Hi HN, I made OSS Sustain Guard. After every high-profile OSS incident, I wonder about the packages I rely on right now. I can skim issues/PRs and activity on GitHub, but that doesn’t scale when you h...
An OpenAI engineer explains how OpenAI hired her in a week. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images An OpenAI engineer breaks down OpenAI's fast, "no-nonsense" hiring process. Jerene Yang sai...
Julius Bruch, a former McKinsey consultant, explains why he left to build an AI healthtech startup —and how consulting prepared him for the leap. Julius Bruch After about 7 years at McKinsey, Ju...
Tencent's YuanBao apologized after its AI chatbot insulted a user during a coding exchange. Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A popular Chinese AI chatbot lashed ...
Built this over the weekend to bridge the gap between "can hum a melody" and "can code algorithmic music patterns" (Strudel/TidalCycles) for live coding and live dj'ing. What it does: Real-time pitch ...
This year, I listened to over 50 tech leaders discuss AI across various conferences, podcasts, and interviews. Lee Chong Ming/Business Insider Over the past year, I listened to more than 50 tech leade...
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) expects to work with other financial regulators to promote artificial intelligence adoption in various sectors over the next five years and further advance fint...
I thought it would be interesting to have ID style hover docs outside the IDE. Hover is a Chrome extension that gives you IDE style hover tooltips on any webpage: documentation sites, ChatGPT, Claude,...
A Grok investor said he's "deeply concerned" about the "speculative" data center market. Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images A Groq investor said he's "deeply concer...
If you're looking for an absolute monster of a gaming PC, you can't go wrong with Alienware's new Area-51 prebuilts. Deals have been scarce since the recent surge in RAM and GPU pricing, however you c...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is looking for a new head of preparedness. Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images OpenAI's head of preparedness role might sound enticing, but experts say it may be highly c...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Adding a rooftop solar array to a home or business is exciting and expensive. ✓ It is tempting to cut corners to keep cos...
Most consensus libraries (Raft, Paxos) treat the state machine as a pure black box. This is fine until your state machine needs to actually do something, like charge a credit card, fire a webhook, or ...
When you have a series that's consistently gotten new games for almost 40 years, you have to think about how younger generations will be able to play them. That, and, of course, thinking about your bo...
A goldfish bowl Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images Amazon employees in an internal Slack voiced frustration during beta testing of new Alexa+ features. The messages highlight the continuing head...
I’ve been working on a solution to the "Physical Oracle Problem" (trustless trading of physical goods) and just released the full Alpha implementation. The Core Thesis: Existing decentralized marketpl...
Hi HN, Every year, we ask thousands of readers (and authors) to share their 3 favorite reads of the year. Now you can enter a book/author you love and see what books readers loved who also loved that ...
AI isn't new to Hollywood - but this was the year when it really made its presence felt. For years now, the entertainment industry has used different kinds of generative AI products for a variety of p...
The Amazfit Active 2 is a solid fitness tracker that could easily be mistaken for a smartwatch. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazfit might not have the name recognition of a company lik...
Not everyone is the DIY type. If you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC , Dell is one of the best brands we'd recommend. Alienware desktops and laptops feature solid build quality, top-of-the-l...