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LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

Article URL: https://www.larp.website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882569 Points: 153 # Comments: 35…
Don't you mean extinct?

Don't you mean extinct?

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/extinct/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881830 Points: 149 # Comments: 79…
Less is more with the Oura Ring 5

Less is more with the Oura Ring 5

If you're reading an Oura Ring 5 review at The Verge, you likely fall into one of two camps: newcomers looking for a smartwatch alternative, or Oura u…
UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction

UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction

Article URL: https://timeseriesofindia.com/economy/reads/upi-architecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873457 Points: 206 # C…
What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI

What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9a40bc26120f4540e4e09b75ffb547 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877371 Points: 186…
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

Article URL: https://io-fund.com/ai-stocks/nvidia-coreweave-nebius-circular-financing-gpu-boom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887…
We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput

Article URL: https://clickhouse.com/blog/pgbouncer-clickhouse-managed-postgres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872874 Points: 170…
Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)

Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-invented-180961368/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=488738…
AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874200 Points: …
Prefer strict tables in SQLite

Prefer strict tables in SQLite

Article URL: https://evanhahn.com/prefer-strict-tables-in-sqlite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873940 Points: 154 # Comments: …
After years of teasing, the viral Nopia synth is ‘basically finished’

After years of teasing, the viral Nopia synth is ‘basically finished’

After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia, creators Martin Grieco and Rocío Ga…
GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/gpt-5.6-build-off-12-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865093 Points: 151 # Comments…
Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot

Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/ghost-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870381 Points: 156 # Comments: 120…
Oregon’s Attorney General withdraws effort to delay Paramount and Warner Bros. merger

Oregon’s Attorney General withdraws effort to delay Paramount and Warner Bros. merger

Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield had been seeking documents from Paramount related to its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Rayfield also asked …
Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in re…
Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in re…
Write code like a human will maintain it

Write code like a human will maintain it

Article URL: https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859701 Points: 239 # Com…
Meet the Battery Startup Taking on China’s Giants

Meet the Battery Startup Taking on China’s Giants

Solid-state batteries are safer and more capable—but harder to mass-produce. They also represent an opportunity for non-Chinese companies to get back …
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build US factories.…
Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street

Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street

As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix - one of the world's biggest suppliers of memory chips - launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Kore…
How to Share Your Location on an iPhone or Android Phone (2026)

How to Share Your Location on an iPhone or Android Phone (2026)

Whether it’s through Google Maps or Emergency SOS, there are plenty of ways to quickly let your loved ones know where you are.…
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacu…
ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Work

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849059 Points: 299 # …
Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.…
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.…
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

Article URL: https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827325 Poi…
These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.…
Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital

Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital

The company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130 billion.…
Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

As much as 50 percent of some teams affected by reductions, and more could be coming.…
Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.…