The DaB - Daily Briefing

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Hacker News discussion with 1352 points and 672 comments. Posted 2025-11-13 00:33.

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Hacker News discussion with 1314 points and 366 comments. Posted 2025-11-14 18:35.

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Hacker News discussion with 1249 points and 731 comments. Posted 2025-11-14 14:05.

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Hacker News discussion with 2889 points and 1481 comments. Posted 2025-11-12 17:59.

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Hacker News discussion with 1900 points and 691 comments. Posted 2025-11-12 17:54.

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Hacker News discussion with 1624 points and 396 comments. Posted 2025-11-15 10:30.

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A lawyer representing JPMorgan said Javice’s legal team billed for expenses including luxury hotel upgrades, 24 hours of work in a single day, and cellulite butter.

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A federal jury in California ruled Friday that Apple must pay medical device maker Masimo $634 million for infringing a patent on blood oxygen monitoring technology.

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You can watch "Jeopardy!" on YouTube TV again.

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Chimps can take in new evidence, evaluate its strength, and change their minds.

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The new data, released Friday, finally addresses some of the biggest criticisms of the paltry "safety reports" Tesla's released for years.

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I remember being blown away by the 2024 reveal trailer for Possessor(s), the new game from Hyper Light Drifter developer Heart Machine. The trailer features a striking art design, where an animated 2D...

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VC Andy Konwinski argues that the U.S. is losing its AI research dominance to China.

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Disney and YouTube have reached an agreement to bring back ESPN and more than 20 other Disney-owned channels two weeks after they went dark on YouTube TV. During the dispute, Google has accused Disney...

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Leaked documents reveal how much OpenAI paid Microsoft under a revenue-share agreement. They also indicate inference costs.

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A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.

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According to the Financial Times, Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO as early as next year. And the board has started to seriously work out a succession plan. FT says that John Ternus, Apple’s seni...

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REI doesn’t do Black Friday, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to save this holiday season. The outdoor retailer’s annual Holiday Sale is now underway and runs through November 24th, offering up...

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Framework did it again. It promised modular, upgradeable, and user-repairable laptops where other manufacturers dare not venture or have outright failed. And it's delivered. The 2025 version of the Fr...

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If you weren't clear on just what a miserable person Carol (Rhea Seehorn) is, episode 3 of Pluribus sure makes it obvious. It opens with a flashback, as Carol and her partner Helen (Miriam Shor) are o...

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Research paper by Haotong Lin, Sili Chen, Junhao Liew et al.. We present Depth Anything 3 (DA3), a model that predicts spatially consistent geometry from an arbitrary number of visual inputs, with or ...

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While there is plenty of criticism to be hurled at what music the algorithm serves to us, and how, the real problem with music discovery in the age of algorithmic recommendations is that listening has...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 57 upvotes and 10 comments.

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Research paper by Jiahao Wang, Weiye Xu, Aijun Yang et al.. Outcome-reward reinforcement learning (RL) is a common and increasingly significant way to refine the step-by-step reasoning of multimodal l...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 2662 upvotes and 355 comments.

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A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024.

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The morning of Monday, October 27th, I started my workweek by asking my colleagues at The Verge for advice on buying a gaming PC. I wanted a small, portable, and semi-powerful machine that could easil...

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Tech industry primed for big refunds if SCOTUS rules against Trump tariffs.

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We've seen schoolbuses and big pickups do V2G; how about a smaller car?

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Carr rejects criticism from four former FCC chairs, including three Republicans.

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Research paper by Yesheng Liang, Haisheng Chen, Song Han et al.. Weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) compresses the weights of Large Language Models (LLMs) into low-precision representations ...

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Hydrogen and solar power the rally infrastructure, but navigation is low-tech.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 15940 upvotes and 614 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 114 upvotes and 23 comments.

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I'm curious whether researchers actually track or care about their work's impact outside traditional citations. Things like: \- GitHub stars/forks on code they released \- GitHub referencing/citing yo...

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Research paper by Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Zewen Chi et al.. Black-box distillation creates student large language models (LLMs) by learning from a proprietary teacher model's text outputs alone, without ...

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Exquisitely preserved fossils come from a single site in Wyoming.

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"Blue" and "Gold" are expected to arrive at Mars in September 2027.

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Pediatricians are calling for members to be replaced and all their decisions reversed.