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Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died

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What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

The nine-year-old startup is replacing hundreds of employees with thousands of AI agents.

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The pope’s AI encyclical isn’t really about AI

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical uses AI as a lens to diagnose older problems: concentrated power, eroding democracy, and a tech elite that shapes the world to its own advantage.

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Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI

Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope's manifesto on "safeguarding the huma

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The pitch trick that helped an eSports startup raise $20M when VCs only wanted AI

Earlier this year, Lucra Sports founder and CEO Dylan Robbins did something that no one else has ever done. And he shared several secrets on how he did it.

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The Ask

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Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in days: Apply before May 27

The deadline to apply or nominate for Startup Battlefield 200 is May 27. This is your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000. Apply now.

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What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard

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5 days left: Save up to $410 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 passes before prices increase

Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now to save up to $410 before prices increase.

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A website to save you from messy browser tabs

I saw some posts where people complained about having too many tabs open and constantly switching between basic tools like JWT decoder, Base64 encoder/decoder, data generators, API client, editor, and

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Postgres JSONB indexes: GIN vs BTREE on the same column

caught this in production last quarter and the answer is more boring than i expected: GIN and BTREE on the same JSONB column solve different problems, and the right choice depends on the SHAPE of your

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The $5 AI That Remembers Everything

This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge: Write About Hermes Agent The lie we've all been sold You know the one: "Our AI is free!" You sign up, start building workflows around i

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What are your goals for the week? #180

It's Memorial Day and I'm working at a Ren Faire. I'll fix goals later in the week. What are your goals for the week? What are you building this week? What do you want to learn? What even

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Zettelkasten for Developers: A Practical Method That Works

Developers do not usually suffer from a lack of information. We suffer from too much of it. There are API docs, pull requests, production incidents, design discussions, meeting notes, architecture di

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OpenClaw vs Hermes Agent: Stars, Downloads & Usage 2026

Open-source AI agent frameworks are exploding in popularity on GitHub. Two projects at the core of the self-hosted AI systems ecosystem — OpenClaw and Hermes Agent — have pulled so far ahead that the

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The Weekly Challenge: The Common Beauty

Weekly Challenge 375 Each week Mohammad S. Anwar sends out The Weekly Challenge, a chance for all of us to come up with solutions to two weekly tasks. My solutions are written in Python fir

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Cheminformatics in Rust in 2025-2026: What Exists, What Doesn't, and Why

RDKit has been the dominant cheminformatics library since its open-source release in 2006. It is written in C++, wrapped in Python, and has accumulated nearly two decades of validated chemistry: SMILE

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Why I Added SD Card Support to My ESP32 Project

When building my ESP32-based project, I wanted the device to save important data directly inside the system instead of losing everything after reboot. My project mainly works with: IR signal captur

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Running Classic ASP Without IIS: The Modern Cross-Platform Alternative

For decades, Internet Information Services (IIS) has been the undisputed home for Classic ASP applications. However, the landscape of web hosting is changing rapidly. With Microsoft officially announc

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I'm not an ML engineer. I built one anyway.

Not because I wanted to — but because every tool I tried on ARM edge devices either needed the cloud, needed a GPU, or needed more RAM than the service it was supposed to be watching. So this post is

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