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Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

Score: 525 | Comments: 120

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OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

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Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)

Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.

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Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met

Score: 170 | Comments: 198

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This startup wants to turn idle car inventory into rental revenue

When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he doesn't see rows of cars — he sees millions of dollars just sitting there, depreciating. Come see MyMonthlyCar in the Startup Battlefield 200 at

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Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

Score: 436 | Comments: 411

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Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web

Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.

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Shopify debuts Canvas, a way to build online stores by chatting with AI

Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.

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California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.

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Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager

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Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

Score: 549 | Comments: 194

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RIP, vector database

Score: 347 | Comments: 98

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One year later, Tesla and Musk still don’t have a good definition of ‘abundance’

The CEO promised to get more specific about his vision. But the details are still absent.

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Safe Optimistic Lock Coupling

Score: 33 | Comments: 6

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Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

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Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

Score: 248 | Comments: 47

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RacketCon Is Saturday

Score: 152 | Comments: 41

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Context Language Models

Score: 156 | Comments: 41

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Cloudflare K2: serverless event streams

Score: 254 | Comments: 100

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Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

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