Omarchy distro gains serious backing
Polarizing opinions while tech heavyweights put up $10M
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/build-with-gemini-omni-1-1-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467922 Points: 218 # Comments: 156
Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring Product and AI Engineers
Article URL: https://www.bild.ai/jobs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467837 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup
Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory — that manufacturers use in high-end goods.
China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix
The target would require YMTC to nearly double its market share in 16 months.
Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick
Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”
Grok Bot for Linux: Unofficial port of the official app (open source)
Article URL: https://github.com/jakob-bu/grok-bot-linux-unofficial Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467702 Points: 19 # Comments: 4
Show HN: See fiber breaks linked to a map
Article URL: https://react-networks-lib.rackout.net/otdr-strip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467554 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why
Article URL: https://github.com/kelviq/tare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467551 Points: 21 # Comments: 6
RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn
Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.
PaperCut warns of NG, MF flaw exploited in zero-day attacks
PaperCut is warning that hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in all versions of its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management software in zero-day attacks. [...]
BRIN is 1/4570th the size of a B-tree, until 5% of rows are updated
Article URL: https://deepsql.ai/blog/the-zonemap-shaped-hole-in-postgres Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467402 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code
Microduck from Pollen Robotics runs on open source software, is just 25cm tall, and is ready to play out of the box
Speedo’s new smart goggles module can track all four swim strokes
You can pair Speedo’s Vanquisher goggles with its iQ module. | Image: Speedo Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer's performance across all four swim strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. The new Speedo iQ syste...
Samsung Galaxy S26 FE vs S25 FE: Why is the new model more expensive?
What are the differences between the two and is the $50 price hike all about RAM?
Jensen Huang says Nvidia achieved AGI, again — not that it matters
On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the...
Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped
The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to products built with them.
Manchester Airports Group says hackers stole travelers' data
The Manchester Airports Group (MAG) disclosed that hackers breached its systems and stole customer data, including Wi-Fi sign-ups from Manchester, Stansted, and East Midlands airports. [...]