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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
Instead of letting their commercial buildings sit empty, surely it would be better for landlords to lower the rent and got some use out of the building, right? Wrong. Here’s why.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 417 posts.
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ClickHouse raises $350M Series C
ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing.
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ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform
We are excited to announce that ClickHouse has acquired LibreChat, the leading open-source AI chat platform.
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Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
Open source LLMs now outperform closed alternatives at 90% lower cost for workhorse tasks. We compare benchmarks, pricing, and real-world performance.
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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation
Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past
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Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to build data centers in Texas and New York, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
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Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft's Hiding It
Update 2025/07/21: Microsoft heard the complaints, and fixed the reliability added a better status page. Baby steps. Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents. Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Let’s talk about why. First, Fabric’s status page is fabricated bullshit. The link…
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Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition
RELEASE: Today the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild. The Guild will now begin the process to develop a contract.
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What “working” means in the era of AI apps
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s
The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies...
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JetBrains cancels Fleet
Update (May ’26) Fleet has evolved into Air — our new Agentic Development Environment. Air brings together Fleet’s speed, lightweight feel, and usability with a new agentic experience for devel
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Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
Strengthening customer trust: Walmart is eliminating synthetic dyes and 30+ ingredients from U.S. private brand foods.
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Conscious unbossing
Conscious unbossing - 52% of Gen-Z professionals don’t want to be middle managers
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The End of Moore's Law for AI? Gemini Flash Offers a Warning
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash price increase offers a warning about the economics of AI inference and the limits of ever-cheaper intelligence.
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Arroyo (YC W23) has been acquired by Cloudflare
Arroyo has been acquired by Cloudflare to bring serverless SQL stream processing to the Cloudflare Developer Platfrorm, integrated with Queues, Workers, and R2. The Arroyo Engine will remain open-source and self-hostable.
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The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing
A misconfiguration that might have cost us $7,000
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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
U.S. pharma companies should pay rather more of their corporate income tax in the U.S.—and start producing more of their best drugs in the U.S. as well.
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Work disincentives hit the near-poor hardest (2022)
In many ways, America’s social safety net falls short of those of our liberal democratic peers, yet we have no shortage of policies intended to provide social protections. Why is that, and how can we fix it?
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Answering questions about Android developer verification
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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DeepSeek R1 Is Now Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
DeepSeek R1, available through the model catalog on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, enables businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI.
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Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
dbt Labs has acquired SDF Labs to enhance analytics engineering solutions. Learn how this partnership strengthens the modern data stack.
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The Age of Agent Experience
AI agents are here—from ChatGPT Operator to coding tools like Devin and Lovable, there’s a rapid growth of products that can interact with websites on our behalf. It’s time to start building for a new persona: the autonomous agent. Instead of just designing experiences for human users, we need to think carefully about…
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Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty
The EU can support the development of homegrown social media platforms to ensure European Union's digital sovereignty and shield it from foreign interference
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DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss
Showcasing Hirundo’s bias unlearning capabilities on DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, reducing its biases up to 76% compared to original performance.
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Render raises $80M in Series C financing
Today marks two significant milestones in Render's journey: we’ve surpassed 2 million developers on the platform and added $80M in Series C funding to reimagine the cloud for the AI era.