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Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities

news.ycombinator.com Suderman Is An Associated Press Investigative Reporter Interested In National Security 2026-01-15 02:15:24

As cryptocurrencies become more intertwined with the traditional financial system, industry heavyweights are racing for a long-sought goal of turning real-world assets into digital tokens. “Tokenization is going to open the door to a massive trading revolution,” said Vlad Tenev, the CEO of the trading platform Robinhood at a recent James Bond-themed tokenization launch event in the south of France. Advocates say tokenization is the next leap forward in crypto and can help break down walls that

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Dia launches a skill gallery, Perplexity to add tasks to Comet

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-15 02:24:44

AI-powered browsers are nowhere near the easy future they promise, when they would be able to do complex multi-step tasks for you. However, the makers of these browsers are trying to make users’ lives easier by adding a way to easily repeat some prompts for the tasks they frequently perform. The Browser Company’s new Dia browser already has a skills feature, which lets users ask the browser to execute a command or create a code snippet based on a prompt. For instance, you could ask the browser

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How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-13 22:05:12

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis 2 days ago Share Save Ione Wells • @ionewells Foreign correspondent Reporting from Chile Share Save BBC Raquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile's Atacama salt flats. It's a wetland, known for its groundwater springs, but the plain is now dry and cracked with holes she explains were once pools. "Before, the Vega was all green," she says. "You couldn't see the animals through th

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Life Without Screens: This Camp Is a Teen’s Worst Nightmare

wired.com Elana Klein 2026-01-15 16:00:00

Summer. For teens not at work, it’s hot, it’s boring, and it’s an ideal time to close the door and spend about every waking moment watching, playing, texting, streaming—anything but talking—on the phone. With almost half of teenagers in the US saying they’re online almost constantly, the adults in their lives are growing more desperate to drag them off. Families are establishing screen-free zones in their homes, states are banning phones in schools, and a new kind of summer camp has emerged: dig

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Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2026-01-15 17:00:00

As a child, Julian Ako would visit his maternal great-grandfather’s home near Pilaa Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, where he and his family would gather edible fungi that grow on kukui trees and collect seaweed and fish from the reef. For about a decade, that land has belonged to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is constructing a massive compound at an estimated cost that exceeds $300 million. WIRED can now reveal that Zuckerberg’s property is atop a burial site: Ako’s great-grandmother and her brother we

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How Huawei ascended from telecoms to become China's 'jack of all trades' AI leader

cnbc.com Dylan Butts Evelyn Cheng 2026-01-15 15:52:12

The Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, 2025. Arjun Kharpal | CNBC Despite being beaten down by years of U.S. trade restrictions, China's telecom giant Huawei has quietly emerged as one of the country's fiercest competitors across the entire AI landscape. Not only does the Shenzhen-based firm appear to represent Beijing's answer to American AI chip darling Nvidia, but it has also been an early adopter of monetizing artificial intelligence models in industrial applications. "

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Insights on Teufel's First Open-Source Speaker

news.ycombinator.com Teufel Editorial 2026-01-15 08:11:43

Industrial Designer Erik and Electrical Engineer Jonathan, two of the creative forces behind the new MYND Bluetooth speaker sat down with us for an interview to give fascinating insights into its development. They tell us how the MYND brings together durability and Open-Source philosophy in a way that allows consumers to let their imaginations run wild with customization ideas. The Longer a Speaker is Used, the Lower its Environmental Impact. Teufel Blog: Erik & Jonathan, please introduce your

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Speeding up my ZSH shell

news.ycombinator.com Scott Spence 2026-01-15 05:51:44

Super quick one I want to document here! I got myself on a side quest, again! No biggie, my ZSH shell was taking ages to load. When I say ages, more like 5+ seconds every time I opened a new terminal, that sort of thing can add up. This is just something I’ve lived with over the years, nothing has prompted this other than me wondering why it’s slow, then searching for how to profile it. So, what’s actually slowing things down? Zsh comes with this super handy profiling tool called zprof . Here’s

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FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code

news.ycombinator.com Mark Tyson 2026-01-15 11:51:41

The developers behind the FFmpeg project are again claiming major performance uplifts delivered by wielding the art of handwritten assembly code. With the latest patch applied, users should see a “100x speedup” in the cross-platform open-source media transcoding application. However, the developers were soon to clarify that the 100x claim applies to just a single function, “not the whole of FFmpeg.” BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly13:55:30 <•haasn> rangedetect8_avx512: 12

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Former Tesla president discloses the secret to scaling a company

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-01-15 09:00:00

Few companies have grown as quickly as Tesla, especially just before and after the company launched the Model 3, its first affordable EV. “We scaled Tesla in 30 months from $2 billion in revenue to $20 billion in revenue,” Jon McNeil, the former president of Tesla who is now co-founder and CEO of DVx Ventures, told the crowd at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston. It wasn’t McNeil’s first time scaling companies, nor would it be his last. Previously, he founded six different companies, and a

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Elon Musk Humiliated by Top Scientific Organization

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-15 05:45:10

While leading the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, billionaire Elon Musk oversaw massive spending cuts that have rattled the scientific community to its core. He stood unblinkingly by the side of president Donald Trump, a climate change denier who has been carrying out a ruthlessly anti-science agenda after championing environmentalism for years. And while the unlikely pair no longer see eye to eye following a chaotic falling out, the damage has already been done. Musk has been e

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XMLUI

news.ycombinator.com View All Posts Jon Udell 2026-01-15 10:03:39

In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on the shoulders of the coders who built those components. If you’re younger than 45 you may not know what that was like, nor realize web components have never worked the same way. The project we’re announcing today, XMLUI, brings the VB model to the modern web and its React-based component ecosystem. XML

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Beyond Meat fights for survival

news.ycombinator.com Anna Kinder 2026-01-14 22:54:40

From a fundamental perspective, Beyond Meat is one of the worst stocks in the entire market. Revenue growth has been paltry: The company expects the figure to reach about $330 million in 2025, roughly 10% higher than it was six years earlier despite a huge increase in the number of products offered. Profitability is distant. In 2024, on an operating basis Beyond Meat lost 45 cents from every dollar of sales. The company’s current target is to reach EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depre

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Async I/O on Linux in databases

news.ycombinator.com Jeremy Tregunna 2026-01-15 06:20:02

I've been working on a complex multi-model database for a few weeks now, and recently I took time to simplify and test out an idea I had on a simple key-value database. I started with the basics: A hash table in memory, a simple append-only log for persistence and durability, and the classic fsync() call after every write to the log for durability. It worked, but wasn't as fast as it could be. In Kevo, that's the approach I use, but in Klay (not public yet, but will be open sourced when ready)

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This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It

wired.com Craig Grannell 2026-01-15 11:00:00

In 1994, Commodore crashed and burned. Once a home computing giant across the US and Europe, the company was undone by mismanagement and misfires. The carcass was picked clean and the pieces resold so many times that it was hard to keep track, but with each new owner came the inevitable—an attempt to make a fast buck by slapping the famous C= logo on any old junk. Fans watched in horror as the brand appeared on the mediocre Web.it all-in-one PC, the bizarrely named Gravel in Pocket media player

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after viral Coldplay 'kiss cam' controversy

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-15 03:25:32

Astronomer announced on Saturday that CEO Andy Byron has resigned days after being caught on video in an intimate moment with the company's head of human resources at a Coldplay concert. "Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted," the company said in a statement. "The Board will begin a search for our next Chief Executive as Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to serve as interim CEO." Byron was shown on a big screen at the concert i

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional $12.94 million worth of shares

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2026-01-15 03:02:10

Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sold 75,000 shares on Friday, valued at about $12.94 million, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Friday's sale is part of a plan adopted in March for Huang to sell up to 6 million shares of the leading artificial intelligence company. Earlier this week, Huang sold 225,000 shares of the chipmaker, totaling about $37 million, ac

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Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras

news.ycombinator.com Matthew Guariglia 2026-01-15 09:25:09

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. This is a bad, bad step for Ring an

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Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-01-15 06:22:56

Andy Byron, the startup executive at the center of an extraordinary social media furor, has resigned as CEO of data operations startup Astronomer. Byron, who is married, was captured on a Coldplay concert “kiss cam” with his arms around the company’s chief people officer Kristin Cabot. After Byron and Cabot quickly tried to hide from the camera, Coldplay singer Chris Martin joked, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.” Video of the awkward incident soon went spectacularly

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In Court for Fatal Crash, Tesla Admits It Wasn't Even Tracking Autopilot Crashes for the First Three Years of the Program

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-15 00:00:19

With so many massive and well-publicized safety issues, nothing should surprise us about Tesla's internal culture — but new revelations from the country's first federal Autopilot crash trial have us shaken once again. As Law360 reports, an engineer at Elon Musk's car company revealed during a wrongful death trial this week that until 2018, the company didn't even keep records of Autopilot crashes — even though the assisted driving feature had been rolled out three years prior. In a taped depos

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For-Profit Hospital Chain Reportedly Left Patient Lying in Pool of His Own Blood

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-15 05:30:41

Image by Getty / Futurism For-profit rehabilitation hospitals are booming in the United States, but their rapid growth is leaving patient safety far behind. The US post-acute care industry, which deals with rehab and long-term care facilities, was worth an estimated $483 billion in 2024, and is expected to grow to over $785 billion by 2034. On paper, it's easy to assume all that business potential would translate to quality care. Unfortunately, for thousands of patients across the country, th

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Corning avoids EU antitrust fine by ending exclusive deals with phone manufacturers

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-15 08:30:23

Corning, the US-based glass manufacturer behind Gorilla Glass, has vowed to end its exclusive deals and other practices that the European Commission deemed to be anti-competitive in order to avoid getting fined. If you'll recall, the commission announced that it was investigating Corning last year, accusing it of squashing competition with its exclusive supply agreements, thereby driving up prices and stifling innovation. Now, the commission has accepted the commitments Corning offered and made

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Tesla Launches Blitz Sale to Revive Sales Ahead of EV Tax Break Cliff

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-15 04:00:05

Tesla has fired the first major shot in a brewing electric vehicle price war, launching a series of aggressive new promotions across its lineup as the market braces for the end of a crucial federal incentive. With the $7,500 federal tax credit for new electric vehicles set to expire on September 30, Elon Musk’s company is moving preemptively to lock in buyers and pressure competitors. On a newly updated section of its website titled “Current Offers,” the company warns of “Limited Inventory – Ta

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China’s BYD Takes the Lead Over Tesla in the Self-Driving Car Wars

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-15 06:00:30

As the auto industry races toward autonomy, most companies are rolling out driver-assist features with one hand while handing out waivers, disclaimers, and legal fine print with the other. Not BYD. The Chinese EV giant just made an unprecedented move: it’s offering a public, financial guarantee for its autonomous parking system. If the system malfunctions, even due to an algorithmic failure, BYD will cover all resulting damages, including repair costs, third-party property damage, and compensat

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Meta says it won’t sign Europe AI agreement, calling it an overreach

news.ycombinator.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-14 10:56:37

Meta Platforms declined to sign the European Union's artificial intelligence code of practice because it is an overreach that will "stunt" companies, according to global affairs chief Joel Kaplan. "Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI," Kaplan wrote in a post Friday on LinkedIn. "This code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act." Last week, the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, pub

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Pimping My Casio: Part Deux

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-15 03:58:26

It's not often that you find yourself staring at code that few people have ever seen, code that was an important part in bringing down t...

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron placed on leave after viral Coldplay kiss cam video

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2026-01-15 03:18:59

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 18: Chris Martin of Coldplay performs on stage at Optus Stadium on November 18, 2023 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images) Astronomer, a provider of open-source technologies that was hardly known until this week, said on Friday that CEO Andy Byron has been placed on leave after he was shown on video at a Coldplay concert in an intimate embrace with the company's head of human relations. The company said in an emailed statement that co-founder and pr

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The Halo Effect

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 06:57:06

Notes on the recent trend of “Hire and License Out” deals in AI Halos are made when souls leave their companies and ascend to the Clouds Over the last year, a new breed of deal structure has emerged in AI: an alternative to acquisitions and hiring that shares traits of both yet isn’t quite either. Companies like Inflection, Character AI, Adept, Covariant and most recently Windsurf have used this new structure in a common pattern. A core team from the startup–usually including the founders and

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Sage: An atomic bomb kicked off the biggest computing project in history

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 18:21:59

In addition to being vital for national security, SAGE was a proving ground for the US Department of Defense. It demonstrated the government’s ability to coordinate large-scale, diversified and highly sophisticated computer research and development. From his earliest conversations with MIT, IBM vice president of engineering John McPherson, who would become the company’s point person on SAGE, quickly recognized the magnitude of the data processing opportunity — the largest for IBM since it was c

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Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-01-15 16:33:47

A startup called Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on a potential revolutionary idea: AI agentic tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop. But in May, the founder announced he was abandoning the tech and pivoting his company to something entirely different: Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI agents that allows them to offload repeatable tasks. An early-stage YC company pivoting is nothing out of the ordinary, of course. What’s interesting — and what sp

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Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities

Dia launches a skill gallery, Perplexity to add tasks to Comet

How the rise of green tech is feeding another environmental crisis

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How Huawei ascended from telecoms to become China's 'jack of all trades' AI leader

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This Is the Commodore Comeback Fans Have Waited for—but the Odds Are Still Against It

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after viral Coldplay 'kiss cam' controversy

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sells an additional $12.94 million worth of shares

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras

Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal

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For-Profit Hospital Chain Reportedly Left Patient Lying in Pool of His Own Blood

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The Halo Effect

Sage: An atomic bomb kicked off the biggest computing project in history

Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted

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