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Intel’s NUCs Live On… as an Excessive Asus Mini Gaming PC
The Asus ROG NUC 16 seems like an excellent console-like PC until you see its supposed price.
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Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of Products at OpenAI, a Very Stable Well-Run Company
Maxwell Zeff, reporting for Wired (News+ link): OpenAI told staff on Friday that it would reorganize the company as part of an ongoing effort to unify its product offerings, Wired has learned. OpenAI cofounder and president Greg Brockman will now lead the company’s product strate…
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Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
Newly unredacted crash reports reveal some of the troubles Tesla has had as it tries to scale its robotaxis.
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a laptop screen. They include a supplier of cell-based milk, a startup that bills itself as the operating system for modern law firms…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Anduril Leads Varied Lineup Of Large Deals
Defense tech unicorn Anduril Industries led the fundraising lineup in a week heavy with rounds for companies focused on applications in the physical world. Anduril’s $5 billion financing was by far the biggest. Other large rounds went to companies focused on supplying data power,…
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Striking New Views of the First Atomic Bomb Test
Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire…
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XbotGo Raises ~RMB 100M Led by Ninebot Capital for AI Sports Cameras
XbotGo (深眸远智), an AI sports imaging startup founded by a Chinese team, raises ~RMB 100M led by Ninebot Capital (Segway-Ninebot) to expand its AI camera business for youth sports markets.
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App-Based Gig Workers’ Union Calls For 5-Hour Nationwide Shutdown
The Gig & Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU) has called for a nationwide five-hour shutdown of app-based services, demanding higher…
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Rapido secures $240Mn in fresh funding led by Prosus at $3Bn valuation
Indian ride-hailing startup Rapido has raised $240 million in a fresh funding… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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IPO-bound Anthropic reportedly agrees on terms for $30Bn funding at massive $900Bn valuation
Anthropic has reportedly agreed terms for a massive $30 billion funding round… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The freedom of not chasing
There was a Monday in Dublin, sometime in my early twenties, when I watched a senior colleague walk back from a meeting and thought, very clearly, that I did not want his Monday Nothing was wrong with him. He was good at the work, well-paid, well-regarded. He had the look, the ti…
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OpenAI rolls out ‘ChatGPT Personal Finance’ tool with real-time bank account connectivity
OpenAI has rolled out a personal finance tool for ChatGPT that connects… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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California bill would require patches or refunds when online games shut down
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/05/bill-to-keep-online-games-playable-clears-key-hurdle-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152994 Points: 447 # Comments: 284
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
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Building A Die Filer From Scratch
A die filer is a useful tool to have if you find yourself filing parts on the regular. It’s basically a machine that reciprocates a file up and down for …read more
hackaday.com
The Zulip Foundation
Article URL: https://blog.zulip.com/2026/05/15/announcing-zulip-foundation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152168 Points: 257 # Comments: 67
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Inside the Heathkit Factory
If you are a certain age, you doubtlessly remember Heathkit. They produced a wide array of electronic kits that were models of completeness and clear instructions. They started with surplus …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 6
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, May 16. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Adding Capabilities to Inexpensive Solar Modules
Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t just the case for bulk electricity on a power grid, …read more
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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116580433508108130 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 Points: 1214 # Comments: 565
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Restoring a 3DO Blaster Card from the Early 90s
Before the modern trifecta of video game giants came to dominate the market around two decades ago, the world was awash in video game consoles. Many of these retro platforms …read more
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