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Hacker News discussion with 2430 points and 1646 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 11:35.

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Hacker News discussion with 1463 points and 908 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 23:31.

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Hacker News discussion with 1728 points and 1054 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 15:09.

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Hacker News discussion with 1263 points and 678 comments. Posted 2025-11-20 15:04.

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Hacker News discussion with 1080 points and 1075 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 15:47.

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Hacker News discussion with 1046 points and 359 comments. Posted 2025-11-18 21:39.

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A wave of lawsuits against OpenAI detail how ChatGPT used manipulative language to isolate users from loved ones and make itself into their sole confidant.

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Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI model...

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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Beehiiv's co-founder and CEO Tyler Deck spoke to TechCrunch about why the company has been expanding, and where the media business is going next.

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A Trump administration order targeting state-level AI regulation is reportedly on hold.

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In August, Apple Music launched a tool for importing playlists from other streaming services. The bruhahah over Daniel Ek’s war profiteering was in full swing, and artists were starting to flee. The t...

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Waymo continues to expand its reach, with the robotaxi company posting Friday that it’s now “officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State.”

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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on streaming competition, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inbo...

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Google's AI infrastructure chief tells staff it needs thousandfold capacity increase in 5 years.

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More than five years after making their debut, Sony’s WH-1000XM4 remain an excellent pair of noise-canceling headphones. And right now, Best Buy is offering a doorbuster deal that drops them to just $...

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NBC News's David Ingram analyzed a month's worth of Elon Musk's X posts (our condolences). While what he was able to glean wasn't too surprising, it was still interesting to see the numbers all laid o...

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Black Friday is the most anticipated day of the year for bargain hunters. While there’s still some time to go before November 28th, we’ve already found a healthy selection of early discounts, allowing...

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In order to accelerate the construction of new power plants needed to provide energy for its data centers, Meta is looking to get into the business of trading electricity.

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Curiosity Stream's owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 106, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, Happy Thanksgiving Week, and also you can read all the old editions a...

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Research paper by George Cazenavette, Antonio Torralba, Vincent Sitzmann. The task of dataset distillation aims to find a small set of synthetic images such that training a model on them reproduces th...

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Research paper by Omkat Thawakar, Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar et al.. Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have enabled impressive reasoning and perception abilities, yet most exi...

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A U.S. bankruptcy court has ordered Byju's founder Byju Raveendran to pay over $1.07 billion in a case over missing company funds.

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What are thooooose? Well, they're my Vines, the six-second videos that helped mint a generation of famous comedians and also kicked off the era of endlessly looping vertical video that has consumed us...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 445 upvotes and 67 comments.

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Genes with related functions cluster together, and the AI uses that.

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Black Friday isn’t here quite yet, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from kicking off an excellent holiday promo, which runs through December 18th. The ongoing sale spans everything from PlayStation 5 cons...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 19223 upvotes and 570 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 15257 upvotes and 574 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 218 upvotes and 18 comments.

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Organizers had a way for attendees to track CO₂ levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

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Voting system required three keys. One of them has been "irretrievably lost."

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So far, the hackers are laying low, likely for later use.

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Research paper by Jing Wen, Alexander G. Schwing, Shenlong Wang. We tackle the task of recovering an animatable 3D human avatar from a single or a sparse set of images. For this task, beyond a set of ...

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While tuberculosis can attack anywhere, it's extremely rare on the penis.

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There are fan-made browser versions of Red Alert, Unreal Tournament, and more.

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Research paper by Ziyu Guo, Renrui Zhang, Hongyu Li et al.. Recent advances in visual generation have increasingly explored the integration of reasoning capabilities. They incorporate textual reasonin...

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Reading this subreddit made me realize how differently ML-PhD experiences can vary depending on the advisor, lab culture, and institution. I’m curious how things look for others, so it would nice hear...