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OpenAI Acquires TBPN
OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 477 posts.
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OsmAnd’s Faster Offline Navigation (2025)
Offline navigation is a lifeline for travelers, adventurers, and everyday commuters. We demand speed, accuracy, and the flexibility to tailor routes to our specific needs. For years, OsmAnd has championed powerful, feature-rich offline maps that fit in your pocket. But as maps grew more detailed and user demands for…
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Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued
Earlier this year, we shared an update on our renewed focus for VR and Horizon. We are separating the two platforms so each can grow with greater focus, and the Horizon Worlds platform will become a mobile-only experience. This separation will extend across our ecosystem, including our mobile app. T...
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Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
Stripe announces tender offer to provide liquidity to current and former employees; publishes 2025 annual letter
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Elastic lays off 7% of employees
Today, we announced an organizational change at Elastic.
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Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
Evolving Programmable Search Engine Programmable Search Engine helps hundreds of partners – from academic institutions to retail websites – ...
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Swift Package Index joins Apple
Swift Package Index is now part of Apple. Here's what that means.
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Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
Isaac 1 is a mobile robot for the home — designed and assembled in San Francisco. Five colorways, private by design, and capable of far more than folding.
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United Wizards of the Coast
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
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Turn And Face The Strange
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Citadel Securities is an award-winning global market-maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity products.
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Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024
Growtika helps startups accelerate growth through proven SEO, AI Search & Growth methods to build an inbound engine that generates demand and pipeline.
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Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
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BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time
+++ BMW Group bringing Physical AI to Europe +++ Pilot project at BMW Group Plant Leipzig +++ New “Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production” accelerates global integration of AI and robotics in production +++ First pilot deployment of humanoid robots successfully completed at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, USA…
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GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
A real quarter of UK SME books, 59 transactions, 68 minutes, $2.73 of tokens — and a VAT return within 7 pence of the human-prepared one.
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China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron
Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has filed for an IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, seeking to raise up to CNY 295 billion (about USD 42.2 billion) to upgrade DRAM manufacturing, advance next-generation memory technologies, and strengthen China’s position in the global memory supply chain.
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Conductor is joining Meta
We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. Writing most of your code with agents (let alone a team of coding agents) felt crazy back then. You trusted us to come along for the ride, and we cannot thank you enough!
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Supabase is acquiring Turso
Supabase is acquiring Turso to build the database infrastructure for agentic AI
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ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
Our goal continues to be building the best AI engineering platform
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LibreOffice and the art of overreacting
A donation banner is not an attack to users The announcement that LibreOffice 26.8 will feature a donation banner in the Start Centre has prompted a flood of responses, ranging from positive from many FOSS supporters, who understand the need for funding, to mild apprehension to extreme alarm from others. Some articles…
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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
We’ve renamed Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Here’s why the old name never did fit, and why this one finally does.
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Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.
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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
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Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M
The Town of Atherton's lawsuit against Caltrain electrification is the clearest case study we have of how a tiny, wealthy minority can hijack a…
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Waymo Premier
As we scale and bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to more people across the globe, we continue to refine the Waymo experience and deliver more for our riders. You spoke, and we listened to how we can offer an even more elevated experience for you, our top riders. Introducing: Waymo Premier.
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New US homeownership measure puts people first
An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track