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MindsDB (YC W20) is hiring an AI solutions engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 01:29:55

ABOUT US MindsDB is a fast-growing AI startup headquartered in San Francisco, California. MindsDB is an AI Analytics solution that connects to diverse data sources and applications then unifies structured and unstructured data, at petabyte scale. Powered by an industry-first cognitive engine that can operate anywhere (on-prem, VPC, serverless), it empowers both humans and AI with highly informed decision-making capabilities. MindsDB was founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres, inspir

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Couchers is officially out of beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 02:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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Peter Thiel and His Goons Are Launching Their Own Bank (Yes, It has a Tolkien-Inspired Name)

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2026-03-19 04:35:39

Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse in 2023 left a hole in the tech industry. For years, the bank poured money into the Bay Area’s riskier startups, allowing those companies to pursue their various “disruptive” aims. Eventually, mismanagement led that business model to collapse. Now, billionaire Palantir founder Peter Thiel and several of his pals want to fill the void left by SVB by launching their own bank dedicated to backing the industry’s riskier bets. Multiple outlets have reported that the ne

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Here are 25 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s early Prime Day sale

theverge.com Brandt Ranj 2026-03-19 04:01:54

You can pick upfor $399.99 ($400 off), its lowest price ever, at Amazon . The robot vacuum / mop hybrid sucks up debris and uses a side brush to clean edges and corners of your room before its pair of spinning mop pads clean stuck-on gunk. The 405 plans the most efficient route by mapping your home using lidar sensors, and you can adjust which rooms or areas it cleans using the Roomba Home app. The app also allows you to set a cleaning schedule or select a cleaning mode. After cleaning, the robo

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Zelle needs to fix ‘significant scams and fraud,’ lawmakers say

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-03-19 04:30:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Banks are facing renewed pressure to protect their customers from scams on Zelle, the payment network owned by JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Capital One, and other big banks. In letters to the banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) asked them how often their customers report Zelle

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Couchers is officially out of Beta

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 07:05:20

A new chapter: Couchers is officially out of Beta! Quick summary: we are out of Beta and into version 1, we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better! Share the platform with your friends and let's grow the community together! We are super excited to share that Couchers is today finally out of the Beta phase with our version 1 (v1) la

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Elon Musk’s X Is Turning Community Notes Over to AI

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-03-19 07:40:57

Artificial intelligence chatbots are known for regularly offering dubious information and hallucinated details, making them terrible prospects for the role of fact-checker. And yet, Elon Musk’s X (née Twitter) plans to deploy AI agents to help fill in the gaps on the notoriously slow-reacting Community Notes, with the AI-generated notes appearing as soon as this month. What could possibly go wrong? The new model will allow developers to submit AI agents to be reviewed by the company, according

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When an Amazon Driver Broke Down My Gate, This Device Would Have Saved Me $500

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 07:41:00

I was home working upstairs when a loud thud in the backyard startled me. I guessed it was an enthusiastically dropped package, but I couldn't have imagined the full scope of the incident that originated the noise. After I made my way downstairs to investigate, I found the double chain link gate on the side of my house had been kicked in by an Amazon delivery driver seemingly unable to figure out the simple butterfly latch. The brute force entry busted the gate's wooden frame, necessitating a r

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancellations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-03-19 06:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Large Object From Interstellar Space Detected Heading Toward Center of Solar System

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-19 10:37:47

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual trajectory. If its interstellar origins were to be confirmed, it'd only be the third of its kind spotted in the solar system in history. An oblong interstellar object, dubbed 'Oumuamua, was first discovered in 2017, while comet 2I/Borisov was detected in 2019. The latest addition, provisionally named A11pl3Z, has a highly unusual trajectory, leading astronomers to believe it may have also origina

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US judge rules Huawei must answer criminal charges about alleged Iran deal

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-19 10:15:53

A US judge has ruled that Huawei must stand trial following a 16-count indictment from 2019 accusing the Chinese telecommunications company of trying to steal trade secrets from its US rivals and selling surveillance equipment to Iran despite trade sanctions, according to a report by Reuters . A trial is currently set for May 4, 2026. US District Judge Ann Donnelly found sufficient evidence in the indictment to refute the company's bid for dismissal. In a 52-page decision, the Brooklyn judge ru

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Why I recommend this TCL Mini LED TV over pricier OLED models (especially at $700 off)

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2026-03-19 11:37:00

ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL QM8K (65-inch) is currently available for $2,199. It handles HDR content with eye-popping, true-to-life brightness. The addition of a soundbar would make its audio more immersive. View now at Best Buy View now at Amazon more buying choices Various TCL QM8K sizes are currently discounted (up to $1,500) across major retailers like Amazon and Best Buy. TCL continually punches above its weight, offering impressive TV tech at prices that demand a cost-benefit analysi

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MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring for an AI Solutions Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-19 11:29:55

ABOUT US MindsDB is a fast-growing AI startup headquartered in San Francisco, California. MindsDB is an AI Analytics solution that connects to diverse data sources and applications then unifies structured and unstructured data, at petabyte scale. Powered by an industry-first cognitive engine that can operate anywhere (on-prem, VPC, serverless), it empowers both humans and AI with highly informed decision-making capabilities. MindsDB was founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan and Jorge Torres, inspir

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Acer 15.6″ Chromebook Is Going for Peanuts at Best Buy, This 4.5-Star Laptop Is Cheaper Than Your AirPods

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-03-19 11:10:48

Save $160 on the the 15.6-inch Acer Chromebook 315 for a limited time at Best Buy. In search of a new laptop? If you’re primary need for a computer is basic web browsing, email drafting, word processing, and YouTube video-watching, then you really don’t need to shell out for anything crazy expensive. A Chromebook is kind of the perfect tool for these use cases plus they’re super great for travel. Acer has its Chromebook on sale over at Best Buy. Right now, it’s been shaved down 50%. That brings

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Business Class Ain’t What It Used to Be. Don’t Tell First Class

wired.com Jaclyn Trop 2026-03-19 07:00:00

Five years ago, Covid-19 largely brought business travel to a halt. Now companies are getting their employees back in the air, and carriers are reinventing themselves to appeal to post-pandemic fliers willing to pay more. Airlines worldwide are reconfiguring the real estate on their planes by segmenting their cabins into higher-margin business-class seating. They’re beefing up their traditional business cabins to snag higher fares while providing more luxurious premium economy seating for trave

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Xbox Hit With Layoffs and Game Cancelations as Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Jobs

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-03-19 11:33:29

Major layoffs are rolling across Microsoft today, impacting game developers within Xbox across several studios and the projects they’re working on, even as an executive at the company told staff more gamers are playing Xbox than ever before. According to The Seattle Times, 9,000 employees, or 4 percent of Microsoft’s workforce, are affected by the cuts, which started Wednesday morning. The full scope of layoffs within Microsoft’s gaming divisions are still unknown. “We continue to implement or

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Physicists Solve a 50-Year Mystery About a Critically Important Molecule

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-03-19 15:20:54

After relying on an educated guess for decades, scientists have finally confirmed the dipole moment of aluminum monochloride (AlCl), an elusive but important molecule known to sneak around the interiors of ancient galaxies. An electric dipole moment is a measure of polarity—a crucial determinant for many physical properties of any system, such as its boiling point or solubility. Given its importance, the new result, published last month in Physical Review A, presents exciting opportunities for

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Qantas Breach Comprises Data of Up to 6 Million Customers

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-19 15:25:00

Qantas disclosed a cybersecurity incident on July 2 potentially affecting 6 million customers. Ryan Fletcher/Getty Images Australian airline Qantas has disclosed a cyberattack potentially comprising the data of 6 million customers. Cybercriminals gained access to customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and frequent flyer numbers via a third-party platform used by a company call center, it said. In the wrong hands, this data could lead to phishing attacks orchestrated by ba

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Tesla Gets Dismal Sales News After Disastrous Robotaxi Launch

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-19 19:07:51

Tesla has posted its second quarter delivery numbers — and they're not looking good. As the New York Times reports, the company reported it had delivered just 384,000 vehicles between April and June, a massive drop from 444,000 vehicles over the same period last year. Meanwhile, CEO Elon Musk has focused his carmaker's resources on developing a robotaxi network of fully autonomous vehicles. However, given a disastrous launch filled with near-collisions, bizarre driving behavior, and human "saf

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Nuki, my favorite smart lock, is now available in the US; I can’t recommend it enough

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 19:03:15

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Europe’s best smart lock, the Nuki Smart Lock, has launched in the US. The Matter-compatible lock costs $159 alone, or $299 with the fingerprint-supporting keypad (currently $229 on Amazon). A $5.9 premium monthly subscription enables remote access via the Nuki app and notifications, but it’s free for a lifetime for early adopters. If you ask me about my favorite product I’ve ever reviewed in my 19 years as a tech writer, the answer would be pretty st

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Android TV gets silently updated with more home screen content tabs — whether you like it or not

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-19 19:38:16

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority TL;DR Android TV devices are receiving new content tabs on the home screen via a server-side update. These new tabs add “Top Selling Movies,” “Popular Movies and Shows,” and “Trending on Google” to the home screen. There’s no way to opt out of the update, so users who dislike the added clutter can consider switching to alternative Android TV launchers. Android TV, as a platform, is still very much around, but it has been overshadowed by Google TV, a content

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Google Chrome hit by another serious security flaw - update your browser ASAP

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2026-03-19 19:04:27

Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET Google has patched yet another critical security bug in Chrome, which means all of you who use the browser should update it ASAP. On Monday, the company revealed a high-severity vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to run malicious code on your system. In its release notes for the latest version of Chrome, Google pointed to the security flaw tagged as CVE-2025-6554. The NIST page on this one describes it as: "Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 138.0

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The tablet that solved my biggest smart home problem just hit an all-time low price

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-03-19 19:21:48

ZDNET's key takeaways The Echo Hub is available on Amazon right now for $180. The Echo Hub gives Alexa the place it has earned in the smart home market: A control panel to easily access smart devices, no ads, and no unnecessary fluff. The smart display can be slow and buggy, especially while loading multiple camera views. $179.99 at Amazon $179.99 at Target more buying choices The Amazon Echo Hub is an Alexa user's dream device, and it's $120 for a limited time (a 33% discount). Many smart h

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Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase

news.ycombinator.com Alex Harring 2026-03-19 17:40:33

People visit booths set up by the City of Sunrise and their police department at the Mega JobNewsUSA South Florida Job Fair at the Amerant Bank Arena on April 30, 2025 in Sunrise, Florida. Private sector hiring unexpectedly contracted in June, payrolls processing firm ADP said Wednesday, in a possible sign that the economy may not be as sturdy as investors believe as they bid the S&P 500 back up to record territory to end the month. Private payrolls lost 33,000 jobs in June, the ADP report sho

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Affluent Travelers Are Ditching Business Class for Business Jets

wired.com Hannah Towey 2026-03-19 19:00:00

We’re cruising 35,000 feet over the French Riviera, the plane’s wing cutting through billows of white. Below us, the sea is sparkling, and I spot a cluster of yachts anchored along the coastline. A ray of light hits my glass of Champagne and turns it to liquid gold. I take another sip. So this is what it feels like to be on cloud nine. I’m flying from London to St. Tropez with the private aviation company Wheels Up, and for the first time in my life, I don’t want a flight to end. Once you’ve go

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For Today's Business Traveler, It's All About Work-Life Integration

wired.com Paul Jebara 2026-03-19 19:00:00

These days, business travel no longer means putting your life on hold. In my own work as a travel writer, forever shuttling between airports and hotel lobbies, I lean on small habits that make unfamiliar places feel less anonymous. Before work takes over, I’ll put on a Greek or Arabic podcast to keep the languages of my family close to me. They’re the ones I grew up hearing around the dinner table, and there’s a quiet fear they’ll slip away if I stop listening. Folding moments like these into my

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Tesla deliveries drop 14 percent amid Musk backlash

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-20 00:16:39

Tesla says it delivered 384,122 electric vehicles in the April-June timeframe, which is a 14 percent drop compared with the same period in 2024. It's also the second quarter in a row that sales have fallen year-over-year (YoY). The company produced 410,244 vehicles in Q2, which is very close to the 410,831 it made during the equivalent period last year. However, the company delivered more vehicles (443,956) than it produced in Q2 2024. That's not the case this time. The number of vehicle delive

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Microsoft gaming division suffers further layoffs

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-20 00:24:30

Last week, it was rumored that Microsoft was getting ready for a major round of layoffs within the Xbox team. Bloomberg is now reporting that employees in the company’s gaming division were informed of job cuts Wednesday morning. The PC giant has been on a cost-cutting mission lately, announcing it would let go of 3 percent of its global workforce earlier this summer, and announcing a further 9,000 job cuts on Wednesday. According to Bloomberg , Microsoft’s Stockholm-based King division, famous

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How to install a smart lock on an existing deadbolt - and why this model is my top pick

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-03-20 00:00:18

ZDNET's key takeaways The Nuki smart lock is now available for $159 on its own, and $229 when combined with the Keypad 2. This smart lock fits into an existing deadbolt, supports Matter for easy integrations with smart home systems, and features hands-free unlocking. Though innovative, the Nuki smart lock requires a subscription for full remote access; it's also very loud when locking and unlocking, and the Keypad 2 is somewhat slow. View now at Nuki I'm all for smart home technology, but I c

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IntyBASIC: A Basic Compiler for Intellivision

news.ycombinator.com Óscar Toledo Gutiérrez 2026-03-16 14:17:21

IntyBASIC: a BASIC compiler for Intellivision I was working in Space Raid for Intellivision when I wondered about possibilities to make easier the development of games for Intellivision. There is a full set of tools for emulation ( jzintv ) and programming in assembler (as1600) created by Joseph Zbiciak (intvnut). But in every program you need to start almost from zero and there are few libraries. The Intellivision console The Intellivision console The Intellivision being created in 1979

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MindsDB (YC W20) is hiring an AI solutions engineer

Couchers is officially out of beta

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Zelle needs to fix ‘significant scams and fraud,’ lawmakers say

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Large Object From Interstellar Space Detected Heading Toward Center of Solar System

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MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring for an AI Solutions Engineer

Acer 15.6″ Chromebook Is Going for Peanuts at Best Buy, This 4.5-Star Laptop Is Cheaper Than Your AirPods

Business Class Ain’t What It Used to Be. Don’t Tell First Class

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Qantas Breach Comprises Data of Up to 6 Million Customers

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Nuki, my favorite smart lock, is now available in the US; I can’t recommend it enough

Android TV gets silently updated with more home screen content tabs — whether you like it or not

Google Chrome hit by another serious security flaw - update your browser ASAP

The tablet that solved my biggest smart home problem just hit an all-time low price

Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase

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Tesla deliveries drop 14 percent amid Musk backlash

Microsoft gaming division suffers further layoffs

How to install a smart lock on an existing deadbolt - and why this model is my top pick

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