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Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

Score: 120 | Comments: 52

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Meta won’t let you block its AI account on Threads

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any tim

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How to make your text look futuristic (2016)

Score: 215 | Comments: 25

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Meta will tell parents when their teens add new interests to their Instagram algorithm

Starting Tuesday, parents can get more details about what their teens are up to on Instagram. Meta is adding a feature to its Teen Accounts that shows parents the "general topics their teens engage wi

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Beyond Semantic Similarity

Score: 43 | Comments: 10

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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M

The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million an

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Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup

Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.

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CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

Score: 236 | Comments: 117

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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experie

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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Score: 280 | Comments: 102

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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

Score: 189 | Comments: 42

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Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim

Score: 60 | Comments: 31

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Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

Score: 138 | Comments: 116

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Googlebook

Score: 614 | Comments: 1032

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Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records," the company's support page reads.

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Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

Score: 279 | Comments: 88

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Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Broc

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Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them

Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.

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Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit

Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.

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Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

Score: 55 | Comments: 33

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