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This AI Agent Should Have Been a SQL Query

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 20:38:15

LLMs are general-purpose models created from huge bodies of publicly available datasets. However, many, if not most, AI Agents for enterprise use cases require access to context such as internal data and resources, tools and services. How can this be implemented when building an agentic system using Flink SQL? First, let’s consider the case of structured data, for instance details about a given customer stored in an external database. SQL is a natural fit for accessing that kind of data: Flink

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A Vaccine for Yeast Infections Could Soon Be Reality

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-16 21:15:24

Hold your horses, The Last of Us. Scientists have created an experimental vaccine that could be effective against multiple types of fungal germs, including those that cause vaginal yeast infections. Researchers at the University of Georgia developed the vaccine candidate, code-named NXT-2. In their latest study with mice, NXT-2 appeared to protect the animals from a common culprit of yeast infection, Candida albicans. The team is now planning to forge ahead with human trials of the vaccine. Co

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NFC is getting a range boost

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-09-16 21:12:11

The next version of the Near Field Communication (NFC) standard aims to make it easier to make payments, pair devices, and unlock doors using your phone or smartwatch. The most notable improvement is a boost to the distance of contactless connections from 0.5cm to 2cm, extending the range by x4. The NFC Release 15 standard update means NFC chips shouldn’t need to be as precisely aligned with terminals to register a connection, which is especially beneficial for users who have to fumble with sma

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The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-16 21:19:50

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said humanity is only years away from developing artificial general intelligence that could automate most human labor. If that’s true, then humanity also deserves to understand and have a say in the people and mechanics behind such an incredible and destabilizing force. That is the guiding purpose behind “The OpenAI Files,” an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, two nonprofit tech watchdog organizations. The Files are a “collection o

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Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-09-17 01:21:25

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. The company will use the site in Hayward, California, to increase its robotaxi fleet significantly. The facility is currently producing one robotaxi per

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Samsung’s Android XR headset may be ready for launch sooner than you’d think

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-17 01:29:28

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR A new report claims Samsung will hold a launch event for its XR headset on September 29, 2025. The headset will be released in South Korea on October 13, with global availability coming later. Project Moohan will be compatible with most Android smartphone and tablet apps to pad out the amount of available content. Samsung has been fairly quiet about Project Moohan since its unveiling back in January. The Android XR headset has been shown off a couple of

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This USB-C Car Charger From Anker Is Going for Peanuts, Not Sure It’ll Get Any Cheaper Than This

gizmodo.com Brittany Vincent 2025-09-17 01:10:31

If your phone battery always seems to dip into the red while you’re behind the wheel, you’re not alone. It’s a problem tons of people deal with. It doesn’t matter if you’re commuting to work, driving across town for errands, or heading out on a road trip, having a solid car charger is more important than ever. And if your current charger is slow, unreliable, or just not cutting it, this one might be the solution you’ve been looking for. See at Amazon You can head to Amazon to get the Anker USB

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YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-17 01:19:39

YouTube is updating the Shopping experience for Shorts, the company announced on Wednesday. The platform is launching new Shopping product stickers to make it easy for viewers to know that the products being used in the Short are shoppable. The new stickers could be a way for creators to increase their earnings. During its testing last month, YouTube found that Shorts with Shopping product stickers saw over 40% more clicks on products than Shorts with the Shopping button, it said. Previously,

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Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-17 08:59:04

Tesla is pausing production of the Cybertruck and its newly-retooled Model Y, and the stock market is already responding. On the heels of a new Business Insider report about the production shutdown, which is purportedly slated for the week of June 30 based on insider interviews, the company's stock fell to about $316, which was almost four percent lower than it was at the start of the day. To make matters worse, Tesla stock was already sliding thanks to CEO Elon Musk's Robotaxi pilot being push

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Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 08:33:49

Workout.cool Modern fitness coaching platform with comprehensive exercise database Table of Contents Contributors About A comprehensive fitness coaching platform that allows create workout plans for you, track progress, and access a vast exercise database with detailed instructions and video demonstrations. 🎯 Project Origin & Motivation This project was born from a personal mission to revive and improve upon a previous fitness platform. As the primary contributor to the original workout.lo

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The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-09-17 09:40:53

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. For about a year, Tyler Johnston has been collecting public information about the inner workings of OpenAI, and for the past month, he’s been working on a report to help the public understand and visualize it. That report, dubbed The OpenAI Files, is out today. It’s a collaboration between the Midas Project and the Tech Oversig

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Intel to cut as many as 10,000 factory jobs, one of its largest-ever layoffs

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-09-17 13:02:00

What just happened? Intel is preparing to lay off as much as one-fifth of its factory workforce in a move that will reshape one of the company's core business units. The layoffs, set to begin in July, are expected to affect more than 10,000 employees worldwide, marking one of the largest workforce reductions in Intel's history. In a memo to employees, Intel Manufacturing Vice President Naga Chandrasekaran acknowledged the gravity of the decision. "These are difficult actions but essential to me

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Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C2h-N6

news.ycombinator.com Qian 2025-09-15 11:36:56

As AgN 3 is an excellent reagent for the synthesis of polyazides35 and halogen azides both in the gas phase36 and in solution37,38, we suggest that the reaction of AgN 3 with XN 3 (X = halogen) is a viable route to N 6 (Fig. 1b). The reactions were conducted in either a quartz tube or a U-trap by flowing gaseous Cl 2 through solid AgN 3 under reduced pressure at room temperature (see the ‘Synthesis details’ section in Methods and Supplementary Fig. 1). Apart from the known bands of ClN 3 (ref. 3

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Those Creatine Gummies You Bought Online Might Not Contain Any Creatine

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-09-17 21:30:00

Gummy supplements are appealing for one obvious reason: Instead of choking down a chalky powdered drink or swallowing a dubious-smelling capsule, you essentially get to eat some candy. Unfortunately, when it comes to creatine, these products might not contain the essential ingredient they claim. Four of six popular creatine gummy products sold on Amazon contained almost no creatine or none at all when samples were tested by an independent lab. Creatine, a staple supplement for weightlifters and

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The Travel Writer's Dilemma: Share, or Gatekeep?

news.ycombinator.com Pico Iyer 2025-09-14 19:14:22

No reviewer of books or movies faces this predicament, and if an overlooked novel or documentary suddenly wins recognition, most of us rejoice. But destinations are fragile, on several fronts — many can’t bear the weight of thousands. While sailing around Antarctica, even as I marveled at its otherworldly beauty, I was selfishly glad that not many visitors are permitted there, so precarious is its environment. Sometimes, therefore, I simply delight in the fact that my tastes are not the same as

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After Shopify bought his last startup, Birk Jernström wants to help developers build one-person unicorns

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-09-17 22:00:00

Sam Altman and “his tech CEO friends” have a betting pool on the year we will see the first one-person billion-dollar company. The idea of a single person reaching a billion-dollar valuation for a startup would have been unthinkable without AI. But single-person, AI-first businesses have been sprouting all over the tech industry and Birk Jernström, CEO of Polar, a “monetization platform to empower one-person unicorns,” is standing by to help them get there. Polar hopes to stand out from other

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Show HN: Rulebook AI – rules and memory manager for AI coding IDEs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 21:56:42

Universal Rules Template for AI Coding Assistants Bugs or ideas → open an Issue in the repo in the repo Anonymous feedback: Go to the Google Form Supercharge Your AI Coding Workflow Across Cursor, CLINE, RooCode, Windsurf, and Github Copilot Tired of inconsistent AI behavior across different coding assistants? Struggling to maintain context and enforce best practices on complex projects? This template provides a robust, cross-platform framework designed to elevate your AI pair-programming ex

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Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-17 23:07:19

lstr A blazingly fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust. Inspired by the command line program tree, with a powerful interactive mode. An interactive overview of lstr 's project structure... using lstr . Philosophy Fast: Runs directory scans in parallel by default to maximize speed on modern hardware. Runs directory scans in parallel by default to maximize speed on modern hardware. Minimalist: Provides essential features without the bloat. The core experience is clean and un

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill in a win for the crypto industry

theverge.com Tina Nguyen 2025-09-17 22:48:00

is a senior reporter for The Verge, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. In a 68-30 vote on Tuesday evening, the Senate overwhelmingly passed the GENIUS Act with bipartisan support. Eighteen Democrats joined the majority of Republicans in passing the bill, which is the first to establish a federal regulatory framework for stablecoins, crypto tokens that are pegged to the value of the US dollar.

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, giving crypto industry first major legislative win

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-09-18 05:42:59

The World Liberty Financial website arranged on a smartphone in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Senate on Tuesday passed the GENIUS Act, a landmark bill that for the first time establishes federal guardrails for U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoins and creates a regulated pathway for private companies to issue digital dollars with the blessing of the federal government. The bill passed with a 68-30 vote. It's a milestone day for the crypto industr

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LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers

news.ycombinator.com Kiran Gopinathan 2025-09-18 02:17:05

The most exciting part of Programming Languages (PL) research for me has always been in Programming Language Design. By carefully crafting a language with a syntax and semantics tailored for a specific domain, PL designers can provide an interface for end users that seamlessly aligns with the sensibilities and intuitions of practitioners, allowing users to focus on the "interesting" parts of a problem and tackle larger and more complex problems. Instead of writing a verbose sequence of API cal

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Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 09:00:27

Location: San Francisco, CA Why Foundry Exists: Most of what people do at work sucks—it's manual, repetitive, and wastes time. Recruiters spend hours every day on LinkedIn, CRMs, email, and tedious data entry tasks instead of focusing on the things humans actually do well: building relationships, strategy, and decision-making. We're building tools so that AI agents can use web browsers exactly like humans, navigating enterprise apps like Salesforce, SAP, or Workday without constant manual inte

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 18, #268

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 09:10:27

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition features a killer purple category. How good are you at anagrams? Think baseball team names, and see where you can go with that. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9.

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Cybersecurity takes a big hit in new Trump executive order

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-18 09:33:01

Cybersecurity practitioners are voicing concerns over a recent executive order issued by the White House that guts requirements for: securing software the government uses, punishing people who compromise sensitive networks, preparing new encryption schemes that will withstand attacks from quantum computers, and other existing controls. The executive order (EO), issued on June 6, reverses several key cybersecurity orders put in place by President Joe Biden, some as recently as a few days before

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OpenAI lands $200 million Pentagon contract to develop AI for national security

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-09-18 16:51:00

What just happened? The Department of Defense has awarded a one-year, $200 million contract to OpenAI to develop advanced artificial intelligence tools aimed at addressing critical national security challenges "in both warfighting and enterprise domains." The deal was announced Monday in the DoD's daily list of newly awarded contracts. The Department of Defense said OpenAI will receive $2 million immediately for research and development purposes. The company will also use the funds to test and

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Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity?

news.ycombinator.com Kiran Gopinathan 2025-09-18 17:17:05

The most exciting part of Programming Languages (PL) research for me has always been in Programming Language Design. By carefully crafting a language with a syntax and semantics tailored for a specific domain, PL designers can provide an interface for end users that seamlessly aligns with the sensibilities and intuitions of practitioners, allowing users to focus on the "interesting" parts of a problem and tackle larger and more complex problems. Instead of writing a verbose sequence of API cal

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Real-time action chunking with large models

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 17:39:26

Published June 9, 2025 Email [email protected] Kevin Black, Manuel Y. Galliker, Sergey Levine Unlike chatbots or image generators, robots must operate in real time. While a robot is “thinking”, the world around it evolves according to physical laws, so delays between inputs and outputs have a tangible impact on performance. For a language model, the difference between fast and slow generation is a satisfied or annoyed user; for a vision-language-action model (VLA), it could

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Jell-O and Kool-Aid Will No Longer Contain Artificial Dyes. This Is What's Replacing Them.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-18 15:35:00

Following the FDA's banning of Red Dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs in January and the approval of three natural food colors in May, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked that food manufacturers remove eight petroleum-based food dyes from their products by the end of 2026. Now, Kraft Heinz, the company behind Jell-O and Kool-Aid, announced that it plans to remove artificial dyes from all its US products before the end of 2027, according to an exclusive with the W

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OpenAI lands $200 million US defense contract

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-09-18 21:51:00

What just happened? The Department of Defense has awarded a one-year, $200 million contract to OpenAI to develop advanced artificial intelligence tools aimed at addressing critical national security challenges "in both warfighting and enterprise domains." The deal was announced Monday in the DoD's daily list of newly awarded contracts. The Department of Defense said OpenAI will receive $2 million immediately for research and development purposes. The company will also use the funds to test and

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Tesla stock slips after report EV maker is pausing Cybertruck and Model Y production

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2025-09-18 21:35:20

A Tesla Cybertruck sits on a lot at a Tesla dealership on April 15, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Tesla shares slid 4% on Tuesday after a report that the electric vehicle maker was halting production of Cybertruck and Model Y models for a week in Austin, Texas. The production stoppage begins June 30, Business Insider reported, citing a staff meeting where the announcement was made. The pause, which is for maintenance on production lines, would be the third such shutdown at the Austin facility in the

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Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill in a win for the crypto industry

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OpenAI lands $200 million US defense contract

Tesla stock slips after report EV maker is pausing Cybertruck and Model Y production

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