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

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-07-20 14:33:47

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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The Pigeon River Is Perched, Which Is Geologically Bad News (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Philip Prince 2025-07-19 01:31:27

A reader of the Nantahala Gorge post asked a very relevant question: Is there a stream capture in the Appalachians that is going to happen soon? While “soon” can be a very relative term in geology, there is most definitely a good answer to the question. At Canton, North Carolina, the headwaters of Hominy Creek, a French Broad River tributary, are VERY close to capturing the Pigeon River. In human terms, this is still probably a long way off, but it is most certainly geologically “imminent.” The

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Faking a JPEG

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 17:57:25

25th March 2025: Faking a JPEG Click to expand I've been wittering on about Spigot for a while. It's small web application which generates a fake hierarchy of web pages, on the fly, using a Markov Chain to make gibberish content for aggressive web crawlers to ingest. Spigot has been sitting there, doing its thing, for a few months now, serving over a million pages per day. I've not really been keeping track of what it's up to, but every now and then I look at its logs to see what crawlers are

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Voyage of Magellan – Epilogue: Sailor of Eternal Fame

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-16 13:29:43

Pedro Alfonso was entirely correct when he told Captain Espinosa what his sentence would be if he was captured by his countrymen. The last the rest of the crew of the Trinidad saw of him was when he was being bundled away in chains by Admiral Brito’s men, quaking with fear. That night, a priest came to see him in the dark hole into which he had been cast on the island of Ternate. Early the next morning, he was dragged to a clearing next to the Portuguese fort that was being built there. Under th

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The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins

news.ycombinator.com Ben Crair 2025-08-20 11:24:52

As I read more about the Columbidae, though, I came to appreciate pigeons for more than just their beauty. Their big appetites are crucial to the health of forests around the globe. Researchers observing fig trees in Malaysia once found that green pigeons consumed far more fruit than any other animal in the jungle, visiting some trees more often than all other animals combined. Most animals defecate seeds near the parent tree, but pigeons are long-distance fliers who retain seeds in their guts l

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I found an AirTag alternative that's just as good but for half the price

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-08-27 20:45:12

ZDNET's key takeaways The Spigen Tag Me Bluetooth trackers are available for $39 for a four-pack These trackers perform as well as the AirTag yet are half the price; they have a small loop to attach to items without purchasing separate accessories Unfortunately, they only work with the Apple Find My network. $39.99 at Amazon I've learned to add Bluetooth trackers to my frequently lost items the hard way. My husband is forgetful, and we have three little kids who are still learning to look aft

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I ported pigz from Unix to Windows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 17:47:53

I just finished porting pigz from Unix to Windows (you can download pre-compiled binaries ). This article describes how I did it. Pigz was clearly written with Unix in mind, with no thought given to cross-platform portability. Thankfully, it’s a relatively simple, command-line program that sticks to using standard C library. Porting pthreads Pigz uses pthreads for threading. Porting pthreads code to Windows would be a nightmare. Lucky me: someone already did all the hard work and implemented

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Charge your Apple Watch on this tiny iMac G3 replica

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-13 18:42:11

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Previous additions to Spigen’s Classic C1 series of Apple accessories include iPhone and AirPods cases inspired by the iMac G3’s bright colors. Its new Apple Watch stand goes one step further and recreates the entire design of the iconic computer in miniature so it can fit on your bedside table and charge your smartwatch overnight. The Apple Wat

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Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-13 04:48:25

Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment We are sincerely grateful to Dr. Dean E. Arnold for writing specially for us this intriguing introduction to the mysterious and unique pigment known as Maya Blue. Dr. Arnold has published extensively about the Maya potters and their craft in Ticul, Yucatan from data collected during his twelve visits over a period of 43 years (1965-2008). He is currently Adjunct Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum and Professor of Anthropology Eme

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Hyperspectral scans of historical pigments and painting reconstructions

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 12:00:19

Painting Tools and Dataset Processed paint samples, using the Kubelka-Munk model to compute reflection and the painting_tools package to display the RGB values. See the corresponding notebook to understand how these parameters were estimated. This repository contains code and links to data for painting analysis using hyperspectral data. This data can be used in technical art history and computer graphics applications, for example for pigment mapping and spectral upsampling. Code and data for t

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