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Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe

"The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: 'go get a mentor,' and everyone runs out and cold calls someone that's ridiculously too high and unachievable, and it doesn't work."

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Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers

Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund at €220 million, or approximately $260 million. That’s more than twice the size of its inaugural fund, and comes in addit

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Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it doesn’t fire board member Susan Rice

Netflix board member Susan Rice had predicted that corporations that “take a knee” to Trump will be “held accountable” when Democrats return to power.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo makes its defense

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead

China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.

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6 days left to lock in the lowest TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 rates

Super Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 6 days left to secure up to $680 of ticket savings.

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Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

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We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/introducing-binaryaudit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111440 Points: 14 # Comments: 2

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Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums

Article URL: https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111400 Points: 16 # Comments: 1

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Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yj2kzkrj0o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111067 Points: 25 # Comments: 4

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I put New Zealand behind a $1 paywall

Article URL: https://rename.world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111042 Points: 22 # Comments: 4

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Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework

Article URL: https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110781 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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The Dance Floor Is Disappearing in a Sea of Phones

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-20/a-boom-in-electronic-dance-music-is-changing-club-culture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110549 Points: 17 # Comments: 3

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Attention Media ≠ Social Networks

Article URL: https://susam.net/attention-media-vs-social-networks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110515 Points: 83 # Comments: 20

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Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents – Stripe Dot Dev Blog

Article URL: https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110495 Points: 47 # Comments: 38