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Founding Engineer (AI Products) at Toma

Founding Engineer (AI Products) at Toma

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: We're building the AI platform for underserved industries. LLM usage has seen a meteoric rise in the past year, but there is still a significant gap between agentic innovation and its use in the real world. This is especially true for underserved industries like automotive and healthcare, where outdated systems persist due to barriers to entry, legacy software, and high-stakes consequences of hallucinations and failure. Here at Toma (YC W24), we are bridging this gap by providing a customer-centric platform to deploy and monitor…
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Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization

Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization

💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: [Submitted on 29 Oct 2025] View a PDF of the paper titled Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020-2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization, by Petter T\"ornberg View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Using nationally representative data from the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies (ANES), this paper traces how the U.S. social media landscape has shifted across platforms, demographics, and politics. Overall platform use has declined, with the youngest and oldest Americans increasingly abstaining from social media altogether. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter/X have lost ground,…
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Grand Theft Auto: Ready2Play (Full Game, Windows version) – GTA

💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nice one, right, beauty! What a way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of GTA, even though I am a day late to the celebration, having all three games remastered on such a day is nothing short of respect. This version may even rival the MAX PACK by Toshiba-3. I have not played all the way through this version of the 2D trilogy, but it all looked good to me from the outside and among the few things I messed around with in-game. I love the…
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Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models.

Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models.

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Tickets for AIE Miami and AIE Europe are on sale now! We’ll all be there.Swyx here: we put a call out for Staff Researchers and Guest Writers and Ankit’s submission immediately stood out. As we discussed on the Yi Tay 2 episode, there are 3 kinds of World Models conversations today: The first and most common are 3D video world models like Fei Fei Li’s Marble and General Intuition’s upcoming model, Google’s Genie 3 and Waymo’s World Model, 2) the Meta school of thought comprising…
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Roundcube Webmail

Roundcube Webmail

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Roundcube's HTML sanitizer doesn't treat SVG feImage href as an image source. Attackers can bypass remote image blocking to track email opens.TL;DR: Roundcube’s rcube_washtml sanitizer blocked external resources on , , and , but not on . Its href went through the wrong code path and got allowed through. Attackers could track email opens even when “Block remote images” was on. Fixed in 1.5.13 and 1.6.13.Vulnerability information#FieldValueVendorRoundcubeProductRoundcube WebmailAffected versions< 1.5.13, 1.6.x < 1.6.13Fixed in1.5.13, 1.6.13Disclosure date2026-02-08Background#When allow_remote is false, Roundcube’s sanitizer intercepts image-bearing attributes (src…
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The World’s First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is A Winter Range Monster

The World’s First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is A Winter Range Monster

✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Changan Nevo A06 is the world's first mass-produced car powered by a sodium-ion battery. It has a CLTC range of about 250 miles and can run with little to no range loss even in -40 degrees Fahrenheit. It's the start of a new "dual chemistry era," CATL said.   ​Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker Changan Automobile are preparing to put the world’s first passenger car powered by sodium-ion batteries on public roads by mid-2026. And if the launch is successful, it could usher in…
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Billing can be bypassed using a combination of subagents with an agent definition, resulting in unlimited free premium requests. · Issue #292452 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub

Billing can be bypassed using a combination of subagents with an agent definition, resulting in unlimited free premium requests. · Issue #292452 · microsoft/vscode · GitHub

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Summary It's possible in Copilot to bypass any billing / 'premium request' usage by taking advantage of: Subagents and tool calls not consuming any 'requests'. Request cost being calculated on the initial model used. "Free" models incl. in Copilot e.g. GPT-5-mini, GPT-4.1 etc. Ability to define an agent for a subagent. Ability to specify a model for an agent. Combining these correctly results in 'free' and almost unlimited, usage of expensive premium models like Opus 4.5 which would usually cost '3 premium requests': Instructions Start…
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Noam Chomsky’s wife responds to Epstein controversy

Noam Chomsky’s wife responds to Epstein controversy

💥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Note: Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has become the source of controversy. After suffering a severe stroke in June 2023, Chomsky is unable to comment on it. His wife Valeria has responded to questions surrounding their contacts with Epstein in the statement below. I am publishing it here, with minor typographical corrections. As many are aware, my husband, Noam Chomsky, now 97, is confronting significant health challenges after suffering a devastating stroke in June 2023. Currently, Noam is under 24/7 medical care and…
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RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo”

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Network Working Group D. Eastlake 3rd Request for Comments: 3092 Motorola Category: Informational C. Manros Xerox E. Raymond Open Source Initiative 1 April 2001 Etymology of "Foo" Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001). All Rights Reserved. Abstract Approximately 212 RFCs so far, starting with RFC 269, contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' as…
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(AI) Slop Terrifies Me – ezhik.jp

(AI) Slop Terrifies Me – ezhik.jp

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 🦔 🦔 🦔 What if this is as good as software is ever going to be? What if AI stops getting better and what if people stop caring? All em dashes in this post are organically-made. Imagine if this is as good as AI gets. If this is where it stops, you'd still have models that can almost code a web browser, almost code a compiler—and can even present a pretty cool demo if allowed to take a few shortcuts. You'd still get models that…
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