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New IVF Startup Claims It Can Predict an Embryo's IQ

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-15 18:30:17

The 21st century has seen startups rise from a relatively niche business approach to a multi-trillion-dollar phenomenon. Between 2021 and 2023, startups generated an estimated $7.6 trillion in global value. From 2019 to 2023 — a rocky period for the economy overall — the number of startups in the US still increased by 16 percent. But with all that success comes a whole lotta risk. It's estimated that over two-thirds of startups fail to deliver a positive return to investors. Many fail before th

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Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

news.ycombinator.com Patricia Waldron 2025-12-15 20:40:27

Fact-checkers may have a new tool in the fight against misinformation. A team of Cornell researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated. The idea is to hide information in nearly-invisible fluctuations of lighting at important events and locations, such as interviews and press conferences or even entire buildings, like the United Nations Headquarters. These fluctuations are designed to go unnoticed by humans

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OpenAI prepares new open weight models along with GPT-5

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-15 20:01:37

OpenAI isn't just working on GPT-5. It looks like OpenAI is also preparing to release new open-source weights, living up to its name, "OpenAI." As spotted on X, two new open-source weights, "gpt-oss-20b" and "gpt-oss-120b," have been spotted on HuggingFace, which is an AI platform to host models. The models are on HuggingFace ahead of the public release. Typically, companies like OpenAI need to share the model weights with partner companies. This is done in preparation for the release. OpenA

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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 03:00:05

Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work isan option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to compla

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Twist on Famous Double-Slit Experiment Deals a Blow to Einstein’s Quantum Doubts

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-17 05:25:03

Albert Einstein famously disliked quantum theory’s understanding that physical objects, including light, exist as both a particle and a wave, and that this duality could not be simultaneously observed. But a new, simple iteration of a foundational quantum experiment offers the most conclusive, direct evidence yet that Einstein may have been wrong. In a recent paper for Physical Review Letters, MIT scientists successfully replicated the double-slit experiment on the atomic scale, allowing for an

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GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 18:13:33

Using the model gpt-5-bench-chatcompletions-gpt41-api-ev3 via the Chat Completions API will give you what is supposedly GPT-5. Conjecture: The "gpt41-api" portion of the name suggests that there's new functionality to this model that will require new API parameters or calls, and that this particular version of the model is adapted to the GPT-4.1 API for backwards compatibility. Here you can see me using it via curl : https://preview.redd.it/glxute607egf1.png?width=1181&format=png&auto=webp&s=

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The Longest Sightline on Earth

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 00:08:34

See, all the examples above are limited by the curvature of the earth, and that is why the horizon seems to be the limiting factor. But there are two additional variables in play that can allow for some truly amazing sightlines: the height of the target and the temperature of the air. The height of the target is intuitively obvious, as we all realize we can see Calgary's skyline from way further away than 4.7 km. In fact, Calgary's skyline can be seen at least 50 km away since the height of the

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Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 23:13:12

Hi HN, we’re Patrick and James! Artificial Societies ( https://societies.io ) lets you simulate your target audience so you can test marketing, messaging and content before you launch them. Here’s a quick product demo: https://www.loom.com/share/c0ce8ab860c044c586c13a24b6c9b391?... Marketers always say that half their spend will be wasted - they just don’t know which half. Real-world experiments help, but they’re too slow and expensive to run at scale. So, we’re building simulations that let y

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Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-18 16:00:45

Welcome to Edition 8.05 of the Rocket Report! One of the most eye-raising things I saw this week was an online update from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center touting its work on cryogenic propellant management in orbit. Why? Because until recently, this was a forbidden research topic at the space agency, as propellant depots would obviate the need for a large rocket like the Space Launch System. But now that Richard Shelby is retired... As always, we welcome reader submissions, and if you don'

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Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-14 18:51:11

Scientists and Engineers Craft Radio Telescope Bound for the Moon With all major telescope components completed, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night is now undergoing final assembly enlarge LuSEE-Night undergoes final assembly at the Space Sciences Laboratory, following the completion of all major components by Brookhaven Lab and other collaborators. (Space Sciences Laboratory) UPTON, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has completed the

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New James Bond Movie Will Be Written by Creator of ‘Peaky Blinders’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-19 05:40:46

The director came first, and now it’s the screenwriter. MGM just announced that Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, has been hired to write the next James Bond movie, which will be directed by Denis Villeneuve. News of Knight’s hiring was first reported by Deadline before being confirmed by the official 007 account. According to the trade, since Villeneuve’s hiring, producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman (who are shepherding the franchise) have been focusing on finding the right writer

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Astonishing ‘Megaflash’ Sets World Record for Longest Lightning Strike

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2025-12-19 15:35:49

A lightning flash tore across the sky above the Great Plains, stretching across a staggering 515 miles (829 kilometers) from eastern Texas to Kansas City. That “megaflash” shattered the previous record for longest lightning flash of 477 miles (768 kilometers), set in 2023. An international team of researchers documented the record-breaking flash in a new report in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Scientists were able to capture the flash thanks to advances in satellite techn

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A Haunted House Comes With a Body Count in This Free Found Footage Flick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 14:30:03

Summerween is here, and horror fans are already queuing up their favorite horror films ahead of Halloween season. While blockbuster movies are always fun to rewatch, checking out lesser known cult classics can deliver solid scares, even without a massive budget. Found footage movies are especially adept at this, and there are some amazing options that won't cost a penny to watch. Hell House LLC is a found footage horror movie shot in a documentary format, and it's currently streaming for free o

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U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 03:55:16

Efforts to introduce pirate site blocking to the United States continue with the introduction of the "Block BEARD" bill in the Senate. The bipartisan proposal, backed by Senators Tillis, Coons, Blackburn, and Schiff, aims to create a new legal mechanism to combat foreign piracy websites. Block BEARD is similar to the previously introduced House bill "FADPA", but doesn't directly mention DNS resolvers. After a decade of focusing efforts overseas, the push for website blocking has landed back on

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Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 20:06:16

Hi Hacker News community, I'm excited to share Nova, a new web framework built for Erlang, designed to make web development in Erlang simpler, faster, and more approachable. Nova leverages Erlang's concurrency, reliability, and scalability to create a robust yet lightweight framework for building modern web applications. Key features: * Lightweight and modular: Easy to integrate with existing Erlang projects. * Built for concurrency: Harnesses Erlang's actor model for high-performance web ap

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Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-20 20:43:22

With Insight Partners-led Round, Anaconda Establishes Role as the Standardized Python Distribution for Mission-Critical AI Systems AUSTIN, TX – [July 31, 2025] – Anaconda, Inc., the company committed to advancing AI with open source at scale, today announced that it raised over $150M in a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Mubadala Capital. The company operates profitably with over $150M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) as of July 2025. This news comes on

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How Apple’s New Spotlight Compares to Raycast

wired.com Justin Pot 2025-12-21 11:00:00

There are all kinds of actions included out of the box. You can add calendar appointments and reminders and set timers. You can send text messages or start FaceTime calls. You can even set dedicated keyboard shortcuts for any of these actions. It's also the exact kind of thing that, until now, Raycast did that Spotlight could not. The difference is one of implementation. Apple's approach currently only works with Mac applications that implement the Spotlight feature. Right now, it’s basically l

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$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-22 10:03:10

Amid the Trump administration's ongoing efforts to wrest the power of the purse from Congress, an estimated $15 billion allotted by lawmakers to fund life-saving biomedical research via the National Institutes of Health was temporarily frozen and then said to be released Tuesday. According to reporting by The Wall Street Journal, the initial decision to withhold the funding came from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration and Project 202

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Maintaining Weight Loss

news.ycombinator.com Leigh Peele 2025-12-22 15:05:29

When people hit their weight loss goals, it’s easy to assume the hardest part is behind them. However, maintaining that progress is a skill with its own set of challenges. In fact, sometimes, people are more prepared for the initial grind of weight loss than for the long-term effort required for maintenance. This article aims to provide a collection of skills to manage maintenance more effectively while hopefully making it feel sustainable. Let’s dig in! 1. Really understanding the role of yo

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Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds

news.ycombinator.com Jannika E. Boström 2025-12-19 04:32:46

Flying animals need to accurately detect, identify and track fast-moving objects and these behavioral requirements are likely to strongly select for abilities to resolve visual detail in time. However, evidence of highly elevated temporal acuity relative to non-flying animals has so far been confined to insects while it has been missing in birds. With behavioral experiments on three wild passerine species, blue tits, collared and pied flycatchers, we demonstrate temporal acuities of vision far e

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Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-22 18:18:14

Crush Your new coding bestie, now available in your favourite terminal. Your tools, your code, and your workflows, wired into your LLM of choice. Features Multi-Model: choose from a wide range of LLMs or add your own via OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible APIs choose from a wide range of LLMs or add your own via OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible APIs Flexible: switch LLMs mid-session while preserving context switch LLMs mid-session while preserving context Session-Based: maintain multiple w

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Hackers plant 4G Raspberry Pi on bank network in failed ATM heist

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-23 00:47:52

The UNC2891 hacking group, also known as LightBasin, used a 4G-equipped Raspberry Pi hidden in a bank's network to bypass security defenses in a newly discovered attack. The single-board computer was physically connected to the ATM network switch, creating an invisible channel into the bank's internal network, allowing the attackers to move laterally and deploy backdoors. According to Group-IB, which discovered the intrusion while investigating suspicious activity on the network, the goal of t

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How a New Jersey startup found an electrifying way to slash copper costs

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-12-23 00:09:47

Skyrocketing demand for copper promises to push prices to new heights. As the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels, it is going to need twice as much copper in the coming years than humanity has mined throughout all of its existence. Still Bright, a New Jersey-based startup founded in 2022, thinks it has found a novel (and cleaner way) to slash those costs. “The fact that we’ve already mined the easily mineable stuff, and the fact that we need many more mines to come into producti

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Watch a Reconstructed 250-Year-Old Robotic Painting Bring a Fiery Mount Vesuvius Back to Life

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-12-23 05:35:10

Sir William Hamilton was the British ambassador to the court of Naples and Sicily from 1765 to 1800, as well as a passionate volcanologist. During his time in Italy he must have seen Mount Vesuvius erupt a number of times—certainly enough to leave a lasting impression. So much so that in 1775 he designed a rotating device that, with mechanical movement and light, could bring to life the fiery magma depicted in Pietro Fabris’ 1771 watercolor, “Night view of a current of lava.” While experts aren

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Stanford's holographic AI glasses are coming for your clunky VR headset

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-23 10:26:17

Over the past couple of years, with the introduction of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3, I've become a believer in the potential of mixed reality. First, and this was a big concern for me, it's possible to use VR headsets without barfing. Second, some of the applications are truly amazing, especially the entertainment. While the ability to watch a movie on a giant screen is awesome, the fully immersive 3D experiences on the Vision Pro are really quite compelling. In this article, I'm

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Nightfall launches ‘Nyx,’ an AI that automates data loss prevention at enterprise scale

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-23 15:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Nightfall AI launched the industry’s first autonomous data loss prevention platform Wednesday, introducing an AI agent that automatically investigates security incidents and tunes policies without human intervention — a breakthrough that could reshape how enterprises protect sensitive information in an era of expanding cyber threats. The S

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Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 15:09:27

29 Jul, 2025 TLDR: we explain how to make libcurl based applications work in webassembly without changes by tunneling all traffic over a websocket proxy. For a quick demo, check out https://github.com/r-wasm/ws-proxy Porting R to WebAssembly Webr is a port of the R language and its package ecosystem to WebAssembly. Many R packages rely on well-known C/C++ libraries to do the heavy lifting, and fortunately most of these libraries can be built with emscripten without too much trouble. However

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iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 16:58:06

Ever wonder why you never see a smartphone photo printed and framed on the wall? I'll explain exactly why. The fish eye iPhone lens creates distortion, look at the feet of the pink player. There's also distortion of the players on the edges who appear to be leaning toward the center in the iPhone photo. Compare the jawlines (important!) of the players. The iPhone photo is much less flattering. Real cameras capture shadow more accurately. An iPhone does lots of computation to try to make everyt

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iPhone cameras are good

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 22:58:06

Ever wonder why you never see a smartphone photo printed and framed on the wall? I'll explain exactly why. The fish eye iPhone lens creates distortion, look at the feet of the pink player. There's also distortion of the players on the edges who appear to be leaning toward the center in the iPhone photo. Compare the jawlines (important!) of the players. The iPhone photo is much less flattering. Real cameras capture shadow more accurately. An iPhone does lots of computation to try to make everyt

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‘Predator: Badlands’ Came From a Desire to Do Something New, With a Dash of ‘Star Wars’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-24 20:20:54

With Prey, director Dan Trachtenberg did something no one ever thought was possible. He took a beloved franchise, Predator, and flipped it on its head. By giving it a fresh perspective and a new timeline, he took something old and brought it into the now. For his follow-up, he wanted to do that again, but it was difficult. Everyone kind of just wanted Prey 2. “Sometimes when you make a sequel, it’s just part two of the cool thing, not a cool thing in and of itself,” Trachtenberg said recently a

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Latest Tech News

New IVF Startup Claims It Can Predict an Embryo's IQ

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

OpenAI prepares new open weight models along with GPT-5

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)

Twist on Famous Double-Slit Experiment Deals a Blow to Einstein’s Quantum Doubts

GPT-5 is already (ostensibly) available via API

The Longest Sightline on Earth

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM

Scientists and engineers craft radio telescope bound for the moon

New James Bond Movie Will Be Written by Creator of ‘Peaky Blinders’

Astonishing ‘Megaflash’ Sets World Record for Longest Lightning Strike

A Haunted House Comes With a Body Count in This Free Found Footage Flick

U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

Nova: A New Web Framework for Erlang

Anaconda Raises $150M Series C

How Apple’s New Spotlight Compares to Raycast

$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war

Maintaining Weight Loss

Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds

Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

Hackers plant 4G Raspberry Pi on bank network in failed ATM heist

How a New Jersey startup found an electrifying way to slash copper costs

Watch a Reconstructed 250-Year-Old Robotic Painting Bring a Fiery Mount Vesuvius Back to Life

Stanford's holographic AI glasses are coming for your clunky VR headset

Nightfall launches ‘Nyx,’ an AI that automates data loss prevention at enterprise scale

Making Libcurl Work in WebAssembly

iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras

iPhone cameras are good

‘Predator: Badlands’ Came From a Desire to Do Something New, With a Dash of ‘Star Wars’

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