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Waymo's next stops for its robotaxis are Denver and Seattle

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-16 21:51:26

Waymo is preparing to launch in two more markets. The company announced today that it will expand into both Denver and Seattle . It will begin testing with humans behind the wheel this week, bringing up to a dozen vehicles to each location, according to CNBC . The rollout will include a mix of the brand's fully electric Jaguar iPace and Geely Zeekr autonomous vehicles. "We will begin driving manually before validating our technology and operations for fully autonomous services in the future," a

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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 18:34:24

Until 18 months ago, I wrote every line of code myself. Today, AI writes 80% of my initial implementations while I focus on architecture, review, and steering multiple development threads simultaneously. This isn't another "AI will change everything" post. This is about the messy reality of integrating AI into production development workflows: what actually works, what wastes your time, and why treating AI like a "junior developer who doesn't learn" became my mental model for success. The back

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Light Sleep: Waking VMs in 200ms with eBPF and snapshots

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-16 17:25:47

At Koyeb, we run a serverless platform for deploying production-grade applications on high-performance infrastructure—GPUs, CPUs, and accelerators. You push code or containers; we handle everything from build to global deployment, running workloads in secure, lightweight virtual machines on bare-metal servers around the world. Last week, we announced a major milestone in the ongoing journey of optimizing efficiency and cold starts: Light Sleep, which reduces cold starts to around 200ms for CPU

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First attempt will be 95% garbage: 6 weeks with Claude Code

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 04:34:24

Until 18 months ago, I wrote every line of code myself. Today, AI writes 80% of my initial implementations while I focus on architecture, review, and steering multiple development threads simultaneously. This isn't another "AI will change everything" post. This is about the messy reality of integrating AI into production development workflows: what actually works, what wastes your time, and why treating AI like a "junior developer who doesn't learn" became my mental model for success. The back

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Anthropic raises $13B Series F

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 01:04:15

Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces our position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users. Significant investors in this round include Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, affiliate

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Cloudflare hit by data breach in Salesloft Drift supply chain attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 09:54:00

Cloudflare is the latest company impacted in a recent string of Salesloft Drift breaches, part of a supply-chain attack disclosed last week. The internet giant revealed on Tuesday that the attackers gained access to a Salesforce instance it uses for internal customer case management and customer support, which contained 104 Cloudflare API tokens. Cloudflare was notified of the breach on August 23, and it alerted impacted customers of the incident on September 2. Before informing customers of t

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Launch HN: Datafruit (YC S25) – AI for DevOps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 21:08:31

Hey HN! We’re Abhi, Venkat, Tom, and Nick and we are building Datafruit ( https://datafruit.dev/ ), an AI DevOps agent. We’re like Devin for DevOps. You can ask Datafruit to check your cloud spend, look for loose security policies, make changes to your IaC, and it can reason across your deployment standards, design docs, and DevOps practices. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FitSggI7tg. Right now, we have two main methods to interact with Datafruit: (1) automated infrastructure au

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Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 21:04:15

Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment reflects Anthropic’s continued momentum and reinforces our position as the leading intelligence platform for enterprises, developers, and power users. Significant investors in this round include Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, affiliate

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This Threshold-Climbing Robot Vacuum Overcame Every Obstacle in My Home and It's Still $500 Off for Labor Day

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-17 21:28:28

Even though Labor Day weekend is over, Amazon and other retailers still have some lingering deals on all kinds of items from tech to mattresses, including the one of the top rated robot vacuums on the market. Right now the Dreame X50 Ultra is $500 off the regular price at Dreame, which brings the price down to $1,260. New customers can also save an additional 10% by entering their emails. If you prefer to do your shopping on Amazon, the Dreame X50 Ultra is currently $500 off there, bringing the

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Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 11.5 Tbps

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-18 01:52:30

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). In volumetric DDoS attacks, attackers overwhelm the target with massive amounts of data, consuming the bandwidth or exhausting system resources, leaving legitimate users with no access to the targeted servers and services. "Cloudflare's defenses have been working overtime. Over the past few weeks, we've

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Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year—here’s the factory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-18 05:24:34

Slate Auto provided flights from San Francisco to Fort Wayne, Indiana, and accommodation so Ars could visit the Slate factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. WARSAW, INDIANA—The Blank Slate pickup scratches a particular itch for some, fulfilling the desire for an EV powertrain without all the bells and whistles associated with a modern vehicle. Gone is the infotainment screen, the lane-keeping assistance, and, for those concerned about surveillance, a modem. Instead, it's an unpain

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The Download: therapists secretly using AI, and Apple AirPods’ hearing aid potential

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-18 08:10:00

Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen. For the rest of the session, Declan was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen, who was taking what Declan was saying, putting it into ChatGPT, and then parroting i

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and the hidden problem it actually fixes)

zdnet.com Elyse Betters Picaro 2025-10-18 09:58:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Google released Android 16 back in June to Pixel devices and select OEMs, bringing performance improvements, new Material You changes, and more upgrades. If you want to try this update but are hesitant because you've noticed your Android phone or tablet already feels too sluggish, clearing app and browser caches can give it a fresh boost and free up some storage space. Also: The best Android phones to buy in 2025 Over time

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Quirks of Common Lisp Types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 20:06:42

By Colin on 2025-08-30 "But I need types," he told me. Humans have a tendency toward binary thinking (pardon the pun). If it's not A, it's B. Perhaps because Lisps have REPLs, they are often thought of from the outside as being dynamic, interpreted languages. Our years of Python have taught us that such languages don't really have strong typing - it's all a wild guess until the interpreter calls foo on a and b and we find out who everyone really is. Yet Common Lisp is fully typed, and AOT com

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How healthcare accelerator programs are changing care

technologyreview.com Mayo Clinic Platform Staff 2025-10-18 13:00:00

So, why are healthcare accelerators becoming essential to the evolution of the industry? There are key reasons why these programs are reshaping health innovation and explanations how they are helping to make care more personalized, proactive, and accessible. Empowering growth and scaling impact Healthcare accelerator programs offer a powerful combination of guidance, resources, and connections to help early-stage startups grow, scale, and succeed in a complex industry. Participants typically

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Samsung’s trifold might be launching pretty soon

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-10-18 13:38:26

We know officially that Samsung is planning to launch its first trifold phone this year, and recent rumors suggest that might mean either this month or next. Just don’t expect it to appear at this week’s Unpacked event, which promises products ranging from “premium AI tablets to the newest member of the Galaxy S25 family.” Korea’s ET News reports today that the new foldable could be unveiled as early as this month, with the phone actually on sale in November. That launch sounds pretty limited t

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Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job?

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-10-18 20:00:00

Who are they for? Delphi, a startup that recently raised $16 million from funders including Anthropic and actor/director Olivia Wilde’s venture capital firm, Proximity Ventures, helps famous people create replicas that can speak with their fans in both chat and voice calls. It feels like MasterClass—the platform for instructional seminars led by celebrities—vaulted into the AI age. On its website, Delphi writes that modern leaders “possess potentially life-altering knowledge and wisdom, but thei

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I let my robot vacuum run for 10 days unattended - and the results surprised me

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-18 22:28:00

Narwal Freo Pro ZDNET's key takeaways The Narwal Freo Pro is now available for $500 (a $300 discount). Construction is optimized to prevent blockage and hair tangles, with a conical brush on a single floating arm and a hair-loosening side brush. The dust bag didn't last me the claimed seven weeks, and the robot's object detection leaves a lot to be desired $499.99 at Amazon Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. A recent trip took me and my family out of town for 10 days. I li

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An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2025-10-14 20:40:19

Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang). The key thing is to develop an intuition for questions it can usefully answer vs questions that are at a level of detail where the lossiness matters. This thought sparked by a comment on Hacker News asking why an LLM couldn't "Create a boilerplate Zephyr project sk

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Tesla-Killer Lucid Denies Stock Split Is a Delisting Maneuver

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-17 04:26:03

Beleaguered electric vehicle company Lucid Motors (LCID) said this week that its reverse stock split, which will consolidate shares to meet NASDAQ’s $1 minimum trading price, is not a move to avoid being delisted. As of Friday, Lucid’s share price was down over 96% from its all-time high of $64.86, reached in February 2021. Its stock has dropped 48% since this time last year and 31% in 2025. One analyst changed their price target as much as 30% after the split was announced. “LCID’s 2Q25 reven

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Vibe coding as a VC

news.ycombinator.com Kevin Kuipers 2025-10-18 22:05:35

Those vacations were the most intense I’ve had in a while. Time off is always the chance to focus on building knowledge or skills, whether for personal enjoyment or for work. And this summer break was the perfect moment to disconnect from the hectic daily routine, the endless flow of emails and back-to-back meetings, and dive into introspection. Walk the Talk Our job is to look for AI-native companies (post-LLM startups), because we believe they are a different breed, born in a different world

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Stolen luggage at LAX recovered thanks to Apple AirTag

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-18 22:29:13

An Apple AirTag helped a West Hollywood man recover his stolen suitcase after landing at Los Angeles International Airport last week. Here’s what happened. The stolen luggage ended up at an abandoned building As reported by NCB Los Angeles (via MacMagazine), Daniel Scott had just landed from Salt Lake City and, after waiting on two different baggage carousels for a while, decided to check the Find My app. Scott had placed an AirTag in his suitcase, and the app clearly showed his luggage on th

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Detecting and countering misuse of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 19:44:21

We’ve developed sophisticated safety and security measures to prevent the misuse of our AI models. But cybercriminals and other malicious actors are actively attempting to find ways around them. Today, we’re releasing a report that details how. Our Threat Intelligence report discusses several recent examples of Claude being misused, including a large-scale extortion operation using Claude Code, a fraudulent employment scheme from North Korea, and the sale of AI-generated ransomware by a cybercr

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The Tragic End of Natalia Nagovitsyna's Ordeal on Pobeda Peak

news.ycombinator.com Kris Annapurna 2025-10-15 04:52:54

Although the fate of Russian climber Natalia Nagovitsyna, stranded at 7,150m on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak since August 12, has been obvious for several days, the last wisps of hope ended today. A few hours ago, a military drone captured thermal imaging footage of Nagovitsyna’s tent on Pobeda Peak. The images, published on the official website of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (GKNB), revealed no signs of life in her tent. After more than two weeks, Kyrgyz authorities hav

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Personal Safety is the latest Google app with a messed-up clock

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 13:28:57

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR Personal Safety is rolling out an update that implements a new color scheme. While the app still doesn’t use your system palette, it does improve readability. Google has managed to mess up clock rendering, though, with the time fitting poorly on the screen. Developers like Google are constantly trying out new looks for their apps, and not everyone’s going to be a fan of every change. But even if we prefer one layout over another, or thought an old work

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The 28 best Labor Day deals you still can grab for $100 or less

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-10-19 13:17:05

Labor Day has finally arrived, and after a week of early discounts trickling in, the sales are now in full swing. We’ve put together an expansive guide detailing nearly 100 deals we think are worth the money — including everything from big-screen OLED TVs to back-to-school essentials like the latest MacBook Air — but we also recognize that spending a couple a hundred dollars on a new gadget isn’t always feasible in these inflationary, tariff-riddled times. Fortunately for those on a budget, the

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Circle to Search could be adding new Translate options (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-19 21:05:00

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Our teardown of the latest Google app beta reveals that Google is testing more changes to the Circle to Search UI. The Translate shortcut following a selection may move to a more prominent spot. A new “Change selection” button would appear in the same section after you’ve searched. Circle to Search has quickly become one of Google’s most recognizable features, offering a simple way to look up anything on your screen with a quick gesture. Since launchi

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iPhone 17 Pro: Apple’s rumored not-so-clear case design shown in video

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-20 04:44:46

Yesterday, leaker Majin Bu revealed that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Clear Case may not be so clear after all. A second source has now backed the claim. Sonny Dickson shared a video on social media that shows someone handling what is likely a knockoff case based on Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Clear Case design. You’ve probably already seen the new iPhone 17 clear case, but here’s another look at it. Would you prefer an all-clear version? pic.twitter.com/jsCPankDkx — Sonny Dickson (@SonnyDickson) September

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Amazon disrupts Russian APT29 hackers targeting Microsoft 365

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 09:35:06

Researchers have disrupted an operation attributed to the Russian state-sponsored threat group Midnight Blizzard, which sought access to Microsoft 365 accounts and data. Also known as APT29, the hacker group compromised websites in a watering hole campaign to redirect selected targets "to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices through Microsoft’s device code authentication flow." The Midnight Blizzard threat actor has been linked to Russia

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India's billion-dollar e-waste empire

news.ycombinator.com Yashraj Sharma 2025-10-17 06:52:54

In the dead of a cold December night in 2023, at a dump near Delhi, hundreds of men huddled around small bonfires, clutching paper cups of tea. They tossed plastic bags into the flames as they waited for a fleet of trucks to arrive. The trucks rolled in one by one, full of electronic marvels now reduced to e-waste: Nokia, Itel, and Samsung smartphones; Sony and LG LCD screens; Tata air conditioners; Canon and Epson printers. As the trailer gates opened at the back of one truck, Rashid Khan and

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Waymo's next stops for its robotaxis are Denver and Seattle

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First attempt will be 95% garbage: 6 weeks with Claude Code

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Slate Auto’s sub-$30,000 EV pickup is due next year—here’s the factory

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How to clear your Android phone cache (and the hidden problem it actually fixes)

Quirks of Common Lisp Types

How healthcare accelerator programs are changing care

Samsung’s trifold might be launching pretty soon

Can an AI doppelgänger help me do my job?

I let my robot vacuum run for 10 days unattended - and the results surprised me

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iPhone 17 Pro: Apple’s rumored not-so-clear case design shown in video

Amazon disrupts Russian APT29 hackers targeting Microsoft 365

India's billion-dollar e-waste empire

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