🔥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Social,Meta,muse,muse spark,Scale AI âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Meta released an AI model on Wednesday called Muse Spark, which represents the “first step” toward a “comprehensive overhaul.” [its] Artificial Intelligence Efforts.” Muse Spark is the inaugural model to come out of Meta Superintelligence Labs, which was created last year because CEO Mark Zuckerberg was unhappy with the progress Meta and its Llama models were making and how they lagged behind OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude. Meta has hired former Scale AI co-founder and CEO Alexander Wang to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs…
✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Getting started Once installed, open the user interface by running littlesnitch in a terminal, or go straight to http://localhost:3031/. You can bookmark that URL, or install it as a Progressive Web App. Any Chromium-based browser supports this natively, and Firefox users can do the same with the Progressive Web Apps extension. Watching your connections The connections view is where most of the action is. It lists current and past network activity by application, shows you what's being blocked by your rules and blocklists, and tracks…
đź’Ą Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Gadgets,Hardware,Amazon,Kindle âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon is preparing to end support for Kindle devices released before 2012, cutting them off from the Kindle Store and making them virtually unable to upload any new content. The company has set a deadline of May 20, 2026. Amazon sent an email to customers this week announcing it would end support for the devices, according to screenshots of the message posted on social media and Reddit from customers, and confirmed by Amazon. According to the letter, Kindle e-readers and tablets released in 2012 or…
đź’Ą Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: A group of new accounts on the prediction market Polymarket made highly specific, well-timed bets on whether the US and Iran would reach a ceasefire on Tuesday, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits for these new customers.These bets were made even though, in the hours before a two-week ceasefire was announced on Tuesday, Donald Trump’s rhetoric had escalated sharply and there were few signals that a ceasefire deal was imminent. Early in the day Trump had issued a warning on social media…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Enterprise,TC,AWS,OpenAI,Anthropic,Matt Garman đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Amazon's recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI, following its long partnership and including an $8 billion investment in Anthropic, is the kind of conflict of interest the cloud giant is accustomed to dealing with, AWS CEO Matt Jarman said. Jarman has worked at Amazon since he was a business school intern in 2005, before launching AWS in 2006, he told an audience at the HumanX conference this week in San Francisco. When asked about the conflict inherent in working closely with two prototypical…
đź’Ą Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution. They’re ripping the headquarters out of Washington and shipping it to Salt Lake City, Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America. They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that…
✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Apps,canva,Mergers and Acquisitions 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Canva on Wednesday announced the dual acquisition of Simtheory, an AI collaboration and agent management platform, and Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company. The financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. Canva says the acquisitions are part of its ongoing investment in artificial intelligence and marketing infrastructure. The companies were founded by Chris and Mike Sharkey, former founders of holiday rental service Stayz, which was acquired by Fairfax Media. The duo will join Canva in leadership roles across the company's…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Follow users from anywhere on HN and open a dedicated feed of their recent comments and submissions. Reorder users by dragging, collapse sections you do not want open by default, and refresh one person at a time without reloading everything else. Small follow buttons appear next to usernames across Hacker News. The /following page keeps the normal HN look instead of inventing a separate UI. Recent fetched activity is cached locally to keep the page fast, with per-user refresh controls when you want a fresh…
đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Startups,TC,AI agents,ai automation,consumer AI,Exclusive,Poke âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Is Poke the OpenClaw for the rest of us? That's the idea coming from a new startup offering an AI agent that you can access via iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and in some markets, WhatsApp. The Poke AI agent launched publicly in March, allowing consumers to access a personal assistant that can take actions on their behalf through a familiar interface. Today, Poke can help with everyday needs, like daily planning, managing your calendar, tracking your health and fitness, controlling your smart home,…
✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: TL;DR: I built Snapstate to move business logic out of React components and into plain TypeScript classes. The result: stores you can test without React, components that only render, and a cleaner boundary between UI and application logic.React is excellent at rendering UI. It's less convincing as the place where the rest of the app should live.Over time, a lot of React codebases drift into the same shape: data fetching in useEffect, business rules inside custom hooks, derived values spread across useMemo, and mutations hidden…
