a 52-week high of ₹491.50 apiece on…

Before and After: MacOS 27 Golden Gate Beta 1’s App Icons

Basic Apple Guy, back during WWDC: WWDC always brings a torrent of new content, details, and platform-wide changes. One of the first things I noticed after installing the macOS Golden Gate beta was the updated icon design. The colours are much bolder, several icons have been adju…

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Are You ’Mass Affluent’ Not ‘Truly Rich’? Sorry, Your Wealth Manager Might Be AI Now

The world of finance is automating, but if you're rich enough, it's reportedly more human than ever.

Mux — Video for Developers

My thanks to Mux for sponsoring Daring Fireball last week. Video is a boatload of data. Every video file in your product contains audio, objects, and scenes that most stacks can’t read or access. Mux Robots turns that data into video intelligence. Configure your video workflows o…

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Lost confidence

RICE and other confidence-based frameworks are mostly noise. Here's how to make decisions without pretending to know the unknowable.

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Brewing Espresso with Ultrasonic Assistance

There are as almost as many kinds of coffee as there are of coffee drinkers, with each method for preparing the beverage appealing to a different kind of palate: moka …read more

SmallRun.net Enters the Marketplace Market

So you have a project that you love, and everyone else loves too. People start saying “you should sell this” but where? Well, there’s a new marketplace you might want …read more

Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police

https://xcancel.com/LarsAnders1620/status/206820886474754051... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625823 Points: 261 # Comments: 194

“Telescope Rancher” is The Coolest Job You Didn’t Know Existed

McCulloch County, Texas, is smack dab in the middle of a very large state. We wouldn’t exactly call it the middle of nowhere, but given there’s so little light pollution …read more

Hackaday Links: June 21, 2026

Today marks the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the start of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This doesn’t really have much to do with hacking …read more

Did my old job only exist because of fraud?

Article URL: https://david.newgas.net/did-my-old-job-only-exist-because-of-fraud/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622867 Points: 552 # Comments: 240

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Everything is logarithms

Article URL: https://alexkritchevsky.com/2026/05/25/everything-is-logarithms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622626 Points: 230 # Comments: 46

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EP219: 12 Open-source LLMs

Twelve models worth knowing in 2026, each with one standout strength.