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“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what … Read more
Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps
Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How I Built a Production-Ready AI Agent on PHP, cPanel, and Gemini Flash (8/29/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 29, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The British Computer Misuse Act Went into Effect in 1990, Michael Faraday Discovered Electromagnetic Induction in 1831, Meitnerium was Synthesized for the First time in 1982, and we … Read more
Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions
BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personally, I think it’s at its best when you just stick to the bare minimum, focusing on pure text … Read more
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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How I Built a Production-Ready AI Agent on PHP, cPanel, and Gemini Flash
Most AI agent tutorials assume you are starting from a modern stack: Python, Docker, Redis, background workers, vector databases, and cloud infrastructure already built for orchestration. That is useful if you are working inside a mature platform team. But a lot of real software still runs on plain PHP, MySQL, and cPanel, and many builders … Read more
Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango
10 out of 10 beard. | Photo: Ben Mekler Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He’s also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn’t Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it … Read more
The TechBeat: I Launched Two Similar Job Boards: Google Indexed One and Rejected the Other (8/29/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @laumski [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley wants to teach AI good taste. But machines … Read more
The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy
As my 20s are set to come to an end later this year, I’ve officially reached the age where sleeping in the wrong position or stretching just a little too far can cause aches and pains. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of massage guns, mostly because I’ve tried a few off-brand ones and just assumed … Read more
The Galaxy Z Flip 8 is at its best when there’s friction
The Z Flip 8 is designed to be used shut more than ever before. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge What do you want from a flip phone when it’s closed? A simple interface, perhaps notifications and a widget or two, for handling the basics? Or a fully fledged Android experience shrunk down for … Read more
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.
Show HN: Laser Graffiti
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Musicians-turned-detectives are hunting for AI grifters
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediately own up to using AI, others have denied using the technology … Read more
Samsung’s Processing-in-Memory (PIM)
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How to Use the File Upload Free Plan to Launch a Business: 10 Ideas
Each business idea below has a real buyer, an existing seller, and a version one person can launch on the free plan. Companies that already did it at a larger scale are worth reading first if you want to see where one of these ends up. We wrote every request to be copyable. Set HANDLE to an … Read more
Perturb AI’s Network of Incentivized Hackers Launches to Attack AI Models Before Criminals Do
San Francisco, USA, August 28th, 2026/TechnologyWire/–Perturb has launched a decentralized adversarial robustness network on Bittensor that continuously stress-tests production AI models and pays a global network of researchers to find vulnerabilities that in-house red teams may miss. Five weeks after an experimental OpenAI model escaped its test environment and breached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure, and … Read more
ZMO Launches Innovative Crypto & Stock Trading Platform Powered by 1-Click Trading™
Apia, Samoa, August 28th, 2026/Chainwire/–ZMO has announced the official launch of its crypto exchange and stock futures platform, offering a simplified approach to trading through a 1-click experience. The platform combines professional-grade trading technology with an intuitive interface designed to make access to global financial markets more straightforward. Built by a team of experts spanning … Read more
ZMO Launches Innovative Crypto & Stock Trading Platform Powered by 1-Click Trading™
Apia, Samoa, August 28th, 2026/Chainwire/–ZMO has announced the official launch of its crypto exchange and stock futures platform, offering a simplified approach to trading through a 1-click experience. The platform combines professional-grade trading technology with an intuitive interface designed to make access to global financial markets more straightforward. Built by a team of experts spanning trading, … Read more
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine
Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they’re all Chinese automakers.
Google further buries search results under AI mode
Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google’s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with … Read more