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Hacker News discussion with 1058 points and 609 comments. Posted 2025-12-03 07:52.

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Hacker News discussion with 2188 points and 1071 comments. Posted 2025-12-02 18:05.

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Hacker News discussion with 1729 points and 1327 comments. Posted 2025-12-05 12:21.

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Hacker News discussion with 1340 points and 289 comments. Posted 2025-12-03 18:40.

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Hacker News discussion with 980 points and 464 comments. Posted 2025-12-01 15:48.

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Hacker News discussion with 968 points and 845 comments. Posted 2025-12-02 20:33.

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While OpenAI continues to insist that there are currently no ads — or tests for advertising — live in ChatGPT, the company’s chief research officer also acknowledged that the company “fell short” with...

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Will Netflix’s $82.7 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. get approval from federal regulators? While Paramount was assumed to be the frontrunner to acquire the storied movie studio thanks to CEO Davi...

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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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Coinbase is exploring expansion into India with a staggered relaunch and hiring for different roles.

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Dog behavior is a lot more complicated than any one gene variant.

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It may be hard to believe now, but the App Store was once a thriving place for inventive indie games. The ubiquity of the iPhone coupled with the relative ease of development for the platform meant th...

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X has seemingly penalized the European Commission's account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.

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Google didn't invent the concept of smart glasses, but it did help make them mainstream. In retrospect, 13 years after their launch, this is both a good and bad thing. Glass made a lot of people dream...

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aMeta lready sells VR headsets and Ray-Ban smart glasses, but these new glasses sound a bit different. Their format factor would reportedly be similar to the Apple Vision Pro, with a puck-like power s...

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It's easy to think about AI as a sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be, someday, in a Skynet sort of way. But there are also lots of people trying to figure out how to...

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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how to work anywhere, follow Thomas Ricker. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxe...

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Research paper by Germán Kruszewski, Pierre Erbacher, Jos Rozen et al.. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become the de facto standard for tuning LLMs to solve tasks involving reasoning. However, growin...

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The company is aiming to produce its first silicon wafers by 2028 and have its first commercial system online by 2029.

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Friday, the EU slapped X with a €120 million fine (about $140 million) for violating the Digital Services Act (DSA). It was the first time that a company had been hit with a penalty for running afoul ...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 243 upvotes and 70 comments.

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Research paper by Francesco Granata, Francesco Poggi, Misael Mongiovì. In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures are gaining significant attention ...

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Sometimes, founding a startup just once isn’t enough.

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The port will revolutionize global trade, but it’s sparking destructive rainforest routes.

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Volcanic eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe.

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The biggest changes Musk made to Twitter trigger a $140 million fine under DSA.

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There's an argument to be made that "the real monster is trauma" has become an overused trope in modern horror. Hereditary, The Babadook, and, much less effectively, Smile, are just a few higher-profi...

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In November, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s co-CEO made a trip to the White House for a lengthy meeting with Donald Trump. According to Bloomberg, the two discussed a number of topics, but chief among them w...

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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 108, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope your holiday shopping is going well, and also you can read all t...

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Research paper by Kevin Black, Allen Z. Ren, Michael Equi et al.. Real-time chunking (RTC) enables vision-language-action models (VLAs) to generate smooth, reactive robot trajectories by asynchronousl...

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 9185 upvotes and 572 comments.

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Reddit discussion in r/technology with 3960 upvotes and 767 comments.

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On ARC-AGI 2, Gemini improved its score from 5% (for 2.5 Pro) to 31% (for 3 Pro), both at $0.80 per task. This is amazing, but a lot of people here seem to believe that they just generated millions to...

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Netflix's plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny.

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There is no data supporting a delay and no evidence of harm from a birth dose.

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Research paper by Hongyu Li, Manyuan Zhang, Dian Zheng et al.. Instruction-based image editing has emerged as a prominent research area, which, benefiting from image generation foundation models, have...

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Reddit discussion in r/programming with 464 upvotes and 118 comments.

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This could be just what Fubo and its subscribers need.

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Ars testing shows SteamOS fares better on iGPUs than powerful graphics cards.