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NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency

news.ycombinator.com Unknown Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:27:43 +0000

NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency (Title written with apologies to Sandi Metz.) One of the biggest fallacies in coding is that dependencies have zero downsides. It's treated as free functionality you don't have to write yourself. Wow, what a deal! But dependencies absolutely have a cost. They may require a significant time investment to learn to use. Often they're so large and complex that simply writing the functionality yourself is faster than learning. Sometimes it's easier to

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Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian closes $260 million funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-07-20 10:20:40

Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian on Thursday announced the closing of $260 million Series C funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Lux Capital. The machine parts company said it will use the funding to build a new 270,000 square foot factory in Mesa, Arizona, and expand its Torrance, California, location as it looks to beef up its shipbuilding and naval defense capabilities. "What we really need in this country is this quantum leap above China's manufacturing model," said CE

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Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-20 10:35:59

The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations. The 51-48 vote today on President Trump's rescissions package would eliminate $1.1 billion that was allocated to public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. All 51 yes votes came from Republicans, while Sens. Susan

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Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO, and more

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-07-20 09:10:33

In Brief Substack announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million in Series C funding led by investors at BOND and The Chernin Group (TCG). The round included participation from Andreessen Horowitz; Rich Paul, CEO and founder of Klutch Sports Group; and Jens Grede, CEO and co-founder of Skims. The New York Times reports that the funding brings Substack’s valuation to $1.1 billion, almost 70% higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million. Founded in 2017, Substack has gained popularity

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Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO and more

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-07-20 14:10:33

In Brief Substack announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million in Series C funding led by investors at BOND and The Chernin Group (TCG). The round included participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Rich Paul, CEO and founder of Klutch Sports Group, and Jens Grede, CEO and co-founder of Skims. The New York Times reports that the funding brings Substack’s valuation to $1.1 billion, almost 70% higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million. Founded in 2017, Substack has gained popularity

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Crypto theft is booming as criminals increasingly turn to physical attacks

cnbc.com Ryan Browne 2025-07-21 02:34:49

The value of cryptocurrencies stolen by criminals surged in the first six months of 2025 after a high-profile hack and a wave of physical attacks targeting crypto holders and their relatives. So far this year, $2.17 billion has been stolen from crypto services — already eclipsing the $1.87 billion of funds stolen from platforms in 2024 — and this is expected to reach $4 billion by the end of 2025, according to a report published Thursday by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. Overall, the co

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11 of the Best Sci-Fi Movies on Prime Video

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 14:00:07

Prime Video has got the epic sci-fi movies you're looking for. Science fiction isn't a monolith. It's a genre that has so many flavors that it can appeal to just about anyone. Whether you want something silly, bleak, thrilling or dystopian, Prime Video has a movie that will fit the bill. From high-brow to some B movie-flavored ridiculousness, there's pretty much something for every fan. The next step is actually scrolling through the pages of content to find the title you want to watch. Well,

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Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 16:45:14

If you want to contribute to Mill, or are interested in the fundamental ideas behind Mill rather than the user-facing features discussed above, check out the page on Mill Design Principles. In particular, this video is a must-watch to help you understand the fundamental concepts behind Mill and why they are interesting:

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Mill: A Better Build Tool for Java, Scala, & Kotlin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 21:45:14

If you want to contribute to Mill, or are interested in the fundamental ideas behind Mill rather than the user-facing features discussed above, check out the page on Mill Design Principles. In particular, this video is a must-watch to help you understand the fundamental concepts behind Mill and why they are interesting:

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Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-07-23 06:43:29

Rex Salisbury, the solo GP behind Cambrian Ventures, fondly recalls the time he fell in love with fintech. The year was 2015, he had recently left his job as an investment banker to try his hand on engineering at a mortgage startup in San Francisco. “That’s when you had companies like Stripe, Plaid, Credit Karma, Wealthfront starting to scale,” he told TechCrunch. “Lending Club had just done their IPO, and was trading really well.” Investors’ excitement for fintech grew exponentially in the fo

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The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-07-24 06:36:04

In Brief Mantis Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Alex Pall and Drew Taggart of the electronic DJ group The Chainsmokers, has raised $100 million in commitments for its third fund. At $100 million, the firm’s newest fund is 25% larger than Mantis’s previous $80 million fund, a notable achievement at a time when many venture firms are struggling to maintain their existing fund sizes or secure new capital. Mantis has invested in B2B companies, such as cybersecurity firm Chainguar

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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-25 02:05:39

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career. When you're working on something difficult, sketch a proof in your head as you go that your code will actually do what you want it to do. A simple idea, but easier said than done: doing this "online" without interrupting your flow takes a lot of practice. But once you get really good at it,

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Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-07-25 06:27:49

Jeff Bezos gestures as he leaves Aman Venice hotel, ahead of his expected wedding, in Venice, Italy, on June 25, 2025. Jeff Bezos is bringing in a veteran Amazon executive to oversee his $10 billion climate and biodiversity fund. Tom Taylor, who previously ran Amazon's Alexa voice assistant division, will serve as the new president and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, the former tech executive wrote in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. Taylor announced his retirement from Amazon in 2022 after roughly 23

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The Casino Social Media Platform That Wants to ‘Kill’ Facebook and TikTok

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-26 04:18:11

Pump.fun, a viral crypto launchpad built on Solana, says it wants to “kill Facebook, TikTok, and Twitch.” If that sounds like meme-fueled madness, it might be, but it also just pulled off one of the most astonishing fundraising feats in recent memory, raking in an eye-watering $600 million in 12 minutes through a public token sale. That’s a number even Meta would envy. The July 12 offering marked the debut of $PUMP, the platform’s official token. Pump.fun offered 15% of its 1 trillion token sup

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Brian Singerman is raising over $500M for a new fund with a twist on the VC model

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-07-26 05:33:28

Former Founders Fund GP Brian Singerman and co-founder and managing partner of Quiet Capital, Lee Linden, are seeking over $500 million for a new fund called GPx, three people familiar with their strategy told TechCrunch. A portion of GPx’s fund will likely come from Founders Fund co-founder Peter Thiel, these people said. GPx uses a two-pronged strategy. The firm will invest approximately 20% of the capital into funds managed by emerging VCs who are targeting pre-seed and seed-stage startups;

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Brian Singerman’s new fund has a twist, and Peter Thiel as a big backer

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-07-26 10:33:28

Former Founders Fund GP Brian Singerman and co-founder and managing partner of Quiet Capital, Lee Linden, are seeking over $500 million for a new fund called GPx, three people familiar with their strategy told TechCrunch. A significant portion of GPx’s fund, potentially as much as 50%, will come from Founders Fund co-founder Peter Thiel, these people said. GPx uses a two-pronged strategy. The firm will invest approximately 20% of the capital into funds managed by emerging VCs who are targeting

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The Casino Social Media PlatformThat Wants to ‘Kill’ Facebook and TikTok

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-26 14:18:11

Pump.fun, a viral crypto launchpad built on Solana, says it wants to “kill Facebook, TikTok, and Twitch.” If that sounds like meme-fueled madness, it might be, but it also just pulled off one of the most astonishing fundraising feats in recent memory, raking in an eye watering $600 million in 12 minutes through a public token sale. That’s a number even Meta would envy. The July 12 offering marked the debut of $PUMP, the platform’s official token. Pump.fun offered 15% of its 1 trillion token sup

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UK launches £500M package to support diverse, underrepresented investors and founders

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-07-28 09:30:00

The British Business Bank, owned by the UK government, is creating a £500 million (around $674 million) economic package to help support diverse and underrepresented fund managers and founders in the country. Fifty million pounds will be set aside for female-led venture funds, which means the BBB has now committed at least £100 million (around $135 million) to supporting female-led ventures and the government’s Invest in Women Taskforce. Meanwhile, £400 million (around $539 million) will go to

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A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-28 04:21:33

GhidrAssistMCP A powerful Ghidra extension that provides an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, enabling AI assistants and other tools to interact with Ghidra's reverse engineering capabilities through a standardized API. Overview GhidrAssistMCP bridges the gap between AI-powered analysis tools and Ghidra's comprehensive reverse engineering platform. By implementing the Model Context Protocol, this extension allows external AI assistants, automated analysis tools, and custom scripts to seaml

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Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach

news.ycombinator.com Rafie Muhammad 2025-07-27 21:41:59

Update 7-12-2025 06:00 UTC: We have observed some activity in regard to one of the backdoors that involves a gf_api_token parameter. The IP address 193.160.101.6 tries to request, for every site, the following URLs with a spoofed user agent: /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.12/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNtBYu6Asb9JX06KYAWmrfPtG1eP3&action=ping /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.11.1/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNt

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Malware Found in Official GravityForms Plugin Indicating Supply Chain Breach

news.ycombinator.com Rafie Muhammad 2025-07-28 02:41:59

Update 8-11-2025 06:00 UTC: We have observed some activity in regard to one of the backdoors that involves a gf_api_token parameter. The IP address 193.160.101.6 tries to request, for every site, the following URLs with a spoofed user agent: /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.12/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNtBYu6Asb9JX06KYAWmrfPtG1eP3&action=ping /wp-content/plugins/gravityforms_2.9.11.1/notification.php?gf_api_token=Cx3VGSwAHkB9yzIL9Qi48IFHwKm4sQ6Te5odNt

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Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-07-29 06:00:00

Sarah Smith, founder and managing partner of the eponymous Sarah Smith Fund, announced Thursday the final closing of a $16 million Fund I. Smith launched her eponymous fund in 2022 and is a solo GP. She said she’s “stunned” by what AI can unlock for firms like hers, solo and next-generation. “I can’t imagine doing venture any other way now,” she said. “While I believe company building still requires a team effort, I believe early-stage investing is best done solo.” She appreciates how she can

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Empowering Disabled Students Through Teaching Tech: The TechAble Training Initiative at KNUST

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-07-31 16:45:12

What Is TechAble? The TechAble training initiative at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana began in February 2025 and ran for eight weeks. Aimed at supporting students with disabilities, TechAble provided mentorship and high-quality instruction for three courses: web development, graphic design, and digital marketing. The teaching and mentorship demystified commonly used programs and tools in the three course topics, allowing students to complement what they l

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Generic interfaces

news.ycombinator.com Axel Wagner 2025-07-30 09:56:48

Generic interfaces Axel Wagner 7 July 2025 There is an idea that is not obvious until you hear about it for the first time: as interfaces are types themselves, they too can have type parameters. This idea proves to be surprisingly powerful when it comes to expressing constraints on generic functions and types. In this post, we’ll demonstrate it, by discussing the use of interfaces with type parameters in a couple of common scenarios. A simple tree set As a motivating example, assume we need

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White Noise – secure and private messenger

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 00:44:22

Non-Profit & Community-Driven White Noise is a non-profit, community-driven project. We are not funded by any corporation, and we are not beholden to any government or organization. We are a group of volunteers who are passionate about privacy and security.

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A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

news.ycombinator.com Cairn O 2025-08-03 14:12:16

This article will assume some familiarity with narrow phase collision detection methods and associated geometric concepts such as the Minkowski sum. A few years ago I was watching Dirk’s great presentation, The Separating Axis Test between Convex Polyhedra (video, slides). Around the 18 minute mark (slide 29) he starts talking about overlaying Gauss maps of convex polyhedra to find the faces of their Minkowski difference. Figure 1: A gauss map for two convex hulls The upshot is that all faces

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Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-08-04 11:11:47

In Brief French AI startup Mistral is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in equity from investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX fund, reports Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Mistral is also talking to French lenders like Bpifrance SACA to raise hundreds of millions of euros in debt, per Bloomberg. TechCrunch has reached out to Mistral for comment. Mistral, makers of the Le Chat chatbot, is one of the most significant players in the European AI landscape with a focus on open-wei

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This browser-based Apple Lisa simulator takes you back to 1983

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-08-05 22:01:35

Before the original Macintosh made history in 1984, there was the 1983 Apple Lisa, one of the first commercial personal computers to feature a graphical user interface (GUI) rather than a command-line prompt. Provided you had $9,995 to spare, that is. If you’ve always heard about it on podcasts but never played around with it, here’s your chance. Never heard of it? Here’s a quick summary New Apple fans probably don’t know this story, and die-hard Apple fans are probably already pointing out c

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Why I recommend these $70 open earbuds over pricier models from Bose and Sony

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-08-06 12:15:13

ZDNET's key takeaways The EarFun Clip earbuds are available now on Amazon for $70 With just the right tweaking in the app, you can elevate the sound of these earbuds well above average The app is required for these earbuds to sound their best. $69.99 at Amazon I've tested so many earbuds and headphones over the years that they tend to blend together. That doesn't mean that there aren't standouts (such as the Denon PerL Pro, which still serves as my all-time favorite pair). Also: Finally, ope

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Exploring Coroutines in PHP

news.ycombinator.com Doeke Norg 2025-08-03 13:34:13

The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean? In this post, we will explore coroutines as a concept and see how PHP supports them through Generators and Fibers. Whether you're building pipelines, CLI tools, or preparing to dive into concurrency, understanding coroutines is an essential first step. What are Coroutines? A coroutine is a function. However, where a regular function continuously runs from top to bottom unti

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Latest Tech News

NIH is cheaper than the wrong dependency

Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian closes $260 million funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund

Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO, and more

Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO and more

Crypto theft is booming as criminals increasingly turn to physical attacks

11 of the Best Sci-Fi Movies on Prime Video

Mill: A better build tool for Java, Scala, and Kotlin

Mill: A Better Build Tool for Java, Scala, & Kotlin

Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown

The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

Jeff Bezos taps former Amazon Alexa head to lead $10 billion Earth fund

The Casino Social Media Platform That Wants to ‘Kill’ Facebook and TikTok

Brian Singerman is raising over $500M for a new fund with a twist on the VC model

Brian Singerman’s new fund has a twist, and Peter Thiel as a big backer

The Casino Social Media PlatformThat Wants to ‘Kill’ Facebook and TikTok

UK launches £500M package to support diverse, underrepresented investors and founders

A better Ghidra MCP server – GhidrAssistMCP

Malware found in official gravityforms plugin indicating supply chain breach

Malware Found in Official GravityForms Plugin Indicating Supply Chain Breach

Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself

Empowering Disabled Students Through Teaching Tech: The TechAble Training Initiative at KNUST

Generic interfaces

White Noise – secure and private messenger

A fast 3D collision detection algorithm

Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B

This browser-based Apple Lisa simulator takes you back to 1983

Why I recommend these $70 open earbuds over pricier models from Bose and Sony

Exploring Coroutines in PHP

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