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70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)

Article URL: https://bookstr.com/article/70k-books-found-in-hidden-library-in-this-germany-home/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274086 Points: 31 # Comments: 9

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Anthropic’s Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. As Anthropic’s

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Claude’s consumer growth surge continues after Pentagon deal debacle

Claude's app is now seeing more new installs than ChatGPT and is growing its daily active users.

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India PC shipments surpass pandemic peak as first-time users upgrade

Pandemic-driven lockdowns exposed many people in India to PCs for the first time, expanding the country's PC userbase and creating demand for upgrades as those devices age.

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Americans trust Fauci over RFK Jr. and career scientists over Trump officials

RFK Jr. has tried hard to villainize Fauci. Americans still trust Fauci more.

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Climate change sucks, but at least it won't kill your EV battery

Older EVs, but not newer ones, may lose up to 30 percent range in a warming world.

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Apple users in the US can no longer download ByteDance's Chinese apps

Move comes in the wake of TikTok's transfer of US operations.

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Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.

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Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs

Hi HN! We’re Sam and Michael from Palus Finance ( https://palus.finance ). We’re building a treasury management platform for startups and SMBs to earn higher yields with a high-yield bond portfolio. We were funded by YC for a consumer-focused product

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Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916364664611242 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426 Points: 29 # Comments: 16

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Multifactor (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineering Lead

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/multifactor/jobs/lcpd60A-engineering-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277679 Points: 0 # Comments: 0

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Supertoast tables

Article URL: https://hatchet.run/blog/supertoast-tables Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47277420 Points: 21 # Comments: 0

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Astra: An open-source observatory control software

Article URL: https://github.com/ppp-one/astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276865 Points: 27 # Comments: 8

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Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions

I got tired of sharing AI demos with terminal screenshots or screen recordings. Claude Code already stores full session transcripts locally as JSONL files. Those logs contain everything: prompts, tool calls, thinking blocks, and timestamps. I built a

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Entomologists use a particle accelerator to image ants at scale

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-particle-accelerator-antscan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276539 Points: 22 # Comments: 0