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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Smart Money Stage explores fintech, payments, AI, and everything between 

Money has evolved into far more than the cash in your wallet or your bank account.

Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech

"Here’s a more natural, flowing version of that section..."

Anthropic's Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap

Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.

Show HN: Max Studio Tools (C++ DSP Modules for Max and Ableton Live)

Max Studio Tools is an open-source suite of C++ DSP modules for Max/MSP and Ableton Live that emulates classic studio…

Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber

The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.

PlayStation Network outage resolved after thousands of gamers unable to play

The outage affected gamers' ability to launch games, apps or network features on their PlayStation.

What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

The author argues that making all advertising illegal would eliminate the financial incentives behind addictive social…

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard

Claude Opus 5 ranks as the top intelligence model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard, with its "max"…

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent

Roku blames RAM shortage after CEO called it "great" for business in May.

Nvidia, Microsoft and Tech Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Protect Open AI Models

Major technology companies have intensified efforts to shape U.S.

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY has a reputation for poor scalability due to a global exclusive lock taken during NOTIFY…

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

A developer created animated visualizations of how transistors work using a semiconductor simulator, showing electron…

Claude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the Price

Anthropic's new everyday model undercuts its own frontier product on cost and beats it almost everywhere that counts.

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in…

BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) uses the ORIGIN attribute to indicate how routes are injected into the network, with three…

I got into YC by hacking it

A founder discovered a security vulnerability in Y Combinator's Paxel application—a tool used to score applicants—that…

Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go

Gsxui is a new component library that brings shadcn-style components to Go web development, offering copy-in,…

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

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Build Systems Discussion

The article discusses the design principles of effective build systems, particularly in the context of permacomputing…

The Kids' Guide to Piracy

An article titled "The Kids' Guide to Piracy" provides instructions on how to use torrenting to download digital media…

Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

The small, real, original web

The "small web" – the non-corporate, independent internet of personal blogs and websites from the 1990s and early 2000s…

DuckPGQ – A DuckDB community extension for graph workloads

DuckPGQ is a DuckDB community extension that enables high-performance graph analytics using SQL/PGQ, the SQL:2023…

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now 

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people…

Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 has been released as a cost-effective alternative that delivers near-frontier performance at half the…

As of JDK 27, Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port

Oracle is deprecating the macOS/x64 port starting with JDK 27 and plans to remove it in a future release to reduce…

OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and…