Crypto.com places $70M bet on AI.com domain ahead of Super Bowl
The purchase rewrites the domain record books — not that the crypto industry has ever been accused of restraint when it comes to spending.
Okay, I’m slightly less mad about that ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ AI project
But this is still a bad idea.
Previewing policy at Consensus Hong Kong 2026: State of Crypto
The CoinDesk crew is back in Hong Kong, with policymakers and policy-users alike.
Google search volume for ‘crypto’ hovers near yearly low amid market rout
Investor sentiment in crypto is now at the same level it was during the 2022 Terra-LUNA crash that sent shockwaves through the crypto market.
Pudgy Penguins Hit New York City With Valentine’s Day Pop-Up Event
Crypto-native brand Pudgy Penguins is hosting a pop-up Valentine’s Day event in New York City, complete with a plush bouquet.
The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
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Bitcoin bulls spot bottoming signs as longtime bears take victory laps
The Financial Times and Peter Schiff were among the no-coiners giving themselves pats on the back as crypto crashed this week.
Bun v1.3.9
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You need to listen to the new Mandy, Indiana record: URGH
Often, I focus on recommending older media that isn’t currently getting a ton of attention. But this week, I can’t stop listening to the new Mandy, Indiana album long enough to even think about anything else. It’s early still, obviously, but URGH is my favorite release of 2026 so far. The band that I fell … Read more
Let’s compile Quake like it’s 1997
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TechCrunch Mobility: Is $16B enough to build a profitable robotaxi business?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Recursive Language Models – Maybe a Newer Era of Prompt Engineering?
Recursive language models are one of the simplest and most useful methods for extracting high-quality outputs from large language models. They treat the prompt as a part of an external environment that the model can interact with programmatically.
San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens
A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly draw a huge crowd on Saturday.
Brain Energy Economics: Willpower Can’t Solve the Physical Deadlock
— Recovery Lockout and the “Kindness UI” Spin — Introduction Workplaces continue to treat overwork as if it were a lack of management. If you are drowning, you need discipline. If your health is depleted, you need healing power. If you are broken, you need mindfulness. In some cases, it may be necessary to “push … Read more
The Vibes From the ‘Davos for Degens’ as Bitcoin and Ethereum Plummeted
At a conference dedicated to the riskiest traders in finance, Miami’s crypto scene appeared far different than during its pandemic-era boom.
How Industrial Quality Thinking Exposes the Limits of Agile Rituals
This article is not a critique of Agile or Kanban as approaches, nor is it an attempt to prove that IT “does everything wrong.” I’m sharing observations from my own experience working with quality in manufacturing, energy, and later in IT products. This isn’t about terms and tools, but about how systems thinking is often … Read more
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is (2/8/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 8, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From The Hidden Problem With Group Rewards in Multi-Agent AI to Your AI Model Isn’t Broken. Your Data Is, let’s … Read more
What You Have to Know About Syntactic Support for Error Handling
One of the oldest and most persistent complaints about Go concerns the verbosity of error handling. We are all intimately (some may say painfully) familiar with this code pattern: x, err := call() if err != nil { // handle err } The test if err != nil can be so pervasive that it drowns … Read more