Building Billinox, an Offline-First Invoicing App for Small Businesses
Running a small business sounds simple until you have to keep track of customers, invoices, payments, expenses, and everything else that comes with getting paid. I’ve seen how easily business owners can end up using a combination of notebooks, spreadsheets, messaging...
Walnut Launches Enterprise AI Agent Platform to Personalize the B2B Buyer Experience
For B2B software companies, product-led buying has created a new challenge: buyers increasingly expect to explore products on their own terms, while go-to-market teams still have limited time to tailor those experiences. Walnut is now betting that AI can make that...
I Couldn’t Remember the Russian Words I Was Learning, So I Put Them on My Phone Screen
I started learning Russian because I wanted to understand and use the language—not just complete lessons inside an app.But I kept running into the same problem: I could learn a new word, understand it in the moment, and then struggle to remember it later. I tried...
Securing a Real Time Social Map: The Trust Architecture Behind Beamrove
Beamrove brings nearby people, moments connected to places, and plans people can join into one live social map. That simple description carries a serious technical responsibility. The product works with identity, relationships, conversations, media, social intent, and...
500 Bugs, $22, and a Dream: Bringing PocketVault to Android
If you’ve ever stared at an ugly Excel spreadsheet at 2:00 AM trying to figure out how to save for your new home or even a LEGO set, you already know why traditional budgeting apps make people want to throw their phones out a window. Half of the apps feel like boring...
5 Practical Ways to Reduce AI Inference Costs
You’ve finally completed an agent. The cost of the demo was basically nothing, so you shipped it. But then, the first month of real traffic lands, and an invoice you got looks more like a mortgage payment. This is the part of AI engineering that doesn’t get talked...
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months
Wonderful's $550M Series C was led by Insight Partners, with Salesforce, Index Ventures, IVP, Vine Ventures, 9Yards and Bessemer participating.
India’s richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs
Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553 Points: 52 # Comments: 24
Digital scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses leaked to the dark web
The source could be an ID verification service in Louisiana, though the FBI has opened an investigation.
UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastructure
Late amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would give ministers new powers to restrict risky technology providers as supply chain attacks intensify. The post UK Moves to Block High-Risk Tech Suppliers From Critical Infrastructure appeared first on...
Southwest is opening airport lounges for the first time. Here’s where
Southwest is opening airport lounges for the first time. Here’s where Go to Source Southwest Airlines is getting into the airport lounge game. The airline announced Wednesday that it will open its first-ever network of airport...
Microsoft will stop finishing your sentences in Word and Outlook
Microsoft is switching off text predictions by default in Word and Outlook after acknowledging that unwanted suggestions can interrupt rather than assist some users. The change is coming to Word for Windows, the web, iOS, and Android, as well as classic Outlook for...
How a 1981 RAM Expansion Worked
Sir Clive Sinclair and his company were notorious for pushing the limits of electronic parts in search of a low price, and his ZX series 8-bit computers were fine examples of this art. The ZX81 came with a meagre 1K of memory, and a popular upgrade was a 16K RAM pack....
Roku Brings Its First OLED TVs to Market
At $999 for the cheaper 55-inch model, they're priced pretty fairly. But are you okay with ads?
Uber is cutting around 3,000 jobs in the name of efficiency
The company is also asking almost all remote employees to move to an office.
HiddenLayer nabs $100M as enterprises rush to secure their AI deployments
HiddenLayer has raised a $100M Series B from Delta-v Capital, Ten Eleven Ventures, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft's M12, Booz Allen Hamilton, and others.
NASA’s Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory may now be beyond rescue, but the team behind the spacecraft has reactivated its instruments to eke out a final few months of science data before it reenters Earth's atmosphere. The Ultraviolet/Optical and X-ray telescopes were...
PSA: Amazon’s shopping AI can now tell you if that message is a scam
Amazon is adding a scam-detection feature to Alexa for Shopping that can verify whether suspicious emails, texts, and other messages actually came from the retailer.
Firefox and Thunderbird hit the fortnightly release treadmill
Mozilla's Firefox 155 and subsidiary MZLA's Thunderbird 155 have arrived. Yes, already. Firefox officially debuted yesterday, although The Reg FOSS desk wasn't offered the upgrade until early evening. Thunderbird followed several hours later. If this seems soon after...
Chevron confirms it will invest billions to expand operations in oil-rich Venezuela
Oil giant Chevron confirmed that it will expand its operations in Venezuela, just days after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious deal to develop the nation’s oil reserves and give the Pentagon a stake in the profits.Chevron, the only U.S. oil company that...
Just bury your trash: What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/just-bury-your-trash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536536 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine
Article URL: https://github.com/mlc-ai/web-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536411 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
UN climate report, ‘among the bleakest’, outlines a new plan for Earth’s climbing temps
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and...
Legacy Lenovo login opens 5,000 Dropbox accounts to attackers
Dropbox has warned around 5,000 users that attackers compromised their accounts by abusing a legacy Lenovo login integration. In an email sent to affected customers, the cloud storage biz said attackers exploited an integration that allowed users to access Dropbox...
Exit the Cave
Article URL: https://turtlespace.blog/p/exit-the-cave Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536606 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
GrapheneOS says Pixel 11 has MTE support after all
Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117194007157499435 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536384 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them
Article URL: https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Poisson Disk Sampling
Article URL: https://stripeacross.com/posts/poisson-disk-sampling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536177 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Dyson CameraJet: The only toothbrush with a camera and a jet
Article URL: https://www.dyson.com/discover/news/latest/introducing-camerajet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536180 Points: 4 # Comments: 1