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Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-21 | tags: fable 5, reasoning tokens, effort level

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Where will the next breakout startup come from? Benchmark’s full partnership weighs in at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-21 | by Techcrunch Events | tags: benchmark capital, techcrunch disrupt 2026, venture capital

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Corridor raises $25M seed to build a health benefits brokerage for SMBs (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-21 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: corridor, health benefits brokerage, bain capital ventures

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The AI models that cheat the most, according to new CAIS benchmark (zdnet.com)

2026-09-21 | by Radhika Rajkumar | tags: cheatbench, center for ai safety, reward gaming

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The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests (theverge.com)

2026-09-21 | by Antonio G. Di Benedetto | get Apple Mac Studio M5 Max → | tags: mac studio, m5 ultra, m5 max

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Is there any benefit to keeping your smart TV in standby mode? (engadget.com)

2026-09-20 | by Calvin Wankhede | get Kasa Smart Plug TP-Link → | tags: smart tv, standby mode, oled

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The benefits of using an E Ink tablet over an iPad (engadget.com)

2026-09-20 | by Calvin Wankhede | get reMarkable Paper Pro E Ink tablet → | tags: e ink tablet, ipad, reflective display

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Btrfs/ZFS/bcachefs under workloads classic benchmarks skip (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-19 | get Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD 2TB → | tags: btrfs, zfs, bcachefs

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Brood War Bench (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-19 | by Ben Swerdlow | get StarCraft Remastered PC game → | tags: codex, brood war, protoss

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Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-19 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: vals, ai benchmarking, andreessen horowitz

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Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-19 | get Apple MacBook Pro M-series 14 inch laptop → | tags: apple m6 pro, geekbench 7, single-core cpu

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Xiaomi Has a Luxury SUV for $31,000 That All Western Brands Should Fear (wired.com)

2026-09-19 | by Jeremy White | tags: xiaomi, skynomad n70, electric suv

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AMD targets Nvidia with first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd epyc venice, nvidia vera, spec cpu 2026

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AMD shares first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, targets Nvidia — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-18 | by Jake Roach | tags: amd epyc venice, nvidia vera, spec cpu 2026

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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-18 | tags: bend 2, vibe-coding, llm coding

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Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card → | tags: bend language, cuda parallelism, lean proofs

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Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof and runs on GPUs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-17 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card → | tags: bend, gpu computing, ai coding

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iCloud+ subscribers just got new benefits in iOS 27 (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-17 | by Ryan Christoffel | get HomeKit Secure Video compatible camera → | tags: icloud+, ios 27, apple intelligence

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UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-17 | by Jagmeet Singh | tags: un system data commons, google data commons, model context protocol

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The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party (wired.com)

2026-09-17 | by Maxwell Zeff | tags: salesforce, dreamforce, marc benioff

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Do Snap’s Beefy AR Glasses Actually Bend Your Ears? (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-17 | get Snap Spectacles AR glasses → | tags: snap, ar glasses, augmented reality

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How fast are you ageing? Ask AI (feeds.nature.com)

2026-09-17 | by Ledford | tags: ageing biology, large language models, llm benchmarks

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Salesforce issues revenue target of over $63 billion for fiscal 2030, beating estimates (cnbc.com)

2026-09-16 | by Jordan Novet | tags: salesforce, dreamforce, fiscal 2030 forecast

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HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get Logitech MX Keys wireless keyboard → | tags: harnesstax, coding agents, llm benchmarks

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How good are frontier models at physics? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | get University Physics with Modern Physics Young Freedman → | tags: frontier models, physics, benchmark

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MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy is reportedly shutting down (engadget.com)

2026-09-16 | by Kris Holt | tags: mindseye, build a rocket boy, leslie benzies

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DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-16 | by Yanir Tsarimi | tags: deepseek v4.1 flash, ai hacking benchmark, grafana

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Earth May Be Hoarding a Secret Water Stash 1,800 Miles Beneath Our Feet (gizmodo.com)

2026-09-16 | tags: earth, water stash, mantle

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'Defeated' GPT-6 Astra model spent several hours just farming potatoes after being blown up by a Creeper in Minecraft — OpenAI offering gets further than any other AI system in 141-hour test (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-16 | by Stephen Warwick | get Minecraft Java and Bedrock Edition PC game → | tags: gpt-6 astra, openai, minecraft benchmark

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China's open-weight AI models are now just 4 months behind frontier US offerings, Mozilla report claims — models still lag in some benchmarks but are drastically cheaper to use (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-16 | by Shane Downing | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card → | tags: mozilla, state of open source ai, china ai models