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How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers

How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers

πŸš€ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Space,AI,Exclusive,Orbital πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Here's one metrics to track SpaceX's IPO later this week: The company has changed the venture industry's view of space as being so long-term, capital-intensive that a talented founder with no space experience can fund a space data center company. Orbital, a new company that emerged in May from a16z Speedrun's startup accelerator program with a $5 million seed round, is the latest company to promise to do inference in space β€” once the Starship is flying regularly. Other investors include Basis Set, Human Element,…
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staniks.github.io

staniks.github.io

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Catlantean 3D is a side-project I've been slowly building in my spare time for over a year, and I intend to release it on Steam next year. Your browser does not support the video tag. My goal was to build a complete, shippable first-person shooter using techniques that were common in the early 90s, while allowing myself the luxury of using a modern compiler and a platform abstraction layer. What this actually means is, the constraints I have foolishly imposed upon myself are as…
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The iPhone’s Last Stand – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

The iPhone’s Last Stand – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Apple fans would, for years and years, sneer at Microsoft’s penchant for talking about products that may or may not ship, deriding them as vaporware. After Apple’s bungled 2024 launch of Apple Intelligence and new Siri, however, vaporware is fair game, and just in time for this Article. Project Solara Last week, at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft put forth a vision for a new ecosystem of hardware devices under the banner of Project Solara: The concept β€” which isn’t entirely clear from that…
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EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: 64 products tested β€” 45 contained non-approved pesticide residuesΒ  The laboratory tests covered rice grain, paprika powder, different types of tea, cumin seeds and curry powder.The results are alarming: 49 products contained residues of one or more pesticides.Β  45 products contained residues of pesticides not approved in the EU.Β  14 samples contained residues above the legally allowed limit and should therefore not be on the market.Β  All tested paprika powder, chili and cumin samples contained residues of non-approved pesticides.Β  One paprika powder sample contained 22…
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Evotrex raises $30 million to build an RV that doesn’t need a charging station

Evotrex raises $30 million to build an RV that doesn’t need a charging station

πŸš€ Read this trending post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Fundraising,Exclusive,evotrex,rvs,recreational vehicles βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Evotrex has only been around for two years, but the startup is already planning to build and sell its first hybrid RV travel trailers next year, targeting about 1,000 units annually. To get there, Evotrex closed a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to $46 million. Much of this came from a consortium of Chinese and Hong Kong investment firms, such as GSR United Capital, Forbright Concerto Capital, TTGG Ventures, and Pegasus Capital, among others. Anker, the consumer electronics company,…
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Ask HN: Why hasn’t there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

Ask HN: Why hasn’t there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?

πŸ”₯ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?163 points by mdni007 15 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 130Β commentsIt feels like every event/venue is selling tickets exclusively through Ticketmaster. Every other ticketing platform seems to only hold resale tickets in their inventory which just transfers the tickets to your Ticketmaster account when bought. With all the hate Ticketmaster has gotten and all the other ticketing platforms out there, I'm surprised Ticketmaster still has a hold of pretty…
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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism

πŸš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: You might think, based on the volume of her Facebook posts, that Nieta Aqila is an Albertan who supports separation."I signed the Alberta independence petition" because "Canada is not a great country anymore," an account in her name wrote in a popular Facebook group called Alberta Independence that promotes the movement and has more than 100,000 members.Β In another post, Aqila said she was harassed and had rocks thrown at her as she canvassed for petition signatures.The account's posts have generated thousands of reactions, comments and…
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Apple Intelligence and Siri – Apple

Apple Intelligence and Siri – Apple

πŸš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: Great powers come with great privacy. AppleΒ Intelligence is designed to protect your privacy at every step. It’s integrated into the core of your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through on-device processing. So it’s aware of your personal information without collecting your personal information. And with groundbreaking PrivateΒ CloudΒ Compute, AppleΒ Intelligence can draw on larger server-based models, running on AppleΒ silicon, to handle more complex requests for you while protecting your privacy. PrivateΒ CloudΒ Compute Your data is never stored Used only for your requests Verifiable privacy promise πŸ”₯ **What’s your take?**…
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Porting the ThinkPad x61 to coreboot

✨ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: So after a few days the code seemed to work quite fine with multiple DIMMs in different combinations. Time to upstream! Doing native raminit on x86 (in coreboot) is quite a lost art. One of the people enjoying this dark magic is Angel Pons. So I asked him if he would kindly review this code (he's a very thorough reviewer). To my eyes the code looked 'aight, but he has way better eyesight than mine at least with regard to code.Here is a summary of…
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Zepto’s IPO filing reveals rapid growth, bigger losses and a valuation question no one has yet answered

Zepto’s IPO filing reveals rapid growth, bigger losses and a valuation question no one has yet answered

πŸ”₯ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Commerce,Startups,Zepto πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Indian flash-commerce startup Zepto has unveiled plans for an initial public offering that could be worth about $1 billion, putting one of Y Combinator's biggest bets outside the United States on the path to the public markets. The filing, released on Monday, offers a rare look at how one of India's most watched startups plans to sustain its rapid growth post-listing. Zepto's advertising revenue rose more than 151% year-over-year to INR 16.4 billion (about $171 million) in fiscal 2026, outpacing the company's 104% increase…
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