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Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center

Meta will receive $3.3 billion in tax breaks from Louisiana for building a $10 billion data center called Hyperion,…

WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64

A hobbyist has successfully ported Microsoft Windows CE 2.11 to the Nintendo 64 by creating custom hardware abstraction…

Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO

Instead of running silent and deep, most satellites easily stand out against the blackness of space.

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline

Packs of Empty Waymos Are Weirding Out Atlanta Neighborhood

Residents in northwest Atlanta say empty Waymo robotaxis have spent weeks repeatedly circling residential streets early…

A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

The tech company that maintains the hotel check-in system set its cloud storage to public, allowing anyone to access…

ChatGPT Can Now See Your Bank Account—Here's What That Actually Means

OpenAI launched a personal finance tool that connects ChatGPT to your bank accounts, giving spending advice based on…

The Zulip Foundation

Kandra Labs, the company behind the open-source Zulip team chat platform, is being donated to a newly created nonprofit…

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite ski spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for…

OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say

Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.

Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after they drive into flood waters

Building a UMatrix Replacement

The author describes building a uMatrix replacement extension for Chrome, as the original uMatrix tool for controlling…

Volkswagen shows its first electric GTI; there's no chance of US sales

The ID. Polo GTI takes plenty of inspiration from the original Golf GTI of 1976.

AI Agents Turn to Digital Arson, Crime in Shared Virtual World: Study

In new research, Emergence AI said autonomous AI agents became more violent, deceptive, and unstable during weeks-long…

U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app

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Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal

Feedr v0.8.0 is a feature-rich terminal-based RSS feed reader written in Rust that allows users to manage and read RSS…

I designed a nibble-oriented CPU in Verilog to build a scientific calculator

A developer created a fully functional scientific calculator implemented in hardware on an FPGA using a custom…

Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators

Newly un-redacted crash reports reveal some of the troubles Tesla has had as it tries to scale its robotaxis.

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Show HN: Sx – an open-source package manager for AI skills, MCPs, and commands

Sx is an open-source package manager that enables teams to share AI skills, MCPs (Model Context Protocols), and commands…

Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring

Hightouch, a Series D startup backed by top investors, is actively hiring across multiple departments including AI,…

Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"

A critical bug was discovered in the Bun JavaScript runtime where the `PathString::slice` function creates dangling…

OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT users can connect their bank accounts through Plaid, giving the AI access to account…

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

Publishers would have to offer "independent" play patch or refunds after server shutdowns.

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

Project Gutenberg is a free digital library containing over 79,000 eBooks, primarily classic literature whose U.S.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions,…

Honda shows off new hybrids for America as it absorbs $9 billion EV loss

The automaker marked its first annual loss in more than 70 years.

I built Zenith: a live local-first fixed viewport planetarium

Zenith is a real-time planetarium web application that displays the stars directly above your location at approximately…

Image-blaster: Creates 3D environments, SFX, and meshes from a single image

Image-blaster is a tool that converts a single image into a complete 3D environment with models, sound effects, and…