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Instacart's CTO says AI made the company stop worrying about tech debt
Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines? At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should b…
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Why NIST Researchers Spent 10 Years Measuring Gravity
Physicists have been trying to measure the fundamental gravitational constant for well over two centuries. The current accepted value of big G, as it’s known, is 6.67430 × 10-11 cubic meters per kilogram per square second. It also has an uncertainty of ±0.00015 × 10-11 m3/(kg s2)…
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Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.
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Grok Creator SpaceXAI Sues Minnesota AG to Stop Ban on Nudification
Governor Tim Walz tweeted, "See you in court, creep."
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Steve Jobs in 2011: ‘We Build Products That We Want for Ourselves, Too, and We Just Don’t Want Ads’
Dan Frommer, writing for Business Insider in 2011 about that year’s WWDC (Jobs’s last): While discussing Apple’s free, new iCloud email service, he took an apparent jab at Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and the others, which stuff ads in their free email services. “No ads,” he boasted. “We b…
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Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature
Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn't a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That's the kind of lesson Ryan…
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International tech
Chinese Internet Giants Accelerate Into the Physical World as Meituan JD.com ByteDance and Baidu Build Robotics Smart Delivery and Embodied AI Empires
Chinese internet companies are deploying robotaxis, delivery drones, warehouse robots, embodied AI agents, and physical-world AI infrastructure across transportation, logistics, manufacturing, and services.
pandaily.com
Chinese AI chip giant Cambricon sets US$14.8b revenue goal tied to staff incentive plan
Chinese artificial intelligence chip champion Cambricon Technologies has set a target of more than 100 billion yuan (US$14.8 billion) in revenue over the next three years as the prerequisite for a newly proposed employee stock incentive plan. The goal marked a nearly 20-fold incr…
scmp.com
Building Materials Quick Commerce Startup Fixxly Raises $5.5 Mn
Building materials quick commerce startup Fixxly has raised $5.5 Mn (₹52.6 Cr) in a seed funding round from Accel, Fireside…
inc42.com
Four US tech giants spent roughly $410 billion on capital expenditure last year, much of it tied to AI, and are steering toward roughly $725 billion in 2026
The four tech giants betting their futures on AI are doubling down: nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending by 2026, but the payoff remains stubbornly unclear.
siliconcanals.com
At the peak of Zimbabwe’s 2008 meltdown, prices doubled roughly every day. The central bank answered by printing a hundred-trillion-dollar note worth only about US$30 when it appeared.
When a government prints money faster than prices can rise, the only winner is the black market.
siliconcanals.com
The AI Layer Powering India’s Farms
AI detects a farmer’s field has been irrigated and automatically shuts off the tubewell. A PepsiCo field agent, sitting hundreds…
inc42.com

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Why Is Textile Work Not Taught To Engineers?
A talk from the recent Electromagnetic Field event in the UK caught our eye, in which [Amy Jeskins] looked at the overlooked engineering skill of pattern cutting. She takes us …read more
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DOOM Using Regular Expressions
Regular expressions (regexes) are an amazingly powerful way to perform operations on collections of e.g. text. Regexss can also be considered to be a programming language, even a Turing complete …read more
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Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9
Article URL: https://mac-classic.com/news/half-life-ported-to-mac-os-9/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089814 Points: 218 # Comments: 106
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Deflock Casa Grande
Article URL: https://deflockcg.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088148 Points: 254 # Comments: 102
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How the Vagus Nerve Promotes Healthy Cognition via Acetylcholine Signaling
It’s been said for centuries that you cannot think on an empty stomach, and that love goes through the stomach. Although these may seem like merely cute jabs at the …read more
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Improving the Microcontroller Gaming Performance with PicoGame
The ability to write Python on microcontrollers with the likes of MicroPython and later CiruitPython has made them much more accessible. [MakerClassCZ] brings that to game development with PicoGame. Like …read more
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Building a Portable Weather Radar
If you run a large meteorology bureau, then you probably have access to a wonderful weather radar for scrying the heavens. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. If you …read more
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Codex Security
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089755 Points: 482 # Comments: 157
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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
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