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GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
What would you do if your organization had used a domain name for 27 years, and the registrar holding the domain seized it without any advance warning? All
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 477 posts.
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VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
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No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.
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Our commitment to Windows quality
Hello Windows Insiders, I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth. Every day, we hear from th
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The recurring dream of replacing developers
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers.
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The August 17 outage
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.
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Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
We are introducing Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows. Also launching: a new reinforcement learning platform that allows developers to fine-tune decision models using their own data.
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Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
Apple today announced a significant expansion of factory operations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac mini to the U.S. for the first time.
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
The US Benchmark Map places AI benchmarks across the American economy, measuring which parts of the labor force are covered by unsaturated, public, agentic benchmarks.
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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus-mac.org
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Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA
Fujitsu Limited today announced that it will begin global sales of its next-generation CPU, FUJITSU-MONAKA, designed and developed in Japan, starting November 2026. This will include sales of the processor as a standalone product to cloud and data center operators and server vendors. Additionally, the company will…
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De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Top dollar no more? Discover the factors threatening the dominance of the world’s reserve currency and how this is playing out across markets.
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Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI
(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on copyrighted books—show that executives and employees at both companies intentionally […]
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Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 builds on Grok 4.5 with a particular focus on long-running agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work.
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We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
Google is introducing new ad formats built with Gemini in Search and expanding the Direct Offers pilot for shoppers.
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Where things stand with the Department of War
A statement from Dario Amodei
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MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.
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Beware Management Consultants
Both teams worked really hard to get in the best shape. On the day of the first race, both teams were ready to win.
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A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline
But the Institute is facing ongoing challenges in two related areas: funding, and our talent pipeline.
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
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Oxide raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
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Grok 4.7
SpaceXSI's most powerful model for coding and knowledge work. Twice as fast, at half the price of comparable models.
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Security Disclosure
Railway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables and recommends your immediate attention
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Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.
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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
In 2024 I quit my FAANG job to become an independent researcher. To do this I needed GPUs, so I built “grumbl”, a 6x 6000 Ada GPU server. This blog describes the build, some of the issu…
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Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
Compare Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API to Whisper and SFSpeechRecognizer. Real accuracy benchmarks on 5,559 utterances with raw transcripts for rescoring.