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Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video, he briefly discussed directing Claude to perform difficult tasks: Cherny: I think the skill nowadays is less a…
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The Tariff Refunds Are Rolling in—but Gadget Prices Aren’t Dropping
Amazon is promising you can get some refund back in a 'limited set of circumstances.'
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‘A Rare Land-Grab Moment’: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy On The Next Wave of AI And Putting $3B In New Capital To Work
We speak with Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy about why AI is pushing the firm toward larger deals, what it has learned from its Anthropic relationship, and where he sees the next big opportunities.
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Why The Product Manager To CEO Pipeline Is The Underrated Crash Course For Leadership In Tech
Traditional research on CEO career paths tends to focus on titles such as COO, CFO and divisional president. But the skills developed in product management may be just as relevant, argues Paysend CEO Ben Chisell. In this guest column, he makes the case that aspiring leaders shoul…
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Ulysses S. Grant on the Future Dividing Line
Ulysses S. Grant, in 1875: Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant, where no power is exercised except by the will of the people, it is important that the sovereign — the people — should possess intelligence. The free school is the promoter of that intelligenc…
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★ Why Apple Requires a Cellular Account Through a Big Three Carrier to Lease an iPhone
Following up from last week, when I asked: When you lease an iPhone through Apple Upgrade, you need a cellular account on one of the big three U.S. carriers: AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon. That kind of stinks, and I’m not quite sure I understand why. You’re leasing the iPhone throug…
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CATL Invests in RoboParty: 22-Year-Old Harbin Institute of Technology Founder Huang Yi Steers Open-Source Full-Stack Bipedal Humanoid Startup Through 20x Valuation Growth
RoboParty completes nearly 500 million yuan in angel-plus and Pre-A rounds with CATL exclusively investing Pre-A, as 22-year-old HIT graduate builds open-source embodied platform with RPO robot.
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Nazara Slips Into The Red In Q1, Posts ₹83 Cr Loss
Gaming major Nazara Technologies slipped to the red in Q1 FY27, reporting a net loss of ₹82.5 Cr as against…
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Govt Opens Door to MDR On UPI, To Amend Digital Payment Rules
In what could likely pave the way for the reintroduction of the merchant discount rate (MDR) on UPI payments, the…
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BYD tops China’s July auto sales roundup with 419,211 vehicles
Chinese automakers have reported their July sales and deliveries, with BYD ranking first among the companies included in the latest industry roundup after selling 419,211 vehicles. BYD’s overseas sales reached 179,841 units, up 124.3% from a year earlier. Leapmotor reported 101,2…
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[Update] Klassroom IPO: Issue Subscribed 98% On Day 2
Update | August 03, 20:25 IST The public issue of edtech company Klassroom ended the second day with a subscription…
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MiniMax Desperately Swimming Past the Kill Line: Open-Source H3 Between Kimi K3 Performance Ceiling and DeepSeek Price Floor, With R&D Spending Triple Revenue
MiniMax H3 open-source release comes as Kimi K3 raises the performance bar and DeepSeek V4-Flash crushes prices, while MiniMax 2025 financials show 253M R&D against 79M revenue.
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LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
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Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs
Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/andy-pavlo-joins-clickhouse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156011 Points: 201 # Comments: 46
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New File Manager is C64’s Answer to Norton Commander
Norton was always a PC company — Norton Commander, the file manager that launched a thousand clones, was only ever available for DOS, like the rest of the company’s offerings …read more
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Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days
Article URL: https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/taylor-farms-has-rewritten-its-cyclospora-statement-four-times-in-sixteen-days-it-still-has-not-said-what-changed-at-that-plant-after-2013-or-why-two-thousand-negative-tests-should-mean-an/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
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MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
Article URL: https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155629 Points: 205 # Comments: 58
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Child-Friendly Music Player Uses RFID
[David] has a young child who is clever enough to use a computer to play music, but he doesn’t quite want to hand over the mouse just yet. Thus, he …read more
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The 16K Display that Ate Las Vegas
You may have a 4K television. Perhaps you have even bought an 8K screen, despite the shortage of things worth watching in 8K. A 16K display is, today, a rarity. …read more
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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49157930 Points: 237 # Comments: 502
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Devtools must be open source
Article URL: https://blog.exe.dev/devtools-must-be-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111 Points: 375 # Comments: 137
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