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Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything
2025-12-21 16:32 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Uber plans to trial driverless taxis in London using Baidu's Apollo Go RT6 robotaxis, starting in H1 2026 with services available by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)
2025-12-22 04:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Some experts in the human-computer interaction field say making AI chatbots act humanlike creates cognitive dissonance for users over how much to trust them (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
2025-12-22 03:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cursed circuits #3: true mathematics
2025-12-22 06:33 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Engineering dogmas it's time to retire
2025-12-21 23:32 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
A group of PE firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4B including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
2025-12-21 22:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)
2025-12-22 00:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Pirate activist group Anna's Archive says it scraped 86M music files and 256M rows of track metadata from Spotify, and releases them in ~300TB of torrent files (Mitchell Peters/Billboard)
2025-12-22 02:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Single-Pass Huffman Coding
2025-12-22 07:33 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Echo, which uses AI agents to build Docker images that eliminate vulnerabilities at the source, raised a $35M Series A, bringing its total funding to $50M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
2025-12-21 20:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: The US DHS is investigating whether 6 CISA staffers who were suspended in July misled CISA's acting director into taking a polygraph, which he failed (John Sakellariadis/Politico)
2025-12-21 18:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
2025-12-22 05:33 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2025-12-21 18:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources detail the efforts SoftBank is making to raise the necessary funds as it races to close its $22.5B funding commitment to OpenAI by the end of this year (Reuters)
2025-12-21 16:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)
2025-12-22 05:33 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
I wish people were more public
2025-12-22 01:33 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Autoland Saves King Air, Everyone Reported Safe
2025-12-21 21:32 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
US CHIPS Act-funded SMART USA Institute, focused on digital twins for chipmaking, says the Department of Commerce will terminate its $285M five-year contract (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum)
2025-12-21 10:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Blizzard President Johanna Faries on company staff bonus transparency, working under Xbox leadership, restoring the NetEase partnership, and more (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)
2025-12-21 13:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: tech lobbyists say that David Sacks' push for an EO blocking state AI laws undercut their efforts to craft a permanent, bipartisan federal solution (Politico)
2025-12-21 15:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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