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Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming
The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.
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‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI
The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more than an engineer's salary — yet.
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The Indian government got cold feet on Starlink just before SpaceX’s IPO
Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story.
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Why 2 SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze
Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts' worth by 2030.
The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf]
https://gwern.net/doc/economics/automation/1989-david.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479996 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
Article URL: https://www.matteast.io/spacex-escape-velocity.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479947 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)
Article URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurers-arent-the-main-villain-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479818 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
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How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479705 Points: 18 # Comments: 0
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Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/29045 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479452 Points: 27 # Comments: 13
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The Case for Free Online Books (2014)
Article URL: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479177 Points: 60 # Comments: 54
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Babel-USB: USB drive with every file
Article URL: https://github.com/p2r3/babel-usb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478766 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
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DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/diffusion-gemma-faster-text-generation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478471 Points: 125 # Comments: 26
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Anatomy of a high-performance EP kernel
Article URL: https://fergusfinn.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-high-performance-ep-kernel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478396 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage
Hey HN, it’s been just over a year since we launched HelixDB ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975423 ), a project a friend and I started in college. It’s an OLTP graph database built on object-storage, with native vector search and full-text
I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
Hey gang, you may remember me from such books as _The Lean Startup_ and _The Startup Way_. It's been fifteen years since I wrote The Lean Startup, and in that time I've seen some things. In both big companies and tiny startups, NGOs and governments,