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Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone — Hacker News
This excerpt is from a book containing outrageous and categorically false allegations. We denied every claim on the record, yet the author provided not a single shred of verifiable evidence to substantiate them. No bank statements, wire transfer records, account numbers, transaction dates, or other…
France needs to read my paper — Hacker News
I’m sitting in a macroeconomics strategy review held by my employers economics team, and they are staring dumbfounded at the french sovereign bond yield and it is evident they don’t know exactly why this is happening, nor what to do with it. The French government and opposition seems to also have no better ideas, seemingly […]
The Rise and Fall of Jev — Hacker News
What can we learn about the hype engine that declared war on rational and critical thinking?
This I Believe (1952) — Hacker News
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them. I believe in my neighbors. I know the…
The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) — Hacker News
On the foolishness of "natural language programming".…
Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart — Hacker News
Local home screen, private remote browser, and push-to-talk voice assistant for webOS TVs - anubhavmalhotra/r2d2-tv
Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop — Hacker News
jank is the native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop.
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an “opportunistic” bridge ahead of an IPO — cnbc.com
OpenAI is close to finalizing a new funding round that is meant to be a bridge to its 2027 IPO, sources familiar with the matter tell CNBC.
OpenAI Aims to Lock In $30 Billion Funding Round by Next Week — pymnts.com
OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round in which it could raise as much as $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation, CNBC reported
OpenAI Nears $30 Billion Round at $1.25 Trillion After Pitching $1.4 Trillion — implicator.ai
OpenAI wants signatures by the end of next week on a round of up to $30 billion led by UAE investors and Coatue. The price sits below the $1.4 trillion it presented to backers earlier this month, and the timing puts the round weeks ahead of Anthropic's expected IPO.
Report: OpenAI closing on $30B ‘bridge’ funding round to tide it over before IPO — siliconangle.com
Report: OpenAI closing on $30B 'bridge' funding round to tide it over before IPO - SiliconANGLE
OpenAI seeks $30B funding round at $1.25T valuation ahead of potential IPO — cryptobriefing.com
OpenAI is reportedly raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, led by UAE investors and Coatue, ahead of a potential 2027 IPO.
OpenAI slashes valuation by $150bn — telegraph.co.uk
Reduction is the latest sign of growing doubts over Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence boom
Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear — TechCrunch
Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta — TechCrunch
A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing — TechCrunch
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback — TechCrunch
Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.
Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions — TechCrunch
Third Dimension's technology uses AI to match the physical world, which when combined with Rivian's reams of data could turn into a valuable simulator.
Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’ — TechCrunch
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
Docker is weird — codeandcake.dev
I decided to make my own container runtime for fun, and even though I’m still early on, I’ve learned that Docker is weird. Here’s some weird things I l…
UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does — alexsci.com
When timestamps aren’t time-ordered and other oddities
Please don't mess with links — maurycyz.com
A link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you click it right?…
a hacky fucked up way to portably access errno from outside of c — sebsite.pw
here's something really cursed i made a while back. the goal here is to create a portable way to obtain the value of errno from outside of c, without using a wr…
Quad9 DNS Resolver to exit France — quad9.net
A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
examining the macOS gcc binary — zoey-on-github.github.io
if you’ve ever written C(or c++) on a mac, you’ll know that the so-called gcc is just clang in disguise…
We have Traits at Home — axelmagn.com
I have had more time recently to write code in Zig[1], and it has been good for my soul. I wanted to share some insights I have arrived at regarding abstraction…
Debunking "Faster than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov — blog.fyralabs.com
Tov is a programming language that claims to perform significantly better than Rust. This blog post debunks tricks used in their unfair benchmarks.
Show HN: Orbit – A local macOS workspace for side projects — Hacker News
Pick up where you left off. Orbit keeps your repositories, tasks, notes, and files together in one local workspace for developers on macOS.
Show HN: Best otaku AI to chat about Anime with — Hacker News
A personal anime chat assistant for character conversations, recommendations and anime questions. Free to use, no signup required.
Show HN: Vezur – A browser-based tool to upscale and clean up compressed videos — Hacker News
Improve blurry video quality with AI. Reduce noise and compression artifacts, sharpen details, and make old recordings and phone videos clearer.

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