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Figma will IPO on July 31

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 14:24:58

Figma is a design and product development platform—where teams come together to turn ideas into the world’s best digital products and experiences. Today, we’re announcing the pricing of Figma’s initial public offering of 36,937,080 shares of Class A common stock at a public offering price of $33.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on July 31, 2025 under the ticker symbol "FIG." The offering is expected to close on August 1, 2025, subject to the

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Attention is your scarcest resource

news.ycombinator.com Thanks 2026-01-28 23:57:29

July 2020 Like many people, I have most of my best ideas in the shower. This is sometimes annoying: I could use more than one shower’s worth of good ideas a day, but I’d rather not end up as a shrivelled yet insightful prune. Mostly, though, shower ideas are the incentive that keeps me smelling okay, so I grudgingly accept the constraint. The time when it was most constraining was the first time I became a manager. I only had a few reports, so managing them wasn’t a full-time job. But I was v

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Meta profits surge helps drive Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-30 23:03:35

Meta profits surge helps drive Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions Meta says the cost of building infrastructure, including servers and data centres, and workers' pay packages will be its biggest expenses. At the same time expenses are also rising - up 12% to $27bn - as the company ploughs money into fulfilling chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions, and its spending is expected to keep rising. The firm - which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - says revenue for the three months to the end

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What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-30 21:44:30

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems 4 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC The other day, while I was doing some household chores, I handed my youngest child his dad's iPad to keep him entertained. But after a while I suddenly felt uneasy: I wasn't keeping a close eye on how long he had spent using it or what he was looking at. So I told him it was time to stop. A full-blown tantrum erupted. He kicked, he yelled, he

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Robinhood reports second-quarter earnings beat with revenue climbing 45%

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-01-30 22:50:42

Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday, extending a hot streak that has made it the best-performing large-cap U.S. tech stock this year. Here is how Robinhood's results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected Revenue: $989 million vs. $908 million expected Revenue jumped 45% year-over-year to $989 million, while net income more than doubled to

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 23:01:02

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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Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI

wired.com Lauren Goode 2026-01-31 03:41:40

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told investors that the newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs is focused on building AI models that can self-improve—meaning they can learn from themselves without as much human input. The remarks came during a second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. “At some level, [it’s] not just going to be learning from people, because you want to build something that is fundamentally smarter than people,” Zuckerberg said. “So…you’re going to develop a way for it to improve it

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ReproZip – reproducible experiments from command-line executions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-28 22:11:44

ReproZip ReproZip is a tool aimed at simplifying the process of creating reproducible experiments from command-line executions, a frequently-used common denominator in computational science. It tracks operating system calls and creates a package that contains all the binaries, files and dependencies required to run a given command on the author's computational environment (packing step). A reviewer can then extract the experiment in his environment to reproduce the results (unpacking step). Q

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-30 22:11:36

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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Microsoft stock pops 8% on earnings beat as Azure annual revenue tops $75 billion

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2026-01-31 12:51:17

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, on April 4, 2025. Microsoft shares jumped 8% in extended trading on Wednesday after the company reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter. Here's how the company performed in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected $3.65 vs. $3.37 expected Revenue: $76.44 billion vs. $73.8

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Apple TV+ shares trailer for all-new Peanuts musical special, premiering next month

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-31 12:06:48

Today, Apple released the first trailer for the first fully original Peanuts musical in nearly four decades. Watch it below. ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical’ premieres on August 15 As part of an ongoing deal with Peanuts Worldwide and WildBrain, Apple TV+ remains the exclusive streaming home for all Peanuts content, including the upcoming ‘Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical,’ which is set to premiere on August 15. Here’s Apple on what to expect: “One morning, the Peanuts gang learns that t

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Spotify’s terrible privacy settings just leaked Palmer Luckey’s bops and bangers

theverge.com Elizabeth Lopatto 2026-01-31 12:16:47

is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg. Have you ever wondered what bops powerful figures are listening to on Spotify? You’d be amazed what you can get with a profile search — but just in case you want them all in one place, there’s the Panama Playlists, a newly published collection of data on the musical listening habits of politicians, journalists, and tech figures, as curated

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Robinhood reports second-quarter earnings beat with revenue climbing 45% over last year

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2026-01-31 17:34:15

The logo of Robinhood Markets is seen at a pop-up event on Wall Street after the company's initial public offering in New York City on July 29, 2021. Robinhood beat Wall Street expectations for the second quarter Wednesday. Here is how Robinhood's results compared to Wall Street estimates, according to analysts surveyed by LSEG: Earnings per share: 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected 42 cents vs. 31 cents expected Revenue: $989 million vs. $908 million expected Revenue jumped 45% year-over-year

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Qualcomm beats on earnings, highlights growth in Meta smartglasses

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2026-01-31 17:58:28

Cristiano Amon, CEO & President, Qualcomm, on Centre Stage during day one of Web Summit 2024 at the MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. Qualcomm reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday that beat Wall Street expectations and provided a stronger-than-expected guide for the current quarter. Qualcomm shares slid in extended trading. Here's how the chipmaker did for the quarter ending June 29 compared to LSEG consensus expectations: Earnings per share : $2.77 adjusted versus $2.71 expected

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

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-31 10:11:36

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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The hype is the product

news.ycombinator.com Michał 2026-01-31 14:50:48

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they

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Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-01-31 17:12:05

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2025 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $76.4 billion in revenue and a net income of $27.2 billion during Q4. Revenue is up 18 percent, and net income has increased by 24 percent. Like clockwork, cloud services are the strong point of Microsoft’s revenue this quarter. Azure revenue grew 39 percent year-ov

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Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree

theverge.com Mia Sato 2026-01-31 22:45:01

is features writer with five years of experience covering the companies that shape technology and the people who use their tools. Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate that owns outlets like CNET, ZDNET, PCMag, and Mashable is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, for a total of 23 people. The majority of layoffs are coming from CNET, where 19 people will lose their jobs — even as Ziff Davis goes on a shopping spree. The layoffs will hit CNET coverage areas like the finance, broadband

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Why I recommend this Bluetooth tracker to both iPhone and Android users over AirTags

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2026-02-01 03:52:00

Pebblebee Clip ZDNET's key takeaways The finder tag is equipped with a rechargeable battery, so you won't have to throw away old button cells It features a bright LED for finding things in low light. The tag is on the pricier side. View now at Amazon I have a habit of putting things down and forgetting where I put them, so finder tags like the Apple AirTag have been a game-changer for me, saving me endless amounts of time and frustration. Also: The best Bluetooth trackers you can buy: Expert

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Every Champion Needs a Rival

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-01 03:00:13

Read in Browser July 21, 2025 Every week, I sit down to reflect on the events of the week, extract their lessons, and gameplan how to apply those lessons toward greatness and growth. It’s a system that has always worked for me, it can work for you too. Welcome to The 199! Sign up here if this email was forwarded to you. Every champion needs a rival July is a slow month for sports in America, but over in Europe, where I was this past week for E1 Monaco with our E1 electric boat racing team, two

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The Hype is the Product

news.ycombinator.com Michał 2026-02-01 02:50:48

Large publicly traded tech companies seem to no longer consider their customers – that is, people and organizations who actually buy their products or pay for access to their services – their core focus. The focus has instead turned towards the stock price. Their real clients, the entities they really care about, are the stockholders. Reasons are many, perhaps one of them being that people making decisions tend to own stock options or have bonuses tied to stock performance of the companies they

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So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-01 03:47:00

On Tuesday, The Associated Press released results from a new AP-NORC poll showing that 60 percent of US adults have used AI to search for information, while only 37 percent of all Americans have used AI for work tasks. Meanwhile, younger Americans are adopting AI tools at much higher rates across multiple categories, including brainstorming, work tasks, and companionship. The poll found AI companionship remains the least popular application overall, with just 16 percent of adults overall trying

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Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2026-02-01 03:51:48

Trade organizations across the games industry and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns taking place across Steam and Itch.io in an effort to help developers who have been unfairly impacted. The push against adult content is being driven by Australian conservative group Collective Shout, whose pressuring of payment processors has forced platforms to mass deindex NSFW content. In the wake of these delistings, which remove games from search, developers are scrambling to understand i

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

theverge.com Tom Warren 2026-02-01 00:00:00

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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It Doesn't Take Much Conversation for ChatGPT to Suck Users Into Bizarre Conspiratorial Rabbit Holes

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-01 05:09:31

Earlier this month, venture capitalist and OpenAI backer Geoff Lewis posted an alarming video on X-formerly-Twitter, prompting concerns among his peers. Lewis, the managing partner of the multibillion-dollar investment company Bedrock, spoke of an inscrutable "non-governmental system" that "inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable," which he had supposedly uncovered using ChatGPT. He went as far as to claim that this mysterious system was responsible for numerous deaths, in c

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Mark Zuckerberg Looks Like He's Been Taken Hostage as He Explains Plan for Deploying AI Superintelligence

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-01 06:22:32

Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to bizarre videos. From the infamous clip where he declares his love for "Sweet Baby Ray's" barbecue sauce to the time he was recorded taking a Turing test, the tech founder has long found himself in awkward positions on camera. Still, none in recent memory can compare to a new video plugging Meta's so-called Superintelligence AI lab, which sees the newly dripped-out CEO stare directly into the camera — and, perhaps, through our souls — as he

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Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds

news.ycombinator.com Jannika E. Boström 2026-01-28 16:32:46

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 2026-02-01 06:18:14

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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India safely launches a $1.5 billion satellite for NASA

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-02-01 08:18:10

After more than a decade of development, NASA's science leadership traveled to India this week for the launch of the world's most expensive Earth-observation satellite. The $1.5 billion synthetic aperture radar imaging satellite, a joint project between NASA and the Indian space agency ISRO, successfully launched into orbit on Wednesday aboard that nation's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, a medium-lift rocket. The mission, named NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar), was subseque

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Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2026-02-01 08:56:58

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision on Wednesday for “personal superintelligence,” the idea that people should be able to use AI to achieve their personal goals. Smuggled into the letter is a signal that Meta is shifting how it plans to release AI models as it pursues “superintelligence.” “We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible,” wrote Zuckerberg. “That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We’ll need to be

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Figma will IPO on July 31

Attention is your scarcest resource

Meta profits surge helps drive Zuckerberg’s AI ambitions

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems

Robinhood reports second-quarter earnings beat with revenue climbing 45%

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Mark Zuckerberg Details Meta’s Plan for Self-Improving, Superintelligent AI

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Apple TV+ shares trailer for all-new Peanuts musical special, premiering next month

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Qualcomm beats on earnings, highlights growth in Meta smartglasses

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

The hype is the product

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree

Why I recommend this Bluetooth tracker to both iPhone and Android users over AirTags

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So far, only one-third of Americans have ever used AI for work

Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back

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Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

India safely launches a $1.5 billion satellite for NASA

Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

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