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The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2026-01-20 03:06:48

OpenAI has kept up a run of new releases—putting out major updates to its GPT-4 series, launching a string of generative image and video models, and introducing the ability to talk to ChatGPT with your voice. Six months ago it kicked off a new wave of so-called reasoning models with its o1 release, soon followed by o3. And last week it released its browser-using agent Operator to the public. It now claims that more than 400 million people use its products every week and submit 2.5 billion prompt

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Nothing Headphone 1 vs. AirPods Max: Which Over-Ear ANC Headphones Win?

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-01-20 05:00:25

Sometimes, picking a pair of headphones feels like an impossible choice. There are lots to choose from, and the barrier to entry is enough to send haptic chills down one’s spine. If there’s one thing that most can agree on, it’s that Apple’s AirPods Max are probably the standard for people considering headphones in the U.S., especially if you already own an iPhone. But AirPods Max are so damn expensive, right? Is it worth shelling out $550 for a pair of headphones when competitors like Nothing’s

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Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2026-01-20 04:00:00

Privacy-focused productivity tool company Proton released a new authenticator app today, allowing users to log in to services using dynamically generated two-factor authentication codes. The free app is available on all platforms starting today, including iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. The app allows users to sync codes and accounts across devices. The company said that just like its other products, Proton Authenticator is open source and uses end-to-end encryption to protect user dat

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I know when you're vibe coding

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 03:16:40

3 minute read I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum, prompted an LLM, or ran a simulation where monkeys are given infinite time to produce the solution. I care about what gets merged into the codebase. When I click that “Approve” button, I’ve got only a few worries on my mind. Does it produce the correct outcome? Will people understand this next quarter? Will they be able to ch

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Tracking source locations in the Futhark compiler

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 03:40:31

Posted on July 29, 2025 Futhark is a programming language meant for writing fast programs, but as is the case for every programming language meant for writing fast programs, it inevitably happens that a programmer will use it to write a program that is not fast. When this happens, the programmer will likely want to know why their program is not fast, and how to make it faster. A useful tool for answering such questions is a profiler - a tool that tells you how long the different parts of your p

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LangChain’s Align Evals closes the evaluator trust gap with prompt-level calibration

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2026-01-20 03:28:09

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 As enterprises increasingly turn to AI models to ensure their applications function well and are reliable, the gaps between model-led evaluations and human evaluations have only become clearer. To combat this, LangChain added Align Evals to LangSmith, a way to bridge the gap between large language model-based evaluators and human preferenc

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Sei (YC W22) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in Chennai, India

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 05:01:02

Who? We are Sei, an AI-powered regulatory compliance platform. Since launching, a few months ago, we're live with large enterprises across the US, Europe, and APAC and growing at double digits per month. We are backed by world-class investors including Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, PayPal, Picus Capital & Hashed. Pranay (CEO) and Ram (CTO) are the founders. We have combined experience of 20+ years of building fintech, and tech products for businesses & customers across the world at companies su

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GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-20 05:16:55

GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday. A GitHub spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that this number represents “all-time users.” That means five million people have tried out GitHub Copilot for the first time in the last three months; the company reported in April the tool had reached 15 million users. Microsoft and GitHub don’t report how many o

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Anthropic Users Melt Down After Company Institutes New Rate Limits

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-20 08:31:42

Anthropic is changing its usage limits — and its fanbase is already pointing fingers. In a post on X, the OpenAI rival announced that it's introducing new weekly rate limits to paid subscribers after it says a small handful of users abused their privileges and, essentially, ruined it for everyone else. "Claude Code has seen unprecedented demand, especially as part of our Max plans," Anthropic explained, referencing its highest subscription tier that runs $100 to $200 per month, depending on us

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‘Subliminal learning’: Anthropic uncovers how AI fine-tuning secretly teaches bad habits

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-01-20 08:21:50

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 A new study by Anthropic shows that language models might learn hidden characteristics during distillation, a popular method for fine-tuning models for special tasks. While these hidden traits, which the authors call “subliminal learning,” can be benign, the research finds they can also lead to unwanted results, such as misalignment and har

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Show HN: Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 04:11:36

Meka Agent Meka Agent is an open-source, autonomous computer-using agent that delivers state-of-the-art browsing capabilities. The agent works and acts in the same way humans do, by purely using vision as its eyes and acting within a full computer context. It is designed as a simple, extensible, and customizable framework, allowing flexibility in the choice of models, tools, and infrastructure providers. Benchmarks The agent primarily focuses on web browsing today, and achieves state-of-the-

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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 31, #1503

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-20 11:00:07

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle might not be as tough as yesterday's, but it is a bit of a stumper. There's a double letter and a fairly unusual start letter that threw me off. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you ne

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All of your international packages are about to get more expensive

theverge.com Jay Peters 2026-01-20 14:02:22

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that will suspend the de minimis exemption — which allows packages with goods valued less than $800 to enter the US duty-free — for all countries. Earlier this year, Trump ended the de minimis exemption for goods from China and Hong Kong. The White House says the change goes into effect on August 29th. Per the exec

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Ollama has a native front end chatbot now

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 18:19:03

Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows. An easier way to chat with models Ollama’s macOS and Windows now include a way to download and chat with models. Chat with files Ollama’s new app supports file drag and drop, making it easier to reason with text or PDFs. For processing large documents, Ollama’s context length can be increased in the settings. Note: this will require more memory. Multimodal support Building on Ollama’s new multimodal engine, images can be sent to mod

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Vibe code is legacy code

news.ycombinator.com Steve Krouse 2026-01-20 18:13:20

Despite widespread confusion, Andrej Karpathy coined "vibe coding" as a kind of AI-assisted coding where you "forget that the code even exists." Legacy code We already have a phrase for code that nobody understands: legacy code. Legacy code is universally despised, and for good reason. But why? You have the code, right? Can't you figure it out from there? Wrong. Code that nobody understands is tech debt. It takes a lot of time to understand unfamiliar code enough to debug it, let alone intro

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 31 #515

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-20 17:00:03

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Yum! Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a tasty one. Just remember, you don't need to wait for a birthday to have cake. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections and Mini C

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 31, #781

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-20 17:00:05

Looking for the most recent 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, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a fun numerical theme, with each category playing along with that topic, but featuring different clues. Once you see it, it might be simple. Need help? Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bo

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 31, #311

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-20 17:00:08

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 is heavy on NFL clues, so football fans should do well. The purple category felt like an easy one for me today and it has nothing to do with the NFL. Keeping reading for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut

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Best Budget Earbuds for 2025: Cheap Wireless Picks

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-20 17:05:00

Anker Soundcore AeroFit 2: Anker's Soundcore AeroFit 2 used to be on list but their list price has risen from $100 to $130, so I had to pull them off the list. These open earbuds have been completely redesigned and look quite different from the original AeroFit buds, which also listed for $100. The second-gen Aerofit are not only more comfortable but look sleeker, sound significantly better and offer all-around improvements. The buds aren't as light as the Shokz OpenFit 2 buds and don't sound qu

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Show HN: State of the Art Open-source alternative to ChatGPT Agents for browsing

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-20 16:11:36

Meka Agent Meka Agent is an open-source, autonomous computer-using agent that delivers state-of-the-art browsing capabilities. The agent works and acts in the same way humans do, by purely using vision as its eyes and acting within a full computer context. It is designed as a simple, extensible, and customizable framework, allowing flexibility in the choice of models, tools, and infrastructure providers. Benchmarks The agent primarily focuses on web browsing today, and achieves state-of-the-

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Google’s Newest AI Model Acts like a Satellite to Track Climate Change

wired.com Boone Ashworth 2026-01-21 03:57:44

Google’s newest AI model is going to scour the Earth and, ideally, help it out. That's the plan, anyway. The mission is to find out once and for all, in fine detail, what we are doing to our planet. Crucially, once the model has supposedly done this it will also, apparently, explain where we might be able to best put things in place to help our world. AlphaEarth Foundations, an offshoot of Google’s DeepMind AI model, aims to leverage machine learning and all the gobs and gobs of data that Googl

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Emacs: The macOS Bug

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 09:15:35

Emacs: The MacOS Bug The Context I have been recently roaming. Doing some Zig, doing some Go, some Janet. Some C integration. Should have focused on my project but life threw more at me than I could handle, so I sought… happy distractions. My experience with those technologies taught me new tricks and one day, when I needed some more distraction, I decided to debug something that had made me furious for years: Emacs jank. Whatever build I tried, whatever configuration I used, Emacs always r

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Maintaining Weight Loss

news.ycombinator.com Leigh Peele 2026-01-21 09:05:29

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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‘House of the Dragon’ Casts Another Key Member of Team Black

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-21 08:20:42

The fight for the Iron Throne will continue in season three of House of the Dragon—just don’t ask George R.R. Martin for his thoughts about it—and the HBO series is adding another key cast member to reflect that. So far we’ve learned about new knights joining various sides of the war, including fan-favorite Northman “Roddy the Ruin.” And now we’ve got a new woman entering the male-dominated fray to throw her support behind Rhaenyra Targaryen: Alysanne Blackwood, to be played by Annie Shapero. A

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Studies Show AI Models Love to Share With One Another (and Do a Little Price Fixing as a Treat)

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-01-21 09:10:01

Sharing is caring. Two recent studies took a look at what happens when you let AI models communicate with each other. Both should probably give us pause about letting these machines make friends with one another. The first study—a preprint paper out of Northeastern University’s National Deep Inference Fabric, which seeks to peer into the black box of large language models and understand how they work—found that AI models pass along hidden signals to one another during training. That can includ

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Microsoft is getting ready for GPT-5 with a new Copilot smart mode

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-21 06:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. I reported last week that OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, as part of an effort to simplify and combine its large language models. Just a day after my report, references to GPT-5 were spotted inside Microsoft’s Copilot web app, hinting at a new smart mode. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s AI plans tell me that the company is currently testing this new smart

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iOS 26 updates for AirPods preview: Enhanced audio recording, camera remote and more

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-21 14:30:36

Of all the new iOS 26 features that Apple previewed at WWDC in June, AirPods updates were only briefly mentioned. Studio-quality audio recording and improved call clarity got top billing, while the addition of a camera remote control was also quickly discussed. However, when the beta software arrived last week, it turned out there were actually more features than described at the event, making this a meatier update for Apple’s recent AirPods than initially indicated. I’ve spent some time testing

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Your Windows 11 PC has a secret restart method - here's how to access it

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-01-21 14:35:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Usually, whenever a new feature comes out for Windows, Microsoft advertises it widely in a blog post to let everyone know. Or if they don't, people discover the feature soon after an update. However, a helpful feature sometimes slips through the cracks, only to be unearthed years later. Also: Hate Windows 11? Here's how you can make it work more like Windows 10 That was my reaction when I found this obscure Emergency Restart method for Windows 11 after stumbling across a post

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I let a modular yard care robot mow my lawn - here's my verdict after a month

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2026-01-21 14:45:00

Yarbo Robot Mower ZDNET's key takeaways The Yarbo is a modular yard care robot starting at $5,000. It does well caring for large yards with complex layouts thanks to its tracked design, and its modular features make it easy to use year-round. The Yarbo is one of the most expensive robot mowers on the market; it presented multiple connection issues, and its attachments are heavy and bulky. View now at Amazon The Yarbo is one of the most visually appealing robot mowers I've seen. It's more of a

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Show HN: An AI agent that learns your product and guides your users

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-21 09:24:50

Hey HN! My name is Christian, and I’m the co-founder of https://frigade.ai . We’ve built a powerful AI agent that automatically learns how to use any web-based product, and in turn guides users directly in the UI, automatically generates documentation, and even takes actions on a user’s behalf. Think of it as Clippy from the old MS Office. But on steroids. And actually helpful. You can see the agent and tool-calling SDK in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPe0t3A1Vpg How is this di

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