Growth Agents 2026
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API Layer Access: Master Timeline of AI & Tech Companies Cutting Each Other Off
API Layer Access: Master Timeline of AI & Tech Companies Cutting Each Other Off Go to Source This timeline tracks the moments when tech and AI companies restricted, revoked, paywalled or blocked each other's APIs, data, crawlers, apps...
Show HN: Janus – Go binary that runs GGUF models via Vulkan on AMD/Intel/Nvidia
Article URL: https://github.com/Vibra-Ingenn/Janus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926773 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Last Shipaton, I Couldn’t Ship a Paywall. This Year, Six People Paid Me $13
Last Shipaton, I Couldn’t Ship a Paywall. This Year, Six People Paid Me $13 Go to Source The numbers first, as of September 22: six subscribers, about $13 in revenue. That is not a success. But last year the number was zero, because I...
The Lifecycle of Email Objects
The Lifecycle of Email Objects Go to Source Compose · Sam · 8:14 AM Can we move Thurs demo to Fri Finance numbers won’t be ready lmk if that works Enhance ✨ Professional · Warm Hi Priya,I hope you’re doing well. I wanted to reach out...
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
Samsung launches its first clip-on earbuds in South Korea
A global rollout will follow, although we don't yet know the details.
Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light remasters are getting free next-gen updates this month
Take a trip down memory lane with the first two games in the series.
Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP
TCP, the data transport protocol upon which pretty much the entire web and most of cloud computing is built, is ill-suited for emerging AI workloads, a retired Stanford University professor argues. To solve the problem, he's promoting a new protocol called Homa. “TCP,...
Cloudflare launches Data Platform with bland ‘Basin’ branding, promise of fewer fees
Cloudflare Data Platform on Thursday received a bland new brand name, Basin, and promotion from beta status to general availability. Under the tub-themed moniker, Cloudflare Pipelines, R2 Data Catalog, and R2 SQL become Basin Pipelines, Basin Catalog, and Basin SQL...
EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank
Depending on Chinese technology for European infrastructure poses risks that not every country takes seriously. So says the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), which suggests that the EU needs to do better in helping members assess the risk and take appropriate...
Manyfold’s Agents.md Is Based
Article URL: https://github.com/manyfold3d/manyfold/blob/main/AGENTS.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926630 Points: 7 # Comments: 3
Car Is a Smartphone on Wheels. Here’s Who’s Listening
Article URL: https://automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926628 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Police may have new ways to access data on locked iPhones
A training video reportedly demonstrates how police can evade an Apple security feature.
Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models
Two weeks after the Jev model took the AI world by storm, Cloudflare has released its own pair of "Clef" decision models that it claims are smarter and faster than Jev, while also being open weight and runnable locally. The Clef family of decision models was announced...
Armadin nabs $255.5M to detect vulnerabilities with AI agent swarms
Cybersecurity startup Armadin Inc. today announced that it raised $255.5 million in funding at a valuation exceeding $2.5 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Accel co-led the Series B round. They were joined by Alphabet Inc.’s GV startup fund, Kleiner Perkins, Menlo...
Pi 1.0
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49926069 Points: 47 # Comments: 12
A Mechanical Radio, Sort Of
[The Mike Stuff] has an interesting proposition. He asserts that ancient people like the Greeks could have built a form of radio that was purely mechanical. We aren’t sure we agree, but even if it were possible, we are sure it would have sounded awful. You can see the...
More than 1 in 3 Americans making over $300,000 say they are living paycheck to paycheck
The affordability crisis puts a huge strain on Americans making the least, but apparently everyone is feeling it. More than a third of people earning under $100,000 or over $300,000 say they live paycheck to paycheck, according to a new report on retirement trends...
Average U.S. mortgage rate rises to 7.28%—the highest level in nearly three years
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate jumped this week to its highest level in nearly three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose to 7.28% from 7.03% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday, the biggest leap in several years. A year ago,...
Oxygen-deprived underwater zones may not be “dead zones” but clue to early life
Article URL: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026AV002570 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925742 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
Judge dismisses lawsuits claiming Google’s AI Overviews siphon web traffic
Google may have a monopoly in search, but neither lawsuit made a compelling case the company was leveraging it.
Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,600 times before space data centers get off the ground
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
Workers are ‘calendar stalking’ their bosses for more face time
Amid growing pressure to return to the office, hybrid workers are developing sophisticated ways to optimize (and minimize) their time at work. First came “coffee badging”—where a hybrid or remote employee goes to the office just long enough to swipe his or her ID...
Former LinkedIn CEO leaves Microsoft, citing reluctance to be ‘full time, every day’ in Redmond office
Former LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky announced on Thursday that he is stepping down “after nearly 18 years at LinkedIn and Microsoft” and will leave the company at the end of the year. Roslansky led LinkedIn for six years, during which time he grew membership on the...
Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests
Article URL: https://tangled.org/burrito.space/bez Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925036 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The Steam Autumn Sale has deals on Resident Evil Requiem and 007 First Light
The Steam Autumn Sale has deals on Resident Evil Requiem and 007 First Light Go to Source Bye-bye, money.
World’s first enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months
Fervo Energy completed its first power plant in less than two years. The next phases promise to connect to the grid even quicker.
Over 70% of Americans are concerned about AI’s existential risks, polling shows
A Quinnipiac University national poll strongly suggests that Americans’ fears about AI now go well beyond job losses and energy cost hikes because of new data centers. Fears about AI threatening humanity have gone mainstream. The poll, released Wednesday, found that...