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Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway
Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. While the generative AI boom had tons of impact on all sorts of companies, it immediately upended everything about Stack Overflow in an existential way. Stack Overflow, if … Read more
Tesla starts testing robotaxis in Austin with no safety driver
It’s one of the last big steps before the company can truly claim it’s operating a robotaxi service, and start to take on Waymo.
Snapchat rolls out its end-of-year Recaps
The Recap is a short video that offers a personalized look at highlights from Snaps, Stories, and Chats, showing how users connected and expressed themselves throughout the year.
HackerNoon and GPTZero Partner to Bring AI Transparency and Preserve What’s Human in Tech Publishing
Hackers, assemble! HackerNoon is thrilled to announce its partnership with GPTZero, benchmarked as the best AI detector on RAID with 95.7% accuracy. This powerful AI detector will now analyse 5000+ monthly blog post submissions reviewed by the HackerNoon editorial team, and our readers will be able to see AI detection disclosures on published blog posts. … Read more
Can ChatGPT Outperform the Market? Week 19
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I tested a 5K monitor that’s over $1,000 less than Apple’s Studio Display: It’s good enough
If you’re on a budget, you could do a lot worse than this 5K monitor, which has 217 PPI. Most people know at least two things about 5K monitors: they look great, and they’re usually expensive. The Apple Studio Display is the most popular model, and it costs $1,599. But I’ve been testing one that’s … Read more
First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion helps you build habits
First Voyage has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round from a16z speed run, SignalFire, True Global, and other investors.
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models
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Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China
After successfully lobbying the Trump administration to approve the sales of its H200 chips to China, Nvidia is now thinking of adding capacity to produce more of the chips.
The “API First” Illusion: Why Your “Simple” Endpoints Turn Into Technical Debt (And How to Fix It)
It started as a harmless Slack message at 4:30 PM on a Friday. “Hey, frontend needs a quick endpoint to show user preferences. Just return the JSON blob from the DB. Should take 10 minutes.” Six months later, that “10-minute endpoint” has mutated into a monolithic /v1/user/stuff route. It returns 4MB of data, mixes camelCase and snake_case, … Read more
Musicians are getting really tired of this AI clone ‘bullshit’
William Basinski says the current system is “a mess.” | Image: Getty Images for Prada “Not ideal.” “Completely unacceptable.” “Shameless.” “Predatory.” “Some bullshit.” “Total bullshit.” This is how musicians, producers, and others in the industry are describing the relentless spread of AI clones. Of course, AI fakes aren’t new, but as the scammers have gotten … Read more
How To Send .NET Crash Dumps To Slack From ECS Fargate Task
Sometimes .NET applications crash in production, and nobody knows why, because logs and metrics are ok. It’s quite bothersome and makes debugging very unpleasant. In such cases, memory dumps might simplify debugging and reduce troubleshooting time from days to minutes. This article explains how to configure dumps for .NET applications deployed to AWS ECS Fargate … Read more
MIT Missing Semester 2026
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Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Thea Energy previews Helios, its pixel-inspired fusion power plant
Thea Energy says that its planar-coil fusion power plant could be cheaper and easier to build thanks to AI-powered control software.
Kindle app now answers questions about the book you’re reading
The tool avoids spoilers by drawing answers from the pages you’ve read so far. Amazon has launched a new AI feature in the Kindle app that gives spoiler-free answers to questions about the book you’re reading and confirmed that authors can’t opt out from the feature. The company calls Ask this Book an “expert reading … Read more
Feeding the machine
When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one. Language models reviewed resumes and did the interviewing. … Read more