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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

A developer trained a 125M-parameter transformer model to autocomplete piano performances in real time on iPhone,…

Proof of Human (YC S23) Is Hiring a Member of Technical Staff

Proof of Human, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Princeton PhD scientists, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff…

Nifty’s Record 12-Session Streak: Are Indian Crypto Traders Getting Better Spot Returns?

The Nifty 50 has set a historic record by failing to surpass its previous day’s high for 12 consecutive trading sessions…

AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it

Junior engineers' value has increased rather than diminished with AI, as they can now lead feature development and solve…

Flock's New AI Police Tool Can Track Drivers Without a Name or License Plate

The underlying code for "OS Investigate" has 69 preloaded AI prompts that turn Flock cameras into a super-charged…

VAP Group Announces Global Trading Show, The Most Influential Unified Multi-Asset Trading Show

VAP Group today announced the Global Trading Show from 15-16 December 2026 at Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi.

Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery

Google Research has developed PhotoScan, a deep learning tool that estimates body composition metrics from smartphone…

Risk Engineering

This site offers free Master's level e-learning courseware on risk engineering, covering hazard identification, risk…

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

AliExpress runs hidden WebAudio fingerprinting scripts that interfere with Bluetooth multipoint functionality on…

AI firms are watermarking generated text – here’s why it won’t work

AI companies have begun embedding watermarks in the output of their models to improve transparency and help crack down…

Don't Paste the AI, please

The article argues against simply copying and pasting AI chatbot responses when answering someone's question, since they…

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone

A government complained that Windows 95's anti-piracy hologram depicted a "naked child" because the baby model wasn't…

Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex

Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?

The original Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows featured a bright red sticker announcing "Now includes TETRIS for…

Turns are Better than Radians

The article argues that using "turns" (a [0,1] range representing a full circle) instead of radians in code is more…

Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

A software developer tasked Claude AI with reverse-engineering and creating a macOS driver for their discontinued Drobo…

Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’

What does a payments giant want with a startup that routes prompts between different AI models?

Technical leaders should have the largest AI exhaust

Technical leaders should actively use AI coding agents themselves rather than stepping back from hands-on work, because…

The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector

CSS is introducing a new Class Prefix Selector (.prefix-*) that allows developers to target multiple classes sharing the…

Waymo’s cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities

The next-generation robotaxi called the Waymo Ojai, is central to the company's push towards mass scale, and eventually,…

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for…

Collaborative Human Agent Protocol (CHAP)

The Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP) is an open-source protocol that creates a structured, auditable record of…

Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026

US residents face trade-offs as delivery drone services such as Prime Air expand.

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup

SpaceX was reportedly in talks to buy AI coding startup Cognition.

Travis Kalanick kicks off another round of VC bashing: ‘1% are helpful’

After raising $1.7 billion for his new robotics company Atoms, Travis Kalanick is introspective about the role VCs have…

Trump Says AI Could Be 'Bigger Than the Internet' as He Pushes Light-Touch Regulation

The president said the U.S.

Anthropic Refuses to Support Agents.md

A user requested that Anthropic's Claude Code support the standardized AGENTS.md format, which is being adopted by…

Os8088.com: IBM XT OS now has a Browser, CP/M 2.2 with Z80 core and MS Word 1.1a

Os8088.com has added several major features to its IBM XT operating system emulator, including a web browser that…

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

DFlash 2, an advancement in speculative decoding technology, increases inference throughput by 16-25% by enabling…