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The Word of God Now Comes With Bitcoin Rewards and an $8.99 Premium Tier
In 2026, even the Bible is gamified.
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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So ... what's your In the Weights score?
techcrunch.com
Another One for the ‘Sorry, We Used to Be Crap’ Truth-in-Advertising File: Carlsberg Beer
Ben Chapman, reporting for The Independent in 2019: After 40 years of advertising its lager as “Probably the best beer in the world”, Danish brewer Carlsberg has confessed that the famous slogan may not be true. Reacting to falling sales and increasingly harsh comments from drink…
independent.co.uk
Netflix May Invite The Daniels to Its ‘Sesame Street’ Movie
Sounds like Netflix may have its sights set on a 'Sesame Street' movie, and already has two directors in mind for it.
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War Taught this Ukrainian Entrepreneur the Value of Resilience
Salome Mikadze-Struk is no stranger to adversity. The daughter of refugees, she built a software-development business as an undergraduate at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and kept it running despite the outbreak of war in her native Ukraine. Now, she’s drawing on her experi…
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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
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International tech
New-Age Tech Stocks: Aequs, Nykaa Lead Weekly Gains; Ola Electric, Ather Slip
New-age tech stocks gained in line with the bull run in the broader market this week. Forty three out of…
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From Sarvam To INFLUISH — Indian Startups Raised $426 Mn This Week
Indian startups cumulatively raised $426 Mn across 19 deals between June 15 and June 19, marking a significant jump from…
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I let my phone die for one entire weekend without telling anyone — and the strange thing wasn’t who didn’t notice, it was realizing how many of my closest relationships had been running on something closer to maintenance than to actual presence
I let my phone die one Friday evening and, on a whim, decided not to charge it again until Monday. No grand digital-detox announcement, no warning anyone I was going off-grid. I simply let it run flat and left it face down on a shelf for two days, to see what would happen. The ob…
siliconcanals.com
FY26 Financial Tracker: Tracking The Financial Performance Of Indian Startups
The Indian startup ecosystem continued to mature in FY26, with 22 new-age tech companies making their public market debut as…
inc42.com
The oldest known written customer complaint is a 3,750-year-old clay tablet from ancient Ur, where a furious customer named Nanni accused the merchant Ea-nasir of delivering sub-standard copper — proof that bad reviews are almost as old as writing itself
Around 1750 BCE in Ur, a customer named Nanni complained in clay about the bad copper sold to him by the merchant Ea-nasir. It is the oldest known written customer complaint, and several others were found in Ea-nasir's house. The behaviour behind a one-star review, nearly four mi…
siliconcanals.com
WhatsApp adds ‘Animated Message Bubbles’ in latest iPhone Beta version
WhatsApp is reportedly testing a new animated message bubble experience for iPhone… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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The Repair Nightmare that are Smart Rings
In the quest to make every wearable device ‘smart’, a lot of electronics along have to be crammed in very small spaces, along with ways to make them resistant to …read more
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Tricking a Bike Counter
Some municipalities implement bike counters on cycling routes in order to monitor traffic. [nullpxl] recently investigated how these counters work, and explored methods that can be used to trick the …read more
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Seeing the World in Radio Waves with the QuadRF
Although the basic principle of radio direction finding is easy to understand (measure the phase difference between different antennas, then calculate the angle of arrival from this difference), the radio …read more
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CSSQuake
Article URL: https://cssquake.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608223 Points: 405 # Comments: 88
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EP219: 12 Open-source LLMs
Twelve models worth knowing in 2026, each with one standout strength.
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Observability for Beginners: Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Everything Around Them
In this article, we will look at the basics of observability in detail with concepts like logs, metrics, and traces explained in detail.
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I Stored a Website in a Favicon
Article URL: https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606619 Points: 280 # Comments: 95
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Home Automation: Simple vs Easy
We’ve been talking a bunch of home automation on the Podcast lately, and this week, in the Mailbag segment, a reader asked us about our setups. Neither Kristina nor I …read more
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A General Purpose Pi Zero Device for IoT
By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more
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