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Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works
Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok.   What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US, focused on the 99% of life that doesn’t make it into a hi…
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Four AI research trends enterprise teams should watch in 2026
The AI narrative has mostly been dominated by model performance on key industry benchmarks. But as the field matures and enterprises look to draw real value from advances in AI, we’re seeing parallel research in techniques that help productionize AI applications.  At VentureBeat,…
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The top 6 media/entertainment startups from Disrupt Startup Battlefield
Here is the full list of the media/entertainment Startup Battlefield 200 selectees, along with a note on what made us select them for the competition.
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42 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Releasing in January
Happy New Year, and happy new books!
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European banks plan to cut 200,000 jobs as AI takes hold
The bloodletting will hit hardest in back-office operations, risk management, and compliance.
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OpenAI bets big on audio as Silicon Valley declares war on screens
The form factors may differ, but the thesis is the same: audio is the interface of the future. Every space -- your home, your car, even your face -- is becoming an interface.
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DeepSeek kicks off 2026 with paper signalling push to train bigger models for less
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has ushered in 2026 with a new technical paper, co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng, that proposes a rethink of the fundamental architecture used to train foundational AI models. The method – dubbed Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Con…
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LandSpace’s STAR Market IPO Application Accepted, Seeking Around USD 1.05 Billion to Bet on Reusable Rockets
LandSpace has taken a major step toward public markets, seeking RMB 7.5 billion on China’s STAR Market to scale up reusable rocket technology amid growing policy support for commercial space.
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CATL Builds 1,325 Battery Swap Stations in One Year, Cutting Energy Costs to About $0.014 per Kilometer
CATL is rapidly scaling battery swapping across China, cutting EV energy costs to as low as $0.014 per kilometer while building one of the world’s largest swap networks.
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Dreame to Debut Its First Smart Ring and Thumb-Sized Action Camera at CES 2026
At CES 2026, Dreame will expand beyond cleaning appliances by debuting its first smart ring and a thumb-sized action camera, signaling a broader push into consumer electronics.
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US grants TSMC annual licence to import American chipmaking tools into China
The US government ‍has granted an annual licence to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to import American chip manufacturing equipment to its fabrication facility in Nanjing, the capital of eastern China’s Jiangsu province, according to the company. The approval “ensure…
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xAI buys third data center near Memphis to expand Colossus, aiming for 2GW of AI compute power
As the AI infrastructure race intensifies, Elon Musk’s xAI is scaling up… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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11 Amazing Engineering Events in 2026
This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2026. Brain Chip Helps Blind People See Elon Musk says his company Neuralink is aiming to restore partial sight to fully blind patients in 2026. The company plans to test its newest and most powerful implant, Blindsight, in h…
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A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative
Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users fretted over what direction Twitter would take, millions of users hopped …
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There Is Almost Too Much Anime to Watch This Month
From 'Jujutsu Kaisen' to 'Frieren: Beyond Journey's End,' here are the anime to watch in the new year.
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Jon Peddie’s The Graphics Chip Chronicles On Graphics Controller History
Using computers that feature a high-resolution, full-color graphical interface is commonplace today, but it took a lot of effort and ingenuity to get to this point. This long history is …read more
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Cameras and Lenses (2020)
Article URL: https://ciechanow.ski/cameras-and-lenses/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455872 Points: 302 # Comments: 27
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Building a Steam Loco These Days is Nothing But Hacks
The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)’s T1 class is famous for many reasons: being enormous, being a duplex, possibly having beaten Mallard’s speed record while no one was looking… and being in …read more
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The Cutting Truth about Variable Capacitors
If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut into them. Why? [Mr Carlson] has the answer in the …read more
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Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust
I've been working on this for some time now, starting with vm2, then deno-core for 2 years, and recently rewrote it on rusty_v8 with Claude's help. OpenWorkers lets you run untrusted JS in V8 isolates on your own infrastructure. Same DX as Cloudflare Workers, no vendor lock-in. W…
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Sony PS5 ROM keys leaked – jailbreaking could be made easier with BootROM codes
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/playstation-5-rom-keys-leaked-jailbreaking-could-be-made-easier-with-bootrom-codes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46455053 Points: 221 # Comments: 67
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Our New Years Wish is to Hide in a Giant Pokéball
Between the news, the world situation, and the inevitable family stresses that come this time of year, well — one could be excused for feeling a certain amount of envy …read more
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Message Brokers 101: Storage, Replication, and Delivery Guarantees
A message broker is a middleware system that facilitates asynchronous communication between applications and services using messages.
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Linux is good now
Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46457770 Points: 276 # Comments: 2…
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