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The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going?

I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years.

Kalshi seeks funding at $40B valuation, nearly doubling last raise: FT

Kalshi is reportedly in talks to raise new capital at a $40 billion valuation, reflecting growing investor confidence in…

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

Bible as RAG Database

Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2

Mixing Visual and Textual Code

What I'm Finding About LLM Code Style and Token Costs

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

LuaJIT 3.0 is proposing syntax extensions through an umbrella GitHub issue to consolidate and document language…

Blogging Can Just Be Stating the Obvious

Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and…

Elon suffers another day short of trillionaire status

Right now he's merely a several-hundred-billionaire, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.

Hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will cost more than other AAA games

GTA6 might be an outlier, though—at least for now.

Cerebras stock plunges after earnings as CEO says margin outlook was misunderstood

In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business,…

PostgreSQL Is Enough

OpenAI and Broadcom announce chip designed for LLM inference at scale

The silicon race is heating up amid the struggle to keep up with demand.

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

Elastic announced a 7% workforce reduction as part of an organizational restructuring aimed at accelerating innovation…

AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers as a share of total new hires have actually increased, according to…

AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top…

The memory chip crunch is paying off for this U.S. company

Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago.

New website names and shames companies that still don’t offer passkeys to users

According to a new site, 24% of the most popular websites in the world don't offer support for passkeys, which are…

One-two punch delivered in global operation disrupts cybercrime "assembly line"

"Operation Endgame" simultaneously disrupts two widely used crime tools.

Your Hermes Agent Now Has a Pet. It Does Nothing—And That’s the Point

Nous Research added animated mascot sprites to the self-improving AI agent—and the only thing they do is look cute while…

Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the $24,950 Slate auto.

It has 205 miles of bare-bones range.

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

StatusDude demonstrates that zero-downtime deployments are achievable with Docker Compose and HAProxy without…

Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io