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Show HN: Eyeball

Eyeball is a precision-clicking game designed for mouse or trackpad use, where players attempt to click on moving…

Tether Unveils TurboQuant to Run Bigger AI Models on Devices

Tether has added a new memory optimization tool to QVAC SDK 0.12.0, a move that could help laptops, smartphones, and…

SpaceX Adds Shareholder Dilution Warning Before Public Debut

SpaceX warns its future shareholders of a dilution risk.

Not Every Byte Gets a Vote

# Summary When implementing replay functionality in a deterministic game engine, the author discovered that naively…

The Unexpected Deal Steve Jobs Offered U2 After Refusing to Hand Over Apple Shares

In 2004, U2 approached Apple about an ad deal, asking to be paid in Apple shares.

Influencers sought to sell Cambridge homes in China

An estate agent is looking for tech-savvy students to help find buyers in China and Hong Kong.

VPN Provider Mullvad Says Age Verification for Social Media Will End Free Internet

VPN service provider Mullvad has criticized the idea of using age verification applications, as proposed by regulators…

strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance

strace-ui is a new interactive terminal UI tool that makes the notoriously difficult strace utility more usable by…

U.S. Midterms Have a Cyber Problem, but It's Not at the Ballot Box

# Summary The 2026 U.S.

macOS Needs Its Grid Back

The author argues that macOS has regressed since OS X Leopard (2006), which featured Spaces—a customizable grid of…

How the hell is Groq raising more money?

Groq, an AI chip company whose technology was licensed (but not fully acquired) by Nvidia in 2024, is raising $650…

What's gonna happen to software engineers?

# Summary The article explores the future of software developers in an AI era, distinguishing between two broad…

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

https://archive.ph/nKEVw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055 Points: 73 # Comments: 120

The Frame Problem

The frame problem, originating in artificial intelligence research, refers to the challenge of representing the effects…

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

# Summary Multiple countries are implementing age verification systems for social media, ostensibly to protect children…

How to make the Startup Battlefield Top 20 — and what every company gets regardless

Every founder who applies to Startup Battlefield wants the same thing: the Disrupt Main Stage.

Chipotlai Max

Chipotlai Max is a meme project that reverse-engineered Chipotle's customer support chatbot "Pepper" (powered by IPsoft…

Alphabet plans to raise $80 billion to pay for AI buildout

The Google parent company plans to raise the funds by selling stock.

Nvidia Releases Its Best Open AI Model Yet—But Still Lags Behind China

Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Ultra tops every American open-weight AI system by a wide margin—but still trails the Chinese-led…

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.

DuckDuckGo Launched Duck AI. Now Their Hit Product is 'No AI'

As Google buries its search results under AI-generated answers, DuckDuckGo believes a growing number of users just want…

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

Defense tech darling Mach Industries hits $1.8B valuation, a 4x jump in a year

In a wild ride for 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, Mach Industries has raised another $300 million.

Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Warns $1.75 Billion IPO Investors of Potential Future Share Dilution

SpaceX's amended IPO filing signals the company may issue substantial new shares in future transactions as Elon Musk…

Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute

Alphabet has announced an $80 billion equity capital raise to fund expansion of its AI infrastructure and computing…

Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts

Pricey Instagram handles were stolen and resold before Meta patched the exploit.

Debug Project

Debug is a scientific initiative developing technology to release sterile male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia…

From the stage to the future: Where are Startup Battlefield’s alumni now?

We wanted to show you what happens after the confetti falls.