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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
2026-01-17 11:23 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Police Invested Millions in Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software Won't Say How Used
2026-01-18 21:29 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
NASA’s first medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown
2026-01-15 21:18 - https://arstechnica.com/feed/
 
Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2026-01-18 18:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)
2026-01-18 21:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
2026-01-18 19:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
2026-01-18 17:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along
2026-01-19 10:30 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
US believes its power matters more than international law, UN chief
2026-01-19 10:30 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
2026-01-18 11:27 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Experiments with Kafka's head-of-line blocking (2023)
2026-01-19 06:30 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ (George Hammond/Financial Times)
2026-01-18 16:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more (Dr. Ian Cutress/More Than Moore)
2026-01-18 15:28 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
India's largest retailer Reliance Retail says its daily quick commerce orders peaked at 1.6M in Q4 2025; market leader Blinkit averaged 2.4M daily orders in Q3 (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
2026-01-18 11:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Show HN: Lume 0.2 – Build and Run macOS VMs with unattended setup
2026-01-18 19:28 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Poking holes into bytecode with peephole optimisations
2026-01-18 14:28 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
How to wrangle non-deterministic AI outputs into conventional software? (2025)
2026-01-16 18:21 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
2026-01-18 07:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
2026-01-18 07:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B (Marc Jones/Reuters)
2026-01-18 07:27 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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