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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."
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Agent Fone
My thanks to Agent Fone for sponsoring last week at DF. Agent Fone is a crazily ambitious new smartphone that doesn’t merely ship with a built-in AI assistant. Instead, the entire concept is that it enables you to create custom software, right on the phone itself. Ideas for new a…
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Open Channel: What’d You Think of ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day?’
Stay a while and share with us your thoughts of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day,' won't you?
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Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School
Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ...
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‘Wonder Man’ Showrunner Discusses Show’s Sudden Cancellation
Thankful for the fans and the show's success, Andrew Guest sheds a little bit of light on why 'Wonder Man' won't return.
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‘The Odyssey’ Is So Big, It’s Made People Like ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Again
Ubisoft's biggest franchise found itself in the perfect position to capitalize on 'The Odyssey' and its ongoing success.
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International tech
A 2018 Nature study tracking 30,000 artists, film directors, and scientists found that each career’s most acclaimed work clusters into a single unpredictable hot streak, arriving with no more warning late in a career than it does early
Your greatest work may be decades away, and you'll have no way of knowing it until it arrives.
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Indian Startup IPO Tracker 2026
Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping…
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Sarvam’s AI Arsenal
In June, Sarvam AI entered India’s unicorn club, raising $234 Mn (about ₹2,210 Cr) in a $300 Mn Series B…
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First impressions count as Chinese buyers open their homes to UBTech’s consumer humanoids
When 39-year-old Beijing investor Song shelled out 159,800 yuan (US$23,680) for a companion robot, he knew it would not be cooking meals or scrubbing floors. For him, becoming one of China’s first owners of a consumer humanoid was more about embracing the cutting edge. “The happi…
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A 25-year Northwestern study of people over 80 with memory as sharp as adults decades younger found that diet and exercise habits varied widely among them, but strong social connection was the one trait they consistently shared
What keeps a mind sharp into old age may matter less than who keeps you sharp.
siliconcanals.com
A New Zealand cohort tracked from birth to age 32 found that childhood self-control predicted adult health, wealth, and criminal record along a gradient, though a 2018 marshmallow test replication found family background explained much of what looked like individual willpower
The case for willpower's outsized importance in life outcomes is shakier than a viral study suggested—and class may matter far more than character.
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Karpathy’s Pelican
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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
Article URL: https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-1-27/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140218 Points: 342 # Comments: 172
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A KVM Without the V (Or the M)
Many of us will be used to the idea of a KVM, a device that pipes keyboard, video, and mouse over the network from a remote machine to your own. …read more
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Turning Fruits Into Ethylene and Ethane Refrigerant
One of the best parts about DIY chemistry and physics projects is that you get to decide how early in the supply chain you want to begin, such as with …read more
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Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.
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Architectural LED Install Shows How To Do It With Style
Anyone can string up some LED string lights in a space with mixed results. However, if you want to create a lighting environment that’s classy and stylish, it takes a …read more
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An Automated Water Tank Controller
[Jumpor] lives in a part of India where the water infrastructure is a little frustrating to use. Water gets delivered to underground tanks outside of homes, and must then be …read more
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Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built
Article URL: https://github.com/tom-ilan/cycloidal_gearbox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140396 Points: 310 # Comments: 100
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Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300
Article URL: https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141073 Points: 201 # Comments: 96
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