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SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the biggest foreign IPO in US history, is urged to build new US fabs

The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build US factories.…
Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street

Nvidia’s biggest RAM supplier just had a trillion-dollar debut on Wall Street

As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix - one of the world's biggest suppliers of memory chips - launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Kore…
How to Share Your Location on an iPhone or Android Phone (2026)

How to Share Your Location on an iPhone or Android Phone (2026)

Whether it’s through Google Maps or Emergency SOS, there are plenty of ways to quickly let your loved ones know where you are.…
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacu…
ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Work

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849059 Points: 299 # …
Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in India.…
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents

The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.…
How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)

Article URL: https://neil.computer/notes/how-to-setup-minimal-zfs-nas-without-truenas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827325 Poi…
These AI Startups Are Growing Revenue at Faster and Faster Rates — What's Driving the Acceleration

These AI Startups Are Growing Revenue at Faster and Faster Rates — What's Driving the Acceleration

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.…
Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital

Blue Origin, for the first time, is expected to raise private capital

The company is raising $10 billion, leading to a valuation of $130 billion.…
The Best MagSafe Power Banks for iPhone and Android in 2026, Plus Models to Avoid

The Best MagSafe Power Banks for iPhone and Android in 2026, Plus Models to Avoid

Keep your iPhone or Qi2 Android phone topped up with one of the best portable chargers.…
Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

As much as 50 percent of some teams affected by reductions, and more could be coming.…
Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.…
The ‘G-Wagen of golf carts’ could be the ideal second car

The ‘G-Wagen of golf carts’ could be the ideal second car

While the auto industry wrings its hands over the electric vehicle market, sweating details like aerodynamic efficiency and range anxiety, a new EV st…
A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R0Lp86GEBk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816956 Points: 262 # Comments: 101…
Doom developer id reportedly cut in half as part of Xbox layoffs

Doom developer id reportedly cut in half as part of Xbox layoffs

As part of the mass layoffs hitting Xbox, Doom developer id Software has laid off around 50 percent of its staff, according to Game Developer. One sou…
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update,…
Nothing’s first B-series phone is also skipping the US

Nothing’s first B-series phone is also skipping the US

Nothing is shaking up the branding of its cheapest phones, following up last year's Phone 3A Lite with a new Phone 4B. Combining design elements of th…
Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup — Most of It Is AI-Generated

Erling Haaland Is Everywhere at the World Cup — Most of It Is AI-Generated

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland isn’t just a footballer anymore. He’s become an internet character perpetuated by fans and AI.…
How to sequence your own DNA at home

How to sequence your own DNA at home

Article URL: https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812156 Points: 189 # …
Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

Article URL: https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811644 Points: 191 # Comments: 47…
Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/blog/fable5-vending-bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803762 Points: 182 # Comments: 124…
GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

Article URL: https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48809…
The incredible shrinking Xbox: Five studios, 3,200 employees let go

The incredible shrinking Xbox: Five studios, 3,200 employees let go

Move affects ~20% of the gaming division, which will refocus on its biggest franchises.…
Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox, commercial sales

Microsoft cut around 4,800 roles, or 2.1% of its global workforce, on Monday — the latest in a series of layoffs that’s stoking fears of AI replacing …
Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years

Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years

I'm making a platform for simple open source games you can play anywhere.Games are all just JavaScript classes and you can read the source of every ga…
Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers: What It Means for Crowdwork and AI Data Labeling

Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers: What It Means for Crowdwork and AI Data Labeling

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.…
Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market

Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market

When I first started testing Vizio's 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for…
Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests

Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests

It’s a pretty good movie, but it needed to be a great movie to thrive in an oversaturated superhero market.…
Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP

Markets are competitive if and only if P != NP

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776345 Points: 225 # Comments: 154…