Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
Article URL: https://www.mturk.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545 Points: 299 # Comments:…
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Robot Sourcing Index (Page 55)
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CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
Article URL: https://github.com/SenteLabsAI/OpenExecutive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458418…
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The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
The UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the…
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Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that…
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U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-state-department-pauses-immigrant-visa-applications-25b31b23…
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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op...…
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An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1089390/46116614cc74b814/ Comments URL:…
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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring…
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Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
Article URL: https://twitterwebviewer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49449576 Points: 280 #…
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RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances
A dashing pirate, a butler, a killer clown, an alien mad scientist in drag—the man had range.
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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended…
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AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”
Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.
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How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood
Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses.
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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
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Nebula Sans
Article URL: https://www.nebulasans.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450448 Points: 273 #…
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Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
Article URL: https://github.com/tailscale/tailcat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452990 Points:…
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Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text
The AI that powers Gboard's Rambler is coming to more Google products, including Chrome.
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Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions
The bishops' snub comes as the state continues to attack vaccines.
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Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"
Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.
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Waffle House Teleporter Gregg Phillips Is Still on the Trump Administration’s Payroll
In June, a FEMA official infamous for claiming to have teleported to a Waffle House was reportedly ousted. He’s still…
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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead
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The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable
Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for…
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Democrats Just Might Win the Senate
Strategists in both parties have long thought that everything would need to go right for Democrats to take over…
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Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.