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A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

A walking tour guide documents surveillance infrastructure throughout downtown Seattle, identifying various tracking…

Expanding Project Glasswing

Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its initiative to use AI to secure critical software infrastructure, from 50…

ZeroDrift raises $10 million to protect AI models from themselves

A new AI compliance service sits between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a…

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns

Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up

"The market's going to continue to find exciting new things."

Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API

Apple rejected an update to WhisperPad, a dictation app built by its developer to manage hand pain from repetitive…

Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI

Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.

Instagram AI chatbot tricked by hackers to give access to others' accounts

Some reports have linked the incident to recent cases of high-profile Instagram accounts being hijacked.

Nvidia unveils Nemotron 3 Ultra, its best open AI model

Nvidia takes a new step in open artificial intelligence with Nemotron 3 Ultra, its most powerful model to date.

CSS-Native Parallax Effect

CSS Scroll-driven animation timelines now enable native parallax effects without JavaScript, using a declarative CSS…

Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T

Michael Burry, the investor famous for betting against the 2008 housing crisis, has expressed serious skepticism about…

Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai

Stop Ruining It

Seth Godin explores the concept that quality and positive experiences aren't achieved by adding features or tactics, but…

Why Janet?

The author advocates for Janet, a small Lisp dialect programming language, highlighting its key advantages: simplicity…

You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough

# Summary Systemd timers are a modern scheduling alternative to traditional cron jobs that offer significant advantages…

Show HN: Eyeball

Eyeball is a precision-clicking game designed for mouse or trackpad use, where players attempt to click on moving…

Tether Unveils TurboQuant to Run Bigger AI Models on Devices

Tether has added a new memory optimization tool to QVAC SDK 0.12.0, a move that could help laptops, smartphones, and…

SpaceX Adds Shareholder Dilution Warning Before Public Debut

SpaceX warns its future shareholders of a dilution risk.

Not Every Byte Gets a Vote

# Summary When implementing replay functionality in a deterministic game engine, the author discovered that naively…

The Unexpected Deal Steve Jobs Offered U2 After Refusing to Hand Over Apple Shares

In 2004, U2 approached Apple about an ad deal, asking to be paid in Apple shares.

Influencers sought to sell Cambridge homes in China

An estate agent is looking for tech-savvy students to help find buyers in China and Hong Kong.

VPN Provider Mullvad Says Age Verification for Social Media Will End Free Internet

VPN service provider Mullvad has criticized the idea of using age verification applications, as proposed by regulators…

strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance

strace-ui is a new interactive terminal UI tool that makes the notoriously difficult strace utility more usable by…

U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box

# Summary The 2026 U.S.

macOS Needs Its Grid Back

The author argues that macOS has regressed since OS X Leopard (2006), which featured Spaces—a customizable grid of…

How the hell is Groq raising more money?

Groq, an AI chip company whose technology was licensed (but not fully acquired) by Nvidia in 2024, is raising $650…

What's gonna happen to software engineers?

# Summary The article explores the future of software developers in an AI era, distinguishing between two broad…

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

https://archive.ph/nKEVw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055 Points: 73 # Comments: 120

The Frame Problem

The frame problem, originating in artificial intelligence research, refers to the challenge of representing the effects…