(Edit from 2/10/25: The post below is the first thing I wrote following the appearance of ChatGPT.

A little over two years later I’ve compiled these and other sentiments into a book that is my attempt to describe and argue for what’s worth preserving.

ChatGPT is a Large Language Model (LLM) that is trained on a set of data to respond to questions in natural language.

This snapshot from the ChatGPT homepage is a good overview of what OpenAI says ChatGPT can do.

The problem is school has ceased to honor their humanity, instead substituting “student-ness.”First step, et’s give students something worth doing.

Linnaeus’s system allowed naturalists to easily group and categorize the natural world, making it more legible for scientific inquiry.

He was able to do this because he was obsessed with collecting as many samples of the natural world as possible.

Linnaeus’s HerbariumAs a student at the University of Lund, Linnaeus began collecting dried plant and lichen specimens.

In fact, Linnaeus was one of the first to use them.

The western honey-bee, or apis melliferaWe still categorize the natural world according to Linnaeus’s hierarchy (Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species).

Citation: Yatagan Sevim G, Law TY, Evans SL (2025) Mindfulness mediates the association between chronotype and depressive symptoms in young adults.

In general, there is a large body of work showing an association between eveningness and both subclinical and clinical depression symptoms [20].

Measures Subjective sleep quality was measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) [56].

The PSQI is comprised of 7 components for assessing sleep quality: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of medication, and daytime dysfunction.

In line with previous literature, chronotype had a significant effect on depression, mindfulness, rumi…

FLIP (Huawei) shows how to align ID-based recommendation models with LLMs by jointly learning from masked tabular and language data.

Similarly, Self-Auxiliary Distillation (Google) introduces a distillation framework aimed at improving sample efficiency for large-scale recommendation models.

DLLM2Rec shows how to distill recommendation knowledge from LLMs into lightweight, conventional sequential recommendation models, making deployment more practical.

Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs.

or@article{yan2025recsys-llm, title = {Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs}, author = {Yan, Ziyou}, journal = {eugeneyan.com}, year = {2025}, month = {Mar}…

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Believe it or not, the Vectrex stand-alone unit can now be transformed into a home computer!

Software for the computer is made on wafer-tapes, providing for 128K bytes of storage.

I owned a Vectrex at the time and would scour the game magazines for any tiny shred of news they might provide about my system.

To their credit they seemed to bend over backwards to mention when a new Vectrex game hit store shelves, it just didn't happen that often enough for the Vectrex.

So, today I started to download issues one at a time, convert them to 600 dpi for OCR scanning in Adobe Acrobat and started searching for "vectrex".

$\begingroup$This kind of thing is very subjective, but in my opinion the third edition of Computability and Logic by Boolos and Jeffrey is better than the fourth, at least from the point of view of someone interested in the advanced topics (as opposed to a student encountering the material for the first time).

Some of the more interesting advanced topics were cut from the fourth edition.

Saturday, March 22nd 2025Posted byNext.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927 ).

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Like many corporate sites, it also linked old blog posts from its home page, including a May 2022 post on "How to create a world free of fraud: Kubient's secret sauce."

The core of the case is an I-pay-you, you-pay-me gambit that Roberts initiated with an unnamed "Company-1," according to prosecutors.

Kubient and this firm would each bill the other for nearly identical amounts, with Kubient purportedly deploying KAI to find instances of ad fraud in the other company's ad spend.

Roberts, prosecutors said, "directed Kubient employees to generate fake KAI reports based on made-up metrics and no underlying data at all."

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"Vibe Coding" vs RealityPublished Mar 19, 2025There's a trend on social media where many repeat Andrej Karpathy's words (archived): "give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists."

It is called "Vibe Coding."

These leaps of progress are what fuels the "Vibe Coding" idea.

The constant negligence I observe when "Vibe Coding" is atrocious and unacceptable to a customer base of any size.

"Vibe Coding" will not create the next big thing in 2025.

There’s no emotion we ought to think harder and more clearly about than anger.

If we think closely about anger, we can begin to see why it is a stupid way to run one’s life.

In other words, if you don’t want some type of payback, your emotion is something else (grief, perhaps), but not really anger.

I think if we understand the wish in this broad way, Aristotle is right: anger does contain a sort of strike-back tendency.

This should not happen again.’ We may call this emotion Transition-Anger, and that emotion does not have the problems of garden-variety anger.

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Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google, with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers.

This is just the latest phase of a campaign that has also targeted Italian ISPs and other international firms like Cloudflare.

Since Google offers a public DNS service, it is subject to the site-blocking law.

Piracy Shield is often labeled as draconian by opponents because blocking content via DNS is messy.

Just last year, Italian ISPs briefly blocked the entire Google Drive domain because someone, somewhere used it to share copyrighted material.

How NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor for the benefit of allPublished on 2025-03-20Estimated reading time: 22mnIntroductionIn March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz , a (de)-compression software that is regularly used at the core of Linux distributions to unpack source tarballs of packaged software.

In this article, I’ll discuss the inner workings of the xz backdoor and how I think we could have mechanically detected it thanks to build reproducibility.

#include // Declaration of ifunc resolver function int ( * resolve_add ( void ))( int , int ); // First version of the add function int add_v1 ( int a , int b ) { printf ( "Using add_v1" ); return a + b…

For much of this winter season, the polar vortex winds at 60°N have been racing around the stratospheric polar region.

However, the latest forecasts suggest that the polar vortex is about to switch gears with a major vortex disruption to happen this weekend.

This is expected because strong polar vortex winds act as a barrier between cold Arctic air and warmer mid-latitude air.

As the polar vortex becomes disrupted, the stratosphere will warm quickly and intensely (bold pink line), hence the name sudden stratospheric warming.

Furthermore, the polar vortex winds act as a barrier between cold Arctic air and warmer mid-latitude air.

The situation is driving some people to new places to source their eggs: over the southern border.

For comparison, the cost in many parts of California is just under $10 per dozen, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

Every day, more than 200,000 cars cross the border from Mexico to the United States.

Some of those cars carry groceries, medications and other goods that are less expensive over the southern border.

Travelers are prohibited from bringing raw chicken, unprocessed avian products and live birds into the United States, Maier said.

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Life goes on along the coast of Oaxaca, with the raging waves of the Pacific in the background.

No one has confirmed whether they all knew each other before they were taken in Oaxaca.

The question comes back again and again: what is happening on the coast of Oaxaca?

Aerial view of La Entrega beach in Huatulco, Oaxaca.

Aerial view of Santa Cruz Bay, Huatulco, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic dataOAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing and information company.

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Mozilla.ai developed and released the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint.

With this idea in mind we developed and released the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint.

Combined with other sources, like satellite imagery, this database offers infinite possibilities to train different AI models.

Many of the Map Features you can find in OpenStreetMap are represented with a polygon ('Area').

We’d love for you to try the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint and experiment with training a model on a different map feature.

It looks like this:import { execFile } from "node:child_process" import { promisify } from "node:util" const execFilePromise = promisify(execFile) const username = prompt("Hello, what's your name?")

const banner = (await shell`figlet "Welcome, ${username}" | lolcat -f`).stdout console.log(banner)This allows you to safely do string interpolation with untrusted user input on shell commands!

banner = shell('figlet "Welcome, $username" | lolcat -f', username=username) print(banner.stdout)There is a proposal, PEP 750, that would enable something like:shell(t'figlet "Welcome, {username}" | lolcat -f')It is expected to land in Python 3.14.

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There hasn’t been a single release in the past 15 years that didn’t improve the performance of RavenDB in some way.

We focused so much effort on optimizing the server, and yet we missed something that obvious?

Well, the answer is that this isn’t an actual benchmark.

The problem is that this code is invoked per instance created instead of globally, and it is created once per thread.

Make no mistake, it is an actual issue.

Some developers trust these tools implicitly, while others remain skeptical about their reliability, usability, or alignment with their work styles.

Since trust is a key driver of adoption, this week we ask: what actually influences developers' trust in AI-assisted coding tools?

The contextThe explosion of generative AI tools has reshaped software development, offering massive potential for productivity gains.

Developers were more likely to trust tools that provided consistent, high-quality responses aligned with secure coding practices.

Goal Maintenance Drives Trust – AI tools that aligned well with an engineer’s immediate task and objectives inspired more trust.

C-x v B - Browse the repository’s remote URL in the browser.

C-x v = - Show the diff for the current file and jump to the hunk containing the current line.

1. emacs-solo/vc-git-reflog ( C-x v R )This function allows you to view the Git reflog in a new buffer with ANSI colors and custom keybindings.

( defun emacs-solo/vc-diff-on-current-hunk ( ) "Show the diff for the current file and jump to the hunk containing the current line."

current-line ) ( goto-char ( point-min ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ( global-set-key ( kbd "C-x v =" ) 'emacs-solo/vc-diff-on-current-hunk )Wrapping UpThese custom VC-focused Emacs functions have become essential tools in my Git workflow, and I hope they can be useful to others a…

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I wrote this after a tiring school week and this definitely needs some review.

I wrote this after a tiring school week and this definitely needs some review.

Create a branch that begins with contrib/ and push to the repo on our home forge via SSH.

git clone ssh://forge.lindenii.runxiyu.org/powxy/:/repos/powxy/ cd powxy git checkout -b contrib/whatever # edit and commit stuff git push -u origin HEAD#chat on irc.runxiyu.org.

--- title: "Design meeting 2025-02-26: Enabling seamless interop" tags: ["T-lang", "design-meeting", "minutes"] date: 2025-02-26 discussion: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/410673-t-lang.2Fmeetings/topic/Design.20meeting.202025-02-26 url: https://hackmd.io/2Ar_7CNoRkeXk1AARyOL7A --- # Enabling seamless interop ## Introduction There is a growing industry-wide push away from writing code in unsafe languages like C/C++ in favor of modern, safer languages like Rust.

## Emerging alternatives The two languages with the most promising rich C++ interop are Swift and (the up and coming) Carbon.

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Use Long Options in ScriptsMany command line utilities support short form options ( -f ) and long form options ( --force ).

In scripts, use the long form.

That is, in your terminal, type $ git switch -c my-new-branchIn your release infrastructure script, writetry shell.exec( "git fetch origin --quiet" , .

{}); try shell.exec( "git switch --create release-{today} origin/main" , .

{ .today = stdx.DateUTC.now() }, );Long form options are much more self-explanatory for the reader.

As a backend developer whose frontend experience is mostly from using Phoenix and Django that utilize server-side rendering, I’m wondering why do most people choose React and JavaScript as the “default” frontend solution, even for pages and SaaS products that don’t really benefit from any additional client-side interactivity?

Tech news is abuzz with rude AI crawlers that forge their user-agent and ignore robots.txt .

You need to up your game, get that crawler really rolling coal.

Flagrant disregard for externalities is an important signal to the investors that your AI startup is the one.

The very idea of closing has some seriously bad vibes, and is not really what you’re about as a forward thinking AI startup.

I saw a setting called “TCP sack” in there as well that you probably should go ahead and disable, sacks are clothing for poor people, certainly not befitting your prosperous AI startup.

pusshParallel SSH, batch and command line oriented.

Most of the time the total time of execution is limited by the SSH connection establishment rate, and this rate is itself limited by the SSH agent.

You may first login into one of your remote LAN machine with ssh forwarding (ssh -A) then run 'pussh' from there, the closest possible from its targets.

Here is a real benchmark on a Gigabit LAN :$ time pussh -f servers -r 100 date ... Total: 201 host(s), 4 second(s) real 0m4.069s user 0m7.132s sys 0m3.140sHistoryPussh has been an internal tool at Bearstech since roughly 2008.

It is coupled to a cloud management solution to generate a useful list of hosts from very simple descriptions.

KURLNavBar and meI made a change to the KURLNavBar according to old mockup, since we hoped it would be easier to use.

Seems to be a recurring theme with my visual changes, though this time wasn't nearly as bad as that was.

And then make the folders look like clickable items, so people know that, well, they're not there just to look pretty.

The work started well enough, though I spent tons of time refactoring and trying to understand the old codebase.

I had tons of good feedback, from visual designers and the like.

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Scientists are using AI to speed up drug repurposing, expanding the treatment possibilities for people with rare diseases and few options — Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Hannah Yoon for The New York Times

Omar Faridi / Crowdfund Insider:

Dubai-based NymCard, whose APIs let financial institutions in 10+ MENA countries manage card issuance, transaction processing, and more, raised a $33M Series B — NymCard, the embedded finance platform operating across 10+ countries in MENA, has secured $33 million in its Series B funding round, led by QED Investors.

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:

NYC-based Carbon Arc, which operates a cloud service offering datasets optimized for AI use with consumption-based pricing, raised $56M led by Liberty City — Carbon Arc Inc., a startup that provides data for artificial intelligence models, has raised $56 million in funding to finance growth initiatives.

Grace Sharkey / FreightWaves:

Augment, a startup founded by Deliverr co-founder Harish Abbott and whose AI assistant can automate routine tasks in logistics, raised a $25M seed from 8VC — Augment, an AI-driven logistics platform, announced Tuesday it has raised a $25 million seed funding round from 8VC.

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Cologne-based Buynomics, which uses AI to let companies optimize pricing and promotions by simulating real-world shoppers' behavior, raised a $30M Series B — Pricing and revenue optimization firm Buynomics has raised $30 million in new funding. — The German company said its Series B round …

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Sources: OpenAI has spoken with Reliance about a potential product and sales partnership in India; Meta also plans to work with Reliance on new AI businesses — OpenAI executives in recent months have spoken multiple times with their counterparts at Reliance Industries …

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:

After leadership changes and an internal studio closure, Netflix aims to refine its gaming strategy, focusing on smaller-scale games rather than big-budget ones — The company will focus on four areas: narrative, mainstream, party and kids — Hi everyone.

Steven Levy / Wired:

An interview with Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on the company's 30th anniversary, being in “building mode”, AI, acquiring AI-powered news aggregator Artifact, and more — Even as Yahoo turns 30, CEO Jim Lanzone says the company is still in “building mode.”

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:

As Spotify pushes its new video monetization program, sexually explicit videos have appeared on its top podcast charts, violating the company's terms of use — The sexually explicit videos, which Spotify doesn't allow, have shown up alongside some of the most popular podcasts on the service

Aria Bendix / NBC News:

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage — Kennedy pointed to evidence-based links between social media use and depression, but shared an unfounded claim that cell phones increase cancer risk.

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Democratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech — At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics …

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:

Kuo: A20 chips in iPhone 18 models will be made using TSMC's 2nm process, as TSMC's trial production of 2nm chips reached yields well above the 60-70% range — Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today reiterated that the A20 chip in iPhone 18 models will be manufactured with TSMC's 2nm process.

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post:

Tencent unveils Hunyuan T1, which leverages large-scale reinforcement learning to rival DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing — Tencent Holdings has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model, Hunyuan T1, that rivals DeepSeek's R1 in both performance and pricing.

Reuters:

Sources: The Bot Company, co-founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt to make AI-powered household robots, raised $150M at a $2B valuation, up from $550M in May 2024 — Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks …

Financial Times:

Filings review: Builder.ai, which raised $450M from Microsoft and others, used an auditor with links to founder Sachin Duggal; Duggal resigned as CEO last month — Findings related to one of UK's best-funded tech start-ups raises alarm with corporate governance experts

Eliza Gkritsi / Politico:

X suspends several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, amid extensive protests sparked by the arrest of President Erdogan's main political rival — Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations. — Elon Musk's social media platform X …

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Semafor:

An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on hitting profitability, international expansion, building an “Affirm mafia”, DOGE, friendship with Musk, more — This article first appeared in The CEO Signal. Request an invitation. — THE SIGNAL INTERVIEW

Bloomberg:

A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX — Crafting and launching a space station that can keep humans alive comfortably in orbit is no easy feat. — Jed McCaleb made a fortune in cryptocurrency.

Kif Leswing / CNBC:

A profile of Lisa Su, as AMD vies for a bigger chunk of the AI market; CTO Mark Papermaster says AMD had $5B in AI chip sales in 2024, up from $100M in 2023 — When Lisa Su became CEO of Advanced Micro Devices in late 2014, the company was in dire straits and on the brink of potential bankruptcy.

Meytal Vaizberg / Globes Online:

Israel-based Kela, which develops tech for integrating AI, sensors, and edge devices into existing military systems, raised a $28M Series A and a $11M seed — In response to the events of October 7, Kela has developed a platform for rapid integration of commercial technologies into military systems.

Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare:

Inspiren, which provides workflow and staffing tech and AI-based fall detection for senior living facilities, raised a $35M Series A led by Avenir — Artificial Intelligence funding round Remote Monitoring venture capital (VC) — The demand for senior care services is poised …

David Pan / Bloomberg:

The crypto-lending industry, nearly wiped out in the last bear market, is staging a comeback as Cantor Fitzgerald launches a $2B Bitcoin financing business — The last major bear market nearly wiped out the entire crypto-lending industry. Now, it's staging a major comeback …

Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:

A look at Amazon's suit against the Consumer Product Safety Commission, claiming the agency is unconstitutional, an argument favored by the Trump administration — The company's lawsuit argues it shouldn't have to cooperate with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversees recalls of dangerous goods.

Bloomberg:

A profile of StubHub CEO Eric Baker, who, according to the company's S-1, holds 5.2% of Class A shares but controls over 90% of the votes through Class B shares — This time it isn't concert tickets Eric Baker is selling. It's shares of StubHub Holdings Inc., the company he co-founded and has owned on and off for a quarter century.

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:

Index Ventures, Wiz's largest outside shareholder with a 13% stake, is set to turn its $245M investment into $4.3B from Wiz's pending sale to Alphabet for $32B — Index Ventures is set to earn a 250-fold return on its seed money in a startup Google has agreed to buy

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:

Coinbase and others eye India comeback as regulators tease pivot; Electric Capital: India had 12% of crypto devs in 2024, only behind the US, up from 4% in 2018 — Major crypto players are returning to India in a calculated bet that regulators may ease restrictions on digital-asset trading.

Financial Times:

CoreWeave, prepping for a roadshow, faces $7.5B in debt repayments by the end of 2026, far above its cash flow, asking IPO investors to take a leap of faith — Cloud computing group seeking $32bn IPO must convince backers it can grow fast to settle huge financial obligations

Janko Roettgers / Lowpass:

Developers worry about future monetization of Alexa's voice experiences, as Amazon prepares to launch Alexa+ without many of Alexa's 160K current skills — Also: Get ready for VR Dads … When Amazon launches its new Alexa+ voice assistant in beta later this month, consumers may find a few things amiss.

Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review:

OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond — OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interacting with it affect us? Does it make us more or less lonely?

Prepare the competition description files wget https://github.com/SunsetWolf/rdagent_resource/releases/download/kaggle_data/kaggle_data.zip unzip kaggle_data.zip -d git_ignore_folder/kaggle_data # 2.

Add the competition description file path to the `.env` file.

dotenv set KG_LOCAL_DATA_PATH " $( pwd ) /git_ignore_folder/kaggle_data " # 3. run the application rdagent kaggle --competition sf-crime Description of the above example:Kaggle competition data, contains two parts: competition description file (json file) and competition dataset (zip file).

We prepare the competition description file for you, the competition dataset will be downloaded automatically when you run the program, as in the…

Open-Sora: Democratizing Efficient Video Production for AllWe design and implement Open-Sora, an initiative dedicated to efficiently producing high-quality video.

By embracing open-source principles, Open-Sora not only democratizes access to advanced video generation techniques, but also offers a streamlined and user-friendly platform that simplifies the complexities of video generation.

[checkpoints] [report] [demo] [2024.12.23] The development cost of video generation models has saved by 50%!

[blog] [code] [vouchers] [2024.06.17] We released Open-Sora 1.2 , which includes 3D-VAE , rectified flow , and score condition .

[checkpoints] [report] [2024.03.18] We released Open-Sora 1.0 , a full…

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InstallationThe OpenBB Platform can be installed as a PyPI package by running pip install openbbor by cloning the repository directly with git clone https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBB.git .

OpenBB Platform CLI installationThe OpenBB Platform CLI is a command-line interface that allows you to access the OpenBB Platform directly from your command line.

The data contained in the OpenBB Platform is not necessarily accurate.

Shadcn Admin DashboardAdmin Dashboard UI crafted with Shadcn and Vite.

Built with responsiveness and accessibility in mind.

I've been creating dashboard UIs at work and for my personal projects.

I always wanted to make a reusable collection of dashboard UI for future projects; and here it is now.

While I've created a few custom components, some of the code is directly adapted from ShadcnUI examples.

uutils coreutilsuutils coreutils is a cross-platform reimplementation of the GNU coreutils in Rust.

To install it: cargo install coreutils ~ /.cargo/bin/coreutilsGoalsuutils aims to be a drop-in replacement for the GNU utils.

Requirements Rust ( cargo , rustc ), ) GNU Make (optional) Rust Version uutils follows Rust's release channels and is tested against stable, beta and nightly.

For example: cargo build -p uu_base32 -p uu_cat -p uu_echo -p uu_rm GNU Make Building using make is a simple process as well.

For manpages or shell completion to work, use GNU Make or see Manually install shell completions / Manually install manpages .

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Select one of these options from the menu: - "Windows PowerShell (Administrator)" - "Windows Terminal (Administrator)" - "Terminal (Administrator)" (Options may vary depending on Windows version) Method 2: Using Win + R Run Command 1 .

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Local Deep ResearcherLocal Deep Researcher is a fully local web research assistant that uses any LLM hosted by Ollama or LMStudio.

Give it a topic and it will generate a web search query, gather web search results, summarize the results of web search, reflect on the summary to examine knowledge gaps, generate a new search query to address the gaps, and repeat for a user-defined number of cycles.

As an example:ollama pull deepseek-r1:8bOptionally, update the .env file with the following Ollama configuration settings.

Restart your terminal to ensure Python is available, then create and activate a virtual environment:python - m venv .venv .venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1Launch LangGraph server:# Ins…

Install and run Plane on your own servers.

PagesCapture and organize ideas using Plane Pages, complete with AI capabilities and a rich text editor.

Start the services using Docker: docker compose -f docker-compose-local.yml up -dThat’s it!

Feel free to ask questions, report bugs, participate in discussions, share ideas, request features, or showcase your projects.

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SidekickChat with a local LLM that can respond with information from your files, folders and websites on your Mac without installing any other software.

Sidekick is a local first application –– with a built in inference engine for local models, while accomodating OpenAI compatible APIs for additional model options.

FeaturesResource UseSidekick accesses files, folders, and websites from your experts, which can be individually configured to contain resources related to specific areas of interest.

Instead, a built-in CoreML model automatically identifies image generation prompts, and generates an image when necessary.

Give the LLM access to your folders, files and websites with just 1 click, a…

Playwright MCP Server 🎭A Model Context Protocol server that provides browser automation capabilities using Playwright.

This server enables LLMs to interact with web pages, take screenshots, and execute JavaScript in a real browser environment.

ScreenshotInstallationYou can install the package using either npm, mcp-get, or Smithery:Using npm:npm install -g @executeautomation/playwright-mcp-serverUsing mcp-get:npx @michaellatman/mcp-get@latest install @executeautomation/playwright-mcp-serverUsing SmitheryTo install Playwright MCP for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:npx -y @smithery/cli install @executeautomation/playwright-mcp-server --client claudeConfiguration to use Playwright Se…

Develop software autonomously.

RA.Aid (pronounced "raid") helps you develop software autonomously.

The default model is Anthropic's Claude 3 Sonnet ( claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 ).

When using the --use-aider flag, the programmer tool (aider) automatically selects its model based on your available API keys.

Note: The expert tool can be configured to use different providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Gemini) using the --expert-provider flag along with the corresponding EXPERT_*API_KEY environment variables.

Ollama Deep ResearcherOllama Deep Researcher is a fully local web research assistant that uses any LLM hosted by Ollama.

Give it a topic and it will generate a web search query, gather web search results (via Tavily by default), summarize the results of web search, reflect on the summary to examine knowledge gaps, generate a new search query to address the gaps, search, and improve the summary for a user-defined number of cycles.

As an example:ollama pull deepseek-r1:8bClone the repository:git clone https://github.com/langchain-ai/ollama-deep-researcher.git cd ollama-deep-researcherSelect a web search tool:By default, it will use DuckDuckGo for web search, which does not require an API key.…

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Life Altering Postgresql Patternsby: Ethan McCueBelieve it or not, I don't think that title is clickbait.

When you make a foreign key constraint on a table, always mark it with on update restrict on delete restrict .

This is fine, but you are missing out if you don't take advantage of your ability to make new schemas.

Have a table with some text value as a primary key and make columns in other tables reference it with a foreign key.

If there is something I missed or got wrong, tell me very loudly in person or here on the internet.

The Frontend TreadmillA lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land.

If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make.

So they’re gonna rewrite their shit too and just give it a new version number.

Either that or I get into a lot of trouble with my internal team because they think I’m talking about them.

People that are learning the current tech ecosystem are absolutely not learning web fundamentals.

It’s a machine, and unless we start organizing, it’s going to keep grinding us down.

We’re in an industry where burnout isn’t just common - it’s expected.

The tech industry loves to hype itself as a meritocracy, where the best and the brightest rise to the top.

This industry isn’t going to fix itself.

The tech industry is a runaway train, and if we don’t do something soon, we’re going to get run over.

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In many ways, Vivian Jenna Wilson is a lot like any other 20-year-old girl.

Wilson is, whether she likes it or not, the daughter of Elon Musk.

Wilson entered the public consciousness because of her father, but not for typical nepo baby reasons.

Getting into fights with other queer teenagers — that's how you learn how to be quick and witty.” Much like her father, Wilson is extremely online; unlike her father, she’s really good at it.

In that telling, according to Wilson, she was an angry, rebellious child, blinded by radical anticapitalist ideology and hurting her father with her rash decisions.

When employees at Meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question.

Meta employees spoke with multiple companies about licensing books and research papers, but they weren’t thrilled with their options.

Also revealed recently, in another lawsuit brought by a similar group of authors, is that OpenAI has used LibGen in the past.

Knowing exactly which parts of LibGen that Meta and OpenAI used to train their models, and which parts they might have decided to exclude, is impossible.

Nevertheless, the database offers a sense of the sheer scale of pirated material available to models trained on LibGen.

The Seneca is my middle finger to the aesthetic homogeneity and economic over-optimization of 21st century life.

Its intricate mechanisms can only be assembled and tuned by human hands, over hours of skilled work—typically by a single artisan, from start to finish.

Every component is custom made (right down to the individually-machined screws), hyper-engineered from first principles for maximum acoustic, artistic, and tactile refinement—costs be damned.

On paper, nothing about this makes any sense.

And that is the point.

AI scrapers are getting more and more aggressive, and - since FOSS software relies on public collaboration, whereas private companies don't have that requirement - this is putting some extra burden on Open Source communities.

One more comprehensive attempt at this is the "ai.robots.txt" project, an open list of web crawlers associated with AI companies.

Overall, we're talking about 70% of the entire requests being from AI companies.

In a blogpost called, "AI crawlers need to be more respectful", they claim that blocking all AI crawlers immediately decreased their traffic by 75%, going from 800GB/day to 200GB/day.

But it's not just scrapers, or I would've titled this "AI scrapers", not "AI c…

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A Society That Lost Focusby Ploum on 2024-03-18Our Mind, the BottleneckIn the early 90s, after tweaking my MS-DOS computer, I was able to play games.

While working at Google, Tristan Harris realised how much what they were building was in order to get the focus and the attention of people.

Fighting to Get Our Focus BackThat’s it, the only way to not have any temptation is not to have the phone at arm reach.

This was the raw observation of David Graeber: even academics have stopped thinking to play the "catch your attention game".

If we want to claim back our focus and our brain cycles, we will need to walkaway and normalise disconnected times.

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For the past two weeks, I’ve been spending most of my time rewriting our CI scripts in GitHub Actions.

This is the third time we’ve had to redo our CI setup—first GitHub Actions, then Earthly (which we moved away from because it was discontinued), and now, reluctantly, back to GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions makes it weirdly hard to require both runs to pass.

Docker and Github Actions, an Unholy CombinationIf you thought GitHub Actions was bad, try mixing in Docker.

The main workflow file then becomes a chain of invoking other YAML files:code jobs: invoke-build-rust: name: Build Rust uses: ./.github /workflows/ build-rust.yml invoke-build-java: name: Build Java uses: ./.github /workflows/ bu…

Digital hygiene17 Mar, 2025Every now and then I get reminded about the vast fraud apparatus of the internet, re-invigorating my pursuit of basic digital hygiene around privacy/security of day to day computing.

This guide is a collection of the most basic digital hygiene tips, starting with the most basic to a bit more niche.

It is beyond the scope of this post to go into full detail, but basically I strongly recommend the use of 2-3 YubiKeys to dramatically strengthen your digital security.

As with all services on this list, I pay $3/mo for Brave Premium because I prefer to be the customer, not the product in my digital life.

I just want to live a secure digital life and establish harmoniou…

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It seems like all we hear about are the great use cases for GenAI, but where should you NOT be using the technology?

On this episode Chris and Daniel share their hot takes and bad use cases.

Some may surprise you!

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I just wish the base storage (128GB) was at least double and the AI features were more reliable.

On Amazon, even ahead of the retailers, Big Spring Sale, every single configuration of Google's Pixel 9 Pro XL has seen at least a $200 discount.

The Pixel 9 Pro and Pro XL exude premium, and Google knows it.

Also: The best Google Pixel phones you can buyThat's why the company is charging you more for its new Pixel phones this year, with the standard model starting at $799, the Pro at $999, and the Pro XL at $1,099.

The Google Pixel 9 Pro XL (left) and Pixel 8 Pro (right).

Also: Everything you need to know about Amazon's Big Spring Sale 2025Do I have to be a Prime member to shop Amazon's Spring Sale?

How did we choose these Spring Sale deals?

What are the best early Amazon Spring Sale 2025 deals?

ZDNET's experts are searching through early Amazon Spring Sale deals to find the best discounts by category.

These are the best early deals so far:You can also find the best early Amazon Spring Sale deals by price:And the best deals from other retailers this week:

The Eufy Familock S3 Max is among the best smart locks I've tested, thanks to a standout feature designed with families in mind.

The Aqara U100 is a great choice for Apple users and anyone in the market for a smart lock - especially with this limited-time discount.

With AI making business opportunities so accessible and much faster, it's like the dot com bubble on steroids.

I don't want to gas this up, but storytelling could be the opportunity of a lifetime when paired with AI.

By the way, if you're into data-driven business and marketing insights and strategies, check out my free newsletter, No Fluff, Just Facts.

Without me even telling you, you know I'm talking about Steve Jobs and the iPod.

✅In business, storytelling transforms standard marketing into an engaging journey that captures the consumer's heart.

The Level Lock+ has its strengths and weaknesses, but one standout feature makes it a compelling choice for iPhone users.

ZDNET's key takeaways The Sabrent USB SSD 4-bay docking station is available now on Amazon for $89.

Until I purchased the Sabrent USB SSD docking station.

Finally, on the top portion of the docking station, you'll find a button to turn the fan on or off.

ReliabilityAs I said, I've been using this docking station for a few months now and have not had a problem yet.

If you do, the Sabrent USB 3.0 4-Bay docking station is a great option.

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Amazon's Echo Frames (3rd Gen) are on sale for $180 at Amazon.

And right now, QVC is discounting the Echo Frames by $90, reducing the price of these glasses to $180 now.

No one questioned the Echo Frames, which, even from up close, look like a regular pair of plastic-made prescriptions.

(Or maybe no one expected me to have two pairs of smart glasses.

The Meta Ray-Ban (left) has a built-in camera and is noticeably thicker and heavier than the Amazon Echo Frames (right).

You can do this by turning on Developer Options, a backend catalog of system settings meant for developers to access, but rules were meant to be broken, right?

To turn on Developer Options, go into your About Phone page in the settings and look for the Build Number.

Tap on that seven times and you should see a pop-up indicating that Developer Options has been turned on.

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When in doubt, after a year or two of usage, consider getting your phone's battery swapped to refresh its charge cycles.

Jonah Peretti’s career to date has been defined by constant reinvention. As the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, Peretti has been at the forefront of digital media for almost two decades, navigating changes as the once small startup transformed into, at one point, a multimedia powerhouse. But as the company grows older, one question lingers: […]

Charlie Javice’s high-profile fraud trial has become a showcase of embarrassing missteps on both sides, with eyebrow-raising details about how JPMorgan Chase was allegedly deceived into buying her startup, Frank, for $175 million when it had just 300,000 customers instead of four million. Per a new WSJ article, one pivotal moment came when former Frank […]

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of stories to share from this week, like the greatest hits from Nvidia GTC; the NASA astronauts finally came home; Rippling’s lawsuit; and Google bought Wiz. Let’s get to it! Google finally does it: Google made its biggest acquisition in its history this week when it […]

A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. The report is the handiwork of European venture capital firm Runa Capital, which has operated the Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index since 2020. The Index serves quarterly updates on the fastest-growing […]

A human rights campaigner, Tanya O’Carroll, has succeeded in forcing social media giant Meta not to use her data for targeted advertising. The agreement is contained in a settlement to an individual challenge she lodged against Meta’s tracking and profiling back in 2022. O’Carroll had argued that a legal right to object to the use […]

Anduril might build a factory in the U.K. as it expands beyond U.S. defense contracts.

In a blog post last July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that “selling access” to Meta’s openly available Llama AI models “isn’t [Meta’s] business model.” Yet Meta does make at least some money from Llama through revenue-sharing agreements, according to a newly unredacted court filing. The filing, submitted by attorneys for the plaintiffs in the […]

What we found mostly supports the auto makers claims, with a few caveats.

Valve removed a video game called Sniper: Phantom's Resolution from Steam after users reported that its free demo contained malware.

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its […]

If you haven’t heard the news, TechCrunch has a shiny new home. After years under Yahoo’s ownership — which, in turn, is backed by Apollo Group — the brand is now in fresh hands. Its new parent company: Regent, a dynamic private equity firm with a diverse portfolio spanning media, retail, and manufacturing. Regent was […]

Earlier this week, Anthropic rolled out a web search feature for its AI-powered chatbot platform, Claude, bringing the bot in line with many of its rivals. It wasn’t immediately clear which search index might be powering the feature — one possibility was that Anthropic had developed its own. But evidence suggests it’s Brave Search, the […]

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we jump into the news, just a quick bit of housekeeping. I’m putting “This week’s wheels” on hiatus for a few weeks as I get into […]

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. It’s rare to report on an 11-figure startup acquisition, let alone multiple high-value deals in a single week. And there are more subtle signs that things are […]

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership […]

Hungary's Parliament not only voted to ban Pride events. They also voted to "allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them," reports the Guardian. [The nationwide legislation] amends the country's law on assembly to make it an offence to hold or attend events that violate Hungary's contentious "child protection" legislation, which bars any "depiction or promotion" of homosexuality to minors under the age of 18. The legislation was condemned by Amnesty International, which described it as the latest in a series of discriminatory measures the Hungarian authorities have taken against LGBTQ+ people... Organisers said they planned to go ahea…

"Italy is using its Piracy Shield law to go after Google," reports Ars Technica, "with a court ordering the Internet giant to immediately begin poisoning its public DNS servers" to prevent people from reaching pirate streams of football games. "Italy's communication regulator praises the ruling and hopes to continue sticking it to international tech firms."

Spotted by TorrentFreak, AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio took to LinkedIn to celebrate the ruling, as well as the existence of the Italian Piracy Shield. "The Judge confirmed the value of AGCOM's investigations, once again giving legitimacy to a system for the protection of copyright that is unique in the world," said Capitanio…

"China is considering trying to blunt greater U.S. tariffs and other trade barriers," reports the Wall Street Journal, "by offering to curb the quantity of certain goods exported to the U.S., according to advisers to the Chinese government."

Tokyo's adoption of so-called voluntary export restraints, or VERs, to limit its auto shipments to the U.S. in the 1980s helped prevent Washington from imposing higher import duties. A similar move from Beijing, especially in sectors of key concern to Washington, like electric vehicles and batteries, would mitigate criticism from the U.S. and others over China's "economic imbalances": heavily subsidized companies making stuff for slim profits but satura…

"China is considering trying to blunt greater U.S. tariffs and other trade barriers," reports the Wall Street Journal, "by offering to curb the quantity of certain goods exported to the U.S., according to advisers to the Chinese government."

Tokyo's adoption of so-called voluntary export restraints, or VERs, to limit its auto shipments to the U.S. in the 1980s helped prevent Washington from imposing higher import duties. A similar move from Beijing, especially in sectors of key concern to Washington, like electric vehicles and batteries, would mitigate criticism from the U.S. and others over China's "economic imbalances": heavily subsidized companies making stuff for slim profits but satura…

Besides administering standardized pre-college tests, America's nonprofit College Board designs college-level classes that high school students can take. But now they're also crafting courses "not just with higher education at the table, but industry partners such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the technology giant IBM," reports Education Week. "The organization hopes the effort will make high school content more meaningful to students by connecting it to in-demand job skills." It believes the approach may entice a new kind of AP student: those who may not be immediately college-bound.... The first two classes developed through this career-driven model — dubbed AP Career Kickstart — fo…

The governments of Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore "are likely customers of Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions," reports TechCrunch, "according to a new technical report by a renowned digital security lab." On Wednesday, The Citizen Lab, a group of academics and security researchers housed at the University of Toronto that has investigated the spyware industry for more than a decade, published a report about the Israeli-founded surveillance startup, identifying the six governments as "suspected Paragon deployments." At the end of January, WhatsApp notified around 90 users that the company believed were targeted with Paragon spyware, prompting a scandal in Ital…

This week the "Old Vintage Computing Research" blog published a 21,000-word exploration of the DEC PDP-11, the 16-bit minicomputer sold by Digital Equipment Corporation. Slashdot reader AndrewZX calls the blog post "an excellent deep dive" into the machine's history and capabilities "and the classic Venix UNIX that it ran." The blogger still owns a working 1984 DEC Professional 380, "a tank of a machine, a reasonably powerful workstation, and the most practical PDP-adjacent thing you can actually slap on a (large) desk." But more importantly, "It runs PRO/VENIX, the only official DEC Unix option for the Pros." In that specific market it was almost certainly the earliest such licensed Unix (…

Was the cutting of undersea cables part of a larger pattern? Russia and its proxies are accused by western officials of "staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago," reports the Associated Press. That includes cyberattacks and committing acts of sabotage/vandalism/arson, as well as spreading propaganda and even plotting killings, according to the article. ("Western intelligence agencies uncovered what they said was a Russian plot to kill the head of a major German arms manufacturer that is a supplier of weapons to Ukraine...") The news agency documented 59 incidents "in which European governments, prosecutors, intelligence servi…

Slashdot reader Required Snark shared this article from Phys.org: In the realm of science fiction, [sun-energy capturing] Dyson spheres and ringworlds have been staples for decades. But it is well known that the simplest designs are unstable against gravitational forces and would thus be torn apart. Now a scientist from Scotland, UK has shown that certain configurations of these objects near a two-mass system can be stable against such fractures... [A] rigid ring around a star or planet, as in Larry Niven's "Ringworld" series of novels, is also unstable, as it would drift under any slight gravitational differences and collide with the star. So [engineering science professor Colin] McInnes c…

"I intend to sue the National Archives," said Joseph diGenova, an 80-year-old former Trump campaign lawyer (and a U.S. Attorney from 1983 to 1988). While releasing 63,000 unredacted pages about the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, the U.S. government erroneously "made public the Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information of potentially hundreds of former congressional staffers and other people," reports USA Today. ("It is virtually impossible to tell the scope of the breach because the National Archives put them online without a way to search them by keyword, some JFK files experts and victims of the information release told USA TODAY...") Mark Zaid, a national…

Founded in 1979, the Association for the Advancement of AI is an international scientific society. Recently 25 of its AI researchers surveyed 475 respondents in the AAAI community about "the trajectory of AI research" — and their results were surprising. Futurism calls the results "a resounding rebuff to the tech industry's long-preferred method of achieving AI gains" — namely, adding more hardware: You can only throw so much money at a problem. This, more or less, is the line being taken by AI researchers in a recent survey. Asked whether "scaling up" current AI approaches could lead to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), or a general purpose AI that matches or surpasses human…

Two "groundbreaking research reports" on open source security were announced this week by the Linux Foundation in partnership with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and Linux Foundation Europe. The reports specifically address the EU's Cyber Resilience Act (or CRA) and "highlight knowledge gaps and best practices for CRA compliance." "Unaware and Uncertain: The Stark Realities of CRA-Readiness in Open Source" includes a survey which found that when it comes to CRA requirements, 62% of respondents were either "not familiar at all" (36%) or "slightly familiar" (26%) — while 51% weren't sure about its deadlines. ("Only 28% correctly identified 2027 as the target year for full compl…

Computer programming jobs in the US have declined by more than a quarter over the past two years, placing the profession among the 10 hardest-hit occupations of 420-plus jobs tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and potentially signaling the first concrete evidence of artificial intelligence replacing workers. The timing coincides with OpenAI's release of ChatGPT in late 2022. Anthropic researchers found people use AI to perform programming tasks more than those of any other job, though 57 percent of users employ AI to augment rather than automate work. "Without getting hysterical, the unemployment jump for programming really does look at least partly like an early, visible labor marke…

Apple's latest iOS 18.3.2 update is automatically re-enabling its Apple Intelligence feature even for users who previously disabled it, adding to mounting concerns about the company's AI strategy. The update presents a splash screen with no option except to tap "Continue," which activates the feature. Users must then manually disable it through settings, with the AI consuming up to 7GB of storage space. This forced activation comes amid broader troubles with Apple's AI initiatives. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Подписи иконок панелей навигации всегда очень мелкие (по понятным причинам). Есть ли какой-то способ победить это?

The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.

An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about building OpenAI and ChatGPT, and what it means to be an accidental consumer tech company.

Background

My fiancée and I were on the lookout for a piece of land to build our future home. We had some criteria in mind, such as the distance to certain places and family members, a minimum and a maximum size, and a few other things.

How we started the search Each country has their own real estate platforms. In the US, the listing’s metadata is usually public and well-structured, allowing for more advanced searches, and more transparency in general.

In Austria, we mainly have willhaben.at, immowelt.at, immobilienscout24.at, all of which have no publicly available API.

The first step was to setup email alerts on each platform, with our search criteria. Each day, we got emails with all the…

Если вложить изображение в div, то размер div-контейнера по умолчанию будет равен размеру изображения. Если указать размер изображения 20% от оригинала, то div-контейнер не уменьшается. Его размер остаётся равным 100% от размера изображения. Как уменьшить и изображение, и div-контейнер, в который это изображение вложено?

Jensen Huang's GTC keynote was a compelling argument in favor of Nvidia's position relative to ASICs when it comes to inference.

These are some fun silly drawings from my sketchbookView on my website

Intel's new CEO casts Pat Gelsinger's tenure and firing in a new light: was Intel's problem simply bad execution?

AI is everywhere these days, and everyone has opinions and thoughts. These

are some of mine.Full disclosure: for a time I worked for Anthropic, the makers of

Claude.ai. I no longer do, and nothing in

this post (or elsewhere on this site) is their opinion or is proprietary to

them.How to use AIMy advice about using AI is simple: use AI as an assistant, not an expert,

and use it judiciously. Some people will object, “but AI can be wrong!” Yes,

and so can the internet in general, but no one now recommends avoiding online

resources because they can be wrong. They recommend taking it all with a grain

of salt and being careful. That’s what you should do with AI help as well.We are all learning ho…

A comic about the TitanicView on my website

A comic about two people on a desert islandView on my website

Metallica on the Vision Pro was cool, but ultimately disappointing, and symbolic of Apple's need to control everything.

A comic about tyrannosaurus rex at the gymView on my website

Мастера, которые оказывают услуги в сфере красоты, периодически поднимают цены на свои услуги. Новость об этом они сообщают примерно так:

«Цены на расходники поднялись, сами знаете, ситуация в стране, доллар и бла-бла-бла. Очень не хочется, но ситуация вынуждает».

В лекциях по переговорам сказано, что никогда не стоит оправдывать цену личными издержками. Как грамотно и красиво рассказать о повышении цен на услуги, чтобы не взбесить клиентов, не вызвать жалость и не потерять их?

Biscuits! No! Bad dog!View on my website

Keith gets the zoomiesView on my website

The Grim Reaper at a Genius BarView on my website

A joke about Spiderman in the bedroomView on my website

A comic about managing anxiety during a flightView on my website

An interview with Tailscale CEO and co-founder Avery Pennarun about Tailscale, and how he’s been learning to build a New Internet his whole life.

OpenAI has compelling new updates to their API that should be good for the API business; is that good for OpenAI?

Hi HN, I've lurked here for ages and decided to come out of the shadows for my latest side project which reached the point where it’s sort of fun to use and hopefully not totally embarrassing to share.Hacking fingernotes.com together over a couple of weeks was a creative outlet when work got stressful. I think of it as digital sticky notes. The goal was to make notes with a personal touch that are easy to write and share. I also wanted them to appear as their own link preview image on supported platforms. That way when you send the link to a note, the person sees the message without following the link.Let me know what you think!I drew inspiration from Apple's quick notes: low latency made s…

中文文档IntroductionThis is the CAPTCHA(reCAPTCHA/funCAPTCHA) solving client on Android, which uses the CAPTCHA solving services provided by other websites(e.g.

ReasonWhy did I create the CAPTCHA solving client on Android?

The CAPTCHA solving service providers supply user-friendly browser-based client and the relevant APIs, but cannot provide user-friendly android-based client, just the relevant APIs.

This client consists of two layers, and the first is the CAPTCHA service provider API client, e.g.

DeathByCaptchaUI , which is used to communicate with the CAPTCHA server and get the solving result from the server; the second is the CAPTCHA solving API client on Android, e.g.

Hi, I'm a high school teacher from Australia and I've built what I'd like to think is a pretty nifty ChatGPT powered presentation tool for teachers.

I'd love it if you could have a look at it and give me some of your feedback.

I don't think there's much overlap with the HN crowd and school teachers, but I've been coming here for many years and thought I'd post here and see what you all think.

Check it out if you have a minute and I'd be super happy to hear your feedback too.

https://www.slidehero.ai/You can jump in and have a play with the tool all you like ;)Cheers, Eli

🎧 DAPS Podcast EpisodeListen to the introduction of Dimensionally Adaptive Prime Search (DAPS) — the story, the math, and the future: PodcastHacker News ThreadOverviewDAPS efficiently finds global minima of complex functions using a prime number-based adaptive grid search strategy.

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Before you start using Bitcoin, there are a few things that you need to know in order to use it securely and avoid common pitfalls.

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I am the founder of 1Core Solution (“1Core”), based in Cupertino, CA, the heart of Silicon Valley.

Back in early 2000, childcare software was all desktop based with siloed back office functions and limited consumer facing interfaces.

I noticed a gap in the market and saw the potential for cloud-based software that could fundamentally change how software could be developed, delivered and supported in the childcare industry.

We built the first version of our solution by working with a few childcare providers in Silicon Valley.

You can learn more about my background and 1Core Solution:1Core sponsors a Youtube channel called The ChildCare Channel, a safe space designed to Inform, Inspire, and I…

This is what I am building today, and is what will eventually be the number 1 personal brand consultancy worldwide and have a team of 500 consultants.

The term personal brand was coined by a man named Tom Peters in 1997 in his article “The Brand Called You” which was published in FastCompany.

Within 3 months, the business appeared as if it was around for years and was already a trusted, vetted, personal brand consultancy.

I initially went on a podcast tour and was doing interviews that felt like every single day talking about MCG, writing more articles on industry subject matter, for example why you would hire a personal brand consultant, why you should build your personal brand, and how ou…

My name is Tony Wang, and I’m the general manager of The Cat Cafe in downtown San Diego.

We are the first cat cafe to open in Southern California and we are the fourth oldest continuously operating cat cafe in the United States.

We first learned about cat cafes when we saw an article about Le Cafe de Chats in Paris.

We are The Cat Cafe, as opposed to other cat cafes that have cute names.

But if you work hard enough at it, and you succeed, it will feel great.

We are a bit different in that we focus on German conversation/speaking classes - we don’t do traditional grammar classes.

We don't tell anyone this but what we really sell isn’t German classes, it is confidence!

To get around this and practice the German I was putting so much effort into learning, I thought I would start an online group for German learners.

But the issue was my German is intermediate - so half the people had German worse than mine and have better.

A poor decision of mine was not grandfathering in everyone who first joined (about the first 80 people) as free customers for life.

We are a Media and Consulting agency focused on the U.S. Latino demographic and are working towards building a marketplace for Latino-owned businesses.

We currently run a weekly newsletter and social media focused on elevating positive stories around the business, culture, and social impact of U.S. Latinos.

The newsletter started and is still currently free to readers.

To continue growing our audience and agency clients, I will double down on consistently posting across social media platforms.

Over the next 12 months, as I’m increasing agency and newsletter revenue, I’ll be focused on slowly building up the first iteration of the Latino-owned marketplace.

Because owning a self-storage facility didn’t seem like a real estate investment.

It sounded more like I would be running a small business.

The self-storage industry is interesting, because it benefits greatly from a lot of modern business practices.

We knew our focus coming out of the gates was to build a self-storage business with a heavy focus on technology and process optimization.

Our first Iron Storage facilityThe first storage facility we bought and revamped was about an hour from where I lived in Houston, TX.

I am Stefano Lodola, founder of Think in Italian, a language learning platform designed to help individuals master Italian through an immersive approach.

My research confirmed that there was a gap in the market for a more comprehensive and engaging approach to learning Italian.

However, many language app users have expectations that work against them (“where are the quizzes?

At its peak, my site had the largest amount of organic traffic among those focusing on teaching the Italian language with 130k visits/m.

Instead of those spammy “best xyz” listicles that any content writer can make up, I published hundreds of grammar notes to attract people who are serious about learning Italian.

Our current hero product is the Vonu Lounger, a multi-use lounger that helps with tummy time, reflux relief, burping, and gas relief, and encourages face-to-face time with your little one.

As of right now, we’re less than a year in, and over 10,000 babies and parents have found relief with the Vonu Lounger.

We ended up with the first Vonu Lounger which we called a “Burplee” at the time.

We use our social proof and UGC to build a community around the brand and the Vonu Lounger.

Davante, our co-founder, taught himself how to buy media a few months into building Vonu and has done an incredible job creating a paid media team around him.

What we had in mind was a simple, clutter-free email hub, where people could manage all their inboxes and reduce some of that email anxiety we all experience.

To this day, I believe it shows in the way Mailbird is built, its features, and the overall user experience.

Our customer base consists of two main groups:The heavy email users.

Part of the Mailbird team, in BaliWe launched Mailbird with minimal resources.

Mailbird - Last but not least, of course, we use Mailbird for our email management needs.

My son, Asher, and my wife, Paige, and I started our woodworking business four years ago: Frailey Woodworks.

Each of these skill sets are now focused on our high-end furniture making business where we specialize in full-scope design and build.

Soon, we ventured into other custom mid-century furniture, and our business took off.

Building our first hand-powered sit/stand desk took several iterations before we had a working prototype.

These customers took a chance on our company and we are very grateful for their trust.

Aithor helps with research, essay planning, sourcing trustworthy references, and adhering to specific types of writing.

We are broadening our focus to include content creators such as marketers and managers, while still supporting our existing student base.

It wasn’t until about four months after the product launch that we realized we were in the right place at the right time with the right team.

We quickly went to market, attracted new clients, and received valuable feedback, which led us to refine the MVP.

(1) Do it simply and quickly to sell it right away – bring the product to market faster.

Hey, my name is Kyle Bigley and I am the Founder of TxtCart, AKA the AI-Powered SMS Marketing company for Shopify stores.

We’re a unique SMS Marketing company pioneering conversational commerce with AI agents generating sales and resolving customers questions via text messages.

Now, we’re over $1M ARR while still bootstrapped and are setting our sights on $3M ARR by 2026 (whilst still bootstrapped).

So I started TxtCart right before graduating, and took a Project Management job out of college.

Holding out on external investment from either Angels, VCs or crowdfunding makes building a SaaS in an ultra competitive environment like SMS Marketing incredibly difficult.

My company specializes in designing and manufacturing modern, stylish flatpack furniture and other designery items.

This allows me to focus on what I'm good at – the creative process – and leave the manufacturing to experts.

The combination of life on the road and designing things inherently designed to travel or get deconstructed and reconstructed resonated with me.

I also use Notion for ideation and notes, Shapr3d for CAD design and drawings, Illustrator for logos, Pacdora for packaging design.

Natural curiosity is an essential tool for entrepreneurs: asking questions, seeking to understand how things work, and being eager to learn and inquire.

I was based out of Singapore and was working with an edtech founder and looking for ideas in the AI + edtech space.

Explored several ideas like vision AI based analytics for live tutoring classes, adaptive learning and AI generated quizzes.

A year later in 2022, I put together all my learnings in AI quiz generation into an Udemy course.

So I built the first version that just takes text input on a left textbox, calls an API behind the scenes and shows the output text (quizzes) on the right textbox.

There are so many things like influencer marketing, email marketing, paid ads, SEO, newsletter marketing etc.

Software development, nutrition, business strategy, economics, AI - I've obsessed over them all.

Free product feedback can be deceiving - they might not value it the same if they were paying.

Some crucial parts weren't ready (like, you know, showing people their AI generated headshots), but who needs a complete product, right?

As you can see from the screenshot below, we were ranking for an important keyword, ‘Ai headshot generator’, in April.

Install as many product feedback loops to drive insights about your target audience.

I'm looking for a young co-founder from the USA who is willing to create short-form videos and market my SaaS.

I grew my SaaS through SEO & Reddit to $500 MRR.

If you prove you can generate views & traffic, I'm willing to split to the company 50/50.

Memes aren’t just for laughs—they’re powerful marketing tools.

They grab attention, boost engagement, and make your brand more relatable.

With our AI, you can generate viral-worthy video memes in seconds, no editing skills needed.

Perfect for:✅ Social media growth✅ Email marketing with personality✅ Making your startup stand outTry it here: https://vanillasky.ai/ and let us know your feedback in the comments!

I noticed many viral prompts on TikTok were poorly designed, and there was a clear need for something better.

After working on content creation for a while, I felt I could turn that content into a business, so we decided to build Prompt-Genie.

We quickly tested the idea by creating a simple version of the product in just four days, focusing on the core concept instead of perfection.

Right now the team is using React+Node and AWS, but the first version of prompt genie was built just using no-code.

The initial success came quickly, largely due to the viral content from my TikTok channel, which helped us reach around $10k a month in revenue right after launch.

Just launched IndieMerger (co-founder matching platform) on Product Hunt with minimal preparation and wanted to share the real results.

The day after launch, traffic dropped significantly.

Most visitors were curious browsers, not people actively looking for a co-founder matching platform.

Many signed up for free accounts but few converted to paying customers.

My launch on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/indiemerger-3Happy to answer specific questions about the launch experience!

When I started 1ClickImpact, I had one goal: Make doing good as easy as an API call.

Now, it’s even easier—with just one click, every Shopify order can plant a tree, clean ocean waste, or capture carbon.

💰 +18% bigger orders (shoppers spend more when it aligns with their values)🔄 +32% repeat purchases (because doing good feels good)No Hassle.

Install 1ClickImpact for Shopify now and start making an impact with every order!

Let’s make doing good a no-brainer.

A basic MVPWe launched with a focused offering of t-shirt mockups only.

The initial development phase took approximately two months to master the fundamental technical requirements — placing designs on shirts, modifying garment colors, and accurately wrapping designs to conform to natural fabric wrinkles and creases.

Initially, we utilized royalty-free images in our mockups, but our timing coincided perfectly with advancements in AI technology, allowing us to generate high-quality mockup images without traditional limitations.

Our signature instant preview functionality was strategically implemented to allow users to visualize their designs across multiple mockups simultaneously.

We've rema…

Here’s a question: when was the last time you saw a marketing guru actually share a real marketing plan?

The only one that comes close is Alan Dib’s One Page Marketing Plan, which at least provides a structured framework.

A marketing framework that local businesses can actually use to attract, convert, and retain customers without wasting time on empty hype.

What Actually Works: The P.A.S.S.

This is the foundation of real marketing, not some quick hack or shady gimmick.

He's a non-technical indie hacker who capitalized on the vibe coding trend by building an app in public and earning quick revenue.

He vibe coded his app without understanding its underlying mechanics, leaving him unaware of its vulnerabilities.

Two tips on vibe securitySecurity is a huge topic, and I won't delve into it in any real depth.

Instead let's touch on a few basics that can help non-technical vibe coders avoid the vulnerabilities that Leo faced.

But that might be a little too complicated for a non-technical vibe coder — especially since there are some use cases for implementing paywalls without any backend infrastructure.

He's a non-technical indie hacker who capitalized on the vibe coding trend by building an app in public and earning quick revenue.

He vibe coded his app without understanding its underlying mechanics, leaving him unaware of its vulnerabilities.

Two tips on vibe securitySecurity is a huge topic, and I won't delve into it in any real depth.

Instead let's touch on a few basics that can help non-technical vibe coders avoid the vulnerabilities that Leo faced.

But that might be a little too complicated for a non-technical vibe coder — especially since there are some use cases for implementing paywalls without any backend infrastructure.

When it comes to scaling a bootstrapped business, AI agents are a game changer.

Here are all the ways I've found that AI agents can help indie hackers scale --- and compete with the big dogs.

AI agents → Can handle entire support interactions without human input.

At Jotform, AI agents handle thousands of customer support requests every day.

What AI agents can do:Generate blog post outlines and drafts in your brand's voice.

I built a doc understanding platform and one service offering is an API for extracting expense data from images of receipt, invoice etc.

I use LLM's multimodal, multi-language support for extracting data from images.

I tested the service with Asian languages like Chinese.

That’s why firing my very first paying customer felt like a wild and scary decision at the time.

Let me tell you why — and what it taught me about focus, boundaries, and building something sustainable.

But here’s something to remember:A misaligned customer will cost you more than no customer at all.

Final ThoughtsFiring my first customer felt like a failure at the time — but now, I see it as a milestone.

Let’s TalkI’m curious — have you ever fired a customer or walked away from a deal that didn’t feel right?

Here’s why Next.js is perfect for building SaaS:✅ 1.

SEO-Boosting CapabilitiesWith Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Static Site Generation (SSG), Next.js ensures that search engines can crawl and index content easily.

Scalability ReadyWith features like Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) and easy deployment via Vercel, Next.js makes scaling SaaS applications effortless.

Tech Stack I’m Using:✅ Next.js – For frontend and SSR✅ Firebase – For real-time database✅ Stripe – For payments💡 Pro Tip: If you’re building a SaaS, don’t overlook SEO and performance.

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That’s why I'm building The Orlando Pulse, a local business growth engine powered by AI, automation, and community referrals.

The Problem With Traditional Digital Marketing🚫 High costs that small businesses can’t afford.

Most small business owners don’t have the time, budget, or expertise to navigate digital marketing effectively.

✔️ Tech builder who sees potential in AI-powered local marketing, let’s innovate together.

Let’s make local business marketing work for the people it’s supposed to serve.

When I first started thinking about building SaaS products, I used to get excited by big markets.

And trying to build for everyone usually ends up meaning you’re building for no one in particular.

If you’re a solo founder, indie hacker, or just starting out, I’d argue that picking the right micro-niche is way more important than picking the right tech stack.

In fact, I’ve seen people build solid SaaS apps with basic no-code tools (like Fuzen, which I often use) just by focusing on a well-defined micro-niche.

In this post, I want to share everything I’ve learned about how to find that sweet spot — a micro-niche that’s just right for your SaaS.

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Hey r/SideProject, I am a Marketing expert on the verge of creating the next big thing—I can sell a product to a certain audience and I'm good at it—Think growth hacking, campaigns, and making shit sell. I’m looking for a coder who’s built something breakwave (AI, next-gen tech, whatever’s cunning-edge) but doesn’t know how to market it. You bring the tech, and I bring the people. Together, we can turn your project into a real thing. I’ve run campaigns that increased sign-ups by 500% using content creation, and SEO marketing, but now I’m ready to partner up. If you’ve got a prototype or product but need someone to handle the business side, DM me. Let’s chat about what you’ve built and how w…

Hey everyone, I’m Ben – an indie maker who recently dove deep into SaaS and learned firsthand that validating your idea early is critical. One area that’s always sparked debate is the effectiveness of waitlist builders. I’m curious about your experiences with these tools! My Journey so Far I spent hours setting up my own waitlist pages,messing with databases, email integrations, and clunky setups, only to realize that the process often takes time away from iterating on the core product. It got me thinking: if these tools are supposed to help validate ideas quickly, are they really delivering on that promise? Questions for the Community Effectiveness: Have you used waitlist builder tools? Wh…

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Hi guys! I'm a Product leader and I recently made an app for my self that I decided to launch publicly today! I'm very excited to introduce you Rival Playground! Ever have that one rival you play everything with? Catan, Rocket League, Golf, Mario Kart, Darts, whatever! Every game turns into a battle for lifelong bragging rights. I got tired of not knowing who was actually ahead, what was our win/loss record. So I built Rival Playground: a dead-simple app that tracks your 1v1 record across any type of game. 🎲 Board games 🎮 Video games ⛳ Golf 🥊 Rock-paper-scissors at 3am If it’s 1v1, Rival Playground can track it. Why I made it: I’ve got one friend I play everything with and zero memory of wh…

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Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

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Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

с 2012 года мы ищем и находим дешевые авиабилеты, отели, туры и круизы.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Виза не нужна, в мае тепло, сел — и полетел.

Из Москвы в Могилев за 2600 в одну сторону или за 5200 туда-сюда.

Билеты на сайте Белавиа или на авиасейлс.

Тыц тудаОбратноЕще: 19 маяИ обратноВ одну сторону — в Минск (у меня не открывается сайт Победы, но там должно быть за 3199 рублей или около того)и обратно из Могилева

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Авиакомпания China Eastern Airlines предлагает билеты из Москвы в Сеул и разные уголки Японии от 35700 рублей в обе стороны.

По пути стыковки в Китае, во всех случаях безвизовые.

Для въезда в Японию нужна виза, оформить ее можно бесплатно.

А для Южной Кореи нужно только заполнить несложную и недорогую анкету K-ETA вот тут и через пару минут вам скорее всего придет подтверждение.

Подобрать даты и купить билеты можно через сервисы aviasales.ru / trip.com.

У авиакомпаний Sichuan Airlines и Tianjin Airlines подешевели билеты на ближайшие месяцы: улететь из Москвы и Петербурга в Чэнду можно за 12400-13100 рублей, из Москвы в Чунцин — за 13700.

Вылет из Москвы в марте-апреле, из Питера — только в марте.

Для посещения Китая нужна виза, но если у вас будут билеты куда-то дальше, то можно воспользоваться безвизовым транзитом (до 240 часов!).

Билеты берем через сервис aviasales.ru.

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Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

с 2012 года мы ищем и находим дешевые авиабилеты, отели, туры и круизы.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

Vandrouki (или Вандруки / Вандрули / Ванбрюки или как удобно) – это путешествия.

Способы путешествовать почти бесплатно.

Разумеется, Vandrouki – это высококвалифицированная команда амбициозных профессионалов своего дела.

А вы путешествуете почти бесплатно.

Прямо сейчас, пока вы читали этот блок, мы нашли ещё несколько билетов, а кто-то их купил.

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ЕС хочет потратить 800 млрд евро на перевооружение. Для этого странам блока придется нарастить бюджетные расходы, увеличить госдолг, а некоторым — даже изменить конституцию. Под нож может пойти часть социальных программ, а щедрые вливания в экономику чреваты ростом инфляции. Но, с другой стороны, эти инвестиции могут оживить промышленность, создать рабочие места и возродить угасающие предприятия. Разбираемся, зачем Европе понадобилось тратить столько денег на оборону и как эти планы могут изменить одну из крупнейших экономик мира.

В руководстве Банка России прокомментировали решение совета директоров, который в третий раз подряд сохранил ключевую ставку на уровне 21%. На заседании 21 марта ЦБ даже не рассматривал вариант снижения ставки. По словам главы ведомства Эльвиры Набиуллиной, условия для этого еще не созрели. Более того, регулятор снова не исключил, что на будущих заседаниях он может повысить ставку. Но признал, что вероятность такого сценария уменьшилась. Мы собрали главные высказывания руководителя ЦБ и аргументы за сохранение ставки.

ЦБ продлил ограничения на переводы денег за рубеж до 30 сентября 2025 года Россияне и физлица-нерезиденты из дружественных стран в течение месяца могут перевести на любые счета в зарубежных банках не более 1 000 000 $ или эквивалент этой суммы в другой иностранной валюте.

Lugano-based Gaia Turbine announced the successful completion of a new €1.15 million funding round for the development of its hydroelectric micro and mini-turbine – this follows the launch of its first pilot project in Q4 2024. The funding round included participation from angel investors and TiVentures SA, which had previously invested in the company. “This […]

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Catchwise, an Oslo-based company transforming the wild fishery industry, announced the close of a €1.25 million pre-Seed funding round to ensure product market fit across various fisheries and the development of its operational-at-sea AI solution. The round was led by Dreamcraft Ventures, followed by Sondo and Ocean Impact, with additional participation from angel investors with […]

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In today’s competitive digital landscape, customer experience is at the heart of business strategy. Retaining users and turning interactions into long-term relationships is key to staying ahead. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have emerged as powerful tools to personalise experiences, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance customer engagement. By leveraging vast datasets and real-time […]

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Qlarifi, a London-based FinTech startup innovating credit reporting for Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL), has announced the successful completion of its €1.6 million pre-Seed funding round to bring repayment transparency to the BNPL industry. The round was backed by a combination of HoneyComb Asset Management, Carthona Capital and a selection of angel investors including Australian […]

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Elbow Beach, London-based specialist climate impact Seed investors, today announces the launch and first close of its €95.5 million Climate Impact Fund 2. The fund has already secured commitments for €75.2 million of capital, including up to €59.6 million from the British Business Bank through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme. “Elbow Beach’s new fund is […]

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On April 24-25, 2025, the EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta, bringing together many of Europe’s most promising founders, startup enthusiasts, and investors for two days of networking, inspiration and learning. Malta is emerging as a prime hub for startups and scale-ups looking to establish and expand in Europe. But what does it take to launch […]

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Rerun, a Stockholm-based company building a multimodal data stack for Physical AI, announced that it secured €15.6 million in Seed funding, bringing their total funding to €18.6 million. The round was led by Point Nine, with participation from Sunflower Capital and existing investors Costanoa Ventures and Seedcamp. Notable angel investors including Guillermo Rauch (CEO of […]

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Cologne-based peopleIX, an AI-powered people intelligence platform, announced today the successful closure of its €2.3 million pre-Seed funding round to expand its product capabilities and strengthen its market presence across Europe. The investment, led by Earlybird-X with the participation of neoteq ventures, TS Ventures, and HRTech business angels. “HR is no longer a support function […]

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Sint-Martens-Lierde-based WARREN, a WealthTech startup innovating employee financial wellness, today announced it has raised €3 million in pre-Seed funding to tackle financial stress in the workplace by providing tailored insights, AI-driven financial coaching and education, and direct access to top advisors. The round was led by Motive Ventures, with participation from Entourage, Syndicate One, Pitchdrive, […]

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Oxford-based Brainomix, a company pioneering AI-powered imaging tools in stroke and lung fibrosis, today announced the completion of a €16.7 million Series C investment round to expand to the U.S. The round is co-led by prominent HealthTech investors that include existing investors, Parkwalk Advisors, the UK’s largest growth EIS fund manager, and the Boehringer Ingelheim […]

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This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with the inspiring Anna Alex, an entrepreneur, investor in sustainability and nature, and SPIEGEL bestselling author. Anna co-founded companies such as NALA Earth, Planetly, and Outfittery. Her latest venture, NALA Earth, is pioneering the measurement of biodiversity and nature for companies, helping businesses better understand their […]

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Hamburg-based Flexvelop, a FinTech startup focused on the buying and leasing of equipment, has secured €44 million to establish further major partnerships with retailers and manufacturers. The funding includes credit lines totalling €40 million from various refinancing partners and a further €4 million euros in equity from existing partners InnoVentureFonds (IVF) and Seventure Partners. “We […]

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Cologne-based Buynomics, an innnovator in AI-powered pricing and revenue optimisation, has raised €27.5 million in Series B funding to support global expansion with a focus on North America, and enhance their Virtual Shoppers AI technology. The round was led by Forestay Capital, with participation from Anais Ventures, VI Partners, and existing investors Insight Partners, Seedcamp, […]

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On April 24-25, 2025, the EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta, bringing together around 2,400 founders, startup enthusiasts, and investors for two days of insights, networking, and innovation. In today’s interconnected world, scaling globally is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. But how do startups navigate cross-border payments, regulatory complexities, and financial infrastructure while maintaining rapid […]

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This week we tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €865 million, and over 10 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

In addition to this week's top financials, we've also indexed the most important/industry-related news items you need to know about.

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💸 Notable and big funding rounds🇪🇸Factorial snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost sales and marketing🇬🇧Biotech Maxion Therapeutics secures $72M Series A🇪🇸 Playtomic raises €65M to accelerate its expansion🫱🏽‍…

ANITI brings together universities, tech companies, and government support to advance AI applications in various industries, including autonomous systems, smart mobility, and healthcare.

Government initiatives, incubators like Lindholmen Science Park, and venture capital support have helped tech startups thrive.

Switzerland’s business-friendly environment, strong intellectual property laws, and access to venture capital make Lausanne an attractive destination for tech companies.

With a combination of cutting-edge research, strong industry collaborations, and a dynamic startup ecosystem, Lausanne continues to be a leading European tech cluster, particularly in AI, biotech, and fintech.

Odens…

Elbow Beach, one of the UK’s most active specialist climate impact seed investors, has achieved the first close of its second fund at £63M.

Elbow Beach specialises in backing technologies that address some of the world's most pressing challenges, focusing on innovation that solves global issues.

“Elbow Beach’s new fund is targeting the intersection of efficiency gain and climate impact,” said Jon Pollock, Elbow Beach CEO and Managing Partner.

“The UK is second only to the US in total number of climate technology startups, but British businesses attract less than half the funding of their American counterparts.

Elbow Beach is on a mission to plug that equity gap and ensure Britain remains a …

Pricing and revenue optimisation company Buynomics, has raised $30 million Series B funding, bringing its funding to over $46 million.

Founded in 2018, Buynomics' AI-embedded software transforms how enterprises optimise pricing, promotions, and product portfolios by simulating the behaviour of real-world shoppers with precision.

This enables organisations to improve revenue, profitability, and market positioning in real-time across various channels, product portfolios, and geographies.

The round was led by Forestay Capital, with participation from Anais Ventures, VI Partners, and existing investors Insight Partners, Seedcamp, DvH Ventures, and Tomahawk Ventures.

"This is a defining moment f…

The Tech.eu Summit London 2025 is just around the corner and will take place on 25-26 March at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre.

The event is set to host a landmark discussion on the future of European entrepreneurship with an exclusive panel featuring Project Europe.

With backing from 125 top European entrepreneurs, Project Europe is dedicated to proving that Europe can build world-defining companies.

Exclusive Panel at the Tech.eu Summit London 2025The panel, “Project Europe - Here to Change the European Narrative,” will bring together key members of Project Europe to discuss their vision and strategy for fostering entrepreneurship across the continent.

Moderated by Kieran Hill from 20VC, th…

Beyond startups, Bilbao Slush’D 2025 also welcomed Kauffman Fellows, members of one of the most prestigious networks in venture capital, renowned for shaping the future of global investment and entrepreneurship.

The message was clear: the future of venture capital is diverse, inclusive, and more accessible than ever.

Finland, home to Slush, has built a globally recognized startup ecosystem with strong government and corporate support.

Their involvement underscored the increasing role of deep-tech, sustainability, and inclusivity in shaping the future of venture capital.

If you want to be at the center of global innovation, Bilbao Slush’D is the place to be.

A German AI startup backed by General Catalyst is considering opening a US office, its first overseas office.

Founded in 2023, Langdock has an office in Berlin but its executives are spending a considerable amount of time in New York and San Francisco.

Lennard Schmidt, Langdock CEO and co-founder, says the US is “more dynamic when it comes to AI than Europe”.

Schmidt also pointed out that Germany was behind the US and UK in commercialising AI research.

Langdock is looking to capitalise on the fervour around ChatGPT and other LLMs while addressing employer concerns around data sharing and compliance when introducing AI chatbots into the workforce.

Hyperscale cloud infrastructure startup evroc has raised the largest tech Series A in the Nordics to accelerate European growth.

With AI predominantly deployed in the cloud, failing to close this gap risks widening the technological and economic divide vis-a-vis the United States.

Mattias Åström, Founder and CEO of evroc, commented:“2025 will be a formative year for evroc.

By securing this backing, evroc is advancing its mission to drive European digital sovereignty and growth.

Newly appointed board member Alexandre Mars, Founder & CEO of blisce/, stated:“For too long, the European cloud and AI landscape has been dominated by foreign players.

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) workflows have lagged behind the significant cloud and DevOps transformations in software development, creating a slow and costly bottleneck that delays the release of changes to production - while also increasing risk.

Since its launch in 2019, Kosli has been helping financial institutions navigate this tension, both as an enterprise-ready technology solution for governance process automation across the entire software stack, but also as expert advisors to guide an organisation’s software delivery governance strategy.

“Kosli addresses the specific needs of software development teams that operate in highly regulated industries,” said Martin Reeves, who…

BioCopy focuses on the discovery and development of biotherapeutic drugs using an automated, AI-assisted end-to-end platform and is developing next-generation biotherapeutic drug candidates.

It aims to save valuable time for patients and partners in the pharmaceutical industry by reducing R&D time for cancer drugs from three years to 12 months, thereby significantly lowering development costs.

This innovative approach is expected to significantly shorten the development cycles of such drugs and thus significantly reduce costs.

This will save valuable time in the fight against cancer."

"The development of such drug candidates takes many years or even decades in conventional processes," adds …

Climatetech VC 2150 announced today that it has closed almost €200 million for Fund II, with support from previous and new institutional investors, including Augustinus Fonden, Novo Holdings, EIFO, Carbon Equity, Church Pension Group, and family office Viessmann Generations Group.

The new fund is 75 per cent of the size of Fund I.

It has already led or co-led three investments into AtmosZero, Mission Zero Technologies, and METYCLE, with plans to build a portfolio of 20+ across North America and Europe.

According to the Firm, its thesis remains the same: research-led identification of solutions to the greatest challenges of the urban environment to help make cities and their citizens more ef…

Polaron, an artificial intelligence startup that accelerates the development of new advanced materials, has won the £1M inaugural Manchester Prize.

Polaron offers an AI-powered platform designed to accelerate the development and optimisation of advanced materials.

By integrating AI-driven optimisation, Polaron helps reduce the overall cost of development and manufacturing, enabling companies to bring better materials to market more quickly.

This service is particularly valuable in sectors such as battery technology and other advanced material industries, where rapid innovation is crucial.

Dr Isaac Squires, CEO of Polaron, said: “We are thrilled to have won the first ever Manchester Prize - …

The Tech.eu Summit London 2025 is just around the corner!

That’s why we’ve prepared this guide to help you navigate everything from arrival to networking opportunities, ensuring you make the most of your time at the Tech.eu Summit London 2025.

March 25 – First day of the Tech.eu Summit London 2025On March 25, the Tech.eu Summit London 2025 kicks off at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, followed by an exclusive VIP Reception in the evening.

See You at the Tech.eu Summit London 2025!

Get ready for an unforgettable experience at the Tech.eu Summit London 2025.

Qlarifi, a BNPL fintech startup, has raised a pre-seed funding round of £1.4M backed by a combination of HoneyComb Asset Management, Carthona Capital and a selection of angel investors including Australian rugby legend John Eales.

Qlarifi provides a real-time, comprehensive consumer credit database designed to enhance risk management and fraud detection for lenders.

It offers detailed data on consumer credit usage, with a particular focus on Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) transactions, which are often excluded from traditional credit reports.

This makes Qlarifi an effective tool for modernizing consumer credit assessments, particularly in the growing BNPL sector.

They’ve been crying out for the r…

Latvia’s tech ecosystem is expanding rapidly, with fintech, AI, and health tech among its key sectors.

In 2024, Latvian tech companies raised approximately €34.9 million.

While total funding has declined since 2021, strong collaborations with universities and industry leaders continue to drive growth, with the ecosystem valued at €2.3 billion.

According to the Latvian Startup Report 2024, the country is home to over 500 startups, with Riga as the primary hub.

The Latvian government plays a vital role in fostering innovation through strategic initiatives such as startup funding, tax benefits, innovation vouchers, and the Startup Visa program, which attracts international talent.

As the AI Summit got underway in Paris on Monday, some 60 European companies — from incumbent industrial giants to AI startups (including France’s LLM-maker Mistral) — signed up to an initiative to help establish Europe as a leader in AI. But the fact that they felt the need to sign up at all highlights the […]

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Following allegations of potential abuse, Paragon Solutions has cut off Italy from its spyware systems.

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OpenAI on Thursday launched data residency in Europe, allowing European organizations to meet local data sovereignty requirements while using the AI company’s products. Data residency refers to the physical location of an organization’s data, as well as the local laws and policy requirements imposed on that data. Most tech giants and cloud providers offer European […]

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WhatsApp said users in several European countries were targeted with Paragon spyware, according to the Italian government.

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Despite news that Andreessen Horowitz closed its London crypto-focused office, the VC reportedly still has dozens of scouts in Europe looking for startups.

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The European Commission (EC) says it has requested information from Elon Musk’s X related to the algorithms that determine the content it recommends to users. The EC wants to determine how those algorithms may or may not be compliant with the Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes key obligations on online platforms operating across the […]

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TikTok’s e-commerce Shop feature is going live in Spain, the company announced on Tuesday, marking the first step of a wider European rollout. The launch indicates that TikTok parent ByteDance is speeding up the expansion of the TikTok Shop in European markets as a potential U.S. ban looms. Users in Spain will now be able […]

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The European Commission (EC) has quietly closed a longstanding antitrust investigation into Apple over rules it enforces against third-party e-book and audiobook app developers. The EC opened the probe back in 2020 after receiving complaints over how Apple forced competing e-book and audiobook app developers to use Apple’s own in-app payment system, while also preventing […]

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It’s become a common refrain in political discourse: Europe needs to take radical action to remain competitive. On the long list of potential reforms, one that’s gaining particular traction is a new, EU-wide corporate status for innovative companies. Known (somewhat obscurely) as the “28th regime,” the innovation is being billed as Europe’s answer to a […]

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Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing blowback in Europe, particularly over pedestrian safety concerns. Euro NCAP, a voluntary but influential car safety assessment program in Europe, has not in any way tested the Cybertruck, but based on a visual assessment alone, raised alarms over its sharp, angular design, saying it could pose a serious threat to pedestrians. […]

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