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Kagi Snaps
Kagi’s documentation: Typing @r headphones will search for “headphones” but limit the results to reddit.com (r is the short code for Reddit). This allows you to quickly find relevant content on a specific site using Kagi’s powerful index. It is effectively the same as doing headp…
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Seriously, Give Kagi a Try
Quoting from a post I wrote a year ago: Like, even if I use the magic &udm=14 parameter with Google search, to get “disenshittified” results from Google, I find I get better results from Kagi. When I know there’s one right answer (say, a specific article I remember reading and wa…
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Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.
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Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads
This sponsored article is brought to you by Ampace. As AI workloads grow to gigascale levels, the global data center industry has hit a hidden physical wall. The real bottleneck is no longer just the thermal limit of the chip or the capacity of the cooling system — it is the dyna…
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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M
The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million and $5 million, with the aim to back at least 30 startups.
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Turning AI cost spikes into strategic growth opportunities
Presented by Apptio, an IBM company AI spending is surging, but the full impact often remains an open question. Closing the gap requires clear answers to how AI is governed, measured, and tied to business outcomes. ROI uncertainty isn’t unique to AI: In the Apptio 2026 Technolog…
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WhatsApp rolls out ‘Plus’ subscription with new customization and productivity tools on Android and iOS
WhatsApp has officially rolled out a new optional subscription tier called ‘WhatsApp… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Why Indian Startups Don’t Want To Go Remote Again
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent advisory urging companies to adopt work from home (WFH) amid the ongoing West Asia conflict…
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Antibody discovery platform Immunocan closes RMB250 million Series A
Shanghai-based Immunocan has closed a RMB250 million Series A round led by Vivo Capital, with participation from Gold Mine Multi Family Office and follow-on backing from existing investors including Kingray Capital and TigerYeah Capital. The company said the funds will be used to…
technode.com
Research suggests the problem with using AI as a therapist isn’t that it sounds wrong — it’s that it can sound right while still crossing serious ethical lines
A recent study summarized in a ScienceDaily report found that even when large language models were explicitly instructed to act like trained therapists and apply evidence-based methods, they still violated core ethical standards in mental health care. The Brown University summary…
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India’s smartphone shipments fall 4.1% to 31Mn units in Q1’26, Vivo retains top spot: IDC
India’s smartphone market declined 4.1% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with shipments dropping… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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SMIC secures approval for $5.9 billion acquisition in China’s largest domestic wafer foundry M&A
On Monday, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) announced that its share issuance and asset acquisition plan had been reviewed and approved by the M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions) Review Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The committee determined that…
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2026 Hackaday Europe: Pre-party, More Workshops, and Everything Else
With Hackaday Europe no more than two days away, we want to help you wrap up all of the last loose ends. And that means last-minute changes in the workshop …read more
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Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
Article URL: https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127 Points: 201 # Comments: 83
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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budg…
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The Dark Side of Unitree Robot Dogs
Continuing on his quest to expose the dark underbelly of modern technology, [Benn Jordan] recently did a deep-dive into the rise of so-called robot dogs. Although their most striking resemblance …read more
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A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in an Altoids Tin
In the time Hackaday has been in existence we must have brought you plenty of projects housed in Altoids tins, as well as a sizeable number of cyberdecks. But until …read more
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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol
Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111765 Points: 205 # Comments: 46
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How Figma Upgraded Data Pipeline from Multi-Day Latency to Real-Time
In this article, we will learn what happened as Figma grew and how its engineering team handled the growth in terms of the data pipeline issues.
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CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq
Article URL: https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/2026q2/018471.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112042 Points: 243 # Comments: 118
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How to make your text look futuristic (2016)
Article URL: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/02/18/futuristic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113895 Points: 226 # Comments: 28
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