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Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: plan, postgres, query

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The California Teamsters union is suing the state over self-driving trucks (engadget.com)

2026-08-06 | by Lawrence Bonk | tags: autonomous, california, regulations

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Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-06 | by Rebecca Bellan | tags: google, improving, improving ai

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TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ej Dickson | tags: lavandeira, self, self harm

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AI Hacks Are Bad. AI Worms and Viruses Will Be Worse (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Will Knight | tags: agents, ai models, computer

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AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Will Knight | tags: agents, ai models, computer

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Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kirsten Korosec | tags: waymo, robotaxi, self-driving

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Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: tesla, elons musk, optimus robot

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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot (wired.com)

2026-08-04 | by Paresh Dave | tags: ati robotics, china ban, humanoid robots

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Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: golang, image hosting, self-destruct

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Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lilian Weng | tags: recursive self-improvement, i. j. good, yudkowsky

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Duress passcodes explained: How they work and why they can land you in court (zdnet.com)

2026-08-03 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: duress passcodes, grapheneos, pixel phones

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Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving (futurism.com)

2026-08-03 | by Frank Landymore | tags: tesla, full self-driving, autonomous vehicles

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I was wrong about Google’s new selfie sign-in tool. Here’s how (and why) you should set it up now (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: google, selfie sign-in, deepfakes

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How a Self-Published Vampire Romantasy Novel Took Over BookTok — and Made Its Author a No.1 Bestseller (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | by Dan Bova | tags: romantasy, carissa broadbent, booktok

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Tesla made its 10 millionth EV (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-30 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: tesla, elon musk, full self-driving

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What if you don’t want to be a brand? (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: personal branding, social media, content creation

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Waymo Returns to Freeways After Recall (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: waymo, freeways, recall

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Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-29 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: thinking machines, lilian weng, openai

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At Waymo, an AI project isn't ready until its evals are — not when the model performs well (venturebeat.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: waymo, autonomous vehicles, machine learning

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I build self-driving trucks. Don’t build a self-driving company (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: self-driving trucks, startup, investors

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Transformer Transformer: A Unified Model for Motion-Conditioned Robot Co-Design (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: transformer, robot co-design, diffusion guidance

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Fired Tesla manager says Full Self-Driving cars were 'rolling hazards' (engadget.com)

2026-07-28 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: tesla, full self-driving, robotaxis

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Show HN: Flashpaper – Self-destructing secret sharing with no database (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: flashpaper, self-destructing, secret sharing

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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410M compute deal with Amazon (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Russell Brandom | tags: recursive superintelligence, amazon web services, ai research

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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 million compute deal with Amazon (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Russell Brandom | tags: recursive superintelligence, amazon web services, compute deal

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Recursive Superintelligence signs $410 compute deal with Amazon (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-28 | by Russell Brandom | tags: recursive superintelligence, amazon web services, compute deal

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Why do phones still use battery when powered off? (engadget.com)

2026-07-26 | by Christine Persaud | tags: android, blackberry, battery

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A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct in Authorities’ Hands May Soon Have Its Day in Court (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: self-destruct, atlanta, authorities

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Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You're a Real Human (slashdot.org)

2026-07-25 | by Posted | tags: facebook, verification, meta