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Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models
Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a spe…
venturebeat.com
TP-Link Deco BE77 Review: Great Mesh Wi-Fi for the Eero-Weary
TP-Link’s mesh Wi-Fi system is super fast, stable, and probably way more than my apartment needs.
gizmodo.com
 A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible
It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the newly-transplanted eye wasn’t able to see. But researchers believe they might hav…
MIT Technology Review
Ah, That’s Why ‘Supergirl’ Turned Out How It Did
The way 'Supergirl' fell apart both was and wasn't normal for these types of movies, and unfortunately, it shows right there on screen.
gizmodo.com
★ Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job
Anthropic released the first version of the Claude “desktop” app for MacOS in October 2024 — an Electron clunker that did not impress UI designers. When it came out, I wrote: ChatGPT’s native Mac app, on the other hand, is a truly native Mac app. It looks like a Mac app and feels…
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The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
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Thought of the day by Helen Mirren: “You die young or you get old. There’s nothing in between.”
For most of human history, the average person did not live to see their thirty-fifth birthday. As late as 1900, the global average life expectancy was around 32 years. Getting old — the thing people now complain about, dread, spend fortunes trying to slow — is, in demographic ter…
siliconcanals.com
China’s ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom
Researchers at TikTok parent ByteDance have discovered a new scaling law governing how fast artificial intelligence agents can improve by performing real-world tasks, a finding that could help prolong the AI boom just as traditional development methods hit a wall. In a research p…
scmp.com
Meet The Top 10 Indian Startup Investors Of H1 2026
Indian startup funding was muted in the first half of 2026, declining 9% YoY to $5.2 Bn raised between January…
inc42.com
From Gigabit to 10-Gigabit: Huawei AI-FAN Architecture Drives Broadband Home Upgrade
Huawei unveils AI-FAN architecture for home broadband, targeting the shift from gigabit to 10-gigabit connectivity with AI-powered network intelligence.
pandaily.com
Remote EV Shutdowns Expose India’s Connected Device Security Gap
Social media feeds over the past week have been flooded with videos of people accessing the battery management systems (BMS)…
inc42.com
We tend to think using AI well is a technical skill, but the evidence from early adopters suggests it is almost entirely a clarity skill — the people getting extraordinary results are simply unusually clear about what outcome they are actually after
We tend to treat being good at AI as a technical skill, something to do with clever prompts, the right settings and a stock of secret phrases. Watch the people who actually get extraordinary results from these tools, though, and a different pattern shows up. They are rarely the m…
siliconcanals.com

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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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Building A Wireless Fingerprint Authorization Device
Once upon a time, there was a bit of a fad for fingerprint authentication in laptops and desktop computers. It has long since faded, but [superdog] wanted just such a …read more
hackaday.com
Warp Point: a Web Ring for Gaming Sites Built for 2026
At one point in time web rings were one of the best ways to find content on the World Wide Web — involving not just a directory of participating sites, …read more
hackaday.com
Maybe you should learn something
Article URL: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782435 Points: 290 # Comments: 143
marginalia.nu
Five Solar Air Heating Methods Tested
For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap they’re becoming, they can still only gather around 20-30% of the energy …read more
hackaday.com
Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today
Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions of how much of the computer needs to be actually …read more
hackaday.com
The bottleneck might be the air in the room
Article URL: https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783117 Points: 591 # Comments: 343
mikebowler.ca
Microdistillery for Microchemistry
Much like radio operators being encouraged to use the least possible amount of power to make a contact, chemists have a similar rule encouraging using the least amount of materials …read more
hackaday.com
Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research
Article URL: https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-pumping-water-to-top-branches/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780870 Points: 243 # Comments: 107
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