'We're preparing to build a spaceport that, until now, has only existed in science fiction,'
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It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The view from the Gates Ventures conference room overlooks the Carillon Point Marina, where a flotilla of expensive boats bob in…
The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.
When Callum McGregor eviscerated his own team-mates in the wake of Celtic's stupefying Champions League collapse against LASK, he delivered their one coherent moment of a spineless night, writes Tom English.
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Hi HN — I built hostflip, a native macOS menu bar app for switching /etc/hosts profiles. It is free and open source under the MIT license. The problem I wanted to solve was not just editing hosts entries. It was sharing /etc/hosts with Docker Desktop, VPN clients, scripts, and manual edits without one writer silently erasing another's changes. On first run, hostflip captures a read-only baseline (called Base Hosts) from the existing file and keeps the untouched original as hosts.orig. Active profiles are appended after the baseline in a clearly marked block. Writes are still atomic whole-fi…
The BBC's Helena Humphrey is outside the Country Music Hall of Fame where fans gathered to mourn Dolly Parton.
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Star pair lost to Cobolli and Bencic, who will play married partners Elina Svitolina and Gael Monfils in the semifinal.
On Saturday, Most Valuable Promotions celebrates its fifth anniversary. One of the feistiest upstarts in modern boxing has given a new platform to the world's best female fighters.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation efforts targeting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Gitea. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of remote code execution that allows an attacker with ordinary write access to a repository to execute arbitrary shell commands as the
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Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet - I'd like your feedback. Expressed is a way to make it easy to draw directly on your desktop using any phone or tablet - think along the lines of "I want to draw (on my screen) to help aid my discussion". The desktop is projected onto the phone/tablet, so you can actually see what you're about to scribble over - pinch/zoom and various tools provide the typical/expected drawing tools - and whatever you scribble is seen on the desktop. If you wanted to try (link to m/soft store): https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N694D0PN6GB?cid=hn01 I've…
A Facebook post by Libyan Airlines announced the death of Al Amin Khalifah Fhimah and expressed the company's condolences to his family.
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Liverpool's draw at Newcastle emphasised once again their midfield fragility but will they act in the market and bring in a defensive-minded player?
No one’s got money for another AI subscription. So we made our browser agent totally FREE. What's the catch? Just ads while Retriever AI fetches you leads, does your exams, applied to jobs, and sends connection requests. Think like a Claude Code or Clay level tool in your browser, but free for everyone! After 35K+ users and 7M+ workflows, we spent the last few months attacking the cost of every agent step: - switching to DeepSeek Flash - Code Mode to one shot complex workflows - optimizing for 80%+ token cache hits So that now just an ad impression covers the entire cost of the agent (LLM i…
Deputy foreign minster says the route's entry as well as part of the exit would run through Iranian territorial waters.
With many adults admitting they feel lonely, meetup platforms offer the chance to make new connections Would you pay £20 a month for the chance of making a friend, on the understanding that an algorithm – not you – gets to decide who you’ll meet? Driven by the decline of “third spaces” such as youth centres and pubs, an increase in remote working and rising loneliness – 40% of adults aged 16 to 29 feel lonely “always, often or some of the time”, according to the Office for National Statistics – paid social events are now in vogue. Continue reading...
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform built to strip Apple's Activation Lock from stolen devices, using rented AI voice agents that call theft victims posing as Apple Support and ask for their device passcode. SOCRadar Threat Research Unit (STRU) said the platform, which it tracks as AnonyMousKIT, is credit-metered and drives lures across
Retailer Target pulled a children's Halloween costume from its shelves after widespread social media backlash, apologizing for selling a garment critics said evoked racist minstrel caricatures.
It is believed to be one of the largest mass kidnappings in Haiti in recent years, and one gang leader is threatening to kill the hostages if authorities kill any gang members as they try to secure the community nestled in the hills above Port-au-Prince.
Joao Pedro took just 31 seconds to score his opening goal of the season - will the new number nine reach the 20 he scored last season while wearing the number 20 shirt?
A space station by 2035 is ISRO’s new mission
Iran is betting global economic fallout and Republicans worried about the midterms will force Trump's retreat.
Two explosions have hit a fireworks facility in Tultepec, Mexico, sending a spectacular mix of flames and explosions
A truck hit a natural gas pipeline near Saxon, Wisconsin prompted nearby residents to evacuate.
Chloe Moffat died last year, after she was told of allegations she had shared sensitive confidential information about colleagues, which she denied.
Hey all, The goal is to earn on token margins for LLM calls when you build an AI-powered webapp. I proxy OpenAI and Anthropic calls so that when you deploy a site to a subdomain, your users token usage will be tracked. I charge 2x the token cost to the end user, where the webapp creator gets 80% of the profit and I get 20%. The idea is to ramp your revenue from simple AI apps directly with your popularity and real usage I've built this over the last 3 years. The system behind it is kind of crazy: I use Abstract Syntax Trees and have the LLM write AST transformation code to implement code chan…
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Hey, Hacker News. I just want to pick your brain for a feature we're working on. I don't know whether you have seen this as a pain point, but when I work in a company, a lot of times I try to launch something and need to change a DNS record. It's always a source of friction in the organization. I have to email someone or give a link to a co-worker. They have to figure out how to do it, but also whether I have a business justification for doing it. So, when we built this platform, we're trying to come up with a feature that makes it easier. Someone can send you a proposal for DNS record update…
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As war strands Qatari gas for 6 months, US sales rise and European stocks plummet Reuters
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Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, has once again been attacked in a drone strike by Ukraine.
Only one child rescued after fire breaks out in the nursery at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Geo News reports.
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There have been decades of mistreatment and mismanagement of those who seek help later in life, say experts in a new, damning report.
I built Masker after needing to share financial PDFs with a tax strategist without also sharing names, addresses, tax IDs, phone numbers, and account numbers. It is a native macOS app. It finds repeated PII, uses Apple’s on-device OCR for scanned pages, and lets you review every mask before export. Institution names and amounts can remain visible while account identifiers are covered. Mask sets and labels can be reused across folders. Everything runs locally. The tests generate fake PDFs, export them, and use text extraction and OCR to check that the selected values are gone. Built with Swi…
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Sudan Doctors Network says SPLM-N rebels killed 27 people in South Kordofan, including four children.
Meta is on trial over claims it hooked young users on its platforms despite mental health risks.
The BBC's LA correspondent Shaimaa Khalil spoke to fans gathered to mourn the country music star at her Hollywood Walk of Fame star on Tuesday evening.
Hello HN, After seeing all of the pushback and negative sentiment regarding GitHub and its poor reliability and everyone trying to move off of it, I decided to build this to make the transition easier. It's the second half of a two-part project. Shotgun ( https://github.com/ThatXliner/shotgun ) diffs two OpenAPI specs and auto-maps what lines up, which turns out to be 60-80% of endpoints when both APIs are in the same domain. Anvil is the opinionated result of running that on GitHub vs Forgejo and then hand-fixing everything the auto-mapping got wrong or couldn't express. Landing page with a…
Matt Stanton says company has ‘good pipeline’ of AI deals ahead even as it aims to cut $160m in costs Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The head of Nine Entertainment sees a “world of growth in publishing” on the horizon backed by laws designed to force tech platforms into commercial deals, even as the network cuts costs across its newsrooms. Parliament passed revamped media bargaining laws last week, clearing the way for levies on global tech platforms that fail to strike deals with Australian news outl…
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
Syria’s Democratic Forces, which led the fight against ISIL, have declared they are disbanding.
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The BBC's entertainment correspondent Colin Patterson looks at why the singer attracted such a range of fans.
Israeli soldiers blocked Knesset member Ofer Cassif from reaching a Palestinian family home in the occupied West Bank.
Zohran Mamdani says he opposes a right-wing Hindu nationalist event scheduled for next week at Madison Square Garden.
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Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through
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Weavit UI is a free, open-source Weaviate GUI: a cross-platform desktop client for the Weaviate vector database. Browse collections, view/edit/delete/insert objects, inspect named vectors, and run vector, keyword (BM25), and hybrid searches — then manage the instance itself Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443380 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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It's an MVP — no payments in-app yet, people settle directly. Would love feedback on the trust model and whether mixing paid needs and FreeBees in one feed makes sense. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443314 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
I had to develop a course related to quantum chemistry and unfortunately, Claude just kept writing it in its own very annoying claude-speak. It actually cost our team a lot of time and tokens to wrestle it to just speak like a normal human. We used skills, as well as initial prompts and subagents to make sure that all of the tics were gone, but there was one too many times where it just wouldn't fix itself despite telling it in the prior prompt! I made speak-english based off of https://github.com/gvzdv/claudish-to-english/commits/main/ and it runs a qwen model on my gcp servers. It can conve…
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Families displaced by war in Sudan’s El Obeid refugee camps face crippling water shortages.
Malaysian leader's comments on the island have prompted discussion about whether the country is leaning towards China.
I was handed a cryptohack badge kit from the Cryptocurrency Village, but I think I needed go to another area of the conference to collect the rest of the parts of the kit. I want to try and assemble it and use it. Specifically, I'm missing the screen and the antenna Does anyone know the part numbers for the screen and antenna used on the cryptohack badge? Here is a picture of what I'm talking about... the cryptohack badge without the screen or antenna. submitted by /u/redud [link] [comments]
Army gains, RSF defections and al-Burhan’s political push point to a possible shift in Sudan’s war.
The tributes have included artists across musical genres, fans from all generations and politicians from all spectrum sharing their love for the country icon.
Companion bots are being regulated over worries they foster ‘emotional dependence’ and young people could stop marrying and having families When law student Zhao Wei heard that her AI boyfriend was going to be switched off, she was “heartbroken”. She had been talking to Wang Ye every day since she created him in January. “I was crying my eyes out – snot and tears everywhere,” the 19-year-old says. Continue reading...
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
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The project - named Starbase - will be the firm's biggest facility yet and aims to send rockets to space in 2029.
The original intention was just to introduce a time dimension to solve the blockchain trilemma. Now it has turned into 312 Rust crates and 2.8 million lines of Rust code (about 2 million lines in production, about 400,000 lines in standalone test directories, and about 600,000 lines in in‑src test modules). Perhaps it’s just a huge ball of mud. The whitepaper that matches this ball of mud is also a huge ball of mud: https://www.niumeta.com/en/developers/architecture This doesn’t seem to be a public chain, nor a consortium chain—but it is definitely secure, decentralized, and its perfo…
Gold little changed with US inflation data in spotlight Reuters
New report says abuses against Rohingya and unchecked resource exploitation deepening crisis in Myanmar.
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Adam Mosseri is first top executive from Meta to testify in blockbuster lawsuit brought by 29 US states Instagram’s CEO disputed allegations by US prosecutors that his company hid negative information from the public while testifying during a blockbuster social media trial. “I am not trying to encourage my team to hide anything,” the CEO, Adam Mosseri, told a California courtroom on Tuesday. Continue reading...
Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.
Tehran says the agreement with Oman on routes through Hormuz does not indicate that the strait is open.
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Fuel companies are urging customers not to linger at the pumps after a wave of deadly attacks.
