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Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'

Google cofounder Sergey Brin told employees working on Gemini, the company's AI suite, that 60 hours per week is the…

Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA

Talk Is Cheap: The Operational Impact of LLM Use

# Summary According to data from Faros.ai analyzing 4,000 software development teams over two years, increased LLM…

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

AI has dramatically accelerated the author's prototyping workflow, enabling them to move from concept to working…

TechCrunch Mobility: It doesn’t matter that people hate the Ferrari Luce

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is…

An Analysis of GrapheneOS's Server Infrastructure

GrapheneOS, while maintaining strong security features on its phone OS, shows inconsistencies in its server…

Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace that integrates chat, agents, research tools, documents, email, notes, and…

Chibil: A C compiler targeting .NET IL

Chibil is a C compiler written in C# that compiles C code to .NET IL (MSIL) and generates COFF object files compatible…

Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."

I'm So Tired of Ads

# Summary The author expresses frustration with the pervasive and inescapable presence of advertisements across all…

1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices

PrismML has released Bonsai Image 4B, a family of compressed image-generation models designed to run on local devices…

Black founders raise highest amount of quarterly funding since 2022, but there’s a catch

Speaking to TechCrunch, Crunchbase’s head of research Gené Teare, said the factors holding back Black founders include…

Restartable Sequences

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

The author describes how AI tools like Claude have enabled him to build dozens of projects—most of which are…

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

A growing subculture of "AI successionists" believes artificial intelligence should eventually replace humanity as the…

Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

Cloudflare's Turnstile verification system now requires WebGL fingerprinting to confirm users are human, which has…

Frost: [Browser] Fingerprinting Remotely Using OPFS-Based SSD Timing [pdf]

I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for £200

A tech enthusiast installed a datacenter-grade Tesla V100 GPU (16GB VRAM) into his gaming PC using a third-party…

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss (2008)

# Summary The author argues that working for large organizations is intellectually unhealthy because humans evolved to…

United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert

Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6

Backpressure is all you need

The article argues for a "backpressure" approach to using AI coding agents—neither fully unattended (risky) nor…

Dav2d

VideoLAN has announced dav2d, a fast software decoder for the new AV2 video codec, following the success of their dav1d…

The Website Specification

The Website Specification is a platform-agnostic technical checklist covering 168 topics across ten categories—from HTML…

Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site]

The ~500kB NBSDGames 6 managed to be published ahead of GTA 6

NBSDGames version 6, a ~500KB open-source game collection, was released in April 2024 ahead of GTA 6, featuring improved…

Show HN: Komi-learn – continuous memory and self-improvement for coding agents

Komi-learn is a tool that adds continuous memory and self-improvement capabilities to AI coding agents like Claude Code…

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

# Summary Digital Equipment Corporation shrunk the PDP-8 minicomputer into the DECmate II (1982), a word processor with…

Building a LangGraph pipeline for production data engineering

LangGraph is a framework for building stateful, multi-step AI workflows organized as graphs with nodes and edges,…