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Every Day Is a Perfect Day to Watch ‘Redline’
Nearly two decades later, Studio Madhouse's high-octane sci-fi anime racing film still feels like the future of animation.
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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture tha…
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A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.
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Luca Maestri Runs the Cafeteria
Apple Newsroom, back in August 2024: Apple today announced that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will transition from his role on January 1, 2025. Maestri will continue to lead the Corporate Services teams, including information systems and technology, information security, a…
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What’s next for IVF
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Forty-eight years ago this July, Louise Joy Brown became the world’s first person born with the help of in vitr…
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After Sales Stall at the Start of 2026, Lucid Drops Production Target
Lucid saw a quarterly net loss of about $1 billion.
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International tech
Samsung halts all home appliance sales in China as pivot to AI accelerates
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it would end sales of all home appliance products in mainland China, retreating further from a consumer market increasingly dominated by domestic rivals as the group doubles down on its far more profitable semiconducto…
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The new feminism tells women they can have it all — but it doesn’t tell them what it costs
“Have it all” is one of the most expensive lies feminism ever sold women. Not because the ambition behind it was wrong, but because the math behind it was never honest. You cannot run a career, a marriage, a household, a body, and a child on the same twenty-four hours other peopl…
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DeepSeek reportedly seeks first funding round at $45 billion valuation
China’s state-backed semiconductor investment vehicle, known as the Big Fund, is in talks to lead DeepSeek’s first external fundraising, which could value the AI company at about $45 billion, according to the Financial Times. Tencent is also among the investors still in discussio…
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Stop asking what AI can do and start asking what it can’t
For the last two years, just about every conversation we’ve had about AI and careers has revolved around the same question. What can it do? Can it write the email? Can it build the deck? Can it code the feature? Can it analyze the data? Can it replace the junior analyst, the copy…
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TikTok wins approval for $25 billion Thailand data center expansion
TikTok has secured approval for a $25 billion data center expansion project in Thailand, as the Southeast Asian nation accelerates efforts to position itself as a regional digital infrastructure hub. Thailand’s Board of Investment (BOI) announced that it had approved six large-sc…
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Five times AI hallucinations embarrassed governments
From the Trump administration’s “formatting errors” to South Africa’s historic policy withdrawal, AI confabulation is infiltrating official documents.
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
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BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 244 # Comments: 415
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SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
Article URL: https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434 Points: 296 # Comments: 78
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University of Utah’s TRIGA Research Reactor Set to Produce Electricity
Research reactors come in many forms and sizes, with the TRIGA class being commonly found at universities. The TRIGA reactor at the University of Utah was installed in 1975, and …read more
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How To Better Enjoy VR on Linux
Linux folks are used to having to roll many of their own solutions, and better Linux desktop usability is a goal of the WayVR project, which aims to provide desktop …read more
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Learn Programming Without a Computer
Presumably aimed at children, NHK World’s Texico program teaches the main ideas about programming without actually using a computer. Instead, it uses items like a toy train, playing cards, and …read more
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This Az-El Mount Is Worth Following
Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the target. With a geostationary satellite the mount is either fixed …read more
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Programming Still Sucks
Article URL: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269 Points: 381 # Comments: 209
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A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift
We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a …read more
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