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Markdown Now Has a UTI in Apple’s Version 27 OSes
The third developer betas of Apple’s 27 OSes dropped today, and this new page in Apple’s developer documentation drew my attention — a built-in Uniform Type Identifier for Markdown data: UTI: net.daringfireball.markdown Conforms to: public.utf8-plain-text I had previously recomme…
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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents
"The reality is, when you're optimizing for production, you start looking at a price/performance," Guillermo Rauch tells TechCrunch.
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Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans will share in the wealth AI creates was in the news again last week. On Thursday,…
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Allen Pike, Back in November: ‘Why Is ChatGPT for Mac So Good?’
Allen Pike, back in November (and corresponding Hacker News thread): Still, I wouldn’t count out the possibility of a change in course here. While mobile is king, desktop is still where work happens. While OpenAI has acquired Sky to double down on desktop, Google has long been al…
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Backblaze Versus Dropbox
There’s a been a lot of (justified) concern and consternation over the last year regarding Backblaze — an online backup service whose simple pitch is that it backs up your entire computer, including the startup drive and external drives — and online file storage services like iCl…
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xAI Is Dead. Long Live SpaceXAI
I never have to type out what the hell "xAI" is again.
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NoBroker’s Profit Push, Klydo Halts Ops & More
NoBroker Rewrites Playbook In Search Of Profits After a decade, the proptech unicorn is shifting from a pure listings engine…
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Chocolate Finds Its D2C Sweet Spot
In June 2026, Manam Chocolate raised a $9 Mn Series A round. This marked a notable move in India’s consumer…
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Hangzhou's Diagens Launches iMedLoop, Building a Full-Chain Medical AI Ecosystem
On July 4, Diagens held the "Medical AI Ecosystem Innovation Symposium and iMedLoop Global Medical Imaging Data Platform Launch" at the Diaoyutai State Gu...
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Simplexity Robotics: 11-Month-Old Embodied AI Startup Ships 100 Robots to Production Lines
Simplexity Robotics, an embodied AI robotics startup founded less than a year ago, announced the first batch delivery of 100 units of its all-scenario robot i7 Pro, ...
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Tencent launches Hunyuan Hy3, integrates model across multiple products
On Monday, Tencent launched Hunyuan Hy3, a new reasoning model that integrates both fast and slow thinking. Built on a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, Hy3 features 295 billion total parameters with 21 billion activated parameters and supports a context window of up to 256K…
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Counterpoint: China’s 618 smartphone sales fall 13% year-on-year
According to market research firm Counterpoint Research, smartphone sales in China fell 13% year over year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as major brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs. Between May 26 and June 21, all major Chinese smartphone brands exc…
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Flight Sim Tracking from Spatial Audio
Flight sims are wonderful to play around with to get immersed in the position of a pilot. Racing sims can give you a thrill that can only be beaten by …read more
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Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts
2026.04 - "Judgement is the last human skill AI can't replace". Everyone is saying it. I am trying to understand it. I want you to get good at it. Let's get philosophical and practical.
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Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)
Article URL: https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811644 Points: 200 # Comments: 47
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CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps
Article URL: https://www.comaps.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808928 Points: 507 # Comments: 100
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Performance Improvements For Open-Source 80386
The Intel 80386 is a rather fascinating slice of computer history. It marked the first 32 bit X86 processor, and was a staple of early desktop computing. Like all chips, …read more
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Why the NES Put Out a Wobbly Picture
The NTSC television standard is a masterpiece of mid-century engineering, to pack a color image into the transmission bandwidth of a monochrome one, and to do so while maintaining backward …read more
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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Article URL: https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48808482 Points: 576 # Comments: 224
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Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique
For this article we spoke with the team behind World, including Tiago Sada and Lily Gordon at Tools for Humanity, on how they try to solve this problem.
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How to Rebuild an 1800s Victorian Leclanché cell
The 19th century was an absolutely electrifying era, including in a literal sense. Although the phenomenon of electricity had been known by that time for centuries, actually making it do …read more
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