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Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

Can’t bear to say goodbye to your pet? Biotech’s got you covered.

I don’t remember much about Peppy, my first and only pet cat. I can conjure the sensation of stroking her while she purred, recall how she used to get stuck in trees (just like in cartoons!), and chuckle about the time she pooed in my baby sister’s cot. That’s about it. What I do…

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The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans…

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Strange Times Make for Strange Bedfellows

Mark Zuckerberg, on X: Muse Spark Open — weights releasing today — runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple. John Ternus, replying: Congrats to the team! Amazing to run a model of Muse Spark Open’s caliber and scale this efficiently, right from your…

Apple TV Started at $69 in 2015

Joe Rossignol, reporting for MacRumors back on 9 March 2015: Apple CEO Tim Cook on Monday at the “Spring Forward” media event in San Francisco announced that Apple TV will now cost $69, discounted from its regular price of $99. The new price for the set-top box arrives on the hee…

How They Got Duo Support in NetNewsWire

From the NetNewsWire blog: The latest version of NetNewsWire for iOS supports iPhone Duo, which is very much a novel iPhone with toolbars running up the side and all kinds of behavior. How we did it: we didn’t do any work at all. We built the app using Xcode 27.1 and the default …

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Rokid and Tencent Mobility Bring Voice Ride-Hailing to AI Glasses via Agent-to-Agent Link

Users say a destination and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and password-free payment, with car details shown in view while they wait.

From Boldfit To Origin — Indian Startups Raised Over $236 Mn This Week

Startup funding continued to pick up pace in the second week of October. Overall, Indian new-age tech ventures raised $236.2…

Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources Hy Memory 2.0, Adding Working and Code Memory for AI Agents

The release spans an SDK, a 30B-A3B memory model and the MemHub local app. Tencent reports 72.6% on LoCoMo while cutting tokens per question from 1,159 to 703.

UBTECH Details Thinker-WM, a World Model That Unifies Video, Depth and Robot Actions

UBTECH says Thinker-WM tops three embodied world model benchmarks. Adding depth lifted single-task success on RoboTwin by 15 percentage points in its ablation tests.

Internal Meta messages appear to back Lula’s claims of account being held back

Internal Meta messages obtained by Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo show engineers scrambling over a bug that throttled Lula's Instagram reach while boosting Bolsonaro's, days before Brazil's runoff. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, la…

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Robot AI developer Ruoyu secures Pre-A funding led by Sunway Communication

Shenzhen-based robot AI developer Ruoyu Technology has completed a nine-figure RMB Pre-A funding round led by Sunway Communication, 36Kr reported on October 15. Other investors include Jinmu Capital, Qindao Capital, Huanghai Capital and Zhongchuang Capital. Founded in 2023 and in…

An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in its “Lego era,” with the basic building blocks like actuators, robotic hands, software, and safety standards still being rebuilt. This view runs coun…

This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration

More than 5 million people around the world with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) experience atrophy in their retinas. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The PRIMA system, which was approved in Europe in July and is awaiting FDA clearance in the US, cha…

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Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-genera…

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How the Claude Code team does code review

Article URL: https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122951 Points: 317 # Comments: 296

I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets

Article URL: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.io/issues/49314 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50124251 Points: 212 # Comments: 176

Fairbuds 2 Teardown Shows Little Glue, Easy Battery Swap

In a world where wireless earbuds are increasingly seen as devices that you toss into the e-waste bin as soon as they stop working, it’s heartening to see companies take …read more

The 10€ Gamepad

We aren’t sure what [Lazy_Duck] is doing with video games, but it must require a lot of controllers. Dismayed at the cost and complexity of commercial gamepads, they started soldering …read more

How to Design for Failures

In this article, we’ll look at the various strategies that can help developers deal with failures in their systems.

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

Article URL: https://github.com/cobanov/PS5LM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122431 Points: 269 # Comments: 64

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

https://words.filippo.io/seeds-solved/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122800 Points: 824 # Comments: 310

Simplifying Slide Rule Calculations with Trig

[Bob the Science Guy] remembers how to use a slide rule. Even after all these years, it is pretty easy to remember how to multiply and divide. If you can’t …read more

TAKTO, Open Source Hand-Tracking Built Like LEGO

Hand tracking in VR/AR can add a substantial amount of immersion and added interactivity. Unfortunately, most camera based tracking suffers when fingers get covered, intertwined, or simply out of view …read more