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Fungal Electronics (2021)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11231 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338055 Points: 41 # Comments: 5
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Launch HN: Sentrial (YC W26) – Catch AI agent failures before your users do
Hey HN! We're Neel and Anay, and we’re building Sentrial ( https://sentrial.com ). It’s production monitoring for AI products. We automatically detect failure patterns: loops, hallucinations, tool misuse, and user frustrations the moment they happen.
Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)
Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335349 Points: 222 # Comments: 147
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Breakout Ventures raises $114M fund to back AI science startups
Breakout Ventures is finding growing success by backing early-stage startups in scientific fields such as biology and chemistry.
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Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are
Almost 40 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are
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VC mega-funds are back with General Catalyst, Spark rumored to be raising billions
GC is said to be raising $10 billion and Spark Capital $3 billion. This after several other firms have also raised mega funds.
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Poppi founder on TikTok, Super Bowl ads, and her return to Shark Tank
For years, venture capitalists have been skeptical of beverage startups, citing thin margins and brutal distribution as reasons most brands never break out. But a new wave of “functional soda” companies has been challenging that assumption, including
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Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says
According to a Reuters report, a foreign hacker broke into a server that was part of the FBI’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein — without realizing they had hacked an FBI server.
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WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signing up, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.
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Anduril, the autonomous weapons maker, doubles the size of its space unit
"We are focused on protecting space, assuring access to space, ensuring custody of space."
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Nvidia is reportedly planning its own open source OpenClaw competitor
GPU maker courts corporate partners for NemoClaw ahead of annual conference.
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NIH director launches "Scientific Freedom" lectures with non-scientist
First speaker minimizes climate change, COVID risks—and is a lab leak proponent.
Why Do They Want to Get Rid of Software Engineers?
Article URL: https://jrswab.com/blog/why-do-they-want-to-get-rid-of-software-engineers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338445 Points: 9 # Comments: 7
Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids
Hi HN, I’m a chemical engineer and I manage logistics at a refinery down in Texas. Whenever I try to explain downstream operations to people outside the industry (including my kids), I usually get blank stares. I wanted to build something that visual
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Fungal Electronics
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11231 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338055 Points: 16 # Comments: 2