An old photo of a large BBS
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White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-plan-break-iconic-u-s-climate-lab-moves-forward Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355702 Points: 86 # Comments: 34
Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference
Hey HN — I’m Veer and my cofounder is Suryaa. We're building Cumulus Labs (YC W26), and we're releasing our latest product IonRouter ( https://ionrouter.io/ ), an inference API for open-source and fine tuned models. You swap in our base URL, keep you
Contextual commits – An open standard for capturing the why in Git history
Article URL: https://vidimitrov.substack.com/p/contextual-commits-an-open-standard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47354263 Points: 21 # Comments: 18
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy (2025) [pdf]
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ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-the-atm-didnt-kill-bank-teller Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351371 Points: 203 # Comments: 250
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Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework
I built Axe because I got tired of every AI tool trying to be a chatbot. Most frameworks want a long-lived session with a massive context window doing everything at once. That's expensive, slow, and fragile. Good software is small, focused, and compo
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Substack launches a built-in recording studio
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Facebook Marketplace now lets Meta AI respond to buyers’ messages
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Tinder tries to lure people back to online dating with IRL events, virtual speed dating
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Atlassian follows Block’s footsteps and cuts staff in the name of AI
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Lucid Motors shows off robotaxi concept called ‘Lunar’
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Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots
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Webflow buys AI content-generation platform Vidoso to bolster its marketing suite
Founded in 2024, Vidoso uses large language models to help organizations generate marketing collateral like images, presentations, video clips, blog posts, and social media content.
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Bumble to launch an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’
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