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How Texas’ hands-off approach to autonomous vehicles gave Tesla an opening

theverge.com Mack Degeurin 2026-03-09 14:00:00

Last week, a Tesla Model Y with the word “ROBOTAXI” scratched into its side and no one in the driver seat made a turn off Austin’s bustling South Congress Avenue. Another Tesla, described by autonomous vehicle experts as a “chase vehicle,” followed closely behind. Tesla CEO Elon Musk commented on the clip, seemingly confirming that the lead car was one of roughly 10 vehicles comprising the company’s robotaxi fleet, expected to make their official debut sometime next week. If that does occur, it

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BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-09 21:59:29

BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use 1 hour ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images The BBC is threatening to take legal action against an artificial intelligence (AI) firm whose chatbot the corporation says is reproducing BBC content "verbatim" without its permission. The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immediately stops using BBC content, deletes any it holds, and proposes financial compens

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Qfex (YC X25) – Founding Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-10 00:00:18

Founding Backend Engineer Mission QFEX is building a team of founding engineers who can design, code and own systems that will soon process billions of dollars in trading volume every single day. This is an incredible opportunity to work alongside a very well-backed team of builders from some of the biggest financial companies in the world (Citadel, Kraken, Tower Research Capital) and change the course of financial history. What You’ll Do Reliability & performance Design fault-tolerant, low

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Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 19:55:03

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can chain requests, capture values and evaluate queries on headers and body response. Hurl is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions. Hurl makes it easy to work with HTML content, REST / SOAP / GraphQL APIs, or any other XML / JSON based APIs. # Get home: GET https://example.org HTTP 200 [Captures] csrf_token: xpath "string(//meta[@name='_csrf_token']/@content

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Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-10 00:49:49

The Bittorrent Tracker made in Elixir 👷‍♂️This project is a Work In Progress. While not ready for full industrial usage it does work. There is a testing instance running at extracker.dahrkael.net:6969 with all current features enabled (Live statistics). Features Implementation Legend: 🔲 Not Yet 🔰 Partially ✅ Done ❌ Won't do Important Features ✅ High performance (uses ALL the available cores, in-memory storage) ✅ Low memory usage (~200MB of RAM for each 1.000.000 peers) ✅ Zero setup (laun

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SpaceX Starship explodes during engine test, Musk shares preliminary investigation results

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2026-03-10 13:03:00

Facepalm: SpaceX was preparing its Starship rocket for a 10th flight test – initially scheduled for June 29 – when it exploded during a static fire at the Starbase launch site in Texas shortly after 11 pm MT on Wednesday. The launch timeline is now unclear following the incident. A video shared by NASA Spaceflight shows a powerful explosion lighting up the Texas night sky during what was supposed to be a routine engine test. Cameron County officials confirmed the incident and said no one was in

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Trump gives TikTok another ban extension

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2026-03-10 10:00:00

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. For the third time, President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok to spin out from its Chinese parent company or face a US ban. As White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed in a statement Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order on Thursday extending the

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Neural Texture Compression demo shows it can do wonders for VRAM usage

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-03-10 21:35:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust In context: Modern game engines can put severe strain on today's hardware. However, Nvidia's business decisions have left many GPUs with less VRAM than they should. Fortunately, improved texture compression in games helps make the most of what's available. Neural Texture Compression (NTC) is a new technique that improves texture quality while reducing VRAM usage. It relies on a specialized neural n

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Samsung’s next foldables look crazy thin in this new leak

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-03-11 09:52:32

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR New “official” images of the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7 have leaked. The images show both foldables in two different colorways. These colorways are said to be called Blue Shadow and Jet Black. Samsung is gearing up to launch the next generation of its foldable phones. As we inch closer to the eventual announcement, predictably, leaks have been ramping up. Previously, we’ve seen CAD renders of both the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Galaxy Z Flip 7. Now,

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The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery

news.ycombinator.com Rachel Monroe 2026-03-11 07:01:16

On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, the Lotto Texas jackpot was seventy-three million dollars. There was no winner that night—there hadn’t been a winner for the past ninety-one drawings—and so the pool of money rolled over. By the next drawing, that Saturday, it had reached ninety-five million. Dawn Nettles started getting worried. For the jackpot to have grown so quickly, sales volume must have been ten times what Nettles thought was normal. “I knew right then,” she told me. “Somebody was buying all

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SpaceX Starship Explodes in Spectacular Fireball at Texas Test Facility

gizmodo.com George Dvorsky 2026-03-11 09:22:25

The upper stage prototype, designated Ship 36, exploded shortly before midnight local time on June 18 during routine preparations for an upcoming test flight. SpaceX is in the midst of preparing for Starship’s next fully integrated test, known as Flight 10. The last several tests haven’t gone well, but this prototype never even left the ground. The explosion—as shown in spectacular footage from NASASpaceFlight.com—occurred at SpaceX’s Massey facility, a test site located several miles from the

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Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and other tricks (2019)

news.ycombinator.com Marc B. Reynolds 2026-03-11 13:42:03

WARNING: Some numerical analysis and mathematics will be mentioned in passing. Also the number systems will not be treated like black-boxes. Risk of physical injury, however, is negligible. I like magic tricks. Watching the performer do the show and attempting to catch the “slight-of-hand” that makes the impossible seem possible. It’s fun and makes me believe in magic for a few moments. So I’m going to give a shot at doing some floating point magic tricks. Throughout my performance I’ll use

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Texas Instruments unveils $60 billion 'historic' plan to expand US chipmaking

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-11 17:47:00

Forward-looking: Texas Instruments has unveiled plans to invest more than $60 billion to expand its semiconductor manufacturing operations in the United States, marking what the company describes as the largest single investment in foundational chip production in US history. The initiative will include the construction and expansion of seven semiconductor fabrication plants across Texas and Utah, a move expected to create approximately 60,000 jobs. The investment comes amid ongoing efforts by t

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SpaceX's Starship explodes on the ground during a routine test

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-11 17:00:25

A SpaceX Starship vehicle has exploded yet again, and this time, it happened before it even took off. NASASpaceflight has captured the event in a livestream, wherein you can see the spacecraft (Ship 36) suddenly explode into a fireball after the company tested its forward flap and just before it was supposed to conduct a static fire test. The company said on X that on June 19 at approximately 12AM Eastern time, the Starship it was preparing for its 10th flight test "experienced a major anomaly"

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SpaceX's Starship explodes again while still on the ground

news.ycombinator.com Richard Speed 2026-03-11 21:02:32

SpaceX has made excellent progress with its Starship rocket. The stainless steel vehicle can now explode before even leaving the Earth. The latest setback happened just before a planned static fire this morning. The rocket was fueled ahead of a test firing of its Raptor engines, but abruptly exploded. The explosion occurred on a test stand, and it is unclear how much damage the facility sustained. According to SpaceX, "a safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation

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Orthopedic Doctors Evaluate if Biological Age TikTok Challenges Are the Real Deal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-11 16:00:00

If you’ve scrolled through TikTok or Instagram, you’ve probably seen fitness challenges focused on your biological age. In some cases, it’s funny to see people attempting these challenges or impressive to see them succeed. You’ve probably felt inspired to try out some of these challenges and even questioned their legitimacy. “Most of these challenges, like completing 11 consecutive push-ups (for women), doing pull-ups or performing a kneeling-to-squat jump, are quick screens of muscular strengt

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From LLM to AI Agent: What's the Real Journey Behind AI System Development?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-12 04:29:28

AI agents are a hot topic, but not every AI system needs to be one. While agents promise autonomy and decision-making power, simpler & more cost-saving solutions better serve many real-world use cases. The key lies in choosing the right architecture for the problem at hand. In this post, we'll explore recent developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) and discuss key concepts of AI systems. We've worked with LLMs across projects of varying complexity, from zero-shot prompting to chain-of-tho

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SpaceX’s next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-12 05:57:18

SpaceX's next Starship rocket exploded during a ground test in South Texas late Wednesday, dealing another blow to a program already struggling to overcome three consecutive failures in recent months. The late-night explosion at SpaceX's rocket development complex in Starbase, Texas, destroyed the bullet-shaped upper stage that was slated to launch on the next Starship test flight. The powerful blast set off fires around SpaceX's Massey's Test Site, located a few miles from the company's Starsh

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SpaceX’s Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-03-12 07:35:52

One of SpaceX’s Starship launch vehicles exploded on a test stand in Texas late on Wednesday night, as the company prepared for the tenth test flight of the heavy-lift rocket system. SpaceX said “all personnel are safe and accounted for” in a post on X, and claimed there are “no hazards to residents in surrounding communities.” The company did not provide an explanation for the explosion. It’s not immediately clear what impact this will have on SpaceX’s development of the Starship rocket syste

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Texas Instruments pledges 'historic' $60bn US chip investment

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-12 02:19:57

Texas Instruments pledges 'historic' $60bn US chip investment Texas Instruments operates 15 sites around the world, including facilities in the US and Asia Computer chip giant Texas Instruments (TI) will invest more than $60bn (£44.74bn) in the US, as President Donald Trump pressures big technology firms to increase manufacturing in the country. The company said it plans to build or expand seven chip-making facilities at three sites in Texas and Utah, and create 60,000 jobs. TI did not give a

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Show HN: VS Code extension to share code snippets instantly

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 12:32:59

Snippet Share Extension for VS Code Share Code Snippets Effortlessly The ultimate VS Code extension for sharing, discovering, and managing code snippets. Boost your productivity with seamless snippet collaboration across your team.

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Texas Instruments to make 'historic' $60bn US chip investment

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-03-12 07:19:57

Texas Instruments to make 'historic' $60bn US chip investment Texas Instruments operates 15 sites around the world, including facilities in the US and Asia Computer chip giant Texas Instruments (TI) will invest more than $60bn (£44.74bn) in the US, as President Donald Trump pressures big technology firms to increase manufacturing in the country. The company said it plans to build or expand seven chip-making facilities at three sites in Texas and Utah, and create 60,000 jobs. TI did not give a

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Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-11 21:10:39

According to tech billionaire and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 2025 was supposed to be the year "when AI agents will work." Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it. Still, that didn't stop business executives from swarming to the software like flies to roadside carrion, gutting entire dep

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MCP Specification – version 2025-06-18 changes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-12 04:59:47

This document lists changes made to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification since the previous revision, 2025-03-26. Major changes Other schema changes Add _meta field to additional interface types (PR #710), and specify proper usage. Add context field to CompletionRequest , providing for completion requests to include previously-resolved variables (PR #598). Add title field for human-friendly display names, so that name can be used as a programmatic identifier (PR #663) Full ch

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Pro-Israel hackers hit Iran's Nobitex exchange, burn $90M in crypto

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-03-12 17:56:00

The pro-Israel "Predatory Sparrow" hacking group claims to have stolen over $90 million in cryptocurrency from Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange, and burned the funds in a politically motivated cyberattack. The attack occurred on June 18, 2025, with Nobitex first reporting the breach on X at 2:24 AM EST. "This morning, June 19, our technical team detected signs of unauthorized access to a portion of our reporting infrastructure and hot wallet," reads Nobitex's post. "Immediately upon de

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The ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Team Had to Fight to Keep One of the ‘Final Fantasy’ Set’s Best References

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2026-03-13 05:25:51

Magic: The Gathering‘s new Final Fantasy set is an absolute love letter to the beloved RPG series, with hundreds of cards making a flavorful nod to their source material in one way or another. But one of the most fun references in a set filled with them almost didn’t make it in—thanks to a quibble between Wizards of the Coast and Square Enix’s translation teams. In a fascinating new article about translating the Final Fantasy set for its English and Japanese-language versions shared on the offi

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Amazon Rebuilt Alexa Using a ‘Staggering’ Amount of AI Tools

wired.com Reece Rogers 2026-03-13 05:29:22

Daniel Rausch, Amazon’s vice president of Alexa and Echo, is in the midst of a major transition. More than a decade beyond the launch of Amazon’s Alexa, he’s been tasked with creating a new version of the marquee voice assistant, one that’s powered by large language models. As he put it in my interview with him, this new assistant, dubbed Alexa+, is “a complete rebuild of the architecture.” How did his team approach Amazon’s largest ever revamp of its voice assistant? They used AI to build AI,

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Keylogger campaign hitting Outlook Web Access on vulnerable Exchange servers goes global

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-03-13 08:58:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Facepalm: Keylogging malware is a particularly dangerous threat, as it is typically designed to capture login credentials or other sensitive data from users. When you add a compromised Exchange server to the mix, it creates an even nastier situation for any organization. Researchers from Positive Technologies recently unveiled a new study on a keylogger-based campaign targeting organizations worldw

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Keylogger campaign hitting Microsoft Exchange servers goes global

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2026-03-13 13:58:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Facepalm: Keylogging malware is a particularly dangerous threat, as it is typically designed to capture login credentials or other sensitive data from users. When you add a compromised Exchange server to the mix, it creates an even nastier situation for any organization. Researchers from Positive Technologies recently unveiled a new study on a keylogger-based campaign targeting organizations worldw

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A different take on S-expressions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-10 08:25:57

[about document] Peculiar kind of S-expressions specification document [intended audience] beginners in programming table of contents 1. introduction S-expressions (Symbolic Expressions) are a fundamental concept in computer science and programming language theory. S-expressions are a simple, yet powerful notation for representing nested list data structures and code in a parenthesized form. They are commonly associated with the Lisp family of programming languages, where they serve both as

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Latest Tech News

How Texas’ hands-off approach to autonomous vehicles gave Tesla an opening

BBC threatens AI firm with legal action over unauthorised content use

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Trump gives TikTok another ban extension

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SpaceX's Starship explodes again while still on the ground

Orthopedic Doctors Evaluate if Biological Age TikTok Challenges Are the Real Deal

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Keylogger campaign hitting Outlook Web Access on vulnerable Exchange servers goes global

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