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Matt Mullenweg: ‘All Roads Lead to Om’
Matt Mullenweg: Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and people in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t just for the f…
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The Lab Mistake That Might Revolutionize Computing
Today, you probably asked a question of a large language model, or accepted a connection suggestion on LinkedIn, or watched a recommended video on YouTube, or took a different route to work based on a traffic prediction from Google Maps. In other words, you probably used artifici…
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The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. …
MIT Technology Review
Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’
Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hidden landscapes,…
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The New York Times: ‘Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59’
Clay Risen, writing for The New York Times (gift link): Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst, leading to a recession that also took down many of the journalism start-ups that wrote about tech, like The Industry Standard and Inside.com. He was among the most…
New York Times
Prompt injection is exploiting enterprise AI's biggest design flaws by targeting agents, RAG pipelines and model routers
In the past two years, businesses have been trying to fit large language models (LLMs) into support, analytics, development, and internal automation like never before. Along with the increasing adoption of AI technology, another trend is gaining momentum — cybercriminals are tak…
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ASML in Veldhoven ships each EUV lithography machine in roughly 250 crates aboard multiple Boeing 747s, the mirrors inside are polished so finely that scaled to the size of Germany the largest bump would be under a millimetre tall, and every advanced chip in every iPhone on Earth passes through one of these machines before it reaches a pocket
ASML insists it can account for every one of the 314 EUV lithography machines it has ever shipped — and that none of them, nor any component designed for one, has reached China. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says otherwise. The fight reveals just how concentrated the world…
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X Square Robot Closes Four Consecutive Rounds, Hits $2.8B Valuation as It Powers Physical-AI Foundation Models
X Square Robot completes four successive funding rounds culminating in a Series C, reaching $2.8 billion valuation, becoming the only embodied AI company backed by all four of China's internet giants.
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I went to the Maldives. Everyone wanted to talk about Temu
The Chinese shopping app has become so popular that even a government surcharge couldn't slow demand.
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PayU India Turns Adjusted EBITDA Profitable In FY26, Revenue Zooms 13% YoY
Prosus-owned fintech platform PayU India’s revenue jumped 12.5% to $781 Mn (about ₹7,384 Cr) in FY26 from $694 Mn posted…
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Palm oil supplies over a third of all the vegetable oil on Earth while using less than a tenth of the land devoted to oil crops — the most efficient fat humanity has ever found, and the most controversial
A single oil palm tree yields up to ten times more oil per hectare than soy or sunflower, which is why palm supplies over a third of global vegetable oil on less than a tenth of oil-crop land — and why its expansion into Sumatra and Borneo has become one of the hardest environmen…
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Chinese AI model’s bug-hunting prowess narrows gap to US
A Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) model whose launch has been hailed as another “DeepSeek moment” can go toe-to-toe with US rival Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model on cybersecurity tasks, researchers have said. Beijing-based start-up Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.2, released on June 13, …
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PuffPal, an App for Accessing Cannabis Clubs, Leaked 1 Million Users’ Passports
Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): If you’ve visited a cannabis club in Spain, [Sammy] Azdoufal says, chances are your photo ID was among them — and possibly your phone number, address, your favorite strains of cannabis, and how much you consumed each month while …
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How the U.S. Engineered Its Sovereignty
In 1839, J.M.W. Turner painted The Fighting Temeraire. The old warship, once a hero of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, glides like a ghost across the canvas, towed by a small steam tug belching smoke on its final voyage to the ship-breakers. The image shows a clear moment of cha…
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Vince Gilligan ‘Feels Rushed’ Writing Pluribus Season Two
Plus, Adult Swim orders a second new series from Genndy Tartakovsky.
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EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
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It’s Linux, on a Sega Megadrive
If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 …read more
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Custom Hybrid Drivetrain Powers Boat
Offloading acceleration and braking to an electric motor in a hybrid configuration allows the less efficient combustion engine run in a more narrow set of RPM and torque ranges. In …read more
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Librepods: AirPods liberated
Article URL: https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710232 Points: 430 # Comments: 153
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Phone Stand Aims To Fight Addiction
Sometimes, it’s hard to stop picking up your phone every few minutes to check on notifications and scroll endlessly through the slop of the day. [PushpendraC2] has been working on …read more
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Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI
Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how …read more
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Historical memory prices 1960-2026
Article URL: https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710092 Points: 343 # Comments: 134
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HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
Article URL: https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713832 Points: 647 # Comments: 276
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HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy
It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he working hard to bring HamsterOS to retrocomputing …read more
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