Blog

The new Mivo app takes a thoughtful approach to managing screen time

The new Mivo app takes a thoughtful approach to managing screen time

💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,doomscrolling,iOS app,mindfulness,screen time,screen time management 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Scrolling on social media is a very common problem and it can feel like an endless loop of constantly losing time. Instead of tackling this issue with strict limits, a new screen time app called Mivo Scrolling is trying to change things up. Mivo launched last month, and it doesn't look much different from other screen time apps. It tracks screen time and usage patterns, and provides insight into daily habits. However, Mivo believes what sets its app apart from…
Read More
Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette 18th June 2026 Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps, with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what, but I’m going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why. The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-contained HTML+JavaScript applications that run in a tightly constrained sandbox hosted on your Datasette application. They can use JavaScript to run read-only SQL queries against data in Datasette, and can…
Read More
Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its own AI chips

Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its own AI chips

🚀 Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,AI chips,Amazon,AWS,nvidia,trainium 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If Amazon Web Services succeeds in its goal, the cloud giant will penetrate deeper into Nvidia's market, in what could be one of the biggest challenges to Nvidia's AI chip dominance we've seen yet. Peter DeSantis, Amazon's head of AI, told Bloomberg that AWS is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chip to other companies for use in data centers. DeSantis declined to identify companies that could be buyers of these chips. The company tells TechCrunch that such talk about selling chips is…
Read More
The Most Powerful Open-Weight Model Yet — and the Brutal Reality of Running It Locally

The Most Powerful Open-Weight Model Yet — and the Brutal Reality of Running It Locally

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Every few weeks the "best open model" crown changes hands. This week it's GLM-5.2, from the Chinese lab Z.ai — and unusually, the claim has teeth: it sits at #1 on the independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It's also MIT-licensed, has a million-token context, and ships with a genuinely clever architecture trick. So should you download it? That's where this gets interesting — because the full weights are 1.51 TB, and "run it locally" means something very specific here. We haven't run it ourselves; what follows…
Read More
Telegram’s ban in India has sparked a rush towards VPNs and competing apps

Telegram’s ban in India has sparked a rush towards VPNs and competing apps

🚀 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Government & Policy,Exclusive,Telegram,Telegram ban,India ban 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: With India cutting off access to messaging app Telegram for a week over concerns about exam-related fraud, users have turned to virtual private networks (VPNs) and alternative messaging apps in unusually large numbers. Tuesday, the day India announced it was restricting Telegram, marked the biggest day for VPN app downloads in the country since at least the start of 2025, app intelligence firm Appfigures told TechCrunch. Downloads of major VPN apps rose 49% from a recent daily average of 139,000 to…
Read More
Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

Migrating from GNU stow to chezmoi

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve been managing my dotfiles with GNU stow for a few years. I even wrote a piece with a corny title about that setup back in 2023. Stow served me well, but managing symlinks across multiple devices slowly became a pain in the butt.So I started looking around for a better tool and even considered writing my own. Then a colleague pointed me to chezmoi , and so far I’m liking it a lot. It does everything I need, and I’ve started tracking my agent…
Read More
Source: Elastic has agreed to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85 million

Source: Elastic has agreed to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85 million

💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Startups,CRV,Exclusive,Elastic,observability,DeductiveAI,AI SRE 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: DeductiveAI, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to detect and fix software bugs, has agreed to be sold to enterprise software company Elastic for up to $85 million, according to a person familiar with the deal. Deductive, which was founded in 2023, made a stealth exit last November when it announced a $7.5 million seed round led by CRV with participation from Databricks Ventures, Thomvest Ventures and PrimeSet. The investment valued the startup at $33 million, according to PitchBook. Resilience and Conclusion did…
Read More
Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative | NSF

Update on Ocean Observatories Initiative | NSF

✨ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The U.S. National Science Foundation appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders that have informed us they rely on data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Effective immediately, NSF will not proceed with further removal or descoping of equipment from the remaining arrays and will continue operations including planned maintenance. While the Endurance Array has been removed from the water, we are developing plans to redeploy the equipment after servicing.Moving forward, NSF will issue a Dear Colleague Letter to collect input from stakeholders…
Read More
Rivian owners are filing a lawsuit alleging false promises about self-driving features

Rivian owners are filing a lawsuit alleging false promises about self-driving features

✨ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Exclusive,Rivian 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Rivian has been sued over allegations that the electric vehicle manufacturer made false claims about the self-driving capabilities of its R1T truck and R1S SUV models. The class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, focuses on the first-generation R1T and R1S models and claims that Rivian assured that these flagship vehicles would be able to drive hands-free, without looking into the eyes. This type of capability is also called Level 3 autonomous driving, a designation…
Read More
Solving the “Zork” mystery

Solving the “Zork” mystery

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Solving the "Zork" mystery 19 May 2026 - ...and finishing the game while at it. It's been two years since my last Zork adventure and I finally got time to finish it. But before I restored my last save, I checked my blog notes and there was one "opened issue" which I wanted to address. I glossed over problematic trivia about Zork which says, that "zork" was a jargon word for unfinished program in MIT Dynamic Modeling Group back in 70's. I also pointed out,…
Read More