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Why Is a San Diego Charter School Spending $500,000 on Two Humanoid Robots?
Is half a million dollars really worth a bad Nikola Tesla impersonation?
gizmodo.com
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…
spectrum.ieee.org
Wait, How Much Could ‘Supergirl’ Lose?
The latest film from DC Studios had a disappointing opening weekend that could lead a nine figure loss.
gizmodo.com
[Sponsor] Day One Journal
Day One recognizes that many people struggle with journaling not because they can’t write, but because they don’t know how to begin or what a “good” journal entry about their day looks like. That’s why we built Daily Chat, a guided reflection experience that helps you talk throug…
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Agent confidence on the technical frontier
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the meas…
MIT Technology Review
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
techcrunch.com
International tech
Huawei Mate 90 Series Set for September Launch with Kirin 2026 Chip, Aiming Directly at iPhone 18
Huawei's Mate 90 series is confirmed for a September launch, debuting the Kirin 2026 chip with logic folding technology and HarmonyOS 7 to challenge Apple's iPhone 18 lineup.
pandaily.com
Kapture CX Bags $10 Mn To Take Its AI-Powered CRM Tools Global
AI-powered SaaS platform Kapture CX has raised $10 Mn (₹94.5 Cr) as part of its Pre-Series B round led by…
inc42.com
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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Exclusive: Lightbox-Backed Nua In Talks To Raise $25 Mn From Peak XV, Others
D2C femtech brand Nua is in talks to raise $20 Mn (about ₹189 Cr) to $25 Mn (about ₹236 Cr)…
inc42.com
3one4 Capital Floats $15 Mn Fund To Back Under-Represented Founders
Venture capital (VC) firm 3one4 Capital has banded together with British International Investment (BII) to float a new $15 Mn…
inc42.com
When DeskTime studied how its users actually worked, the most productive tenth were not the ones who never stopped — rest seemed to be key to output
I have a bad habit I am not proud of. When the work is going badly, I keep going anyway. The screen stays on, the cursor stays blinking, and I sit there past the point where anything good is coming out, as if the act of staying put is itself the work. Some part of ... Read more
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How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness
In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.
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2026 Frikkin Lasers Challenge: Super-Simple Laser Precision for Your Stargazing
Perhaps the hardest thing for amateur astronomers just starting out is finding the things you want to look at. Prolific maker [mircemk] has submitted a quick-and-easy star-hopper device that will …read more
hackaday.com
Mechanical TV, Without The Benefit Of New Parts
There are many experimenters who have had a go at a mechanical television, and though there are a few challenges, it’s a relatively straightforward project in 2026. A hundred years …read more
hackaday.com
.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
Article URL: https://hccf.onmy.cloud/2026/06/21/reclaiming-our-digital-selves-hccfs-vision-for-a-human-centered-top-level-domain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48724230 Points: 318 # Comments: 181
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Hard Drive Speakers Crank Out Classic Demo
Second Reality is a legendary demoscene release by Future Crew, which won Assembly 1993 with its technical and artistic mastery. [Niv Singer] decided to give the classic demo a spin …read more
hackaday.com
EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
bytebytego.com
Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903 Points: 602 # Comments: 506
quesma.com
US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-geofence-warrants-case-decision Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720924 Points: 437 # Comments: 204
The Guardian
A native graphical shell for SSH
Article URL: https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720758 Points: 242 # Comments: 111
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