What did SFFA vs. Harvard reveal about admissions?
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Zuck’s AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America’s next big cloud provider
Meta seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis. On Monday, the social networking singularity said it would spend $50 billion to expand its Hyperion datacenter project in Richland Parish, Louisiana, from 2.2 to 5 gigawatts. The news comes less than a week after a...
Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’
An AI rewrite of a popular Anthropic-owned JavaScript runtime and toolchain has sparked praise for the speed of its execution, but also criticism of the coding practices behind the project itself. Last week, Bun creator Jarred Sumner announced that he ported Bun from...
Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society
The hardest problem in AI is no longer the chip but the megawatt. For much of the past three years, the global AI race has focused on semiconductors, with governments competing for advanced chips, technology outfits scrambling to secure GPUs, and investors pouring...
Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will...
Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder
Article URL: https://sleuth-io.github.io/sx/2026/07/10/your-dropbox-is-now-a-skill-server.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900319 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)
Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/forward-deployed-engineers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900432 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
The AI Whale Fall and Open Source
Article URL: https://minor.gripe/posts/2026-07-13-the_ai_whalefall_and_open_source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900231 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: ContextVault – Shared memory layer for your AI and your team
Hi HN,I'm Kevin. I built ContextVault because I kept running into the same problem with AI tools.Every project accumulated prompts, coding conventions, architectural decisions, examples, and other pieces of context that made the models significantly more useful. The...
Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
Singapore-based video generation startup PixVerse closed a Series C extension on the strength of 15 million monthly active users, it said.
X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground
The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.
Manifest Man
Article URL: https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/manifest-man Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899888 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
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Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation Go to Source The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
Your next budget problem may not be electricity—but your water bill
Your next budget problem may not be electricity—but your water bill Go to Source Brace yourself for higher water bills—and soon. Within a decade, millions of Americans could face monthly water bills so high that they’ll become...
One scent helped people squeeze out more reps in the gym—and it’s probably in your pantry
One scent helped people squeeze out more reps in the gym—and it’s probably in your pantry Go to Source Move over creatine and protein shakes. A surprising new gym companion may help boost your next workout: dark chocolate. A new study...
Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes
Article URL: https://1shotchallenge.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899620 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
‘Asia’s cleanest village’ bans tourists on Sundays
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260625-why-asias-cleanest-village-bans-tourists-on-sundays Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899672 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Claude is just Mr. Meeseeks
Article URL: https://github.com/thephw/claude-meseeks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899529 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
MIT’s New Method Flags AI Models Trained on CASM Without Generating It
Article URL: https://insideai.news/news/ai-safety/mits-new-method-flags-ai-models-trained-on-child-abuse-imagery-without-generating-it/3869/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899324 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Please let this hot pink Pixel 11 leak be real
Bring on the magenta and peach.
Get your ESP32 Sunny Side Up with this Solar Dev Board
There are a lot of ESP32-based development boards out there– and why not? It’s a versatile chip that can be used in all sorts of situations, and people want boards to match them. Not finding one to his liking that was specifically built for solar powered IoT projects,...
AI in Cybersecurity Is Not What Vendors Are Selling You
Every major cybersecurity vendor now claims their product is “AI-powered.” The term has become so overused that it has lost almost all meaning. When everything from a firewall to a password manager is described as artificial intelligence, the word stops being...
More Than Bitcoin: 5 Types of Crypto Projects Explained Simply
Bitcoin was born in 2009, but it was just the first cryptocurrency around. According to CoinMarketCap (CMC), we have around 51.56 million different tokens by 2026 —and that’s not counting the smaller, custom, unlisted tokens. It can be really disorienting for any...
The Real Risk in AI Teams Is Missing Review Loops, Not Missing Models
There is a database that every AI team should be forced to read before their next sprint planning. It is maintained by researcher Damien Charlotin, and it tracks court cases worldwide in which AI-generated content — fabricated citations, invented precedents, fake...
The Next AI Coding Breakthrough Is Browser Access
The next useful jump in AI coding may not come from a model benchmark. It may come from the agent finally being able to see the browser. WebKit's Safari MCP server, introduced in Safari Technology Preview 247, is a good example of that shift. It lets MCP-compatible...
We Leaked PII in Staging: Here’s the Automated Data Masking Pipeline That Saved Us
I was in the middle of writing a Cypress test when the Slack message from our Compliance Officer popped up."Why am I seeing real customer email addresses in the staging environment user table?" It was 2:14 PM on a Thursday. I dropped what I was doing, queried the...
Detecting AI-Generated Music With the Modulate API: Here’s How
AI-generated music is being uploaded to streaming platforms and other distribution mediums at a scale that no review team can handle, and most detection tools aren't built for the messy reality of real catalogs. They return a single score for a whole track and lack...
Building an Unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe AI with the Minimax Algorithm
I wanted to build something using AI. And it uses AI. I was thinking, what is the best thing to make? And it came to my mind: a game that everyone knows and plays and is easy to play. Tic-tac-toe. But training an AI to play tic-tac-toe will take time. So it hit me:...
500 Blog Posts To Learn About Blogging Fellowship
Let's learn about Blogging Fellowship via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. HackerNoon runs a blogging fellowship to help...