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Mechanical Watch

A discussion about mechanical watches.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

SpaceX Is Buying Cursor

News regarding SpaceX acquiring the AI coding assistant Cursor.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

An analysis of how randomness is correlated in the game Slay the Spire 2.

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Color Photos of Stalin-Era Soviet Union Taken by a US Diplomat

Historical color photographs of the Soviet Union during the Stalin era taken by a US diplomat.

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SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

SpaceX is reportedly buying Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor AI coding agent, for $60 billion.

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Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland

A report on the death of a Russian artist and Putin critic in Poland.

Cybersecurity TechCrunch

India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns

India has imposed a temporary ban on Telegram due to concerns over exam fraud.

Hardware/Chips TechCrunch

This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

Foundation Alloy is scaling production of super metals using a cold-working process for various high-end applications.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

SpaceX is acquiring Cursor for $60 billion in stock to bolster its AI division following its IPO.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

These mechanical keyboards are two very different sides of the same beautifully made coin

A review of two high-end mechanical keyboards: the Evoworks Evo75 and the Dry Studio ATM98.

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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

Threads is introducing new personalization tools, including 'Your Algo', as it reaches 500 million monthly active users.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

Lenovo’s next tablet has a thick speaker bump and an upgraded kickstand

Lenovo announces the Tab Plus Gen 2, featuring an upgraded nine-speaker system and a 360-degree rotating kickstand.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

Kodak’s collectible Charmera camera is getting new Y2K-inspired designs

Kodak and Reto are releasing new Y2K-inspired designs for the Charmera digital camera.

Other The Verge

Half a billion people are using Threads every month

Meta reports that Threads has reached 500 million monthly active users, driven largely by its new community features.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

CoffeeBench: Benchmarking Long-Horizon LLM Agents in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Economies

Researchers introduce CoffeeBench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents' ability to operate and negotiate within a multi-agent economy.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

MR-GVNO: A Geometry-Aware Variational Physics-Informed Neural Operator for Mindlin-Reissner Plates on Irregular Domains

The MR-GVNO paper proposes a geometry-aware variational neural operator for predicting responses in Mindlin-Reissner plates on irregular domains.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

The Integrator Advantage: Controlled Agentic AI for Small and Medium-Sized Companies

This paper discusses a framework for implementing controlled partial autonomy in Agentic AI for small and medium-sized businesses.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

From Affect Prediction to Affect Forecasting: Evidence for Distinct Information Sources in Longitudinal Text

The study explores the difference between predicting current affect and forecasting future affective change in longitudinal text using the TSAP and ACF-Hybrid frameworks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

User as Code: Executable Memory for Personalized Agents

The User as Code (UaC) paradigm proposes treating a user's memory as executable Python code to improve reasoning and aggregation over long-term history.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Medical world models: representing medical states, modelling clinical dynamics and guiding intervention policies

A review paper outlines a roadmap for developing medical world models that simulate disease evolution to support clinical intervention decisions.